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From Silkworms

aerial silk links

these pages

I practice in the Boston area with a loose assortment of other aerialists who call ourselves the Silkworms and meet once a week at Spontaneous Celebrations in Jamaica Plain, where many of the photos in these pages were taken.

The main driving force behind renting the Spontaneous practice space, Phil Servita, has another studio space in Littleton now, Flying Squirrel Consortium, where many others of the photos in these pages were taken.

Phil and his wife Liz Manicatide, both of whom appear in some photos on this site, have performed with a local circus organization called the Madcap Rumpus Society, and no doubt will sometime have a page of their own so that I can link to it here.

Most of the photos in these pages were taken by my wife, Molly Tomlinson.

other links

A Seattle aerialist, Bev Sobelman, has another wiki project with very similar aims to this one, the Seattle Circus Wiki. At the moment it seems to have a greater focus on Corde Lisse (rope), though most corde lisse tricks work (mostly the same way) on silks. Her wiki has a lot more depth about drops than this one does right now, and a lot of links to video.

I and a number of the Silkworms initially learned from Cypher Zero, who's based in New York City but who was teaching classes in the Boston area also for a while.

The big fish in the small pond of east coast aerial instruction is the New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA). I've taken a couple of classes there, and have tried to incorporate their terminology into this site.

Elsie Smith at NECCA attributed the bicycle climb to Frédérique Debitte.

Elsie attributed the Rebecca split to Rebecca Leonard.

Bev attributed the sticky crotch climb to Terry Crane.