1.5 hrs, all levels, all apparatuses
$45, Up to 12 students

All performers experience nervousness, whether first time performer or seasoned pro. We get nervous to perform in new spaces or show new work. We’re also vulnerable to distraction--something unexpected happens with your music cue or costume, or there’s someone in the audience you’re thinking about impressing. In this workshop, we’ll learn tools to tame nerves and build stage presence. Participants will come in with a simple sequence they feel very comfortable with, and we’ll explore exercises to maintain mental clarity and focus on stage.

Colin Creveling and Nina Sawant have been performing together for the last 3 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and abroad with the Vespertine Circus (Rocky Horror Circus Show, High Tide) and Cirque du Boheme (Et Apres at the Festival D’Avignon 2019). They have each been performing for over ten years and share a passion for storytelling through contemporary circus. They are excited to bring an offering of adult and youth workshops to schools across the US this spring 2020.

$65 - 2 hours
able to stay on apparatus for 5 minutes, all apparatuses
Up to 8 students

In this workshop, we’ll discuss various styles of acts, learn tools to generate choreography, and how to edit choreography to create an compelling act. We will look at elements of movement quality, musicality, and stage presence. There will be time for individual feedback on existing acts and works in progress.

Colin Creveling and Nina Sawant have been performing together for the last 3 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and abroad with the Vespertine Circus (Rocky Horror Circus Show, High Tide) and Cirque du Boheme (Et Apres at the Festival D’Avignon 2019). They have each been performing for over ten years and share a passion for storytelling through contemporary circus. They are excited to bring an offering of adult and youth workshops to schools across the US this spring 2020.

Explore and developed a nuanced understanding of your core, it’s function, and how to work with your body.

$25 drop-in

Above The Bar
Trapeze with Melissa Coffey

A 90 minute exploration of twisted ropes from silk and trapeze vocabulary. This workshop focuses on getting fluent in the ropes while finding authentic vocabulary and creating dynamic sequences.

Lessons are broken down into achievable segments for multiple levels, students should be able to do a clean pullover, and higher level students should be comfortable with inversions and threading legs in the ropes/ on silks. Students will be shown new tricks and transitions, but also be challenged and shown ways to find new moves, and make existing moves look their own.

All students should wear full length leggings and cover the tops of their feet with stirrups/ trapeze boots/ leg warmers.

$40 for one workshop
$70 for two workshops
$90 for three workshops

“In every moment of your performance, you should be able to extract a still frame and upon seeing that frame, the viewer can tell you the story. That is using your body to tell a story.”

Melissa believes that we must share our humanity with our lives and art in order to educate others and exist in community. Find your storylines that resonate with you and your audience and be able to choreograph from them, or flavor your existing sequences. Learn to add and effectively convey story arcs to your aerial and movement disciplines! This class is full of easily absorbed exercises that will level up your performance and abilities to tell your story immediately! You can use any apparatus for this workshop, or work with flow skills and object manipulation on the ground. This is an all levels class, but you should be able to work with your apparatus for 3 minutes at a time.

$40 for one workshop
$70 for two workshops
$90 for three workshops

June 7, June 21, July 12, and July 26.

Join Ilana on select Fridays through June and July to explore movement with aerial rope.
$20 drop in

Come join the cast of Circus Foundry and learn duo lyra from professional performers. In this workshop, you'll learn a variety of lyra partnering sequences to up your aerial game.

$40 through Paypal (to a friend) or Venmo to reserve your space.

Come join the cast of Circus Foundry and learn from professional performers. In this workshop, we'll be exploring using rope skills on silks! Come discover the similarities and differences between these apparatuses.

$40 through Paypal (to a friend) or Venmo.

June 7, June 21, July 12, and July 26.

Join Ilana on select Fridays through June and July to explore movement with aerial rope.
$20 drop in

Join us in a sweet, silly, raucous, and real exploration of sexuality, relationships, play, and love. Featuring pieces on aerial fabric, trapeze, lyra, and floor. A portion of each ticket sold will be donated to the Sex Workers Outreach Project.

This show will contain adult themes and various states of undress. It may not be appropriate for children.

Tickets $18 at https://holdmyticket.com/event/333340 or $20 at the door.

Join us in a sweet, silly, raucous, and real exploration of sexuality, relationships, play, and love. Featuring pieces on aerial fabric, trapeze, lyra, and floor. A portion of each ticket sold will be donated to the Sex Workers Outreach Project.

This show will contain adult themes and various states of undress. It may not be appropriate for children.

Tickets $18 at https://holdmyticket.com/event/333340 or $20 at the door.

An advanced sequencing workshop on aerial rope and fabric, focusing on momentum, threading, and incorporating breakbeats.

Pre-pay to reserve your place. Paypal to abqcircusarts.com
Spots are limited. First come, first served.

1715 5th street ne
abq, nm 87102
www.abqcircusarts.com
505.280.4002

This beginner-friendly workshop is an opportunity to get to know the internal structures that let you move! Using hands-on, sensory-based methods, we will learn the names, locations, and shapes of bones, experience and experiment with joint actions, and discover the functional purposes of muscle, bone, and fascial tissues.

No previous anatomical knowledge required. Please bring a sense of curiosity!

Miles’s passion for understanding the human body from the inside out grew from the desire to heal their own chronic injuries, and body-based trauma. Miles integrates trauma-informed principles with movement elements drawn from dance, yoga, and somatics in a playful, light-hearted approach to self-learning.

$20 per person

Laura Stokes, half of the internationally award-winning performance troupe, The Ricochet Project, will be teaching the following workshops in Albuquerque at ABQ Circus Arts. Sign up soon to hold your spot at discounted pricing.
$50 pre-pay, $60 at the door

We will focus on precision and technique as the way to create more ease, grace and space for personal expressivity. Through the use of spinal propulsion, momentum and economic movement, students will learn how to work with gravity rather than against it, and to approach technical specificity as a gateway to expressive freedom, all the while being attentive to their own artistic voice. Students should be able to invert comfortably and know a minimum of three climbs.

Email abqcircusarts@gmail.com or call 505.280.4002 for more information and registration.

Laura Stokes, half of the internationally award-winning performance troupe, The Ricochet Project, will be teaching the following workshops in Albuquerque at ABQ Circus Arts. Sign up soon to hold your spot at discounted pricing.
$50 pre-pay, $60 at the door

Using the physical body as a template for exploring performative range, we will look at diversifying typical contortion positions and imbuing them with specificity and meaning. We will investigate flexibility as an avenue for occupying our furthest physiological reaches, ultimately leading to broadening not only the range of body but also of mind and art maker, redefining the flexible body as a potent expressive vehicle rather than mere spectacle. 

Email abqcircusarts@gmail.com or call 505.280.4002 for more information and registration.