Sunday Morning Session 1: 9:00am – 10:40am
Acro Games
Acro / Movement. All Levels. Flip your world upside down. Drawing from Capoeira, Circus Acrobatics, and Contact Improvisation, discover improvised acrobatics. Learn to play by your own rules with a strong connection to space, time, and partnership. The class will include conditioning, kinetic structures, improvisation, and ensemble acrobatics.
Prerequisites: No Prerequisites
NEW Multi-Player Machines & more
Sariah Papaya & Reno Gorman & Sean Keehan
Washing Machines. Intermediate. Choose your players and follow us through the tricky L-based game of spins, presses and rolls created by master gamers of The Handstand Nation. Come see the joy we have launching Reno & passing Sariah from base to base. This active class will get all your friends laughing, moving and learning interesting moves that include the whole party! NEW material we will break down and then as always…connect it all for fast, endless play.
Prerequisites: Popping sidestar tick-tocks, Side-stars in your sleep, Barrel Rolls till you barf, an openness to our dark web of humor.
H2H Flow
Crystal Nardico & Jeremy Martin
L-Base. Intermediate. A place where washing machines mix together with those upside down shapes. This class will feature all the fun statics that make us feel like strong acrobats along with the flow that makes us feel graceful, maybe even bootyful.
Prerequisites: Jump to reverse star, a mono limb balance of some sort for both base and flyer (side star/mono limb throne/ mono limb reverse star)
Mono Whip with a twist!
Whips. Intermediate. Tap into a unique style of dynamic movements with unexpected twists and whips. One legged whips that is.
Prerequisites: Some experience with whips, Hangle dangle, Pick pocket, Helicopter
Foot-To-Foot Pops
Icarian. Int/Adv. Popping from Icarian throne to foot-to-foot, back down into throne, reverse throne, and to several other L-basing endpoints. Time-dependent, we may also teach a bent-legged pop to foot-to-foot.
Prerequisites: Straight Throws, F2F experience
Inlocates
Standing. Advanced. Stop overthinking it. Inlocate today.
Prerequisites: Ask yourself, should you be in the inlocate class? (Y/N) 10 Second Standing H2H
Sunday Morning Session 2: 11:00am – 12:40pm
Forearm Candy
Rebecca Gibson & Carly Darrouzet
L-Base. All Levels. Add some bling to your washing machine repertoire! Let’s explore all kinds of ways we can base and fly with our forearms. Perfect choice for giving base’s wrists a little break, but also plenty of challenge for all! In this creative and unique machine, you’ll balance, stand, sit, and fly on forearms. Flyers will use a lot of core and trust, and bases will keep a solid framework for all the fun!
Prerequisites: No Prerequisites
AcroFight
Adagio / L-Base. Intermediate. Acro Fight class! Fun flips, spins and adventurous ways to move your partner.
Prerequisites: cartwheel on ground, cartwheel to straddle bat, supported handstand, comfort in rolling and jumping
Whip Pops
Whips. Intermediate. Whips are some of our favorite moves! Dialing them in and then adding a pop is a quite an adventure. Let us break this skill down so you don’t have to break yourself trying to figure it out. When they hit they feel Soooo good! We can’t wait to see you nail some with us.
Prerequisites: Whips, chair pops
Come Castaway TODAY!!
Icarian. Intermediate. In this bombastic and high-energy offering, we’ll take you from bird all the way through the air and into throne!! Games, drills, progressions, and lots of spotting will take you from “AH” to “OMG!!”. As we safely progress you through all the necessary motions and skills to help you soar together in one of ACROs most classic tosses. So come Castway with us TODAY!!
Prerequisites: Fast feet, soft catches, the ability to confidently spot others, a sense of humor and celebration, care for the journey, not the destination. Pops experience and a regular partner helpful but not necessary.
Slipknot
L-Base. Int/Adv. A strong flyer and stable base twisting puzzle to solve and make smooth. Contacts feet, hips and shoulders of flyer.
Prerequisites: Strong arms for flyer. Rotating mono foot to hand (Flyer will help support some)
Inlocate: The Untold Story
Standing. Advanced. This is not an inlocate to H2H class. We will use the inlocate as a way to enter dance lifts, fun passes and dynamic catches. PSA: NOT A H2H CLASS.
Prerequisites: Pike Inlocate to 2High. Comfort with dynamic skills that disconnect. Twerking in F2H. Be ready for an advanced class.
