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Intensive Aerial and Acrobatic Summer Workshop
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- Click here to Reserve Your Spot and choose “Workshop”
- Week Fee: $230 :::: Two (2) Weeks: $420. :::: Day Fee: $95. .
INTENSIVE AERIAL and ACROBATIC WORKSHOPS – Costa Mesa
Elevate your Aerial and Circus Arts skills by taking our specialized workshops in the following: Trapeze, Lyra/ Hoop, Silks/ Tissu, Static Trapeze, Hammock, Contortion, Hand Balancing and Acrobatic Partnering. Geared towards all levels, these classes will enhance your skills with additional coaching and tips from masters of the trade.
Coaches and Instructors are certified teachers as well as established teachers in their respective fields.
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2020 AERIAL ACROBATIC INTENSIVES Week 1: June 8, 10 & 12 ::: Week 2: June 15, 17 & 19 :::: Week 3: June 29, July 1 & 3 ::: Week 4: July 6, 8 & 10 :::: Week 5: July 27, 29 & 31 Location: Aerial Dance Theater Week Fee: $230; Two (2) Weeks: $420. |
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******** For full day camps, students need to bring their own snacks, lunch, water and/or other beverage. Please wear non-zipped leggings that cover up the ankle, a tight fitting top, and bring a small towel and sneakers for stilts. Please remove all jewelries.******
Orange County Register – Summer Camp Featured Article
June 28, 2019
by: Jeff Gritchen, OC Register
Click here for direct link: https://www.ocregister.com/2019/06/28/young-girls-flying-high-during-circus-aerial-summer-camp/
Special Lyra Workshop by International Artist
On May 24, 2019 @ 6:30pm, Cirque du Soleil veteran artist, Leysan Gayazova will be hosting a workshop at the Ruby Karen Project’s Aerial Dance School in Costa Mesa. There will be two levels: Intermediate and Advance Level. She will be teaching Lyra (aka Aerial Hoop).
Sign up early as this sessions has limited capacity. Cost is $65./ 2 hours
Click HERE To Sign Up.
Venue: Aerial Dance Theater, 3001 Red Hill Ave. Building 1 Suite 107, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
*Look for the suite beside the yellow awning at the corner of Redhill & Kalmus
About the Instructor: Leysan started at an early age of 8 years old before joining Kazan Circus School in Russia at the age of 14. During her final years at Kazan Circus School, she competed in 2 international Circus Arts events in Moscow and Festival Mondail Cirque de Demain in Paris where she won a silver medal. After leaving school, Leysan was scouted to be the “Cerceau” Lyra soloist in Cirque du Soleil’s Varekai and then on to Amaluna. She has been training and instructing classes in the Las Vegas area for more than 4 years in multiple disciplines including; Lyra, Rope, Tissue, Flexibility/ Contortion and Aerial Straps Duo.
Congratulations to our students from Steps in the Air
A huge winning brought in by Steps in the Air who partook at VIVAFEST’s aerial competition in Las Vegas, April 21, 2019. Their top three aerialists competed at various divisions and garnered awards as follows::
First Place – Student 19+: Metzli E. Gonzalez; First Place Student 14-15 DIvision: Yuritzi Espinoza;
Second Place – Over 14 Tissu Group ; Sixth Place: Ana Brizuela
Steps in the Air is an up and coming cutting edge circus school in Ensenada, Mexico. The school seeks and maintains high standard education from established schools within the continent and beyond. We are privilege to have been retained to provide consultation in their academic program as well as have trained these artists, individually and as a group, while seeking additional training at our intensive workshops both here at our Costa Mesa location and in their school. We have seen how these beautiful aerialists have grown and matured in their skills and performance. A big applause to these ladies for such hard work and CONGRATULATIONS to all who have supported them in their training. 
RADIO GAGA – A TRIBUTE TO QUEEN
ORANGE COUNTY AERIAL ARTS
Presents 11TH Spring Production
RADIO GAGA – A TRIBUTE TO QUEEN
Sat. April 6, 2019 @ 6pm & Sun. April 7, 2019 at 3pm
Directed by Luca Cecchini.
Featuring the Orange County Aerial Arts, Radio Gaga is a compilation of several performing arts creation.
It will showcase unique aerial arts ensemble and innovative pieces inspired by and attributed to the rock band, QUEEN.
Placement Examination
WHAT IS THE PLACEMENT EXAM?
