Dissecting Aerial 2025 – April 12th & 13th

Two days of presentations, talks and practical sessions that investigate the body in motion, particularly whilst aerial. Dissecting Aerial 2025 will be live and in-person in Brighton AND live-streamed globally.

The event

Showcasing practice, pedagogical and personal approaches to healthy and sustainable practice from aerial artists, researchers, body workers, medical and sports science practitioners from across the globe.

Join us in person at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts in Brighton, from your home or personal studio, or with a group of peers/students as a Virtual Studio Hub to listen and be lead through 12 different presentation sessions (with space for Q&A’s) from world renowned practitioners and speakers.

Maintain connections in-person and virtually, locally and globally and to celebrate what unites us: our mutual passions for aerial practice and to revel in the diversity of those.

Line-Up & Speakers

The diversity of speakers and presentation topics this year is very exciting. This is what is currently confirmed with more coming soon:

  •  Understanding concussion
  • Creating aerial performance with access at the core
  • Bendy bodies, bendy brains – the return of Dr Bendy Brain
  • Hair suspension – debunking the myths and re-thinking our approach
  • Beyond Rest Days – active recovery practices for aerial artists
  •  Using physics to improve aerial technique (static and swinging)
  •  Chest binding in circus
  • Urinary incontinence and other pelvic floor symptoms in female aerial artists
  • Considering the ‘felt-ness’ of circus – reflections and practical applications in flexibility and contortion training
  • Creative audio description in movement practice – welcoming the VIP community
  • Boom!

Speaker topics and bios

Dissecting Aerial timetable coming soon

Tickets will go on sale Feb 24th!
How To Take Part In Dissecting Aerial 2025

In-Person: buy an in-person ticket for both or just one day and join us at ACCA. Make sure you have pens and paper / devices to take notes.

Stream Online as an Individual: buy an Online Individual ticket and log onto the streaming platform on the day(s) you’re attending. Make sure you have pens and paper / devices to take notes and access to apparatus in a safe space for the practical sessions.

Stream as a Virtual Studio Hub: Buy a Studio Hub ticket, log onto the streaming platform on the day(s) you’re attending, show the stream on a screen that the whole group can easily see. Make sure you have pens and paper / devices to take notes and access to apparatus in a safe space for the practical sessions.

At least 1 week prior to the event, the timetable will have details of what equipment you will need for each day.

Recordings: To accommodate international attendees and time-zone differences, everyone who attends Dissecting Aerial 2025 will be given access to recordings of each presentation session. Access links will be provided by 10:00 on Tues 15th April and will be available until 23:59 on Fri May 9th UK-time. After this time they will be unavailable, (no matter how nicely you ask – it’s not us it’s zoom!)

Discounts

Early-bird discounts available with up to 20% off! (available until Friday 21st March 2025)

Subsidised places:

There are 2 subsidised places available for Dissecting Aerial 2025 – offering 50% off the cost of activity – expressly for people that identify as underrepresented in the sector. We want to make these places available to as wide a range of people and practices as possible.

We understand “underrepresented in the aerial sector” to include (but not be limited to): disabled artists, artists from the global majority, artists from financially disadvantaged backgrounds, artists with care responsibilities, artists who are LGBTQIA+.

To apply for a subsidised place, email Lindsey with a brief description of:

  • yourself in relation to the criteria
  • your practice
  • how you feel attending the symposium will develop your practice – what are you hoping to get from it.

Please send us your application information at info@gravity-levity.net before 23:59 on Thursday 20th March. We will notify those successful by email on Friday 21st March.

Access Provision and notes
  • This session will be in English on Zoom.
  • Live captioners will be present throughout the symposium.
  • Visual material will be described as much as possible.
  • This will be a relaxed space and you will not be put on the spot.
  • Please communicate as it works for you (emojis, gestures, augmentative and alternative communication, speech, etc).
  • We will strive to create a relaxed space. If joining remotely, please take breaks as needed.
  • There will be a formal five-minute break between speakers.
  • Everything is optional.
  • Sign language interpretation is unfortunately not provided at this event, we simply can’t cater for an interpreter to be available for every country/language attending.
  • Please do let us know in advance if you have any additional access needs and we will endeavour to meet them, email Lindsey on info@gravity-levity.net

‘There is really nothing like it as symposiums go.  It offers pertinent, current, practical information to teachers and learners everywhere.  This capacity to connect with information and with people across time zones and boundaries moves the sector forward, deepens our practice, and brings us together’

‘Just a brief note to say that I loved working my way through the recordings – brilliant and inspiring’

‘The opportunity to watch-listen to the re-play was greatly appreciated, we all have such different interests and questions and Dissecting Aerials is able to offer a diversity of information to everyone’

‘Dissecting Aerial is a rarity in continuing education experiences.  It offers hands-on workshops and lectures with take-aways to a members of the aerial community who are performers, amateurs, students and teachers.  It has accessibility at its core, enabling people to participate from all over the world, at any time (via playback), with simultaneous and recorded transcriptions to facilitate hearing and transcription.’