CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
AND PRE-RECS
2024 Schedule Class Descriptions
Friday Daylong Intensives
Start Off on the Right Foot - L-basing with Moonbeam & Micah
Low is for pro, L-basing drills will make strong foundations for a clean, safe, healthy, and sustainable practice when you go standing! Over the past few years, Moonbeam and Micah have done countless hours of drills and training in low-ceilinged living rooms. With the constraints of a small space, they have come up with so much material to show you to game-ify your drills, solidify your connection, grip and precision. We will take a deep and progressive dive to make your foot to hands and hand to hands feel as aligned and comfy as possible for the long road in your acro journey. Using some of the foundations we build together, we’ll take you through some of our favorite L-basing transitions & flows.
Pre-reqs: Star, reverse star, low + extended foot to hand. Some experience with low hand to hand. 15 seconds handstand against the wall.
Intermediate Acro Dance Flow with Laura & Joseph
Blending acrobatic skills with dance can be a challenge for a lot of us. In this day long we will help you connect those dots. We’ll provide the skills, sequence and in between moments while encouraging your own creative touches. Musicality and timing will be some of the key elements of this intensive.
Pre-reqs: 2 high, standing high bird, some experience with inlocate to 2-high and standing h2h preferred but not required.
Tempo Your Pops and More! - Icarian with Jon & Michele
Come ready to work on connecting some of our favorite Icarian skills such as castaways, martinis, and front tucks! As we refine your tempo practice, we’ll be giving personal, individualized attention to practitioners to get the most out of this Icarian Intensive. We’re also excited to share some of our new skills that will focus on intricate foot popping with special attention to timing. Intermediate practitioners will take away a better understanding of how to work smarter and not harder with tempos.
Pre-reqs: Chair to Front Plank Pops, Castaway, Reverse Star to Chair both directions.
Advanced Standing with Hobs & Kena
Our daylong will have pitch fips, and H2H tossing in pairs and trios. First part of the intensive will focus on pitching to toss and flip. The second half of the day will focus on H2H tosses both under and over balanced. Class will include both solo and double base platforms. .
Pre-reqs: Standing F2H & Standing Reverse F2H and ability to do 3 squats smoothly in both without loss of balance. Pitch to Reverse F2H (spotters okay). Comfort safely practicing skills that go towards extended F2H. 10 second standing H2H without steps, can tempo and/or press to H2H extension.
Saturday
Session 1
Icarian, it’s simpler than it looks…with the right technique with Jon Rea & Michele
This class is to get practitioners started on the right foot. We’ll be focusing on the bases’ lines as well as implementing techniques to keep you safe and enjoying this practice for a long time. Flyers will learn to love the hollow body position that will help them soar and rotate.
Pre-reqs: Experience in L-basing, Comfortable in Chair Squats
Via Ferrata Washing Machine with Crystal & Modern Tarzan
L-base washing machine class learning the “Via Ferrata.”
Pre-reqs: experience with single leg balanwwce poses and some dynamic movements
Whip-pops: Enter the Whip-Verse with Matt & Ash
Ash and Matt were average kids living in a universe where single-axis whip-pops exist, but after being bitten by a radioactive spider they experienced a whole new dimension of whip-pop rotation. Come explore a new axis with them! No spiders included.
Pre-reqs: monkey swing, Icarian pops in bed
Polish your Corbet with Moonbean & Micah
Description: Are you the type that gets to throw your Corbet once in a blue moon at a festival for a few reps, and it’s totally hit or miss? Let’s take the time to really slow down, refine, and create more understanding and control in our Corbets, so you can build towards doing them safely out of lines.
Pre-reqs: *Controlled* foot to hand bumps. *Controlled* h2h bumps: flyers legs together, minimal walking. Not necessarily that it’s super high, but important that it’s controlled
Lunch:
I Mean No Cis-Respect - An All-Levels Guide to the Social Acrobatics of Allyship with Lauren Risting
Join long-time acrobat, lgbtq rights activist, trans-woman, and proud former Coloradan Lauren Risting for a lunch time discussion of the nuances of allyship and creating safer and more welcoming acro spaces. We will come together to discuss the importance of education, language and the power of privilege and how they show up in our community. This workshop is an opportunity to discuss and expand our thinking on lgbtq inclusivity.
Pre-reqs: Please come ready to engage
Session 2
Level up your lifts - Adagio with Kira & Alex
Find your flow with us today where we will work on fun dynamic lifts! Movements will include a mix of dynamic, fun transitions, and peak poses. These will build off redefining the foundations so we can take this technique to other parts of our practice. Our goal will be on safe and efficient movement. We will touch on progressions of harder standing skills as we flow for those who are ready.
