Our Kinder Kids class is for ages 5-6 year olds who are ready to develop a foundation of fitness as they enter a more focused discovery of aerial arts. At this age group, our kinder program follows organized lesson plans that combine aerial skills mixed with fun play in a nurturing environment. The kinder kids will learn important life skills: coordination, focus, confidence, respect, artistic expression, and teamwork. So whether the kinder kids goal is fitness or having fun in the air, our goal is to have them smiling from ear to ear.
Does your child love being upside down? Do they love flying in the air? Then this is the class for them! Through creativity and playfulness students will develop body awareness, confidence, focus, strength, and flexibility in this fun and non-competitive class. Our program follows organized lesson plans that combine aerial silks and trapeze skills mixed with creative expression in a nurturing environment. Students move forward once they have climbed to the top of the fabric using French and Russian climb techniques and have completed all of the Aerials Beginner skills.
This level is for students who are able to climb the fabrics and perform foot locks on the ground, but are still working on inverting in the air and mastering the basic skills and techniques. This class will expand on technique, poses, and conditioning. Basic choreography will also be taught to help students learn how to start linking different moves together. Requirements: Students in this level have either completed the Aerial Beginner classes at Artz N’ Motion, or have had basic instruction elsewhere and have the basic body strength necessary for aerial arts and have completed all the skills in the Aerials Beginner class. Students may move forward once they have mastered an upside down descent, clean invert straddle and clean foot locks in the air consistently on fabric.
These classes are for students who are NEW to the apparatus and those who are still mastering the basic skills and techniques. These classes focus on the mechanics of Aerial Sling, Fabric and Trapeze. Students move forward once they are able to climb to the top of the fabric using basic and Russian climb techniques and students should be able to tuck under the bar and get to standing without fear and execute a birds nest pop off.
This level is for students who have mastered Youth Beginner Aerials skills and techniques, who are able to climb to the top of the fabric and perform foot locks on the ground, but are still working on inverting in the air and mastering the basic skills and techniques. In these classes we focus on the mechanics of fabric and sling. Requirements: Students in this level have either completed the Aerial Beginner classes at Artz N’ Motion. Students move forward once they have mastered the Aerials 1 skills, which include an upside-down descent, clean invert straddle, foot locks in the air consistently on fabric and tuck holds for 10 seconds with 1 clean shoelace and also an invert splits on the aerials sling.
This class is for ages 11-18 years old. This level is for students who have mastered Aerials 1 skills and techniques, who are able to perform foot locks in the air, a clean invert straddle, an upside-down descent, and perform a clean shoelace in the air on aerial sling. In this class, students focus on more complex skills and fluid transitions as well as preparing your body for more advanced skills. The student will use the skills learned in the Aerials 1 class to build more complex skills. Students will also learn simple drops and new climbs. In these classes we focus on the mechanics of fabric and sling. Requirements: Students successfully mastered Aerials 1 skills. Students move forward once they have mastered the Aerials 1.5 skills, which include an upside-down descent – ½ roll and flag in the air consistently on fabric. Tuck holds for 15 seconds with 2 clean shoelaces and also an invert hollow body into birds nest on the aerials sling.