Creative Movement and Intro to Dynamics on Trapeze

With Sara Sparrow

In this workshop, trapeze students with some experience will begin to explore the world of dynamic movement and transition, including various beats, rolls, and simple releases.  We will also learn a segment of choreography that features compelling direction-changing movements, to get students thinking in new, creative ways about movement on and around the bar.  Most movements will work with both static and single-point equipment.  This workshop is best suited to students who can straddle up to and pullover the bar with a beat, have a solid front balance, and are familiar with basic static trapeze vocabulary.

About the instructor:
Sara Sparrow came to contemporary circus through a background as a gymnast, an actor and performer in musical theater, visual artist, and as a classically-trained singer and musician.  In her 20-year performance career, she has been a multi-disciplinary aerialist, an acrobat, foot juggler, carpet-spinner, chair stacker, parasol-twirler, musician, singer, dancer, showgirl, clown, actress, and chicken. She is the creator of Cirque de Crochet.  Sara has been coaching circus since 2007, and is the founder of Sparrow Studios school for aerial arts in Olympia, WA.  Noteworthy engagements include Teatro ZinZanni, TEDx, Teatro Circo Price (Madrid/Bilbao), Friedrichsbau Variete (Stuttgart).