AEROS

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• Performance

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           Private event at Robin's Sculpture Garden on Abbot Kinney, Venice CA.

    
    

    
    

    "Psssst! Look up!" we whispered sweetly at a recent show at the Armory Center for the Arts, playing with hair, hanging upside down and raining kisses from above, tickling the nice people of Pasadena. So few in the crowd had any immediate awareness of us, just above their heads in hammocks, that we - clowns by nature - immediately fell into the role of Goofy Instigators of Wonderment, playing with people, making them jump and laugh, punking their perceptions of space, blurring the boundaries of performance and audience.  

    We love this.

    We love the ways in which a presto change-o aesthetic, the laws of physics, the permeability of the 'ordinary' and a well-developed sense of humor have become our playthings.

    And we are wildly excited to share the airborne art we make with you.

    
    

    We are moved by the theatrical as well as the purely aesthetic, and so our performances feature strong character work and attention to narrative as well as original costuming and a highly developed visual palette. We work with DJs and bands, perform our own exquisite choreographies in the air, and also improvise masterfully with the music of the event. We can generate our own content, or take the thematic content of any event and run with it, creating a spectacle that is a seamless part of the whole, and takes the whole to an entirely new level of beauty and fun. 

    
    

    Founder Pamela Maravilla Samuelson is a multimedia performance artist who has performed for a wide and bizarre range of venues and events worldwide, including Lightning In a Bottle, various sold-out Puerto Rican stadiums, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen NYC, St. Ann's Warehouse, Bulgarian national television, all over the great city of Black Rock, and for clubs, theaters, corporate events, high school assemblies and street corners on 3 continents. 

    She is also currently the director of performance and primary aerialist for Seven Star Sun, an L.A.-based performance company marrying interactive mapping and projection art with live dance theater. 

    
    

    AEROS performs solos, duets, and larger ensemble pieces across a huge spectrum of settings, public and private, indoor and outdoor. 

    
    

    
    

              

            Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena

    
    Mindshare at Cross Campus in collaboration with UCLA

    
    

    
    

    
    

    Galactic Unicorn Sandwich at King King, Hollywood   

    

                                                                     

    
    
    
• Classes

  Classes
  • AERIAL PLAYSHOPS FOR PEOPLE OF ALL SHAPES, SIZES & LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE!

                                 

              

    
    

    
    

    
    

    ::WESTSIDE::

    AERIAL PLAYSHOPS AT THE MISSION:

    Tuesdays and Thursdays 8-10 p.m. 

    11920 Jefferson Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90230

    
    

    
    

    ::EASTSIDE::

    
    

    AERIAL CHURCH OF SPONTANEOUS GENIUS

    SUNDAYS 10 am to 12 pm.

    
    

    KIDS FLYSKOOL!!

    SUNDAYS 12-2 p.m.

    
    

    ALL EASTSIDE CLASSES TAKE PLACE AT THE BOOTLEG THEATER: 

    2220 Beverly Blvd  Los Angeles, CA 90057

    
    

    
    

    
    

    DROP INS: $25

    8 CLASS CARD GOOD FOR THE REST OF YOUR NATURAL LIFE: $160

    
    

    
    

    CLASS SIZE IS CAPPED AT 8. 

    THEREFORE, RSVPs ARE HUMBLY REQUIRED :)

    To RSVP for class, please text to (310) 717-1276.

    
    

    
    

    For all other communications, please email aerosdance@gmail.com.

    
    

    
    

    To stay up to date on the playshops, feel free to join the FB Aerial Playshops Group:

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/213197098715443/?ref=ts&fref=ts

    
    

                        

                  Photo of Cynthia Silva by Svetlana Dekic 

                  

                  

                 

• PSA

  PSA
  • A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

    
    

    
    

    Is it possible to create a SECRET THEATRE in which both artist & audience have completely disappeared – only to re-appear on another plane, where life & art have become the same thing, the pure giving of gifts?

    Hakim Bey, TAZ

    
    

    
    

    It has come to our attention that we inhabit a vast and amazingly generous world, and that it is high time to reclaim the tremendous expanse of underused public space for the beautiful activity of the human beings to whom it belongs. 

    
    

    In this spirit, we come together to create Secret Theater. 

    We are a small, potent crew of performing aerialists seeking to affect the quality of the public gaze through shock-wonderment and gifts of visual poetry across a wide range of contexts. Our acts reflect our deep love for the surprise intrusion of the marvelous into the everyday, the blurry line between performer and audience, the superheroism of the circus arts, & our sense of civic duty to reclaim our shared public space from those institutions that would purchase and squander our attention, and return to it the variety, curiosity and wildness that arises in proximity and connection between individuals. 

    
    

    We offer our work and play as a radically gentle intervention, an open love letter to our City of Angels and all of our fellow citizens - all of our friends, and all the friends we have not yet met. 

    
    

    VDay Aerial Flash Mob: a lovebomb dropped on Los Angeles by the dawn's early light. Photos by Dustin Engelskind.

    

    
    

    

    
    
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• Communicate

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  • To make contact about performances, classes, private instruction, custom rigging, aerial costuming, or any other pressing matter of truth, beauty or goodness, please shoot us an email:

    aerosdance@gmail.com

    or click on the sassy envelope icon down on the bottom left, here.

    
    

    If you communicate by carrier pigeon, window serenade, hot air balloon, interdimensional messenger service, skywriting, handshakes, or smiles, we will take you more seriously.

    
    

    You can find us in the Facebook universe:

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/213197098715443/?ref=ts&fref=ts

    or click on the FB portal link.

    
    

    
    

                           

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