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Fall Vendor Spotlight on:

Melissa Coffey

Originally a Lingerie, Apparel and costume designer, Melissa let her love of music carry her into dance and ultimately found aerial dance. She now finds herself performing on stages, in theaters, galleries and nightclubs much like the performers she once costumed. Melissa enjoys the spotlight and a breathless audience, hearing the surprise and screams coming from a crowd or watching the lights dance on her skin while she defies gravity. Most of all she aims to be an expression of beauty, music, or theme touching the audience in a striking, memorable and inspiring way. While Melissa believes that she is an aerial dancer above all choices of apparatus, she hopes to repopularize trapeze as a highly dynamic apparatus through her work and videos. As a trainer, Melissa has developed her own modalities for teaching and believes this to be one mark of a safe teacher who invests time, thought, and experience into their students. She loves to coach and choreograph and create characters with her students as she sees them grow into their abilities. She views her training as having holistic approach and while she values expression, she demands intentionality with form, effort, and gesture. Melissa is founder of Dances In Air, teaches at festivals around North and Central America, and hosts her own aerial retreats in January and February every year in Costa Rica!


Dances In Air publishes media about aerial dance and circus arts. The videos, books, apps, etc. are high quality, professionally filmed and edited.

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This video presents a basic vocabulary that every trapeze artist should know. From basics to intermediate poses to short suggested sequences, It guides you through form and positions in a way that is easily digestible. The viewer can move at their own pace, flipping through chapters between sections with their remote. This video is not a single fitness class or a modality of teaching. It is however, like a dictionary of moves that are adapted from many types of static and dance trapeze traditions. Clear instructions are given to get you slowly and safely in and out of every trick. Whether you are a curious novice, a recreational student, or aspiring to be in a spotlight, this video has information you need. It is a great resource for students and teachers alike!

 

Melissa Coffey is a professional performer and trainer living in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit www.dancesinair.com for more info.
Approx. 120 minutes

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