Photo by Nigel Wang
About Us
Gravity opened in 2017 with the goal of creating a safe and fun space where we can bring the joy of aerial arts to everyone that walks through our doors. At Gravity Aerial Arts we work hard to cultivate an environment where everyone feels welcome! We believe that the transfer of knowledge is best done in a supportive community environment.
Our instructors are always learning new aerial skills, and the studio hosts workshops with guest instructors from across the world! We work with the Denver circus community and the community at large to bring in new perspectives and skills to share with our students.
Performance Opportunities
Aerial circus arts is not only a fun way to exercise, but to also express oneself, and get up on stage! We strive to provide our staff students with lots of performance opportunities. We produce bi-annual student recitals for all skill levels of our adult students and for our intermediate to advanced youth and teen students. Our beginning to intermediate youth and teen students get to perform in smaller in-house student showcases. Once a year we produce an original aerial production. These productions are very high level shows that everyone is sure to enjoy! We also seek out other community performance opportunities for staff and our students. Gravity instructors and advanced students are available to hire for events.
Safety
Safety is our primary concern. Aerial dance inherently involves a level of risk, but we work to make sure our classes are as safe as possible by; Teaching safe and level appropriate progressions. Our instructors use carefully considered spotting techniques. Classes begin with a thorough warm-up to help avoid pulling/tearing muscles. The studio is outfitted foam gymnastics floor throughout with additional mats/skill cushions under each apparatus. All of our equipment was installed by professional riggers and is inspected regularly. Classes are set up to typically have a 2 student to 1 apparatus ratio. This allows the instructor to watch/assist those that are in the air and gives the students breaks and allows them to watch, support and learn from their classmates.