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In addition to our regular session and drop-in classes, we also often offer workshops, either by guest instructors or our own staff. Workshops offer the opportunity to delve deeply into a specific concept, or to work with a new instructor who may not often be available to you. Watch this space for upcoming workshops!
Saturday, November 23, 2024 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm in the Front Room • Cost: $60
This workshop is geared towards getting a taste for contortion or brushing up on skills. Whether you are new to contortion or want to learn some new skills and sequences, we will go over warmups, drills for the hips, back and shoulders, balance exercises and partner shapes.
Prerequisites:
– Bridge with shoulders over hands i.e wheel pose
– Splits close to flat or over
– Comfortable kicking into handstand on the wall
Saturday, November 23, 2024 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Back Room • Cost: $60
Welcome to the wonderful world of the upside down where we will be working on skills of inversions of all types. We will be going over alignment stretches for increasing shoulder and hip mobility, and we will be exploring shapes of all sorts – contortion handstands, bendy shapes and more. If you have been looking for a fun handstand workshop to explore more than just a basic straight handstand then look no further.
Prerequisites:
Comfortable kicking to handstand on the wall or in free space
Saturday, November 23, 2024 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm in the Back Room • Cost: $50
If you have wanted to increase your splits or just work on your lines for better aesthetics, then you would benefit from this workshop. This workshop is all about making our lines beautiful and practical – we will focus on mobility of hips, extension of muscles and strengthening exercises for getting that beautiful active split. This is an all-level workshop where all are
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Friday, January 17, 2025 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm in the New Moon Movement Arts studio space • Cost: $700
Have you ever thought about being an aerial coach?Have you wondered how to start? What’s the first step?
Our Aerial Teacher Training Intensive is a great first step along your path to teaching!
This training will cover teaching basics using the beginning curriculum developed by Lauren Kehl and Beverly Sobelman for Versatile Arts. Students will learn basic skill instruction, warm ups, and cueing as well as basic injury prevention, basic rigging, and functional anatomy through a lecture by The Circus Doc, Emily Scherb.
The curriculum addressed in this training helped to establish Versatile Arts as one of the premiere recreational aerial schools in the Pacific Northwest, and we are excited to share these tried and true teaching methods with current and aspiring aerial coaches! This is your opportunity to learn from the coaches that have created the curriculum and developed the teaching methods that have helped countless students of all abilities find success in aerial arts.
If you are already teaching, this workshop will help you dial in your cueing and spotting. If you are starting your journey as a teacher, this workshop will give you a solid foundation for you to continue your training as an instructor. If you’re a current New Moon student who’s interested in becoming a TA, this is how you start!
Our teacher training intensive is a combination of lecture and hands-on learning based on our established curriculum progressions and spotting protocols, practical anatomy education, and teacher assessment tools that will better prepare instructors to work with the recreational adult population. This 4-day workshop involves over 20 hours of classroom time.
Friday, January 17: 6:00pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday, January 18: 12:00pm – 6:30 pm
Sunday, January 19: 9:00am – 3:30 pm
Monday, January 20: 10:00am – 4:30 pm
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After completing the course, participants will be ready to return to existing teaching with a more thorough understanding of the principles of aerial instruction, or to begin assisting or apprenticing under a more experienced instructor.
Prerequisites: at least 2 years of aerial experience including rope/tissu, and trapeze.
Tuition:
Early bird (register before January 1st) – $700
Standard (register January 1st or later) – $770
A $100 deposit holds your spot; tuition must be paid in full 1 week prior to the start of the workshop.
Scholarship opportunity:
The VA BIPOC Scholarship Fund is able to support two participants in this training. If you identify as BIPOC, please pay the deposit to save your space and then email beverly@versatilearts.net to apply for a teacher training scholarship. Please include your age, racial and/or ethnic identity, a brief description of your aerial background, goals for taking this training, and whether you would be able to afford the training without support. Your deposit will be refunded if you do not receive a scholarship and can’t afford the training without it.