Saturday Morning Session 1: 9:00am – 10:40am
Acro Movement
L-Base. All Levels. Learn about weight transfer techniques to connect with a partner and create reciprocal acrobatics patterns that will twist your brain and level up your proprioception. These moves are an exciting change of pace from static basing structures, and can serve as transition material for acrobats interested in creating dynamic performances.
Prerequisites: No Prerequisites
Whops
Whips & Pops. Intermediate. Explore whips & pops and how they come together to make whops and flows.
Prerequisites: Front swing, Rev Throne whip, basic pops.
Dance Lifts
Standing. Intermediate. Have some fun. Learn some things. Make pretty shapes. Do silly things. Guaranteed to raise some eyebrows at various muggle gatherings and shindigs.
Prerequisites: High side star, attack hugs, and being able to do a forward roll by yourself.
Intro to L Basing Hand to Hand
Kylee Baze & Woodrow Greenwald
Hand to Hand. Intermediate. This class will cover warm-ups and progressions to assist in your journey to h2h: including basics of h2h grip, handstand shape, and how to find strength and balance in the position. We will have an emphasis on spotting and technique to keep the class safe and fun!
Prerequisites: Bases can base a star and flyer can hold a 3 second assisted handstand.
L-Base Fancy footwork
L-Base. Int/Adv.
You’re gonna get what I love to do: tricky transitions and fancy footwork. Come learn your next favorite machine. But better yet, learn how to make your footwork more fluid, your transitions more seamless, and your flyer even happier!
Prerequisites: Comfortable with tick-tocks, transitions through star, internal and external steps. Comfortable with inversions. Comfortable with clumsy pickpocket (or a similar machine)
Cartwheels and getting Knotty
Lorynne Machado & Matthew Bagshaw
Standing. Advanced. An advanced hand to hand sequence including cartwheels to hand to hand and knots.
Prerequisites: Standing h2h with no steps, as well as standing h2h with 5 purposeful steps in each direction to show control.
Saturday Morning Session 2: 11:00am – 12:40pm
Acro Basics
L-Base. All Levels. Looking at some details of how we make connections with hands and feet at shoulders and hips. Come back to the basics to dive deeper into your practice.
Prerequisites: No Prerequisites
Intelligent Training Machines
Chelsey Magness & Jason Magness
Washing Machines. All Levels. Not all “washing machines” are created equal. Many are no more than specific magic tricks which have little or no relevance to creating lasting skill, technique and endurance in your practice. But some washing machines have qualities that transcend through all levels of practice, creating wisdom in how we move, balance and communicate. Through repetition they elevate our understanding of all acrobatics. Why learn 10 washing machines, when you can learn the 1 that teaches you all 10!
Prerequisites: 30 sec star, 15 sec tuck sit, Reverse star entry
Embody the Wind
Gina Shiotani & Steven Cummings
Adagio. Intermediate. Let the spirit of air possess your corporeal form and slip free from the structure of lines and held shapes. Breathe into your inner dancer and learn a sequence of shared possibility, weaving through the loose webs of gravity to unleash the ethereal flow of acro adagio.
Prerequisites: Standing high-sidestar (not necessary for all elements of the flow)
Swirly Wirley
Standing. Intermediate. Standing sequence with reverse F2H, Catwalks, Pirouette & toss half twist
Prerequisites: F2H low and expreience standing
Tricky Balances, Continued
Linnea Sablosky & Christopher Filkins
L-Base. Int/Adv. Linnea & Chris will share inversion entrances and transitions that require no hands for either base or flyer. This class requires strong mono leg lifts, squats, and listening feet from the base. From the flyer: solid inversions, active side star engagement, and patient fluidity in balancing. This class will be a continuation of what we offered last year with new and extended content as well as extensive exercises to help you build a healthy long-term free-balance practice.
Prerequisites: Mono reverse star (flyer hands okay), free side star, free star.
MORE Funky Washing Machines
Washing Machines. Int/Adv. Some strong, some bendy, some flow, some press. Grab our new machines and run with new tricky tricks to add to your funky machine arsenal.
Prerequisites: Side-stars in your sleep, Barrel Rolls till you barf, an openness to our dark web of humor.
