A little under five years ago, a former colleague of mine showed me a video that I didn’t know would alter the entire trajectory of my physical interests. In the video, she was hanging about six ...

Getting into a pose and out again is, in every sense, a white-knuckle ride Fitness tips: three benefits of aerial arts When will I learn my own limits, I thought, as I attempted an inverted needle on ...

Jennifer Hebert frequently hits the gym. She lifts weights. She runs marathons. But lately, the Toronto resident has been mixing up her routine with something entirely different: exercises befitting ...

I have absolutely no core or arm strength but at the end of the class I am successfully doing six different poses and feel like an invincible aerial goddess. Photo / Getty Images Professing no core or ...

The origins of the art of aerial silks is debated, but it was in the late 1980s when Cirque du Soleil revamped the technique and brought it to the masses. Now, fitness groups in Southwest Florida are ...

Spins are often used as an expression of freedom and a sense of liberation.Certainly, there is something about a spinning ...

An aerial silk artist battled the elements to break a dangerous world record at a dizzying height. Erika Lemay (Portugal) set the highest suspended aerial silk free roll (blindfolded) at a height of ...

Not ready to jump right into aerial silk? Check out a free demo performance at the Breckenridge Recreation Center just after Valentine’s Day. When: Monday, Feb. 15 at 5 p.m. Where: Breckenridge ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — Lindsay Fuller will tell you starting a small business is terrifying. She should know; she’s done it three times. “I always wanted to have something for myself, something I could be ...

Aerial silk performances are only seen by most people at concerts or theater shows. Nick Erickson, associate professor in the Theater department at LSU, is changing that for the Baton Rouge community.