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Well that was EADF 2024.
So grateful to share this beautiful space with so many wonderful folk.
2024 was our 12th edition of the festival and our first 2-week event since 2019 – it’s good to be back.
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So that’s it for another year on Dissecting Aerial. Thanks to all the presenters for digging into their expertise and for so generously sharing their hugely informative and diverse presentations and last but not least, to you our audience for joining us. Here’s what some of the attendees had to say about it >>>>>

Tickets are now on sale for this years EADF 2024, August 5th – 16th in partnership with the wonderful Worthing Theatres and Museum and we have a wonderful line up of tutors across all levels of participation, we’d love to see you there.
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Boom – well that got 2023 off to a good start!
Huge thanks to all the wonderful, inspiring, knowledgeable presenters for sharing their expertise so generously and to you, our audience, near and far for joining us. Dates for next year March 23rd/24th 2024 (TBC) and if you’re curious as to what you just missed well take a look here >>>

We said the sun would shine and it did, mostly! Participants said:
‘It was an environment that acknowledged our differences and unique ways of moving, where although safe technique was prioritised, it wasn’t rigid or constraining – there was always space to play and the taste of each element as it was introduced was incredible – the fundamentals, playing, counter balancing, low-flying. I loved it all.’

Fridays, 28 January – 11 February 2022 Amp up your online presence and (ultimately) sell more tickets to your events with this short course. Develop your marketing knowledge and skills for using your social media presence in the most impactful way. Gravity & Levity Marketing Manager, Elise Phillips, will lead you through 3x 90-minute online […]

Sat 15 – Sun 16 January 2022 Dissecting Aerial 2022 is going to be available globally for the first time. Delivered live and in-person in Brighton AND live-streamed internationally so you can tune in from where ever you are in the world. The healthier aerial symposium will showcase practice, pedagogical and personal approaches to healthy […]

Are you interested in putting your work online, on film or on screen? Then this super affordable in-person, online aerial and dance for camera course, led by award-winning director, writer and performer Marisa Zanotti on Sundays from 10am – 1pm from Oct 17th for 4 weeks is just the ticket!
Delivered through practical exercises, individual and group tasks online, targeted reading, and watching we’ll explore lo-fi opportunities and hacks to bust through the screen to keep your audience with you……

Monday 23 – Friday 27 August 2021 Join us for three 5-day in-person creative labs for vertical and aerial dancers who work in harness and those wishing to try it out, on the gorgeous convex walls of the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts in Brighton. We have Creative Labs tailored to 3 levels of experience […]

2 August – 3 September 2021 Explore the joy of creating movement work for screen with critically acclaimed dance for screen artist Becky Edmunds. Through practical exploration, screenings and discussion, we will explore movement in the frame, the relationship of the camera to that movement, the potential for editing to shape rhythm, pattern and dynamic […]

Sat 28 – Sun 29 August 2021 Delve into the practicalities for developing aerial dance for screen language in-person over 2-days at Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts, Brighton, with screen dance and circus arts film supremos Marisa Zanotti and Mark Morreau. Look at how aerial skills, vertical dance and bodies in-flight are represented in painting, early film, […]

Thanks to all of you who came to Dissecting Aerial 2020 and brought your questions, thoughts and ideas, your laughter, for agreeing to disagree on some things (!) and for your passion and enthusiasm for our art-form in its many guises.
And what incredibly knowledgeable and engaging speakers, even if I do say so myself, and I do!
Save the dates for Dissecting Aerial 2021, Jan 16th & 17th.

Another year of Aerial Teacher Training ,our 6th we reckon with the wonderful Serenity Smith Forchion from Nimble Arts done and what a gorgeous, enthusiastic, fun group of aerial teachers they were, taking the work seriously but not themselves.