Aerial Arts and Dance Improvisation
A Practical Guide to Creativity for Aerialists
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 22 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032824628
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 Illustrations, black & white; 18 Halftones, black & white; 5 Tables, black & white 700
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Short description:
Aerial Arts and Dance Improvisation is a comprehensive guide for developing creativity in aerial arts. It offers a fresh perspective on how to move beyond rote aerial technique and toward meaningful, artistic movement.
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Long description:
Aerial Arts and Dance Improvisation is a comprehensive guide for developing creativity in aerial arts. It offers a fresh perspective on how to move beyond rote aerial technique and toward meaningful, artistic movement.
Forty creative activities guide you in exploring musicality, developing transitions, trying on characters, and expanding your unique movement signature. Authors Elizabeth Stich and Juliana Hane, lifelong performers and educators, share their findings from years of embodied research at the intersection of dance and aerial arts. They approach aerial movement through the lens of dance improvisation, framing it with the literature of creativity research—a vast and interdisciplinary field drawing upon psychology, neuroscience, and education—and provide evidence from somatic movement practices, dance education, and creative movement traditions. The activities are arranged thematically by the authors’ framework of the Aerial Movement Elements—body, time, dynamics, space, and partnering. Also included are 20 ground-based creative warm-ups and 25 practice session guides that give you the tools and confidence to engage in a self-designed aerial creative practice and chart your own path through the creative wilds.
This book is an invaluable resource for students, instructors, and professionals across aerial arts disciplines working in dance, theatre, circus, and fitness settings.
"Elizabeth Stich and Julianna Hane’s Aerial Arts and Dance Improvisation: A Practical Guide to Creativity for Aerialists is exactly that! A very practical support book to help students and teachers of the aerial arts develop a shared vocabulary for advancing the art and craft of aerials."
Serenity Smith Forchion, founder, Nimble Arts and New England Center for Circus Arts
"Aerial Arts and Dance Improvisation adapts lineages of dance improvisation to the aerial context with exquisite care and playfulness. This inspiring, accessible, and practical book is a thrilling resource for enhancing aerial practice, aesthetics, and creative applications across the field."
Nicki Miller, Artistic Director, Only Child Aerial Theatre; Aerial Arts Faculty, Pace University
"This book offers—with clear structures, skills, and ideas—how we can make dances that are authentic and moving; that wed emotions with a performer’s inner intentions to communicate meaningfully."
Susan Murphy, Founding Director, Canopy Studio
Table of Contents:
PART I BUILDING BLOCKS
1 Understanding Creativity
2 Practicing Creativity
3 Considering Safety
PART II CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Introduction to Part II
4 Body
5 Time
6 Dynamics
7 Space
8 Partnering
PART III PRACTICE GUIDES
9 Planning for Creativity
10 Warm-Up Activities
11 Sample Guides
A Concluding Note From the Authors
