about us
Aerial Fabric Acrobatics is a performance and teaching company, founded in 2002 focusing on aerial fabric, hoop, static and bungee trapeze. We offer classes at Dardano's School of Gymnastics. Our performance company currently performs weekly at The Church nightclub, and monthly at Nine10 Arts gallery, both in Denver. We have talented performers available for all types of events, providing exciting entertainment.
Our curriculum is sequential with nine levels of accomplishment from beginner to performer. Our approach incorporates movement principals and skills from Pilates, Dance, Gymnastics, Yoga, and Feldenkrais. It has been effective in bringing success to all skill levels, and to all participants regardless of previous acrobatic experience.
In addition to the classes offered at our 2 locations in Denver, we specialize in designing workshops for out of town groups. We have taught workshops in Castle Rock, CO, Kansas City, MO, Sioux Falls, SD, and internationally at Club Med resorts in Thailand and Bali.
We welcome those who wish to become part of our growing teaching and performance team. The company carries insurance for students and performers.
Our goal is to provide fun for students, performers and our audiences!
Lynn Coleman
Lynn Coleman founded Aerial Fabric Acrobatics, LLC in 2002 as a training and performance company. As manager, she has trained over 80 young artists for many venues including the Pepsi Center in Denver, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, local art galleries and nightclubs. She has held workshops in Thailand, Bali, Kansas City, MO, Sioux Falls, SD, Castle Rock, CO, and Denver, CO.
Lynn began performing at age three doing a hand-balancing act with her father. At age 10, she and her family joined Holiday on Ice and toured Europe performing for three years. She spent her teens and twenties coaching gymnastics and downhill skiing.
Lynn re-discovered her love for circus arts in 1992, when she started doing flying trapeze. In 1999, she founded a trapeze and aerial acrobatic school, Thin Air Trapeze, Inc. with her father and other trapeze enthusiasts. Aerial Fabric Acrobatics, evolved from Thin Air Trapeze as a performance group.
Most recently, Lynn performed bungee trapeze at The Church nightclub and has performed flying trapeze in the Shrine Circus. She has a BA in Inter Agency Development and Leadership from Metropolitan State College of Denver.
Tanya Hamermesh
Tanya has been training, performing, and teaching aerial fabric and hoop since 2002. She has trained with
Aircat Aerial Arts in Boulder, The Circus Space in London, Hollywood Aerial Arts in Los Angeles, and with
Serenity Smith of the New England Center for Circus Arts. She has performed at numerous venues in Colorado,
and internationally. She was a competitive swimmer into college, swimming for summer leagues, her varsity
high school team, and the Colorado Rapids Swim Team. She is also a trained dancer in the styles of tap,
ballet and modern, training with Gwen Bowen School of Dance Arts, Colorado Ballet, Academy of Classical Ballet,
and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance. She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Denver.
When she's not teaching or performing aerial, she enjoys dancing, playing the piano, photography, reading, and
watching Project Runway.
Cassie Drew
Cassie joined our performing group in May of 2008. She is a gifted aerialist who was an elite gymnast for 18 years,
competing at the national and collegiate levels. She received a four-year scholarship to the University of Arkansas,
where she competed in gymnastics and received a degree in English. She is an avid camper and hiker. Cassie is as a
special education teacher at Mount Saint Vincent Home. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Special Education
from CU Denver.
Eric Pung
Eric has trained as an aerialist with Aerial Fabric Acrobatics since March 2009. In addition Eric is a gymnast,
training at Dardano's School of Gymnastics since he was 2 years old. He competed through high school at the national
level. His gymnastics career was cut short after being diagnosed with cancer in his senior year of high school.
After going through 4 rounds of chemotherapy, Eric found Aerial Fabric Acrobatics and began training to regain his
strength and flexibility. He works as a gymnastics coach at Dardano's School of Gymnastics, and is pursuing a
degree in animation from the University of Colorado at Denver. Eric loves to draw and dance when not teaching,
performing, or studying.
Jill Katzenberger
Jill Katzenberger has been studying aerial dance for three years and has been performing at various Colorado venues
for the past year. She does not have a background in dance or gymnastics but she exemplifies the fact that anyone
can excel at aerial with practice and dedication. Jill has always been an athlete, running marathons and competing
in triathlons. In what feels like a past life, Jill received a scholarship to play Division I tennis at the
University of California at Santa Barbara. Though competition is in her blood, Jill fell in love with aerial
because her focus wasn't on beating an opponent or being better than anyone else, but on challenging herself
with each new skill and learning how to express herself through this unique art form. Jill also teaches and
develops science and cultural education programs at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. She loves working
with both kids and adults and understands the varying ways in which people learn.
Jennifer Wilcox
Jennifer has been studying aerial dance since 2001. She began training and
teaching at
Aircat Aerial Arts in Boulder, and continued training and teaching at Aerial
Fabric LLC for the
past 3 years. She has performed in Las Vegas with Cirque le Masque, at the
Church, and Cityhall
nightclubs, the Hunter Douglas trade show convention, and the Cirque du
Silver Bell Ball
biannual fund raiser for Mount Saint Vincent Home where she also works as a
millieu counselor
for traumatized and at-risk youth. Jennifer enjoys all movement arts and
has been studying
classical ballet since age 4 at the Arvada Center for the Arts and
Humanities, and has attended
intensive summer ballet camps at Colorado Ballet. She studied Taekwon do
while completing her
undergraduate degree as a violin performance major and minoring in Russian
language and studies.
While there, she also began studying freestyle and ice dance figure skating.
She enjoys incorporating
all of these different movement styles into the art of aerial dance, and
enjoys creating her
own movement styles in the process. She is currently completing her Masters
Degree in
Clinical Mental Health in hopes of becoming a licensed professional
counselor in the near future.
She enjoys working with the disadvantaged and brings her love of high energy
heavy metal and street
culture to the art of aerial dance.
Teresa Tipping
Teresa Tipping was a member of Cirque du Soleil's show, Saltimbanco, and
was the lead character/clown. She was also a professional modern dancer and
was a gymnast for eighteen years. She now teaches kids pyramids and
acrobatics, does clowning, and performs specialized physiotherapy.
exercise physiology
Rose Silberman is a terrific resource for us in developing exercise conditioning and in the creation of our curriculum. She teaches Pilates, Gyrotonics and the Feldenkrais Method in Denver, CO.
