MY AERIAL HOME Fee: £3,300

ESSENTIAL AERIAL COURSE PRO 1 LEVEL

(EAC Pro 1)

PROSPECTUS

COURSE DATES

Christina K – Graduate – Taken as part of the course

INTRODUCTION The course in brief

My Aerial Home’s (MAH) three-month professional package offers training workshops for people with excellent physical ability who want to train as professional aerialists.

What you get:

• Expert aerial training four days a week (Monday to Thursday) with free personal practice time on Fridays!

• A wide range of teaching styles with teachers who excel in their skill

• Style Workshop with Helen White

• Seminar on physical health and training with Ann Kuan from Crystal Palace Sports Physio Group.

• Supporting workshops on Business planning, act creation, performance & rigging.

• Support from staff at My Aerial Home during your studies

• Expert production assistance to create your final piece

• A Professionally produced graduation show that is filmed for your show reel

• Professional photographic shoot

• A dedicated clean, warm training space with excellent facilities where you can concentrate on your practice

• Easy payment terms and no hidden financial extra’s

Who this course is suitable for:

• Aerialists who feel their piecemeal training has left gaps in their knowledge;

• Participants who have taken our Dancers Intensive Course or our one month EAC Foundation course;

• professionally trained dancers;

• gymnasts;

• people with a good level of pole training;

This course takes place at My Aerial Home’s dedicated space in South London – a secure, welcoming training environment conducive to intensive training. At My Aerial Home – we leave no one behind offering equal training to all candidates. www.myaerialhome.co.uk

To see our filmed live graduate show go to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irriDrKGQs0

Core Tutors will include:

Amanda Miles - My Aerial Home Amanda is founder of My Aerial Home and has been training professional aerialists for over seven years. From a theatrical family and trained as a professional dancer at Arts Educational schools, Amanda’s career has been eclectic as a dancer & choreographer before moving into theatrical management as an agent & then working as a television producer for over 20 years.

Mim Wheeler – Vertical skills Australian-born Mim is a trained contemporary dancer and aerialist. She has trained in aerial skills including rope, silks and chain. She has performed for Impact Artists and at Move It for My Aerial Home and is a member of the Air Dance Company. She runs vertical skills workshops around the world and is currently performing with Citrus Arts in their show Shipwrecks Mim is a regular performer in the corporate circuit.

Jen Robinson – Hoop and Animal Flow Trained in dance from Bird College, Jen has a BA(Hons) in Dance and Theatre Performance and continued her training by taking up aerial skills. In 2014/15, she toured the UK with Cameron Mackintosh’s production of 'Barnum,' she has also performed with Upswing’s Tour of Red Shoes as a dancer and artist and as part of the revival of ‘Chess’ with the English National opera.She is currently the Circus director and performer in Garstington Opera’s production of the ‘Bartered Bride’. Jen is an all-round aerialist and contemporary circus performer and can work on Silks, Static , and . As well as Chinese Pole, , Hula and .

Danny Ash is a qualified microbiologist and was set to follow a medical career until he discovered theatre and circus. He trained in aerial arts at a variety of aerial schools including a degree at the National Centre of Circus Arts, London and with Emiliano Ron and Leo Headman. Since graduating, Danny has appeared regularly on the cabaret circuit with a variety of aerial acts and has been voted Performer of the Year 2016 on the London Circuit. Danny recently appeared at the Peacock Theatre, London in the contemporary circus show “Soho” for Stufish Productions.

Suzie Rosele Smith Suzie was professionally trained as a dancer at Millennium Arts. She has trained in a variety of aerial studios and during her training discovered that favourite past times are stretching and being in a hoop. With she is a regular performer around London and specialises in mini aerial hoop because “it’s easy to pop in your handbag”.

Suzie will be teaching hoop and

Tina Kerridge

Tina Trained in dance at Body Works and has worked extensively as a commercial dancer. She started learning aerial skills whilst working in the USA and has been working as a professional aerialist for the past year after completing MAH professional course. She has worked both in traditional but more recently in commercial contemporary aerial as one of Hugh Jackman’s backing aerialists for the Brit awards. Tina is head of our youth circus and runs the Circus Circuit classes.

