July 30, 2013: KTLA Channel 5 – Allie Mac Kay featured The Ruby Karen Project and Orange County Aerial Arts – where kids and adults alike can learn aerial arts through classes and summer camps. Apprentices from the Orange County Aerial Arts coupled with RKP’s students demonstrated cool aerial tricks on various apparatuses including Tissu/ Silks, Lyra/ Hoop, Hammock, Cube, Rope and Trapeze, as well as showcased circus arts such as juggling, contortion, acrobatic partnering and stilts.
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We shall be posting more photos of our students at the West Coast Aerial Arts Festival – the Tri-Art Festival and more
Asian Journal – by Cynthia De Castro with Photos by Benny Uy and Joseph Tecson
Tuesday, 02 June 2009
As the Filipino American Symphony Orchestra played a dramatic musical piece, more than a thousand people were riveted to their seats, hardly breathing with mouths gaping in awe and wonder, as all eyes were on Ruby Karen, the unbelievable Filipina aerial artist who was gracefully hanging from a long soft fabric high above the stage. In a spectacular show of grace and strength, Ruby was dazzling her audience by doing various mind-boggling aerial acrobatics – stretching, spinning, balancing, hanging, dropping and flipping her body in the airwith just a hand or foot wrapped around the light fabric hanging from the high ceiling. As Ruby Karen took a bow after her amazing performance, the audience gave her a standing ovation with enthusiastic clapping and cheering. Like her other countless performances around the world, Ruby has once again captivated her audience with her dazzling act.
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“Professional dancers are no strangers to physical ailment. when when Ruby Karen injured her ACL (anterior cruciate ligament in the knee) recently after 35 years as a professional dancer who traveled the worked competing and performing with various dance companies, it was devastating but not surprising;…”
By: Jessica Forsyth, Coast Magazine January 2010 Issue
Photography by: Ralph Palumbo
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Those wishing to get in touch with their inner Cirque Du Soleil acrobat can learn how at the Ruby Karen Studio.
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