ONE month after Maricruz Hidalgo began hoisting herself up the two silk strands hanging from a steel rafter in an empty room behind the Budapest Café in San José, she now wraps her limbs in the cloths ...

“That is where we come from. We have opposable thumbs,” said Hilary McDaniel-Douglas, the artistic director of Project in Motion Aerial Dance Company. “Once we become adults, we really limit where we ...

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 ...

Ana Prada’s career has been up in the air for nearly two decades, and that’s just the way she wants it. She began studying ballet at age 11 in her native Colombia before moving to New York City at age ...

Jennifer Hebert frequently hits the gym. She lifts weights. She runs marathons. But lately, the Toronto resident has been mixing up her routine with something entirely different: exercises befitting ...

Have you ever wanted to join the circus? At ten years old, I found myself obsessed with aerial artists, circus clowns and acrobatics. One day, I was hanging out in my dad’s garage and in the corner I ...