Tina is originally from Newcastle and is a type 1 diabetic.

Ben Finch Brown (Duo Little Finch) Ben began his Circus career in 2010, when he joined the 3 year degree programme at the National Centre for Circus Arts in London, previously Ben had been trained in gymnastics and converted this training to developing the first ever Aerial Bungee Hoop act, and since has performed all over the globe. In 2015 Ben was nominated for 'Best Variety Act' in the annual London Cabaret Awards. Together with his husband he has created Duo Little Finch, an international doubles act that combines aerial and ground-based skills to international acclaim. Jonathan Finch Brown (Duo Little Finch) Jonathan specialises in hand balancing and was an accomplished gymnast/sports acrobat as prior to training in circus at the National Circus Centre, he dedicated 15 years of his life to Acrobatic Gymnastics where he competed at both a national and international level. Since graduating he has toured with the Batman Live World Arena Tour and various cabaret and corporate contracts before joining with his partner, now husband, Ben Brown to create Duo Little Finch.

They moved to Berlin to be part of the Jean Paul Gautier designed show “The One”. The duo’s cabaret credits include: Cafe De Paris; Gin House Burlesque; The Aeronaut; Proud Cabaret; Glamorous Weirdo; The Wambam Club; Bunga Bunga; Brighton Fringe; The Revolver Revue;

International: Resorts World Sentosa Theatre, Chinese New Year 2018 (both Singapore) German residency: FriedrichstadtPalast,; FriedrichsBau Varieté, Stuttgart; Wintergarten, Berlin.Vaudeville Variete, Berlin, Tipi Am KamzlerAmt, Berlin; Berlin Boylesque Festival 2019; Cruise Liners include: Celebrity Cruise Lines; Aida Cruise Lines; Atlantis Cruises; Tulip Fever.

(sometimes trainers and tutors are subject to change)

Graduate Production & Production Services:

Included in your fees are

• a session with a professional aerial photographer

• a seminar with a stylist and colour specialist

• a seminar with a physiotherapist

• a business discussion with social media support

• professionally produced graduation show that is filmed for your show reel

• free training time for the duration of the course.

Nathalie P –Graduate

ESSENTIAL AERIAL COURSE PROFESSIONAL LEVEL 1 14 weeks: September to December Course Fee £3,300 (easy payment terms available – interest free) Half term week in October with an option for Classes that week.

Course details: Professional performers juggle work and financial commitments alongside re- training as aerialists. The Essential Aerial Courses (EAC) have been designed to help performers who are often time rich and money poor. Many transitional aerialists will have knowledge gaps in their repertoire, as an unavoidable consequence of piecemeal training. The EAC Foundation and EAC Pro 1 aim to fill those gaps.

The EAC Pro 1 is the basis of My Aerial Home’s progressive courses which aim to allow participants to split their aerial training into time-manageable and affordable chunks. Each module must be completed before a participant can move onto the next course.

Description: The first six weeks are our foundation section of the course. The teaching section of course runs four days a week (Monday - Thursday) with the fifth day (Friday) being designated as a training day. The course has been designed to lay the foundations for participants to build physical strength in a sustainable way and learn the essential basics of aerial knowledge across several aerial skills.

The course covers the following key disciplines with other skills added as top up workshops:

• silks • aerial hoop (lyra/cerceau) • • rope (corde lisse) • contortion • straps • aerial conditioning • Handstands, tumbling • Spanish web

After six weeks we have a half term break of one week. During that time, you are entitled to come for personal practice between 2pm and 6pm, and we strongly encourage you to use this time to begin your creation process.

In the second half of the course participants specialise in their chosen skill and will start to develop their final piece whilst also continuing classes and physical development. We offer you a safe and supportive environment to develop your skills.

Underpinning the aerial sessions will be core work, conditioning and ground-based skills, to build strength and stamina essential to support the physical demands of aerial training.

