3 Feb 2025

Gravity & Levity

 

We're starting the month with the wonderful news that we've been successful in our application for Arts Council England funding 🎉🎉

This means that 2025 is looking very exciting, as we're able to go ahead with our creative professional development events: Dissecting Aerial Symposium (April) and European Aerial Dance Festival (August). Yippee! 

This project award also enables us to offer more bursary places for D/deaf and disabled artists at all our events and peer-peer exchange opportunities.

We're hugely grateful to our partners and artists for their support, which has made all this possible - whlist fully recognising the disappointment of those whose bids weren’t successful this time. We’ve been there ourselves and know just how much energy, heart and hard work goes into writing them.

So... full steam ahead! Here's what we have to look forward to 👇

Lindsey & the team at Gravity and Levity ❤️

Creative Professional Development Events 2025

Dissecting Aerial 2025

12th - 13th April 2025

Our Dissecting Aerial Symposium will return to Brighton in April this year!

The Symposium is an inspirational two days of presentations, talks and practical sessions, gathering aerial artists, researchers, body workers, and medical and sports science practitioners from across the globe. 🌎

Last year our event reached over 180 people via streaming, in-person attendance and recordings, and we'll be offering the same again this year so as many of you as possible can be part of this amazing weekend!

We've already got lots of fantastic speakers and topics lined up, including:
  • Creating aerial performance from an access ethos and aesthetic
  • Active rest / recovery - nurturing physical & mental health
  • Using Physics to improve aerials (parts 1 & 2 - static & swinging)
  • Concussion and early onset dementia
  • The return of the hugely popular 'Bendy Bodies, Bendy Brains'
  • Debunking Myths in Hair Suspension: re-thinking our approach to hair hang
  • Chest binding in circus arts
Stay tuned - more on #DA25 to follow very soon, and save the date! 🙌

European Aerial Dance Festival 2025

5th - 16th August 2025
The European Aerial Dance Festival will return to the stunning Worthing Pavilion in August this year!

We has such a joyful event last summer, welcoming 126 participants over the two weeks - and we can't wait to do it all over again!

Once more we'll have more than 30 classes a day to choose from, led by world class teaching talent, and available for professional aerialists, hobbyists and beginners - that's everyone then 😍 

Tickets are not on sale *just* yet but you can save the date now! 📆

And to get you in the mood, we've had fun putting together a little video of EADF 2024. Take a look at all the great things we got up to, and hear from participants talking about their experience... "LOVED it" came up quite a lot ☺️

🎬 Watch the EADF video here (scroll down the page a little)

As for us, we're busy working behind the scenes and will let you know as soon as the timetable is available to view - and ticket sales will follow shortly after! 🥳
More Dates for the Diary 2025

Body Puzzles - Vertical Dance Workshop (Adv)

26th - 27th April 2025, Paris

🇫🇷 Join Lindsey on this 2-day workshop to get curious and question your known vertical dance vocabulary; to find ease, discover new pathways and open up your dancing body and imagination.

Each day will have a different focus, drawing on Lindsey's own current questions on how to keep nudging at the edges of what we know; peeling back the layers to broaden and gaining a deeper understanding of your practice. 

This is a fantastic chance to see and learn from Lindsey's exceptional technique. Do join us!

NB. Please note, there will be max 12 participants in the studio. This will not be a ‘long-line' workshop, but the intimacy of the space lends itself beautifully to diving into more of the detail.

Details & Booking

📆 Saturday, April 26: 10am - 1pm / 2pm - 5pm

📆 Sunday April 27: 10am - 1pm / 2pm - 5pm

Level: Advanced
Location: Paris, France

Find out more and book here >>

Photo credit: Joanna Cordeiro Ferreira

Dancing With The Trees - Portugal

May 2025


We're excited to be returning to Portugal's Mafra National Park this May with our 'Dancing with the Trees' retreat. It was so popular last year that we had to book a second retreat! Magalie Lanriot and Lindsey Butcher will be your hosts, and dates + booking info are coming soon! 🌳

Photo credit: Denise Wal
We've Been Nominated!

Digital Culture Network Award 2025


We're delighted to have been longlisted for the 2025 Digital Culture Awards!

The list includes over 60 creative and cultural organisations and individuals who have embedded digital technology in their work, and we're very proud to be recognised. We'll keep you posted! ☺️
That's all for now - we can't wait to see you at our events this year!

We'll keep you posted - and you can keep up to date on all the latest news on Instagram or Facebook. 🤸‍♂️

📷 Photos & video Mark Morreau unless otherwise specified

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