Intro to Partner Acro

Partner acrobatics combines balance, flexibility and coordination with partnership, trust and play. In this 3 hour workshop, participants will learn how to lift their partner in the air, how to be lifted themselves, how to keep each other safe and how to build trust for bigger and better skills. We will start with spotting and trust exercises, progress into basic L-basing (with the base lying down on the floor) and conclude with some standing acrobatics skills. Partners will rotate throughout the workshop, so no partner is required to enroll.

About the instructor: 

Juli Bierwirth is a ground acrobatics instructor specializing in partner acrobatics, hand balancing, pole, and cyr wheel. She transitioned from a career path in clinical nutrition to circus in 2013  when she began teaching and catching for Leap Flying Trapeze School. She was hired the next year to teach hand balancing and partner acrobatics at Canopy Studio, a circus school in Athens, GA, where she taught and trained for almost 8 years. Juli particularly loves infusing her teaching with the logic and physics of circus arts. Juli currently offers private and semiprivate lessons in partner acrobatics, hand balancing, pole, and aerial pole at Upside Aerial.