To date she has donated performances at fundraisers for to PETA, Planned Parenthood, Mental Illness Awareness Events, Heathly Mothers and Healthy Babies, and community collaborations, such as Adaptations Theatre’s Maui 20. Heather uses her art form to benefit the nonprofits she advocates for by donating performances for events. As a circademic, Heather has worked as a social circus aerial trainer in Israel, Palestine, and Thailand, teaching trust and peace through circus skills. She teaches online classes for the University of Denver University College Global Affairs MA program and finds often finds inspiration for aerial productions from the intense dialogue about culture, privilege, power, and the shared traits of human condition that we all experience regardless of age, race, geography, and culture. In addition to teaching aerial in the studio, Heather has spent years traveling and teaching culture and human rights as a university professor. She has performed at multiple festivals on outdoor rigs and also skilled in ambient aerial for places small venues like eleven 44 in Chinatown in Honolulu, Bender’s in Denver, and others. Heather’s performance experience is diverse and includes working big venues like the 1st Bank Center in Denver, The Maui Arts & Cultural Center medium sized venues like The New Orleans Children’s Museum, The Oriental Theatre in Denver, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre, Honolulu Museum of Art, and the historic Iao Theatre in Maui, and smaller theatre productions. She has experience working with kids on the spectrum, refugees, and kids and adults with eating disorders. She is also a certified Circus Arts Therapist through The Circus Arts Institute. She completed her Instructor in Circus Arts training from the Ecole Nationale de Cirque (National Circus School) in Montreal and her aerial teacher training from the New England Center for Circus Arts in trapeze, lyra, and silks. She is also very active in international Social Circus and was an invited trainer for the “Climbing Walls” Youth Circus Festival in Akko, Israel, and for the Makampom Theatre in Thailand. Heather has taught workshops at Wanderlust Oahu, Aerial Cirque over Denver, L’Ru Studios, Still and Moving Center, and international at circus festivals. ![]() In 2015, she moved to Maui and founded Maui Aerial Arts and she is thrilled to have found her forever home. In 2013 Heather moved to Honolulu and began teaching aerial at Still and Moving Center. Heather co-founded and owned Miraas Aerial Arts (know known as Gravity Aerial Arts) a Denver-based aerial studio where she was Creative Director and Lead Instructor from 2009-2013. Heather has been coaching aerials since 2006, teaching aerial silk, static trapeze, single point dance trapeze, lyra, and aerial yoga to adults and children. ![]() Providing a centre of excellence for the creation and education of aerial circus.Heather first learned the art of trapeze and aerial dance in 1997 in New Orleans, and she’s had a hard time walking on the ground ever since. With funding from Limerick City and County Council the IACC is a unique way for individuals, communities and businesses, both local and national to discover talents they didn’t know they had and develop new skills and abilities they never thought they could achieve. IACC is also partners with Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, offering the only aerial dance courses to third level students in Ireland. IACC houses the first intensive professional programme for aerialists in the country and is a home for creativity in aerial circus on an international scale. Professional development is supported by the Irish Art Council’s grant through residencies, classes, workshops and performance opportunities. IACC is Ireland’s first purpose-fitted space for aerial dance and home to Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company, the founders. The Irish Aerial Creation Centre (IACC) is a place for people to unlock their creativity.
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