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	University of Limerick Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland Professors of Dance Chantal McCormick Sara Granda Contact email of the program: IrishWorldcademy@UL.ie The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the Univeristy of Limerick offers modules in aerial dance and vertical dance as part of their BA in Contemporary Dance and MA in Contemporary Dance Performance programmes. Students for the wider University ca also participate in theses module. These modules are delivered in partnership with Fidget Feet at the Irish Aerial Creation Centre in Limerick.  website
	University of Washington  4000 15th Ave NE, Seattle,  WA 98105, USA Department of Dance Professor of Dance: Roel Seeber Contact email of the program: roelroel@uw.edu Roel Seeber in collaboration with the Department of dance at the University of Washington created the Vertical Dance courses. Classes take place in one of the bright beautiful University studios and the focus is on Low Fly Vertical Dance. In Low Fly, dancers have the ability to swing and suspend, but also to ground down and use the floor. Class is structured in a Laboratory style where each student works at their own pace and creates dances, through experimentation and improvisation. Currently there are two sections of Vertical Dance, consisting of 8 students each. Four rigging points are used. website
	University of Wyoming Department of Theatre & Dance, Dept 3951,1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82071 Professors of Dance: Margaret Wilson Neil Humphrey  Contact email of the program: mawilson@uwyo.edu  We offer two courses in Vertical dance which introduce students to safety, conditioning, content creation and project development (designing rigging, choreographing, costuming and filming. Students also perform in faculty and student directed concerts featuring Vertical Dance in theatres, on buildings and at a rock climbing/recreational venue, Vedauwoo, in the Summer.  website
	Washington and Lee University Lenfest Center for the Arts, 100 Glasgow Street, LEXINGTON VA 24450  Professor of Dance Jenefer Davies  Contact email of the program: daviesj@wlu.edu  Under the artistic direction of Jenefer Davies, Washington and Lee University is one of the first colleges in the country to offer aerial dance as an academic discipline. A leader in avant-garde dance techniques, Professor Davies also teaches aerial silks and bungee. In breathtaking performances under the clouds, student aerial dancers explore movement 40-feet above the ground from the rooftops of campus buildings as the culmination of their semester long and spring term study. Aerial students have also performed at the Ailey Citigroup Theatre in New York City, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and at festivals. Davies also offers a spring term abroad class where students travel to Europe to study aerial dance with professional companies. Her book Aerial Dance: A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness was published by Routledge Press in 2018  website