Aerial Dance Over Denver Training Center - Experience the Fun, Excitement, and Freedom Yourself!

Meet Our Outstanding Instructors and Performers:

You will have fun and get the best training from our top quality instructors who are all specially trained in aerial dance. Many of our instructors are professional performers as well. Check out our great instructors below, then come in and learn from them in person!

Adrienne - a Denver School of the Arts Dance Alumni, has been training and performing Aerial Arts since. Trained dancer and gymnast, she got her start in the musical Barnum in high school where she fell in love with the Spanish Web. She has transformed into an all around aerial performer and instructor with a strong gift for teaching technique, grace, and strength. She has toured the US, performed in front of sold out crowds at Red Rocks Amphitheater, The Fillmore Auditorium, and The Paramount Theater to name a few. She encourages and motivates her students to pursue their aerial dreams!
	Alexandra - specializes in Fabric & Contortion. She teaches gorgeous technique and performs throughout the US including Hawaii, Canada & Europe. Alex completed a month-long tour of the US in May, 2008, and a European tour in July, '08 where she performed in Paris for thousands! She recently performed at Red Rocks with DeVotchka!
Megan - Returned to Denver in June 2008 after training and performing in Los Angeles. A dance major alumnus of The Denver School of the Arts, she has danced for over eighteen years, with classical training in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, and various ethnic styles. Also a classically certified Pilates instructor, Megan is versatile on all of the apparatuses and has a lovely, encouraging teaching style. With long, flowing lines, Megan is a beautiful and versatile performer as well.
Michelle (Meesh) grew up dancing in Minneapolis,Minn. - classical ballet, modern, tap, jazz, hip-hop and ballroom. While performing in a show with an Aerialist, she became mesmerized and eventually moved to Denver, CO. to train at Aerial Dance Over Denver. She has since performed at the Denver Center for Performing Arts and was offered an opportunity to train at the Belfast Circus School. She has developed into a top-notch aerial instructor and performer! Also a certified Yoga instructor, Meesh teaches Aerial Yoga at ADOD.
	Viktoria, (Vikkah).
	The electrifying Daniel Sullivan, one of Aerial's most phenomenal rising stars, has taught our After School Aerial Club & special events including the 2nd Aerial awards Intrnational Weekend, 2011. hosted by ADOD. He is versatile on numerous Aerial apparatuses and is gifted in his ability to relate to kids, teens, and adults! He has performed with the Cirkus Smirkus National Summer Tour for 5 summers and was recently accepted into the prestigious École Nationale de Cirque (The National Circus School) in Montreal where he will be studying with world class instructors.
	Josh McGirk , one of Denver's most loved Yoga and Yoga seminar instructors takes a flowing vinyasa class into the air for balance, strength, flexibility and confidence in his popular Aerial Yoga classes.
Josh started studying circus arts when his high school took on the musical 'Barnum'. His love of being in the air brought him to Brattleboro, Vermont, where he completed the Professional Training Program at the New England Center for Circus Arts with fabric and dance trapeze as his two main focuses. In addition, Josh has danced, acted, and sung in over 50 productions and dozens of choir and solo singing performances including American Idol, plus performed at the Chicago Improv Festival. Josh loves the arts and has dedicated his life to it.
	Jennifer has been teaching and performing at numerous venues including the Colorado Convention Center, the Fillmore Auditorium, the Oriental Theater. She spends her days as an architect but relies on flying in the fabric at night to keep her sanity! She is endlessly inspired by how beautiful aerial dance is, and loves to see her students achieve things they never thought they'd be doing!
	Paige a relative newcomer to the aerial arts, she integrates a myriad of experience in teaching and performing. A dancer (ballet, modern, flamenco, character, kabuki) with over 10 years of study in Colorado and with BalletMet in Columbus, OH; a former martial artist (internationally ranked in Wushu Kung Fu); and an experienced Teacher in an academic classroom. Paige combines athleticism, strength, and grace as well as patience, empathy, and encouragement to balance out the aerial experience.
Jess, PhiraPhoenixFireis multi-talented and performs and teaches a variety of Belly Dance styles and other forms of dance. Her on-stage personality brings her audiences to their feet! Designing gorgeous, exotic costumes is her forte!
	Stephinity , founder of KAIVALYA performs locally and all over the world. In 2008, she performed in Jamaica and twice throughout India, bringing a totally new style of dance to the country! She's been invited to return to India to develop a training program. She teaches a very energetic style of Hoop Dancing for all levels.
	Kiley - one of our contortion masters!
Dugluun, born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, auditioned for the Mongolian State Circus at age 7 and was selected to train under a pupil of State Laureate and People’s Artist D. Majigsuren, one of the world's best contortionists. At 12, Dulguun became a professional contortionist for the circus for two years then moved to the US. She has won many awards in international competitions, highlights of which are: The Silver Elephant (Silver medal) from Third Moscow International Youth Festival of Circus Arts, 2004, USSR; Silver Trophy from Sixth China Wuhan International Acrobatic Art Festival, 2004, China; and Bronze medal at the XXVI Festival Mondial Du Cirque De Demain of Paris, Invitational International Youth Circus Competition in 2005. Festival performances include: Colorado Dragon Boat Festival (3 years), Chinese New Year in Colorado Springs (2 years), Mongolian New Year (4 years), and Mongolian Naadam Festival (3 years).
	Liz is another one of our contortion masters!
Liam LeFey
	Cris Clark completed his circus skills and performance training at L'Ecole Nationale de Cirque in Montreal and went on tour with Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus. He has since taught at the Ringling Bros. Clown College and acted as head trainer for both the Great Y Circus and Circus Smirkus. He has also performed throughout the world with To Be 2 the Montreal circus troupe "Element Cirque."