Pre- reqs: A “Can do” attitude
Baby Got Back Whips with Sarah Kat & Nate Villatoro
Come with us as we explore different techniques that help make seemingly scary back whips more accessible in a fun and beautiful flow.
Pre-reqs: Low L-Base F2H, Shoulder Stand, Either Some Experience with Tarzan Swings or Big Lemoi* (We just want you to have the ability to maintain base's stack with dynamic flyer movement)
I Get High with a Little Help from My Friends - Group Acro with Sarah & Jay & Jeremy
Come try a smorgasbord of exciting trio and pass the flier skills to spice up your life! Have an intimate experience with a variety of acro techniques and tricks to create an exciting group flow. Sync up with your friends to calibrate sic skills and take your partner acro to new heights.
Pre-reqs: Standing H2H, Standing F2H, some experience with group acro and dynamics is preferred
Mono Transitions - Standing Acro with Will Hasse & Aly Johnson
This class will build upon the fundamentals of standing acrobatics by striking a start pose, making a transition through mono, into an end pose. This is a great builder for mono skills while being accessible to those who are relatively new to this skill set.
Peak Skills will be Croc to Reverse One Arm H2H Side Star Swivel to F2H
Pre-reqs: Reverse H2H,5sec mono F2H, Arm-Croc
Session 3:
Carnival: A fun flow with a little something for everyone with Megan & Tylyn
Join us to work on a fun, truly all-levels flow. It begins with an interesting entrance and entry whip with pretty spins, inversions, goofy elements, and more. We’ve got lots of opportunities to level up or down to elevate your practice to new levels.
Pre-reqs: twisty side stars and comfort with inversions
Standing Foot to Hand Entries and Exits with Ilana & Z
Standing foot to hand (and reverse f2h) is a foundational skill that opens the door to many dynamic skills and fun transitions. This class will cover an array of entries to and exits from regular and reverse foot to hand, some of which use a third person to create both ease and dynamic flair.
Pre-reqs: comfortable walking and squatting in two high, comfortable in l-basing low foot to hand
Journey to Dolphin with Hobbs & Kena
Begin your journey towards this floaty, fun and photogenic skill. We will focus on refining Martini flights and catches. We will dial in reverse bird throwing and catching. Lastly if all is going well, put it all together for the dramatic Dolphin pop (rev bird to rev bird 360 back layout). Not everyone has to do the Dolphin, but we hope everyone understands the journey better by the end of class!
Pre-Reqs: Experience basing or flying Martini pop (back layout from throne to bird) at least 10 successful reps. Castaway should feel easy to base or fly to be ready for this class.
Flyers must have the ability to understand how to move in mid air, and not just be manipulated by the bases in their flight paths. Bases, plenty of Icarian experience is important so you can be precise in how you throw and catch.
Coached Jam: Bring Your Own Skills
This will be a jam with 3-4 of our teachers available for coaching. Please bring your own skills, spotters and ideas. There will be lines available for use during this jam.
Pre-reqs: None
Sunday
Session 1
Two High to Fail with Andy & Katie
Come learn or refine the most useful Acro skill! Gracefully climb and stand on your friends to reach new heights. Level up options for a no hands climb, and dynamic exit will be offered!
Pre-reqs: desire to refine your two high
“Bits ‘n’ Bobs” - L-Basing with Matt & Ash
Bringing you another original L-base machine with a charmingly reduplicative name, it’s acro.mash! Join us for a high-steppin’, hip-flippin’, knee-slappin’ good time. We’ll have options for making transitions harder or easier to suit all intermediate groups.
Pre-reqs: reverse star, side star, enthusiastic spotting
Whip Pops Workshop with Crystal & Tarzan
Skill level: Intermediate
Pre-reqs: Whips, chair pops
Dynamic Flyer Passes with Hobbs & Kena & Alex
A fun variety of unusual transitions using skills such as pitches, h2h's, ft2h's, banquine and more. Work as a team to create a fun standing Acro flow!
Pre-reqs: Experience with pitching, banquine, h2h & ft2h
Session 2:
Slackro Flow with Sarah Kat & Aaron
No slackline? No problem. Join us as we challenge our balance and explore a fun flow that can be leveled up or down to your liking.
Pre-reqs: None
Reverse star popping - Icarian with Devin & Courtney
This class will focus on building awareness in all types of popping to and from reverse star.
Pre-reqs: High degree of comfort in bird and throne straight pops, reverse star, willingness to be an expert spotter!
