aerialskills » Blog http://aerialskills.com Aerial Skills Silks Workshop in Dorset Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:31:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 London circus mates http://aerialskills.com/london-circus-mates/ http://aerialskills.com/london-circus-mates/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:28:28 +0000 http://aerialskills.com/?p=375 Ok so last week I popped up to London ostensibly to rehearse with David for the Christmas show, but really to go and muck about with Katie Hardwick on doubles silks ideas…sadly I was completely wiped out after a ‘Cosmo’ night of flailing arms legs and coughing so I was barely able to pull up […]

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]]> Ok so last week I popped up to London ostensibly to rehearse with David for the Christmas show, but really to go and muck about with Katie Hardwick on doubles silks ideas…sadly I was completely wiped out after a ‘Cosmo’ night of flailing arms legs and coughing so I was barely able to pull up my own weight let alone Katies’…still, its always energising hanging upside down hauling people up in a straddle split, certainly the pain gets adrenaline pumping at least.  From there to see ’7 Fingers’ new show ‘Sequence 8′ at the Peacock Theatre with Katie and Tink (the dream performance) …it was a bit of an  Oh Wow..evening, just beautiful, inspiring, exciting and fun. Contemporary circus at its best, I marvel at what the human body is capable of doing (just sadly not mine at this stage in the game). The following morning after struggling through my new  Evil Sugar Plum Fairy routine (always embarrassing getting tangled up when training at Circus Space or whatever it is called now), but lucky enough to join in with a couple of the girls thrashing out new hoop moves, and transitions.  It seems everyone is being called on to teach hoop following the ghastly TV thing Tumble. Anyway, left with sore hips, a busted knee, bleeding toe and very very happy.

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Having never attempted a ‘blog’ or really any form of social media other then a timid Facebook page and my cabaret website which is so outdated it’s embarrassing – I am not entirely sure what to write here so I thought I would just say a word or two about playing…Nothing is more enjoyable then just hanging about, literally. Putting on some overblown 80′s music, ‘Footloose’ or She’s a Maniac’, something marvellously cringeworthy..and just doing what ever I feel like.  Yesterday I was going from crossback to a skinning the cat (whilst in crossback) popping out into some lovely free form flags – oooh I felt like Irene Cara, only slightly older…and then I taught my lovely Monday night intermediate aerial class,  and thanks to far too much muscle flexing competitive conditioning I completely cocked up a backdrop out of the ‘Oh so Lovely’ move, having to lower myself down out of a tangle in front of my class - probably just deserts. This afternoon I started the long road to reminding myself of my hoop skills as I intend to start teaching it later this month…and boy do I have a way to go, my hands were shredded in 40 minutes. Sigh.

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