Participants must demonstrate commitment and a will to succeed. 100% attendance is expected, and lateness will not be acceptable. Streaming of abilities Participants will be streamed into groups with higher-level aerialists encouraged to retrace and check their aerial knowledge to embed good practice. This deepening of their understanding will allow them to move onto more complicated and advanced work with an understanding of the basics keeping them safe, and able to create their own work.

Less experienced practitioners will gain an ABC knowledge of the aerial arts, setting safe and achievable targets that will enable them to move them forward towards more difficult and advanced skills, solid in the knowledge that they understand their craft.

Enrolment requirements Potential candidates should submit video of their current practice and, in a personal statement, tell us about their training and what they hope to gain from the course. We may invite you down to the school to meet us if this is convenient.

Course size: the EAC Pro 1 will run with a maximum of 10 participants. Age limit is 16yrs with parental consent. Teaching staff All staff will be professional aerial tutors with extensive knowledge of performance, production and with a high level of aerial expertise.

Payment Plan You will be billed for the full amount and are asked to pay a deposit of £300 to reserve your place. You may then pay the in instalments, so long as the fees are paid in total end of the course. No interest will be added.

Description. Three months is a short time to bring each participant’s training to a professional level. However, from our previous course experience, combining sound training techniques and intelligent methodology with hard work and personal discipline, this intense training regime encourages each participant to draw on their strengths, creativity and mental tenacity to develop personalized professional pieces.

In addition, this course will leave each participant feeling confident and prepared for work in an industry that is increasingly competitive. Course Breakdown EAC Pro 1 will consist of over 234 hours of training and 65 hours of free practice time and over 32 hours of supervised production time:

Participants who sign up for the professional course will join a two stage programme: Stage 1: EAC Foundation (first half) This stage is aimed at:

• solidifying the techniques of basic aerial moves and ensuring there are no knowledge gaps.

• gaining a solid base of strength and building that strength safely and consistently.

• teaching specific moves, combinations and techniques on various apparatus for four weeks ensuring a solid base of knowledge and strength is picked up and can be built upon in the following two stages. It is also the best time for the students to discover that most of the tricks can transfer on all the equipment and that all aerial training will be beneficial to their own apparatus.

Participants are assessed and streamed on day one so they are allocated into appropriate groups.

October – Half Term

During the half term week you can take part in the Spanish Web module as part of the Dancers Intensive workshops. This is at no extra charge. Stage 2: EAC Pro 1 – Technique & Creation (Second half) In the second six weeks, each student chooses which apparatus they will be specialising in and will start working specifically to reach a higher level of tricks and focusing on smooth transitions. This particular process is aimed at achieving specific goals, a smooth flow between tricks and poses using correct technique with a focus

on using the right methodology. Skills based classes will continue alongside this specialisation work.

Using their personalised sequences each participant will start to work with music to create their routine. We will be using various methods in which we will inspire students to realise their potential of creating their own bespoke routines using topics, stories, emotions and other inspirations to put together a professional smooth-flowing and dynamic routine with great music, choreography and character.

Additional performance support Photo-shoot our professional aerial photographer takes your static shots

Anabel D as part of the professional photo shoot and a shot from the 2019 Grad show. Graduation show On the final Friday of the course in December a professional show will be staged and filmed with a paying audience to show participants created routines.

Conclusion Safety is our number one priority and this course will ensure participants leave the course with:

• the skill set and confidence to work safely as an aerial performer, including advice on choosing music, costume and styling and finessing your routine to ensure a polished and professional product.

• the ability to train and work safely and efficiently;

• an understanding of safe rigging;

• the knowledge of what to look for before agreeing to a contract or gig;

• an understanding of their insurance requirements;

• confidence in how to undertake safety assessments;

• a knowledge of equipment, injury prevention and safe training;

TO BOOK YOUR SPACE:

For a booking form, please contact MAH on 020 3817 4870 or email us on [email protected] or go to our website www.myaerialhome.co.uk and book your place on our website.