Maddy Hobbs had only seen aerial silk performances at Cirque du Soleil and on videos until she did a weeklong workshop at the University of Northern Colorado. She’d been a dancer for a long time, so ...

TWIN FALLS • Autumn Robinson hung suspended in the air by her feet, only two swaths of black silk wrapped around her ankles keeping her from a long fall. Robinson lifted herself up, maneuvering ...

Crissy Langhammer knows how it feels to lean into the tension. As an aerial silks instructor, there is a physical tension being up on a silk or rope: Your body isn’t used to being up in the air, ...

Instead of hanging onto silks and ropes in midair, Cirque NouveaU, Northwestern’s new aerial arts club founded in December, is landlocked. The obstacle: lack of rigging. The aerial world of silks, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Red aerial silks hung to the floor at National Dance Academy in Coralville before Mimi Ke wrapped the ...