CREATIVE PARTNERING LAB

This 4 week lab workshop series will be an exploration of the creation possibilities of aerial partnering from a story telling perspective. The workshop will delve into an investigation and development of unique partnering vocabularies on and off the apparatus, as well as finding unique pathways between the ground and the apparatus, between partners, and movement from one apparatus to another. The workshops will be exploratory and collaborative in nature, while coaching will be offered the focus of the work will be creative with a goal of participants creating their own unique vocabulary which they will use to tell their own stories.

This workshop will be ideal for those with an intermediate to advanced experience and comfort level in the air (either on vertical or bar apparatus) and/or a similar experience level with partner floor acrobatics or similar activity. 

Exact Dates TBD
at The Circus Fix

COST:
$240 + 13% HST for 4 weeks
Sliding Scale available down to $180
*If sliding scale cost is a barrier please indicate on your pre-registration form or contact us, financial assistance may be available.
Additional financial support is also available to BIPOC artists through our training bursary program.

To Register: Pre-Registration is currently open. Please fill in this form or email us at hello@herciniarts.com. We will be in touch with more details once we have confirmed we have enough participants to run the course.

ACCESS NOTES:
This class will be taught in English and the instructor will demonstrate skills/movements as necessary for additional visual aid. Participants are encouraged to move at their own pace and to take breaks as needed. No specific technical skills are required and participants can choose skills and movements that feel good in their own bodies.

Sliding Scale Pricing: Choose the price within the range offered that feels financially accessible to you. We offer the prompts below as a suggestion of how to interpret this, however ultimately it is up to you as only you know your situation.
Choose the low end - If you are an artist, gig worker, or otherwise precariously or under-employed.
Choose the mid-range - If you are gainfully employed, but have limited access to additional resources.
Choose the high end - If you have access to wealth/assets, investments/savings or own property.
If the low end of the sliding scale still presents a barrier to accessing the course, contact us and we will make accommodations where possible.

Studio: The Circus Fix is located at street level with manual doors. The space has rubber floors throughout. Chairs are available upon request. There is a single, gender-neutral washroom and an additional single gender-neutral change room available. Doors are all manual and do not have grab bars.

Transportation: The Circus Fix is located half a block north of Lakeshore Blvd E on Carlaw. It is accessible by the 114 or the 72 Pape Bus, which run from Union or Pape Subway stations, respectively, or is a 10-15 min walk south from Queen Street. Bike parking is available out front. Free street parking is available for those who need to drive.

COVID-19: We ask those with active symptoms of any sickness not to come to class for the health and safety of all participants. Although masks are no longer required for indoor activities, participants are welcome to wear a mask or face covering throughout the class. Hercinia Arts recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing and requirements and best practices will continue to fluctuate. We will be in compliance with government regulations at the time of this workshop, and reserve the right to make additional changes to requirements based on recommended best practice from health professionals. Updates will be sent to registered participants. We ask those with active symptoms of any sickness not to come to class for the health and safety of all participants.

We regret that we are not able to offer ASL interpretation for this event. If you have any other access needs please let us know and we will make accommodations where possible.

About the instructor:
Kirsten Edwards is a Toronto based multi-disciplinary artist who has been creating, coaching, and performing professionally since 2009. She made her way to the world of circus arts by a somewhat circuitous route with stops in the worlds of competitive dressage, equestrian vaulting and trick riding, literary academia, and the legal profession. She creates and performs on a wide variety of aerial apparatus while specializing in partner aerials and static trapeze. Her recent creative focus has been on collectively created, larger scale works that strive to use aerial circus in conjunction with other art forms to develop a unique, accessible physical performance language.  Her career has taken her around the globe having lived and worked across Canada, the UK, the UAE, Germany and across Europe.  Kirsten has been sharing her aerial, flexibility, and creation skills as a coach for almost 10 years, most recently at IVA- Pole and Aerial Arts, Berlin and is now excited to be back in Toronto to continue sharing with the community here in her hometown.  As a coach she is strongly focussed on preparing students to engage with the challenges and opportunities of circus safely, efficiently, and creatively through proper foundations and progressions.

For any additional questions, please feel free to contact us at hello@herciniarts.com.