McKinley’s Recent Visit<\/h1>\n
This past month (December 2017), McKinley Vitale made the trek out from Atlanta to visit me in Castle Rock, Colorado. McKinley had a good time performing in our local show (which was broadcast live on facebook), and fun working with our local students, but the work that you might be interested in is our filming of trapeze moves for the Born to Fly Curriculum!<\/p>\n
Melissa Roberts, of Canopy Studio, did a fantastic job lying the foundation for me for trapeze curriculum in 2016.\u00a0 Since then, I have moved to Colorado and opened a studio, giving me a chance to beta-test the trapeze curriculum on beginning students. I have to admit trapeze is still a hard-sell at the studio. There aren’t enough beginner moves that “don’t hurt” and sling has definitely been the winner for beginning classes. Those who are wanting to try trapeze at the studio are a little more advanced and I found myself in a position in hunger for more trapeze.<\/p>\n
Enter McKinley. She picked up where Melissa left off with intermediate trapeze and away we flew! We documented–through videos and photography–moves such as hip circles, teddy bear transitions to ankles, etc, around the world variations and much much more.<\/p>\n
Some Puzzles We Worked On<\/h2>\n
One of the highlights that stood out was playing with all the variety of leg rolls that you can do on trapeze. See if you can identify the following rolls:<\/p>\n
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(1) is the basic leg roll. To enter this roll, the free leg must be threaded around the rope the moment before you roll up into the trapeze. (2) is the reverse<\/p>\n (3) is the Leanna roll and (4) is the reverse Leanna roll. It might be a little hard to see the “reverse” in the ending pose, but the entry is clearly reversed. Again, the reverse part of the name is coming from switching the base leg, not because you are switching direction. The last roll pictured (5) is the Mermaid roll, which is a roll where both legs are in the Leanna roll and you end in a mermaid position of the body.<\/p>\n The next puzzle that I am having fun exploring is all the variations of surrender. Surrender is a classic Canopy pose that has a moving story which we covered in another blog<\/a>. Here are 4 variations we discovered recently:<\/p>\n As you may be able to tell, some variations are more comfortable than others. I’ve been having fun trying to find new ways into all these positions. You can find one of my latest solutions on\u00a0our\u00a0Instagram page here:<\/p>\n I\u2019m so inspired by @mc_kinley_ and her visit to contribute to our trapeze curriculum. I feel like I\u2019m using my #silks brain on trapeze for the first time and it feels mighty good! Here is a result of recent play time, finding a way into a surrender variation. #aerialtrapeze #trapeze #dancetrapeze #singlepointtrapeze #aerial #circus #cirque #aerialbrain #aerialnerd<\/a><\/p>\n A post shared by AerialDancing.com<\/a> (@borntoflycurriculum) on ![\"trapeze](\"https:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/trapeze-moves-1.jpg\")
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