Youth Aerial
AerFire Youth Programming is designed to provide a fun, safe, nurturing atmosphere across the performing arts for children as they grow. Most of our students will not become professional performers. However, at AerFire we train each one with the responsibility of knowing they could, and the responsibility of ensuring they could with the training they receive at AerFire. Each student benefits from the work ethic, high standards, and real opportunities to perform in various venues. Each student
deserves to grow at their own pace, with body acceptance, confidence, respect, and care!
Check out our Youth Aerial Classes:
Combo Class
Join us for AerFire's first ever Combo Class for ages 3-6! In this 50 min class, we will explore aerial, dance, and tumbling. Throughout the 6 week session, students will gain listening skills, strength, flexibility, coordination, musicality, and creativity.
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Combo class combines Aerial, Dance, and Tumbling!
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Spring Session: 6- week session April 1- May 11
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Thursdays 10-10:50am
Aerial Jr.
For ages 6-9, Aerial Jr is an introductory level aerial and tumbling class designed to prepare children for the AerFire Beginner Youth Aerial class. We utilize circus silks, hammock/sling, rings, lyra, and pole. We focus on foundational coordination, strength, and flexibility while learning all the basic skills.
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Classes are 60 minutes once per week.
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Youth Beginner Aerial
Youth Beginner Aerial Classes are for children ages 8+ who decide that they want to learn aerial arts. Foundational strength and skill work is emphasized. Beginning stages of creating and choreography are enjoyed. Circus silks, hammock/sling, lyra, pole, and rings are the apparatuses we use in this course.
AerFire has a curriculum of content we spiral through on a flexible schedule to ensure each child is working at a pace appropriate for their body and each child is learning the skills and gaining the strength required for success!
Students must attend at minimum one full calendar year of Youth Beginner Aerial classes before consideration for promotion to Recreational or Intermediate Aerial. Children may repeat Beginner level classes as many times as it takes to complete the work. Children may repeat Beginner level classes due to age or maturity & readiness. There is no rush to intermediate! Children who master Beginner level work at a deep level will soar high!
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Youth Intermediate Aerial
For children ages 10+ who have been promoted from Youth Beginner Aerial classes, Youth Intermediate Aerial classes are a step up into the intense athletic work of aerial arts. Intermediate Aerial is for children who truly love aerial and are willing to put in the work to build aerial muscle!
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ALL body shapes and sizes are capable of pursuing aerial arts at this level!!! The limiting factor is mental tenacity. AerFire Youth Intermediate Aerial classes teach tenacity, how to condition, the science behind why we do what we do. We teach how to train like an athlete and create like an artist!
AerFire Intermediate Youth curriculum spirals review of all beginner level content as warm-up. We add a conditioning specific class to ensure that each child is building their body aerial-strong. We keep classes small so we can individualize conditioning work at an appropriate level for each person. Example: Susie has hypermobile shoulders and needs specific strength warm-ups before class. We teach her those in conditioning class. Timmy has tight hamstrings and cannot access skills that require him to touch his toes. We give him specific work to build strength and flexibility for his hamstrings in conditioning class. These two children have different bodies with different needs. Both can succeed if given the appropriate help, especially if they learn to independently care for their own body as they grow. A primary goal in Intermediate conditioning classes is to teach children how to train their own bodies effectively and safely. Skill Classes at the Intermediate Level shift focus toward the theory and function behind the fun tricks. Why? How? This enables us to study higher levels of skill safely. This encourages children to make wise choices, always weighing the risk to benefit ratio of each skill.
The curriculum content of Youth Intermediate is designed to cover a wide range of skills across apparatus to enable students to truly master their craft. The majority of advanced aerial work globally is a variation on the foundational skills we learn at AerFire. A primary aim of Intermediate Level work is conditioning the body to be prepared to master any aerial apparatus. All foundational movement patterns are not only covered, but trained properly into muscle memory, all while working within boundaries of minimal risk.
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