Enroll now! Welcome visiting Guest Instructor Janelle Dinosaurs! Exclusive Workshops – May 2025
Get ready for an exciting lineup of workshops led by the incredible Janelle Dinosaurs! Whether you’re looking to refine your aerial skills or push your flexibility to new limits, these workshops offer something for everyone. Secure your spot today!
Workshop Schedule
Thursday, May 8th
7:30 PM – Climbs Workshop (90 Min)
- The Climbs Workshop
Let’s get up there! This workshop breaks down details of technique and theory in many of the most common, and most challenging climbs on aerial silks. Students will leave with increased confidence, efficiency, and grace as they ascend the apparatus. We progress from upright climbs to inverted climbs, so everyone has something to work on.
Pre-requisites: This is a mixed-level workshop, please know your limitations. Students should be able to climb to the top of the silks and descend with control. For Ascend Aerial Students — Advanced Beg Level and Above is recommended. - Cost: $70 per student.
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Saturday, May 10th
4:00 PM – The Myth of Perfection (120 Min)
- The Myth of Perfection
Circus attracts folks who are willing to work hard and try to achieve the impossible. As a community, we seem to have a high rate of perfectionism. Perfectionism can do us a lot of mental and emotional harm if we leave it unchecked. But perfectionism is not just an individual trait! It is created and maintained by unequal systems that trick us into believing some people are inherently more valuable than others. In this workshop, we will explore sneaky signs of perfectionism, individual strategies to manage it, and how to recognize and resist some of the larger systemic issues that reinforce perfectionism. - Cost: $60 per student.
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Sunday, May 11th
2:15 PM – Flexy Flyers (90 Min)
- Flexy Flyers
Let’s get bendy in the air! Learn how to soften into a stretch and gain flexibility without fighting yourself! In this workshop series, students will learn ground-based, silks-assisted, dynamic, and partnered stretches they can incorporate into their own training. They will gain a deeper understanding of the physiological relaxation response that allows for deeper stretches. This workshop is especially designed for aerialists and will provide step-wise progression for students seeking to maintain healthy shoulder mobility and who wish to increase mobility in their hips and spines.
Materials: Please have on hand 2 yoga blocks, a foam roller and/or peanut, and a strap or resistance band. - Cost: $70 per student.
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4:00 PM – Bend, Don’t Break (90 Min)
- Bend, Don’t Break
In this all-levels flexibility workshop, students will learn strategies and techniques for safe flexibility training. We will focus on progressions toward splits, developing healthy shoulder mobility, and practicing a well-rounded stretching routine.
Materials: Please have on hand 2 yoga blocks, a foam roller and/or peanut, and a strap or resistance band. - Cost: $60 per student.
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Check our online class schedule for all other aerial classes at Ascend Aerial Arts
About Janelle Dinosaurs
Artist, Coach, Choreographer, Director, Cirque Psych. Janelle Peters, LSW, (they/she) is a queer circus artist, choreographer, director, and circus coach. Specializing in contortion and aerial hoop, Janelle draws upon their background in martial arts, and dance to create work with the goal of leaving audiences feeling seen, and whole. In addition to performing and teaching independently and at festivals all over the northern hemisphere (so far), Janelle is a founding member, choreographer, performer, and first director with Oakland, California-based company, Hypothetical Circus.
Alongside their artistic and coaching work, Janelle creates materials and facilitates conversations about mental health, wellbeing, and systemic change in circus. This work stems from the question, “What if circus were KNOWN for valuing the wholeness and humanity of everyone involved?”. Janelle offers individual, trauma-informed, social-justice-oriented psychotherapy from a queer lens in their small private practice in Colorado, USA.