![]() Heather uses her art form to benefit the nonprofits she advocates for by donating performances for events. As a circademic, Heather has worked as a social circus aerial trainer in Israel, Palestine, and Thailand, teaching trust and peace through circus skills. ![]() She teaches online classes for the University of Denver University College Global Affairs MA program and finds often finds inspiration for aerial productions from the intense dialogue about culture, privilege, power, and the shared traits of human condition that we all experience regardless of age, race, geography, and culture. In addition to teaching aerial in the studio, Heather has spent years traveling and teaching culture and human rights as a university professor. ![]() She has performed at multiple festivals on outdoor rigs and also skilled in ambient aerial for places small venues like eleven 44 in Chinatown in Honolulu, Bender’s in Denver, and others. Heather’s performance experience is diverse and includes working big venues like the 1st Bank Center in Denver, The Maui Arts & Cultural Center medium sized venues like The New Orleans Children’s Museum, The Oriental Theatre in Denver, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre, Honolulu Museum of Art, and the historic Iao Theatre in Maui, and smaller theatre productions. She has experience working with kids on the spectrum, refugees, and kids and adults with eating disorders. She is also a certified Circus Arts Therapist through The Circus Arts Institute. She completed her Instructor in Circus Arts training from the Ecole Nationale de Cirque (National Circus School) in Montreal and her aerial teacher training from the New England Center for Circus Arts in trapeze, lyra, and silks. She is also very active in international Social Circus and was an invited trainer for the “Climbing Walls” Youth Circus Festival in Akko, Israel, and for the Makampom Theatre in Thailand. Heather has taught workshops at Wanderlust Oahu, Aerial Cirque over Denver, L’Ru Studios, Still and Moving Center, and international at circus festivals. In 2015, she moved to Maui and founded Maui Aerial Arts and she is thrilled to have found her forever home. In 2013 Heather moved to Honolulu and began teaching aerial at Still and Moving Center. Heather co-founded and owned Miraas Aerial Arts (know known as Gravity Aerial Arts) a Denver-based aerial studio where she was Creative Director and Lead Instructor from 2009-2013. Heather has been coaching aerials since 2006, teaching aerial silk, static trapeze, single point dance trapeze, lyra, and aerial yoga to adults and children. More information about the event can be found at Zaccho Dance Theatre’s web site.Heather first learned the art of trapeze and aerial dance in 1997 in New Orleans, and she’s had a hard time walking on the ground ever since. Sunday, August 21, 3:00-4:30 p.m., outdoors featuring BANDALOOP, Flyaway Productions, Karl Gillick, Zaccho Dance Theatre. Saturday, August 20, 7:00-8:30 p.m., Gallery 308, Building A featuring Syn Circus, Upswing Aerial Dance Company, Nehara Kalev & Glenn Easley, Calvin Kai Ku, Sandia Sexton, Zaccho Youth Company, Capacitor, Grounded Aerial, Xochitl Sosa-Campbell, Veronica Blair. Saturday, August 20, 3:00-4:30 p.m., outdoors featuring BANDALOOP, Flyaway Productions, Karl Gillick, Zaccho Dance Theatre. The aerial performances occur at various venues on the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture campus:įriday, August 19, 7:00-8:30 p.m., Gallery 308, Building A featuring Syn Circus, Upswing Aerial Dance Company, Nehara Kalev & Glenn Easley, Calvin Kai Ku, Sandia Sexton, Zaccho Youth Company, Capacitor, Grounded Aerial, Xochitl Sosa-Campbell, Veronica Blair. This dynamic, three-day indoor and outdoor event brings together innovative spectacle, daring athleticism, aerial dance, and circus performances. ![]() Zaccho Dance Theatre and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture present the biennial San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, the premiere event for aerial arts in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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