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Dec 10, 2018

Calling all aerial nerds! Time to kick back and get a dose of knowledge from one of the leading creators in the US aerial scene, Dara Minkin. Shannon talks to Dara about her pursuit to organize and clarify the concepts that are universal to all aerial apparatus in her new book: Proximal. Dara talks about how different forms of dance, her dreams, and mathematics inform her approach to teaching and performing in the air.

Buy the book: https://aerial-design.myshopify.com/

Instagram: @aerial.design

Outside Resources:

Laban/Bartenieff Fundamentals - https://labaninstitute.org/about/bartenieff-fundamentals/

Mallakhamb Information - http://www.newpunegymkhana.org/

Examples of Rope Mallakhamb:

Shirol Competition (2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcVDsD5dlLsTamizhan Mallakhamb Academy (2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=munxUJIDngk

Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.

Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!

She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.

Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com

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Instagram: @the_artist_athlete