You see aerial dance in circuses and burlesque shows, at gymnastics meets and even on the formal dance stage — but it wasn’t always so. And as Nancy Smith of Boulder’s Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance ...

Summer Davies is hanging from two long pieces of fabric — deep blue and bright red — suspended over a small canyon near Mt. Kinesava. The setting sun breaks through the clouds, illuminating the peak ...

No one at the nineteenth International Aerial Dance Festival seems to be afraid of heights. At Frequent Flyers’ Boulder studio, dancers dangle from an arm wrapped in swaths of fabric or hang upside ...

Aerial training has become an essential skill within the professional dance and performing arts industry, with performers expected to demonstrate versatility, upper-body strength, and aerial technique ...