Silks (also known as aerial silks, fabric, or tissu) is one of the most popular aerial apparatuses. Silks hang in two long strands from a single point in the ceiling. Students learn how to climb, wrap, suspend, and drop as they build core and upper body strength. This apparatus is great for folks who enjoy puzzles and problem solving!

Sling (also known as aerial hammock) is a loop of fabric with endless possibilities! For new-to-aerial students, sling is an accessible starting point to begin your journey. For more experienced students, sling offers a huge variety of movement opportunities that may feel familiar to skills you’ve worked on in silks, lyra, or trapeze. This is a great apparatus to start or deepen your aerial journey!

Rope (also known as corde lisse) is an elegant aerial apparatus. Using similar techniques to silks, rope provides endless possibilities for dynamic movement and static poses that seem impossible and deceptively simple all at once. We generally recommend that students start with silks to get their bearings before transitioning to rope, but those who do often find love of this apparatus in its clean movement.

Straps (also known as aerial straps) are an aerial apparatus consisting of two narrow bands made of close-woven material. By wrapping the strap ends around hands and wrists, the performer performs holds, twists, rolls, and maneuvers, requiring extreme strength and precision similar to rings in gymnastics. This apparatus is not for the faint of heart and is an excellent choice for those with stubborn resolve and dedication to consistency.

Lyra (also known as aerial hoop) is a metal apparatus (generally made from solid or tube steel). We have lyras in various sizes to fit students of all heights, shapes, and abilities. Students learn how to invert, spin, pose, and transition in static, spinning or swinging positions. This is a great apparatus for folks who love to spin!

Trapeze is one of the most iconic aerial apparatuses. Made up of two ropes and a steel bar, this apparatus is beautifully versatile with accessible skills for new students and challenging dynamic movements for experienced students. Part soft apparatus and part hard apparatus, trapeze helps you practice aerial movements where you move around your apparatus and your apparatus moves around you.

A static trapeze is suspended from two separate points. A dance trapeze is rigged with both ropes to one point, allowing the apparatus to spin.

Handstands is a circus discipline where practitioners support their body in a stable, inverted position on their hands. Balance, strength, flexibility, and coordination are all key elements to successfully finding your best-inverted self on the ground. Handstands are excellent cross-training for all aerial apparatuses as they use your muscles in push strength versus pull strength.

Hand balancing is an act in which most skills involve the performer balancing on their hands. It can be completed on the floor or with the use of props such as a handstand platform, handstand bench, and handstand blocks.

Tumbling is a discipline that is part of gymnastics, cheer, circus arts, and dance. Tumbling involves executing acrobatic movements such as rolls, twists, handsprings, or somersaults. Unlike many other things we teach, tumbling’s only apparatus is the floor!

Partner acrobatics and acro-balancing (also known as adagio) use body counterweights, balances, lifts, and dance movements. Adagio has evolved to include hand-to-hand acrobatics, a type of performance in which an acrobatic base and flyer balance on top of each other, using only their hands, combining strength, agility, and flexibility.

Our backbends and splits classes prepare students for contortion—an acrobatic art that involves a performer bending their body into hyper-flexible, extraordinary positions. This skill can be combined with hand balancing and can also be performed on aerial apparatuses.