Odd Exits
Lorynne Machado & Matthew Bagshaw
Standing. Advanced. Weird ways to go from standing to not standing. Some neat, some hard, some scary. Will require standing h2h, f2h, and Rev f2h
Prerequisites: Will require standing h2h, f2h, and Rev f2h
Saturday Afternoon Session 3: 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Thai and Fly
L-Base. All Levels. Explore passive transitions from the floor to the air and from flying to the ground to connect your thai-ing with your fly-ing. Then we will share our favorite relaxing Thai sequences for sore Acrobats and AcroYogis.
Prerequisites: No Prerequisites
Dual Balance
Chelsey Magness & Jason Magness
L-Base. Intermediate. For the past many years Jason and Chelsey have been perfecting the art of dual balance. Through this very physical and mental practice, they have been able to overcome some challenging obstacles both in relationship and life. Come learn some of their favorite slacker transitions and the lessons that have come from them! This will be sure to challenge and inspire your practice in more ways than one, come with an open mind!
Prerequisites: 1 min foot to hand, foot to shin, 10 sec liberty (or working towards it)
Icarian Flow
L-Base. Intermediate. A fun bouncy sequence of Icarian pops linked together.
Prerequisites: Bird and Throne straight throws.
Triolicious
Mendel Romanenko, Bassam & Woodrow Greenwald
Group Adagio. Intermediate.
If two heads are better than one, then three heads are even better!
Mendel & Bassam are joining forces with an extra special guest teacher. Together they will share their passion for the trio Acroyoga practice! Come and learn hot trio poses, transitions and progressing into a trio flow! Yes, a trio flow!
This workshop will be full of fun, sass and collaborative material. You will learn how to create a medley of amazing three person poses and counterbalances all woven together to create smooth transitions. You will stick different styles of poses from belly basing, L-basing and Standing! Be prepared to have a huge smile on your face!
Prerequisites: Some Standing experience
Backwhips: AKA Icarian Back Layout
Icarian. Int/Adv. A core skill in your icarian journey and something that is just damn fun. Come join Alison and Taylor in this floaty, fun and joyous class where we will pop, spin and land!! Together we’ll break down this skill with progressive building and development of core skills.
Prerequisites: Icarian throne pops, fast feet, soft catches, strong mental game, excitement and a willingness to explore
Unique H2H Entrances
Standing. Advanced. Right when you thought there were no new ways to get into hand to hand. We will work on four unique entrances to hand to hand and reverse hand to hand.
Prerequisites: 5 second hand to hand (regular and reverse) no walking, Rock n roll, some experience toe pitching
Saturday Afternoon Session 4: 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Acropeutics
Therapeutics. All Levels. This class will dive deep into acropeutics, and explore intermediate and advanced variations of therapeutic moves.
Prerequisites: No Prerequisites
The Loopty-Swoop
L-Base. Intermediate. Tricky moves that roll and swoop into the connected flow. Transitions we love with fun entrances and exits. Opportunities to add your personalized swoop, scoop, twist and roll throughout. Come learn our favorites and create your own with the blueprint!
Prerequisites: Popping sidestar tick-tocks, Side-stars in your sleep, Barrel Rolls till you barf, an openness to our dark web of humor.
Candy Cane
L-Base. Intermediate. Another spinning twisting puzzle to solve and make smooth. Contacts with hips and shoulders hand and feet of flyer.
Prerequisites: This is an upper level intermediate class. Soft and strong rotation on flyers hip, and good range of motion with stable reverse foot to hand.
Half twist Corbettes
Icarian. Intermediate. Most of you can pop out of reverse star, but can you pop into it, too? This class will teach a variety of ways to pop into reverse star–including a half twist!–along with the soft catches and flyer bails that will help you want to train safely. Come ready to be a hands-on spotter and level up your reverse star game!
Prerequisites: Proficient jump into reverse star. Bird to reverse star pop (with hands). Experience with pops from reverse star (ie. rev star to throne).
Russian Rolls
Adagio. Int/Adv. The technical skill of a base holding a flyer in F2H while rolling onto their belly and then to their back will be broke down in easy to digest steps that will rock your F2H practice and unlock this advanced skill.
Prerequisites: 30 sec L base F2H
Twisty Bed Icarian
Icarian. Advanced. Are you ready to twist and flip your way through bouncy bed pops with AcroMash!?! We’ll work through foundations and progressions to easily integrate these pops into your dynamic acro machines. Get ready for some abdominal activation and fancy footwork!
Prerequisites: Bed straight throw, Bed full turn, Some tempo experience.