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Welcome to our September newsletter - and if you're new here, a very warm hello! Whether you've just joined us or have been part of our community for years, it's great to have you here.
Autumn is creeping in, and with it comes an exciting new season of G&L events and news:
🧠 Dissecting Aerial 2026 - tickets now on sale! Our annual symposium returns on 7th November to a fabulous new venue in London, with an extraordinary line-up of speakers and practitioners.
💙 EADF 2026 - the highlights. We're still glowing from what was our biggest and most inclusive festival yet, and we have some wonderful feedback to share with you.
🌿 Dancing With The Tree - October. Our immersive autumn retreat in Portugal is fully booked - but we wanted to share the joy of it anyway!
Lindsey & the team at Gravity & Levity ❤️ |
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| Dissecting Aerial 2026 - 7th November |
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 | Dissecting Aerial Symposium 2026Jacksons Lane, London: 7th November, 11.30am-9.15pm We are excited to announce that tickets are now on sale for this year's Dissecting Aerialsymposium at Jacksons Lane Theatre in London, and it's going to be a very special day.
The day is split into three separate events, and you can book a ticket for one, two or all three events:
🌸 THE INTIMATE ONE - £20
Studio 5 | 11.45am-1.30pm | 25 tickets
Suki McConnon (Project RED-D) on Relative Energy Deficiency in Dance - what it is, why performers are especially at risk, and how the sector can prevent it.
Dr Jessica Eccles on 'Bendy Bodies, Bendy Brains' - the fascinating overlap between hypermobility, neurodivergence and creativity.
🔵 THE PRACTICAL ONE - £25
Studio 4 | 1.45-4.30pm | 25 tickets
Alex Allan on 'The Theory of Beats' - a practical dive into the foundational beats and pathways that unlock confident, dynamic movement on vertical apparatus.
Aisling Ni Cheallaigh on 'The Art of Spinning: Spin-poseium' - part lecture, part practical, exploring the physics and body mechanics behind the art of the spin. Ginger provided. 😊
Refreshment break 4.30-5.15pm, Jacksons Lane cafe
🔴 THE BIG ONE - £40
Studio 1 | 5.15-9.15pm | 120 tickets
Dr Nicky Keay on 'The Female Hormone Odyssey' - how hormones shape how we feel, train and perform, and practical strategies to work with them.
Ana Prada on 'Moving Through Change' - rethinking aerial training through perimenopause and menopause.
Dan Edwardes (Parkour Generations) on 'Physical Literacy versus the Delusion of Safety-ism' - a challenge to our risk-averse culture and why building real physical capability matters.
Joanna Haigood (Zaccho Aerial Dance) on 'Curiosity as Practice' - a reflection on how curiosity has sustained almost 50 years of extraordinary creative practice, from one of aerial dance's most celebrated site-specific artists.
Tickets for each session are limited so don't delay grabbing yours. See you there!
BOOKING:
🎟️ Book in-person tickets at Jacksons Lane here >>
NB. When you join us in person you will automatically receive access to the recordings of the session(s) you attend. If you can't make it in person, you can purchase the online recordings of each event from 12th November, directly from the Gravity & Levity website. This way nobody has to miss out! 💫
📹 Purchase the recordings from Gravity & Levity here >> |
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 | EADF 2026 - Your Feedback The dust has settled, the apparatus is packed away and we are still on a high (pun intended 😁) after our biggest and most inclusive European Aerial Dance Festival yet.
198 participants, 12 countries, two weeks of magic by the sea. 🌊
We've been reading through your feedback forms (thank you!) and we are genuinely moved. Moved by your generosity, honesty, courage in trying new things - and above all, by what so many of you said about feeling truly welcomed and included at EADF.
As the only inclusive aerial dance festival in the world, accessibility is not something we bolt on - it's something we build from the foundations. And this year, more than ever, we felt that coming back to us in your words.
Here's a small selection of what you told us:
💬 "This is the first time I've been taught in an environment where my needs have been truly met as a neurodiverse person. It really helped me to get the most out of all the wonderful teaching here."
💬 "I have complex disabilities and have never been anywhere where I felt so actively welcome and considered - a truly wonderful experience."
💬 "The most disability inclusive experience I've ever had. I got to show up as a person and as a participant - not as a problem."
💬 "The access support team are fantastic - just the fact that they are there makes me feel so much more comfortable participating as a disabled artist."
💬 "I cannot put into words how much this festival matters to me. It is the highlight of my entire year. There truly is no other experience like it."
We also welcomed 19 participants who identified as disabled, supported many more with undisclosed needs, and saw a 32% increase in activity on our Accessibility page. These numbers matter to us, and we will keep building on them year on year.
To every single person who came to EADF - thank you, from us all. Our hearts are still full. 💙 |
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 | Dancing With The TreeMafra National Park, Portugal: 1st-4th OctoberWe're delighted to share that our autumn Dancing With The Tree retreat is fully booked - and we can't wait to welcome participants to Portugal in a few weeks!
For those who haven't heard about it: Dancing With The Tree is our immersive vertical dance retreat in the beautiful National Park of Mafra, Portugal, hosted by the wonderful Magalie Lanriot with our AD Lindsey. Four days of moving in and with the forest, connecting with the natural world, and finding the kind of stillness and space that's hard to come by in everyday life. It's heaven.
If you missed out this time, don't worry - we ran two retreats this year due to demand, and we're pretty sure it's something you're going to want in your diaries next year. So we'll keep you posted on plans for 2027 💚🌳 |
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That's all for now - we hope to see you over the coming weeks and months, and as always you can keep up to date on all the latest news on Instagram or Facebook.
See you soon, aerial friends! 🤸♂️ |
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