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DIGITAL DOWNLOAD: Beautiful Basics Syllabus [Silks Edition]
MSC: Beautiful Basics to Integrate from The Intro Level
This digital guide breaks down the beautiful basics* of aerial silks—perfect for brand-new students or experienced aerialists and coaches who want to revisit and refine foundational technique with a focus on body awareness, flow, and movement quality.
*basicsmeaning foundational skills, the first wraps a student learns: crochet arms, wrist locks, figure-8 foot-locks, egg knot — and so many details around them!
Inside you’ll find clear instruction on essential intro wraps and skills—footlocks, basic climbs, wrist-locks, transitions, and more—highlighting posture, alignment, and detail work. With years of circus and dance coaching behind it, this manual emphasizes strength, safe practice, and control, setting students up for longevity and artistry in the air.
At Moody Street Circus this is how we teach the concepts of aerial dance and choreography from the start of one’s aerial journey.
Ideal for:
Intro Students – learning or reviewing foundations with extra detail.
Coaches – seeking tools to refine form and teach body awareness.
Beginners/ Aerialists Struggling with Style – with this manual you can look into minimal grip pathways, lines, and eliminate “forgotten limbs” that will support you in finding more places to express with the rest of your body. Make sure your progress will support you through the rest of your aerial journey!
The guide includes:
Intro session lesson plan
Foundational drills and transitions from floor to fabric - voice-overed for note-taking lovers to deep dive into details!
A beginner choreography project tying skills together
Whether building strength from the ground up or polishing technique, this manual helps newer aerialists develop confidence, control, and grace in every wrap.
There are so many things to learn and enjoy - as well as strength to build - from revisiting these skills with a detailed eye and increased body awareness - as they lay the foundation for aerial at higher heights, more complicated wraps and longer sequencing with ease and grace!
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This digital guide will take you from the ground up — and
through our intro session lesson plan!
An Intro Session Itinerary / A Beginner Technique Polish / Coach’s Detail Checklist
Layering concepts of body awareness, activation of strength and opportunities to develop control and understanding over wraps.
“Floorial” skills to foot-locks and climbs - wraps and transitions that challenge intro-students strength, endurance and memory, but connect the dots between fabric and pose over time!
Culminating in the power to recall skills linked with a newly innate ability to activate the necessary power, posture and muscular energy to stay strong, safe and in control in the air - the “session” and this manual end in a short intro-level choreography project.
And yes… we can easily make these beautiful basics and details last an entire intro-level session - And now you can too! It is important to not bypass an understanding of the pre-requisite strength and positioning of a wrap to get to a new skill quickly.
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After purchasing and receiving your link, please make sure to DOWNLOAD and SAVE the file to your desktop/files/phone to guarantee continued access to the digital manual.
It is also beneficial to DOWNLOAD the videos hyperlinked in the digital manual to your device.
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DISCLAIMER: Aerial arts are a VERY dangerous practice. They require body awareness, control (ability to hold positions and move through pathways with respect for transitions), and strength built through good form habits learned in classes and lessons with a qualified coach. Learning from online resources can be a great avenue when also accompanied by hands-on coaching - there are many nuances to aerial wraps and positioning, engagement or control of the body that are difficult to understand the reasoning or importance behind. Always work safely over a mat and always try new things from the ground first! All exercises in this manual are executed at your own risk. Moody Street Circus LLC and all persons involved in the creation of this guide will not accept responsibility for injury to any degree as a result of practicing the drills in this manual. Always consult a professional rigger to make sure your apparatus is safe.
Skills are best ”unwrapped” with a coach at your side!
MSC: Beautiful Basics to Integrate from The Intro Level
This digital guide breaks down the beautiful basics* of aerial silks—perfect for brand-new students or experienced aerialists and coaches who want to revisit and refine foundational technique with a focus on body awareness, flow, and movement quality.
*basicsmeaning foundational skills, the first wraps a student learns: crochet arms, wrist locks, figure-8 foot-locks, egg knot — and so many details around them!
Inside you’ll find clear instruction on essential intro wraps and skills—footlocks, basic climbs, wrist-locks, transitions, and more—highlighting posture, alignment, and detail work. With years of circus and dance coaching behind it, this manual emphasizes strength, safe practice, and control, setting students up for longevity and artistry in the air.
At Moody Street Circus this is how we teach the concepts of aerial dance and choreography from the start of one’s aerial journey.
Ideal for:
Intro Students – learning or reviewing foundations with extra detail.
Coaches – seeking tools to refine form and teach body awareness.
Beginners/ Aerialists Struggling with Style – with this manual you can look into minimal grip pathways, lines, and eliminate “forgotten limbs” that will support you in finding more places to express with the rest of your body. Make sure your progress will support you through the rest of your aerial journey!
The guide includes:
Intro session lesson plan
Foundational drills and transitions from floor to fabric - voice-overed for note-taking lovers to deep dive into details!
A beginner choreography project tying skills together
Whether building strength from the ground up or polishing technique, this manual helps newer aerialists develop confidence, control, and grace in every wrap.
There are so many things to learn and enjoy - as well as strength to build - from revisiting these skills with a detailed eye and increased body awareness - as they lay the foundation for aerial at higher heights, more complicated wraps and longer sequencing with ease and grace!
—
This digital guide will take you from the ground up — and
through our intro session lesson plan!
An Intro Session Itinerary / A Beginner Technique Polish / Coach’s Detail Checklist
Layering concepts of body awareness, activation of strength and opportunities to develop control and understanding over wraps.
“Floorial” skills to foot-locks and climbs - wraps and transitions that challenge intro-students strength, endurance and memory, but connect the dots between fabric and pose over time!
Culminating in the power to recall skills linked with a newly innate ability to activate the necessary power, posture and muscular energy to stay strong, safe and in control in the air - the “session” and this manual end in a short intro-level choreography project.
And yes… we can easily make these beautiful basics and details last an entire intro-level session - And now you can too! It is important to not bypass an understanding of the pre-requisite strength and positioning of a wrap to get to a new skill quickly.
————————————
After purchasing and receiving your link, please make sure to DOWNLOAD and SAVE the file to your desktop/files/phone to guarantee continued access to the digital manual.
It is also beneficial to DOWNLOAD the videos hyperlinked in the digital manual to your device.
—
DISCLAIMER: Aerial arts are a VERY dangerous practice. They require body awareness, control (ability to hold positions and move through pathways with respect for transitions), and strength built through good form habits learned in classes and lessons with a qualified coach. Learning from online resources can be a great avenue when also accompanied by hands-on coaching - there are many nuances to aerial wraps and positioning, engagement or control of the body that are difficult to understand the reasoning or importance behind. Always work safely over a mat and always try new things from the ground first! All exercises in this manual are executed at your own risk. Moody Street Circus LLC and all persons involved in the creation of this guide will not accept responsibility for injury to any degree as a result of practicing the drills in this manual. Always consult a professional rigger to make sure your apparatus is safe.
Skills are best ”unwrapped” with a coach at your side!