March 20 – 22, 2026
Dance Trapeze
With Sarah Poole
Let’s explore the multidimensional movement possibilities that dance trapeze offers! Aerial Dance Trapeze celebrates an ease of movement on the ground, in the air, and through the magnificent spaces in between. This class will focus on process; finding how we as collaborative individuals discover and assemble sequences of movement on and with the trapeze in order to make our own phrases and work. That takes time, courage, and lots of laughter.
Beginning from developing conscious awareness of balance points and safety, we’ll explore specific skills in the ropes, on the bar, around the bar, under the bar, and on the ground. Using structured improvisation, movement puzzles, and periods of work and feedback, we will work towards integrating movement and stillness, dynamism and softness, using all parts of the apparatus and the floor, creating as we move. You will leave this workshop with tools to continue developing your own work on dance trapeze.
Details
When:
Friday | 5:30 – 8:30 pm
Saturday | 1:00 – 4:00 pm & 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Sunday | 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Where:
The Trapezium
10 Town Crier Drive
Brattleboro, Vermont
Cost:
$450
Ages:
16 & up or by permission of instructor
Register By:
March 1, 2026
Prerequisites:
Participants should have a regular trapeze practice, which affords the stamina to safely perform movements in sequence while suspended in the air. You should be comfortable with pullovers to front balance (from the ground or in the air), beats from hands and knees, and inverting in the ropes.
About The Coach
An American contemporary dancer by training, Sarah Poole left New York City to settle in Québec in 2003, completing a college diploma as a circus instructor (2008) at the National Circus School in Montreal (ENC), a graduate certificate in educational leadership at McGill University (2022), and an MA from the Individualized Program (INDI) at Concordia (2025).
Sarah is interested in the human being at the center of circus work and the sustainability of a circus artist’s career. She taught at the ENC in Montréal for 14 years and recently served as Director of Higher Education at the École de cirque de Québec (2022-2024).
A specialized coach and aerial choreographer, she has worked on several original creations for Cirque du Soleil (MESSI10, KURIOS, CRYSTAL, SAND) and Cirque Éloize (SEUL ENSEMBLE), as well as on the restaging of shows such as TORUK, CRYSTAL, CIRKOPOLIS, SALOON, and BOSCH DREAMS. She choreographs and coordinates circus aspects of television and film projects such as Plan B—Season 2 of KOTV and Falling by Moment Factory for Royal Caribbean.
Sarah works with circus artists who are developing acts independently, and regularly offers workshops in aerial disciplines and choreographic research in Europe, the United States, and Canada.
