About Rachel Strickland | http://www.madamerex.com/
TRAINING:
Specializing in solo aerial hoop, fabric, corde lisse, flexibility, and dance.
PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS:
Kinetic Arts Productions – “Salvage” 2015
dance choreographer, aerial hoop soloist
Circus Automatic – “Raised by Wolves” 2015
hoop soloist, water dance/handloop
Irish Aerial Dance Festival, Letterkenny, Ireland
June 2011-present, presented by Fidget Feet Aerial Dance
Aerial hoop, flexibility, corde lisse, choreography
Club Med Turks & Caicos, 2014
Guest artist and Aerial consultant
Solo aerial hoop performance
QUEENSRŸCHE Cabaret
National Tour 2010, 2014
Vault Houston Festival of Aerial Arts 2014, 2015
About Anastasia Sauvage | http://www.anastasiasauvage.com
Anastasia Sauvage is a multidisciplinary aerial artist with a background in ballet, contemporary dance, and theater, based in San Francisco. She began her training with a former Cirque du Soleil coach and continued with Leslie Tipton and Elena Panova.
Locally, Anastasia produces intimate events to bring aerial and musical artists together, such as Silks & Strings.
Her fluid, elegant style has captivated audiences from Tesla, Jack Daniels, Hitachi, the SF Giants, and at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Arena.
Anastasia has a NASM and HLC certification. She teaches at Aerial Artique, San Francisco Pole and Dance, and Circus Center. Her classes lead students through performance choreography workshops and showcase production.
Workshops:
- A Perfect Circle Part III: Advanced Spinning and Sequences | 2 hours
- Sunday, October 22, 2017 at 5:00 PM | $75
This workshop is all about the magic ingredient of SPIN on aerial hoop, but it can also easily be translated to any spin-based apparatus such as dance trapeze or straps. We will learn some challenging sequences you can chop up and use in your own choreography, and drill some of Rachel’s proprietary techniques for getting a very fast spin with minimal contact with the ground, and we will practice flares as well! Students should be familiar with aerial work, able to invert easily, and have both single knee hangs. Students are encouraged to spend some time getting comfortable with a spin leading up to the workshop. No puking allowed. 🙂
- The Buttermelt Workshop: How to Stop Posing and Start Being Fascinating | 2 hours
- Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 4:30 PM | $75
Avoid the pitfalls of performing trick…trick…trick…that can turn all your hard work into a snoozefest. Without the artistic application of movement quality, aerial is just fitness. This workshop is designed to add expression to your work, finetune your ability to master and manipulate your own, unique movement quality, and take your aerial work from a series of tricks to something that can’t be duplicated. We will work alone and in groups and pairs in a fun, comfortable environment to become familiar with our own natural compulsions for movement and how to pull it out of thin air with confidence when you need it. This workshop takes place mostly on the ground but with some time spent in the air.
- Finite Flow in the Fabric Universe
- Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 3:00 PM | $75
Follow new pathways to familiar destinations, and old pathways to new destinations. Make new friends along the way. Find shapes you’ve never found before. This is an advanced fabric workshop chock full of fascinating fabric theory that will leave your inner fabric nerd feeling fulfilled and inspired. We’ll be focusing on flow, fluidity through transitions, and stringing things together with ease.
Prerequisites:
– Ability to safely stay in the air for 3+ minutes
– Ability to invert in the air comfortably
– Knowledge of Belay