Hello fellow circus enthusiasts,
They American Youth Circus Organization (AYCO) Festival is fast approaching, and we are still on the search for coaches to offer Flying Trapeze
workshops. The Festival location (Island Lake Camp) has two beautiful flying rigs, one indoors and one outdoors.
Please help us add this incredible circus tradition to our already awesome lineup of workshops. If you or someone you know may be able to help us, please contact Jesse at busker06@msn.com.
For more information about the festival, visit www.americanyouthcircus.org
Thank you so much,
Jesse AlFord
AYCO Festival 2009 Programming Director
909 528 2557
Are you working on an act that won't be ready in time to showcase at the festival? We encourage you to give your act a whirl at our special "Works in Progress Revealed" (WIPR) workshops. Receive helpful feedback, suggestions, and encouragement from circus performers, educators, and enthusiasts in a safe, non competitive environment- ALL levels are welcome. There will be two WIPR workshops- one for aerial acts and one for ground acts. Please contact Jesse at busker06@msn.com with any questions about equipment (we will have most everything on site already but want to make sure we can be prepared with what you need!) We can't wait to see and support what you've been creating.
The wonderful and talented Jonathan Deull will be presenting a pre-festival rigging intensive as well as three rigging workshops during the festival. I had the opportunity to take one of his rigging intensives last year- any person working with or around aerial apparatus should take this intensive- it is AMAZING!
INTENSIVE
Aerial Performer Rigging and Risk Management Intensive
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
(this intensive involves an addition fee, price tbd shortly)
When you walk into a space and look up in the air, what do you look for to know that your students will be safe? What are the questions you need to ask? While this workshop will not make you a qualified rigger, we will provide tools you need to be an educated consumer. We will explore many of the key issues which arise in rigging safely for aerial performance: dynamic loads, applied forces, strength of materials, selection of apparatus and hardware, attaching to building structure, proper techniques for termination or ropes and cables, inspection and equipment retirement. Leave your calculator at home; there will be no math required. There will, however, be ample opportunity for hands-on practice of basic rigging skills, as well as live demonstrations of rigging scenarios using a computerized digital load cell and an assortment of apparatus.
FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS
Aerial Performer Rigging Basics
An introduction, including live demonstrations, to the basic principles and practices of defying gravity. This session will be useful – and eye-opening – for performers, coaches and program leaders.
Aerial Performer Rigging: “Lab” Session I
A direct follow-on to the Rigging Basics session, this student-driven workshop will provide an opportunity to learn hands-on rigging skills and explore/demonstrate specific scenarios in a relatively unstructured environment. Participation in the Rigging Basics session, or other prior rigging experience, is recommended but not required.
Aerial Performer Rigging: “Lab” Session II
This student-driven workshop will provide an opportunity to learn hands-on rigging skills and explore/demonstrate specific scenarios in a relatively unstructured environment. Participation in the Rigging Basics session, or other prior rigging experience, is recommended but not required.