The Ruby Karen Project is the first aerial school in Orange County and since 2009, our school studied the behavior of student development in aerial arts based on many factors. As the demand for aerial instruction grew, the school adopted its structured teachings through the IATTP course (International Aerial Teachers Training Program) and started to formulate its own syllabus. In 2014, we created the Placement program and slowly implemented the syllabus. It was also in that year that we started to introduce student examinations (now called the Placement Examination) and was only popularized in 2015.
The Placement Examination is offered yearly to our academic students. These are students that have and are enrolled in our apprentice program. We also offer this to our recreational students who want to take it at will. The examination is an assessment of our student’s response to our instructions. It helps our teachers keep the students’ training on track to ensure strong fundamentals and safely approach progressive elements and skills necessary to get to the next rank.
It also allows our students to take charge of the skills they have learned and are supposed to know and keeps them on the leash to ensure that they do not divulge in unsafe skills without learning the pre-requisites. By conducting the Placement Exam, the student values the necessity of moving forward towards progressive training and avoids skipping essential skills that will be needed in higher skill tricks.
Placement Exam for the apprentices is mandatory and after which, their performance is discussed when the placement results are released
Due to many factors, our school is continuously making efforts to find a balance for our students in working with their vocabulary retention. Our curriculum has a very wide vocabulary base and as such, the placement levels have grown to seven (7) Levels.
We focus on two aerial apparatus – Tissu and Hoop. Recently, due to the popularity of our other disciplines, we have added Trapeze and Rope. Hammock/ Sling has not been intended to be examined due to its associated Tissu/ Silks discipline, Thus, those wanting to be placed in Hammock skill level must otherwise be examined under the Tissu syllabus. We will provide students with a choice of two (2) apparatus to be examined on.
See Placement Chart
LEVEL 1 – Beginners 1
LEVEL 2 – Beginners 2
LEVEL 3 – Beginners 3
LEVEL 4 – Intermediate 1
LEVEL 5 – Intermediate 2
LEVEL 6 – Advance 1 – Pre-Professional 1
LEVEL 7 – Advance 2 – Pre-professional 2
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR APPRENTICES
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR APPRENTICES FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK
In preparing and participating at the 6th West Coast Aerial Arts Festival Nov. 8 – 11, 2018
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Congratulations to our winners!!!!
MADDIE SEAY – OVERALL Winner and 1st Place Open Semi-Pro Division
STACI ENSMINGER – 1st Place Winner – Professional Division
CALLISTA GILL – 1st Place Winner – Silks Youth Division
DARIAN KAULAHAO – 1st Place Winner – Open Amateur – 18 yrs+
MIKAYLA STOVER – 2nd Place Winner – Lyra & Trapeze Amateur (7 – 12yrs)
VERONICA AGLE – 3rd Place Winner – Lyra & Trapeze Amateur (13 –17 yrs)
*** Since the commencement of the WCAAF six years ago, and since the RKP/OCAA team’s participation at all its events, we are so proud to announce that for the 1st time, our school finally garnered the Overall title. We are very proud of Maddie Seay for her persistence and patience, winning many 1st place titles since age 10 and finally achieving this highest honor.
We have more stories to tell you about our winners. Please watch out for new articles.
Proud Sponsor of the West Coast Aerial Arts Festival
The Ruby Karen Project in cooperation with Aerial Dance Theater annually hosts the
WEST COAST AERIAL ARTS FESTIVAL
November 8-11,2018
This is the only festival of its kind festival that brings together aerialists from coast to coast, and from around the globe, ranging in age from 7 to ‘senior’, and covering standard and inventive apparatuses with skill level ranging from amateurs to professionals. The West Coast Aerial Arts Festival is hosted by Aerial Arts America, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with mission to expand awareness and education in the aerial arts community.
Other activities being offered at the WCAA Festival:
- Workshops by guest artists highly regarded in their respective fields. Click the links to reserve your spot for Workshops and Privates
- Merchandise vendors in the related field including Fusion, Ruby Karen Products and other participating retailers and suppliers.
- Silent Auction – Support AAA’s programs. Lots of items to choose from donors including Aerial Animal, Trader Joes, Fusion CLimb, to name a few who are in related aerial arts field.
- Showcase Performances on Thursday, Saturday and on Sunday, culminating evening performance by the winners of each division and all Participants of the festival. BUY YOUR TICKETS
The festival will be held right at our studio, Aerial Dance Theater, 3001 Redhill Ave. Bldg. 1 Suite 107, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.
For complete Schedule of Activities: Click Here
Hand Balancing Workshop by Sasha Fedortchev
HAND BALANCING
Every Mondays @ 7pm. Starting April 9, 2018
Learn hidden techniques to improve your handstands and variations with Sasha, an alumni of Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam and a graduate of Moscow Circus School.