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 ...

This post was updated May 19 at 1:05 a.m. Cirque de ’LA is flipping Spring Sing on its head. The student circus arts group, started in 2018, will make its Spring Sing debut at the Los Angeles Tennis ...

If 'unreal' weren’t already a word in the dictionary, this video could have been the reason for its creation. This awe-inspiring clip features a daring circus duo attempting an incredible aerial move.

Crissy Langhammer knows how it feels to lean into the tension. As an aerial silks instructor, there is a physical tension being up on a silk or rope: Your body isn’t used to being up in the air, ...

Fifteen minutes into my trial aerial silks lesson at Bumbershoot Aerial Arts, I am close to tears. Despite clear instructions from two compassionate teachers, I cannot get the hang of the first move: ...

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 ...