Columns: 3-high with an exit with Laura, Joseph, & Cody
3-high column building from the ground one person at a time. Top flyers will learn how to enter the column from the ground and climb to the top. Progressions and drills to take home and train will be given so you can continue your column practice after the festival. Finally, we will teach a climb down exit.
Pre-reqs: Bottom bases should be able to do 2-high squat walks across the floor with a *near same size flyer, middle bases should be able to do 2-high squats (5 reps) in place with any flyer, top flyers need to have familiarity with movement in 2-high (driving base, box steps, etc.)
Trust Dives with Ilana & Z
Nothing impresses an audience more than a dramatic catch with the flyer’s head oh so close to the ground. What they don’t know is that this can be a very safe and achievable skill. This class will teach a variety of trust dives and catches, culminating in the hand-to-hand trust dive.
Pre-reqs: solid standing hand to hand and hand to hand bumps
Lunch:
Become an Accomplice for Equity: Practical Steps to Empower our Acro Spaces with Ilana & Sirus
Join us for an action-oriented session focusing on how to move beyond understanding our own privilege and positionality in order to create meaningful change toward equity in acro spaces.
This session will be geared toward those who already have some grounding in power dynamics, structural oppression (racism, classism, sexism, etc.), and allyship--those without that background are still welcome to participate, but should be aware that we'll be orienting our conversation with some assumed introductory knowledge. In this talk, you should expect not only to engage with the ways that we all reproduce societal power dynamics in our acro spaces (whether we intend to or not), but also to learn practical approaches for interrupting real-life oppressive situations interpersonally as well as structurally. This conversation will illuminate how unjust racial and economic systems also directly impacts those who benefit from white privilege, and how divesting from and working to dismantle these systems is a project we all benefit from--not only the most marginalized among us.
Session 3:
Open Level Standing Acro with Laura & Joseph
This class will provide drills to improve and solidify standing f2h and h2h. We will give you tools to strengthen your entrances and exits to these skills and give you the confidence to execute them safely.
Pre- Reqs: experience with low f2h and low h2h
Mooncah Flow - L-basing with Moonbeam & Micah
Join us, Moonbeam and Micah, for an eclectic L-basing experience of spins, balances, pops and even a hand to hand. We will pull from the mixing pot of our own creativity and inspiration from others- bringing you a challenge of grace, balance, connection, and timing. As always, we will offer alternative pathways for folks with less experience.
Pre-Reqs: Reverse star, some experience with L-base h2h, pop from throne to bird (hands connected)
Extended H2H for Everyone with Whitney & Nate Northey
Stack two handstands on top of each other! This class will focus on using technique rather than strength to base and fly extended h2h. We will lead you through a progression to make help approaching this skill feel safe. Towards the end, we will try out some other fun and challenging entries for you to keep working with
Pre-Reqs: Stable jump into Standing H2H: 5 sec hold, no steps
THE FLIPPIN’ LINES - Icarian with Jon Rea & Michele
We will have access to the lines for this class and can’t wait to use them! We’ll be flipping in a way that will excite and challenge both base and flyer.
Pre-reqs: Castaways and Martinis.
Session 4:
Lunar Love - Therapeutics with Laura & Charlie
Want to be a better base/ person/ lover? Take this class. Lunar is soft and receptive and STRONG - like a good partner. We’ll move through several more intricate therapeutic flows while creating an environment of safety and trust. Come prepared for technical basing and to use direct, compassionate communication about your needs - these skills will translate into the rest of your acro practice and LIFE!
Pre-reqs: Care about yourself and others
Dance the Night Away with Sarah & Jay
Join Sarah and Jay for a dynamic dance class filled with big lifts and silky-smooth transitions. Grab a partner and get ready to toss, jump, slide, and twirl your way around the dance floor. You’ll learn all the progressions you need to have a flippin’ good time!
Pre-reqs: comfortable in standing bird, sidestar, and cradle
One foot, One shoulder, No hands - Reverse Star with Devin & Courtney
In this class we will explore the practice of hands-free reverse star balancing and will work towards the art of hands free mono reverse star balance. Hands free balance is a rewarding practice that teaches flyers incredible body awareness in all ranges of motion and helps center based in grounding and precise micro movements
Pre-reqs: Please come with a safe and consistent entrance into Reverse star and a desire to be upside down for a long period of time!
Coached Jam: Bring Your Own Skills
This will be a jam with 3-4 of our teachers available for coaching. Please bring your own skills, spotters and ideas. There will be lines available for use during this jam.
Pre-reqs: None