Sunday Afternoon Session 3: 2:30pm – 4:10pm
Acro for AnyBODY
L-Base. All Levels. Often, Acro pairs are represented as “big male base + small female flyer.” In this workshop, Gizmo and her partner Leah will be teaching some of the Acrolove fundamental skills from the perspective of a same-size pair. With a strong focus on communication, dialed in balances, conservation of movement, and smart compensations, this is an excellent workshop for same-size or other unconventional partnerships, as well as bases who want to fly, flyers who want to base, solo festival goers, beginners, or anyone interested in broadening their Acro horizons.
Prerequisites: No Prerequisites
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Adi Firefly & Christopher Filkins
L-base. Intermediate. Is your acro challenging and fun? Turn up the intensity and speed of your machines with key cues and tricky tools. We will use a variety of washing machines as vehicles to explore and exploit momentum and gravity. Learn how to spin cleanly, recover faster, and claim the title of “fastest washing machine” for your own!
Prerequisites: Participants must be familiar with Barrel Roll & Ninja Bat
Popping Machine
L-Base. Intermediate. What happens when you combine a prasarita twist with pops? You obviously get the one and only pop-a-rita twist! This Acromegaman original made the rounds a few years ago until it was forgotten. It is however back in season and still as fun as ever! Join us for a complete breakdown and also more pops around the same theme.
Prerequisites: Prasarita twist, basic pops, folded leaf, bird, back bend, straddle bat and star.
Acro Dance. All about the Drama
Standing. Intermediate. Whether you’re performance-bound or just looking to start a riot on the dance floor, these creative tricks are a blast to try together. This acrobatics dance class will lift you and your dance partner’s moves to new heights by combining dynamic movement and flowing dance lifts. With clear breakdown and instruction on basing, flying, and spotting, Bassam & Mendel blend creative partner acro moves with detailed technique.
Prerequisites: This class is for those with some standing acro experience. Come with or without a partner!
Acro Machines with a Twist
L-Base. Int/Adv. Prepare for asymmetrical L-basing that will challenge both the flyer and base to work collaboratively at finding balance in the most peculiar ways…
Prerequisites: 30 Sec F2H, Mono Rev Star
Acro Adagio (dance lifts)
Adagio. Advanced. Come dance with us! Learn a mix of assisted leaps, standing stunts turned into fluid lifts, and some sultry dips. There will be some over head lifts, and an opportunity to add in hand-to-hand for those who have it!
Prerequisites: Two high, High bird, base can hold the flyer overhead. Flyers will be required to jump, and partners will be required to work on tempo and timing together.
Sunday Afternoon Session 4: 4:30pm – 6:10pm
Final Therapeutic throw down
Therapeutics. All Levels. Seal up your AcroLove Experience with Whaka. We will go through circle flows, partner stretching, and acropeutics
Prerequisites: No Prerequisites
Cupcake Dream Machine
L-Base. Intermediate. Play with this fun new flow, “Cupcake Dream Machine with WHIP frosting top!” A beatiful flow with accessible whips and creative movement by Debbie and Sariah
Prerequisites: Some Washing Machines experience and beginner whips.
Whip, Crackle, and Pop
Whips. Intermediate. Join Alex and Jacob for whip pops! Learn all the tips and tricks you need to learn the most difficult type of L base. We will move past entry level whips pops into rarer and more exciting ones.
Prerequisites: Tarzn, Throne Back Whip
I fly the line
Gina Shiotani & Steven Cummings
Hand to Hand. Intermediate. Keep a close eye on these toes of mine Breathe and hold true the whole the time Our hands grasp in subtle bind Right over you, I fly the line. Intermediate L-base hand to hand progressions working to standing H2H.
Prerequisites: Star, 30 sec foot to hand
Icarian Bed Backtuck
Icarian. Int/Adv. This class is designed for advanced-level practitioners who have experience with flipping and want to learn a back tuck from bed. We will work with progressions and spotters to get everyone flying safely through the air.
Prerequisites: Bed Pops, 360 Back Plank Pops, Rianbow pop from chest to back plank
Overhead Craze
Standing. Advanced. In this class we will teach you some sequences to strengthen and refine your overhead skills as a base, while flyers are learning how to shift their weight smoothly to a mono support. We’ve got some standing overhead flows which will test both flyer and base’s endurance and stability.
Prerequisites: High bird, high side star, shoulders for days…