Circus arts and aerial dance
By Ana Cecilia Corona
December 12, 2008 San Miguel de Allende
Dance
Students from GravityWorks
School of the New Circus Arts
Sat, Dec 20, 5pm
Centro Comercial
La Luciérnaga
| Multicultural and full of art, music, festivals and fireworks, San Miguel also is home to the GravityWorks circus troupe. |  |
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For the last seven years, the troupe has done aerial dance performances on trapeze, silks, hoops and straps, as well as hand balancing, fire dancing and more.
The circus arts in general have become much more accessible around the world in the last 10 years. These activities used to be reserved for circus families, who would only pass their traditional knowledge from one generation to another. Circus arts have become very popular in Canada due to the influence of Cirque du Soleil. In the US, you may find circus classes only in a few big cities. Only a few places in Mexico offer regular circus classes and San Miguel is one of them. We have our very own circus school that gives regular classes to anyone interested in this fun and creative activity.
| GravityWorks started teaching aerial acrobatic dance at La Carpa three years ago. When La Carpa closed at the end of 2007, the teachers looked for another place. After using some provisional spaces, they have found the perfect place to call home. | |
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GravityWorks has its own beautiful School of the New Circus Arts at the Casa Hacienda El Caracol. Not only do we offer a great place to learn circus, the icing on the cake is that we can provide parking as well.
Circus arts are excellent exercise and a source of fitness that is fun and noncompetitive by nature. The exercise develops, mind, body, strength, flexibility, balance, grace and coordination. You can start at any age and different activities fit different body types.
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The new circus arts are about enjoying yourself and growing through personal challenge. GravityWorks offers classes in Pilates, Circ Dance and Aerial Dance using apparatus such as silks, hoop, trapeze and straps. |
The classes are open to anyone who wants to learn, from age six on and you can start at any level. Groups are small and attention is specialized; we pace students to their own skill levels.
Thanks to support during 2008 from FONCA (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes), GravityWorks has dedicated time and resources to the school. We offer a scholarship program for kids with limited resources, and we have two wonderful boys who have had the benefit of this program and work with enthusiasm.
Those who would like a taste of the school of circus arts are invited to the show GravityWorks students present December 20. For information about classes, contact Ana Cecilia Corona at 154-4915, cellular (415) 103-3836, or email
ana59@yahoo.com.
The energy and the art of flamenco
Dance
Gypsy Passion
Curro Fernandez and his group Flamenco Triana
Sat, Dec 13, 8pm
Teatro Ángela Peralta
Mesones 82
250/150/100 pesos
Curro Fernandez and his Flamenco Triana group bring “Gypsy Passion” to Teatro Ángela Peralta in a high-energy exhibition of the art of flamenco. The music and dance has an exotic and romantic history, travelling with gypsies from Pakistan to Egypt to Europe, settling in Moorish Spain to mature, then set to wandering again when the monarchs of a newly Catholic Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella, exiled the country’s Moors, gypsies and Jews.
Tickets for orchestra, balcony and gallery seats are on sale at the Peralta box office or at Restaurante La Paella, in front of Mega.
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