September 21 – 23, 2025
Aerial Rope
With Constance Echo Palmer
Spend some time with us to develop a deeper understanding of how your body interacts with the rope.
Each day will start with an intentional warm up and some guidance on how to structure your training when you head back to your home studios. We will explore how wraps and positions are connected in order to build your own unique ideas and sequences with confidence. We will spend some time at the start solidifying dynamic foundations and then apply beats to exits, entries, and transitions in the air.
Regardless of where you are on your rope journey we will discuss and work towards release skills using drills that are attainable and supportive to your individual progress. We do have 40′ of ceiling and a foam pit afterall, so let’s get into it!!
This course is for the true theory nerd as well as emerging rope artists hoping to develop that understanding in order to truly play and create in the air. Providing a balance of hard work to level up and a deeper study to stimulate your rope mind, we’re sure to squeeze every last bit of juice out of this immersion.
Let’s Rope!
Details
When:
Friday | 5:30 – 8:30 pm
Saturday | 12:30 – 3:30 pm & 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Sunday | 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Where:
The Trapezium
10 Town Crier Drive
Brattleboro, Vermont
Cost:
$450
Register By:
September 6, 2025
Prerequisites:
- Ability to climb and invert in the air from a full hang, repeatedly with ease
some experience with dynamics and foundations of bell beat, turn pike beat, front, back beats - Clear understanding of fundamental wraps; hip key, thigh hitch, s-wrap, seatbelts, etc.
- A curiosity for deeper understanding and connections
Ages:
16 & up or by permission of instructor
About The Coach
Constance Echo Palmer is a dancer and aerialist that specializes in vertical apparatus; fabric, corde lisse (rope), and double/multi corde. She is versed in partnering on bars (trapeze and lyra) as well as vertical apparatus. Constance was a touring artist with 20 years of stage experience working with a variety of circuses and companies in the US and internationally performing in small community theatres, international festival stages, and everything in between.
Her passion for performing is only matched by her passion for teaching. She teaches movement with a focus on understanding your own body and how to support it through your work and practice. Constance was the founder and director of The Space: A Movement Arts Studio in Atlanta, GA, USA from 2014-2018. She continues to teach in Atlanta, as well as across the US and abroad when she is not on stage. Constance is dedicated to growing community for aerial students and teachers locally as well as globally. She founded and organized the Atlanta Aerial Arts Festival (2016 and 2018) and curates the group Aerial Instructors and Studio Owners on facebook to connect teachers from all over.
Constance is a lifelong mover with an unending thirst for knowledge about the human form and how we move in the world. She holds a B.S. in Biology in which she focused on Anatomy and Physiology and carries teaching certificates in yoga, pilates, and aerial arts. Constance provides teacher training and ongoing support for studios such as Canopy, Akrosphere, Murmurations, Aerial Dance PC, as well as offering courses open to the public under the banner Sage Movement Arts. She presents at aerial conferences and festivals as well as travels to teach workshops and continuing education for teachers. Constance creates and contributes to supplemental resources for circus artists, such as online courses and manuals, and is an editor of the Aerial Hoop and Rope manuals as well as a contributor to The Aerial Rope Manual Vol. 2.
Find Constance on Instagram at @circusecho
