Dissecting Aerial 2025

Description

Showcasing practice, pedagogical and personal approaches to healthy and sustainable practice from aerial artists, researchers, body workers, medical and sports science practitioners from across the globe. Maintain connections in-person and virtually, locally and globally and to celebrate what unites us: our mutual passions for aerial practice and to revel in the diversity of those.

Abstract:

This combined presentation and practical session explores the ‘feltness’ of circus training and coaching in flexibility and contortion. Drawing on her lived experience as an academic, cabaret circus performer, and instructor specialising in aerial, contortion and flexibility, Carolyn will reflect on bodily awareness, emotional regulation, and sensory processing.

Carolyn will discuss her lived experience of hypermobility, neurodivergence and anxiety in relation to her circus training. She will offer observations from a coaching perspective, reflecting on the dialogue between instructor and student and exchange of embodied knowledge. Carolyn will share some of exercises and sequences that she has found to be most affective in her teaching and training, as well as cuing methods and approach to teaching.

Period	12 Apr 2025
Event type	Conference
Location	Brighton, United KingdomShow on map