Two weeks of 3-Hour Immersions, 90-Minute Classes, Workshops, Performances, Networking with aerialists from across the country, and more. Join us in beautiful Boulder, CO, for one week or two!

Schedule of Events:

July 27, 2025:

6:00 PM: Opening Reception and Party

Open to all registered students. Celebrate the start of the Festival with Faculty Artists and other attendees! Get your ADF 2025 t-shirt, see old friends and make new connections. Held at Frequent Flyers’ Studios.

July 28, 2025:

8:00 PM: Intimate Encounters - Frequent Flyers’ Studio

Get up close and personal with the Faculty Artists of ADF 2025 as they present their aerial skills and answer questions from the audience.

$12 tickets available at the door only, one hour prior to showtime.

July 28 - August 1, 2025:

Week A:

Week A IMMERSIONS: Meet everyday from 9 am - noon, Monday-Friday.

Tethered Dancing: Rope & Harness (All Levels) with Valerie Morris / Dairy
Circus as a Verb Curiosity as a Medium (All Levels) with Issac Endo / FFP2
Lyra: Dive into Sequencing & Dynamics Technique (Int/Adv) with Artoor Voskanian / FFP1

Week A 90-Minute Classes: Meet everyday Monday-Friday.

1:00 - 2:30 PM:

Split Fabric Drops & Theory (Intermediate & Above) with Anastasia Timina / FFP2
Flip It! A Horizontal Apparatus Exploration (Adv Beginner & Above) with Ariana Papousek / FFP1
Act Creation Toolkit (Intermediate/Advanced) with Summer Lacy / Dairy

3:00 - 4:30 PM:

Dance Trapeze: Connectivity & Flow (Intermediate & Above) with Summer Lacy / Dairy
Dynamic Sling Theory & Skills (Intermediate) with Anastasia Timina / FFP1
Everything Peg Stilts (All Levels) with Valerie Morris & Danielle Hendricks / FFP2

5:30 - 7:00 PM:

Aerial Straps: Spins & Shapes (Intermediate) with Cosmo Dudley / FFP2
Rope: The Dynamics & Art of Letting Go (Intermediate/Advanced) with Sarah Dawn / FFP1

Week A Meet-Up - Free

July 29, 2025: 7:30 - 9:00 PM

Aerial Dance Festival & Circus Meet-Up:  Fire, Flow, Fun
Junkyard Social (2525 Frontier Ave Suite A, Boulder, CO 80301)

Week A Workshop: $20

July 30, 2025: 7:45 - 9:15 PM

“Build It Together: Co-Creating Aerial Learning Environments” with Jackie Beth Shilcutt

Want to build class environments designed for the learners present that inspire growth while attending to safety? This Activist Approach workshop is designed to walk participants through building a foundation with aerial students to help co-create learning environments that attend to physical and emotional safety. By inquiring with students about their perspectives, teachers and learners can help co-design educational settings that connect with students’ interests, motivations, and learning needs. This information can help the group discover what could help their learning processes, as well as identify and negotiate barriers to their activity enjoyment and engagement. Workshop participants will experience ways to build a foundation for aerial classes, as well as how to co-create “ways of working” with the students to support their learning.

August 1 - 3, 2025:

Showcase Performance:

The Showcase brings together the world-class Faculty Artists of ADF 2025. You will never see this mix of artists together anywhere else!

Performers:

Artoor Voskanian, Seattle Washington: Dynamic Lyra
Summer Lacy, New York: Dance Trapeze
Issac Endo, Boulder / Montreal: Devised Dance Trapeze
Danielle Hendricks, Fresno California: Bungee choreography on Laurel Johnson
Valerie Morris, Colorado: Stilts with Rope & Harness
Anastasia Timina, Colorado: Silks
Nancy Smith, Colorado: Aerial Window
Casey Pottle, Colorado: Loops
Ariana Papousek, Colorado: Lyra
Ariana Papousek & Peter Holben, Colorado: Aerial Pyramid

Times:

Friday / Saturday: 8:00 p.m.
Sunday: 2:00 p.m.

Location: Dairy Arts Center

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August 4 - 8, 2025:

Week B:

Week B Immersions: Meet everyday from 9 am - noon, Monday-Friday.

Bungee Dance & Build (All Levels) with Danielle Hendricks & Laurel Johnson / FFP1
Dance Trapeze (Intermediate) with Summer Lacy / Dairy
Silks Theory (Intermediate/Advanced) with Anastasia Timina / FFP2

Week B 90-Minute Classes: Meet everyday Monday-Friday.

1:00 - 2:30 PM:

Split Fabric: Transitions & Tangles (Intermediate/Advanced) with Artoor Voskanian / FFP2
Heavy Metal Invented Apparatus (Intermediate) with Nancy Smith / FFP1
Choreographic Games (All Levels) with Issac Endo / Dairy

3:00 - 4:30 PM:

Ecstatic Low Flow: Lyra & Dance Trapeze (Adv Beginner & Above) with Ariana Papousek / Dairy
Loops Lab: Sequencing & Choreography (Intermediate) with Casey Pottle / FFP2
Rope: From S to Z (but don’t forget C) (Adv Beginner & Above) with Sarah Dawn / FFP1

5:30 - 7:00 PM:

Everything Peg Stilts (All Levels) with Valerie Morris & Danielle Hendricks / FFP2
Lyra: Smooth Maneuvers (Intermediate/Advanced) with Artoor Voskanian / FFP1
Sculpting Theatricality: Lights, Cameras, Actions (All Levels) with Issac Endo / Dairy

Week B Meet-Up: Free

August 5, 2025: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Aerial Dance Festival and Circus Meet-Up:  Fire, Flow, Fun
Junkyard Social (2525 Frontier Ave Suite A, Boulder, CO 80301)

Week B Workshop - $20

August 6, 2025: 7:45 - 9:15 PM

“Creativity Toolbox” with Nancy Smith

In this fun hands-on workshop, we’ll ponder and answer these questions:

What is a toolbox for creativity and why have one?
What is inspiration and where does it come from?
What do you mean by creativity? What if I’m not creative?
We’ll work with tools for sourcing, changing perspective, thinking outside of the box, and
getting unstuck. Everyone will leave feeling energized and more awake to the world inside and outside from which to draw inspira%on, as well as the beginnings of your personal toolbox!
No movement or arts experience required, just a willingness to be open to explore.

Dates: July 27, 2025 - August 8, 2025

Locations:

Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Studios, 3022 East Sterling Circle, #150, Boulder, CO 80301.
Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theatre, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO 80302.

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