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University of Limerick

Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland


Professors of Dance
Chantal McCormick
Dr Jennifer de BrĂșn
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. 

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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.


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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. 


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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 

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