Instructor: Gala Orba, of Boulder, who has been doing aerial silk dancing since 2009. She was trained at the Boulder Circus Center’s AirCat Aerial Arts program, and she has attended the Frequent ...

Northern Lights Aerial Studio, in downtown Duluth, is about to celebrate its first birthday. Beginners' classes are open to everyone — even newspaper columnists. Instructor Alexa Wavrin, right, helps ...

The origins of the art of aerial silks is debated, but it was in the late 1980s when Cirque du Soleil revamped the technique and brought it to the masses. Now, fitness groups in Southwest Florida are ...

It was back in 1994 on a family trip to Disney World when I saw my first Cirque du Soleil show. I was no more than 6 years old, and I was mesmerized by the acrobatic magic before me. With wide eyes, I ...

Crissy Langhammer knows how it feels to lean into the tension. As an aerial silks instructor, there is a physical tension being up on a silk or rope: Your body isn’t used to being up in the air, ...

Donna DeVerniero celebrated her 62nd birthday earlier this month hanging upside down from a 20-foot silk cloth suspended from the ceiling. It’s this baby boomer’s way of running off and joining the ...

Over the years there have been a lot of exercise trends come and go, many of them involving forms of dance But this latest addition to working out literally takes exercise to new heights. The art of ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Red aerial silks hung to the floor at National Dance Academy in Coralville before Mimi Ke wrapped the ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — Lindsay Fuller will tell you starting a small business is terrifying. She should know; she’s done it three times. “I always wanted to have something for myself, something I could be ...

Instead of loading up your New Year's resolution list with exercise routines rife with treadmills and free weights, this year, try something different - and a little bit daring. Aerial silk, a gravity ...