This class is for ages 7-10 years old. 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 class is for ages 7-10 years old. 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.
This class is for ages 11-18 years old. 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 class is for ages 11-18 years old. 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 youth ages 11–18 who have mastered the foundational skills and techniques taught in Youth Aerials 1. Students are expected to demonstrate strength, body control, coordination, and safe technique across all four apparatuses: fabric, static trapeze, aerial lyra, and aerial sling.
In Youth Aerials 1.5, students build on their existing aerial foundations while developing more complex skills, fluid transitions, new climbs, and introductory drops as appropriate to their readiness. Classes continue to focus on proper technique, body awareness, strength, flexibility, and safe movement on each apparatus.
Requirements: Students must successfully demonstrate mastery of the required Youth Aerials 1 skills. Evaluation skills include controlled climbs, inversions, aerial foot locks, back-of-knee hangs and back arches on fabric; foundational sequences, positions, and shoelace skills on static trapeze; Dragonfly to wine glass, upside-down X, rainbow, peace sign, and pop-off on lyra; and flyer, hip key to thread-through, up-and-over catchers, invert to splits, single-knee hook to 360, and cocoon to swan on aerial sling. Students must also demonstrate a 10-second tuck hold, a clean shoelace, and consistent technique, body control, and safety awareness.
Students advance when they demonstrate the required skills with appropriate technique, control, and consistency. Advancement is based on demonstrated readiness, not simply time spent in a level.