Sunday May 19th 2013

Tagged: trapeze

Warm-weather education: 16 cool things to learn

Warm-weather education: 16 cool things to learn
May 15, 2013

The impending summer will certainly teach you a few things (like how sunburns are awful and ice cream is awesome). You might even learn that a cup of wine and some cellophane are an easy trick to get rid of fruit flies (local hint: the Semi Sweet from Maine Mead Works will lure those buggers in like nothing else). But if you’d like to take your warm-weather education to a level beyond dairy products and peeling skin, check out our list of lessons and workshops that’ll teach you something fun and unforgettable:

Got silk?: Trapeze & silks workshop with Apparatus Dance Theater

Got silk?: Trapeze & silks workshop with Apparatus Dance Theater
February 02, 2011

I couldn’t help but be mesmerized by the trapeze-swinging ladies under the Ringling Bros. Circus tent. Their aerial acrobatics defied gravity. Their stunts dropped jaws. And they had leotards covered in sparkles. Who wouldn’t want to emulate that? I had just such an opportunity during the Circling Trapeze Workshop at Breakwater School in Portland.