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…is the brainchild of renowned aerialist Jill Crook. Week-long workshop sessions offer instruction in multiple aerial specialties as well as support disciplines that aid in the development of overall flexibility, musicality, strength and conditioning.
The Elite Aerial Worx Summer Camp Intensive provides a comprehensive approach to aerial training For all levels of study and our faculty is comprised of working professionals with a reputation for being dedicated to their respective crafts.
Each session is structured to take the student through the process of preparing the body and mind to work efficiently and intelligently in this complicated and exacting art form.
Private tutorials are also available by appointment
With a performance career that spans more than four decades and encompasses multiple disciplines, acclaimed Cirque Du Soleil Aerial Artist Jill Crook brings some very unique insights to her teaching responsibilities.
During the course of an impressive dance career highlighted by featured appearances in the popular Las Vegas productions “Storm” at the Mandalay Bay and “The Fashionistas” at Planet Hollywood, Jill fell in love with and set her sights on the aerial arts beginning an intensive period of study that included Silks, Web, Lyra and Hammock. To her already varied dance background she added contortion fundamentals and her transformation from dancer to aerialist was complete.
Jill’s aerial career includes numerous corporate, TV award and special event performances taking her from New York to Hawaii and she has performed on nearly every type of aerial apparatus. In 2009 she was featured in Britney Spear’s “Circus” video And for the last twelve years she has appeared in Cirque Du Soleil’s ” Zumanity” at New York New York Hotel in Las Vegas as “Mademoiselle Loup” performing the strap act. Jill also holds the rare distinction of having performed three different aerial acts on three different apparatuses, two of which she created specially for Zumanity.
Today, Jill shares her immense wealth of aerial knowledge with her private students in Las Vegas, several of whom have gone on to professional careers in the aerial arts, and around the country teaching seminars and workshops when her schedule allows taking particular delight in her students evolution. Jill was the aerial choreographer and assistant dance choreographer for One Night for One Drop 2017 and repeated that role in 2018, a production created by Cirque du Soleil. She was also given the role of artist coach at Zumanity, adding to her responsibilities on the show.
“I know the passion they feel for this art form that is both artistically and physically challenging. It’s so rewarding to be able to give back some of what’s been given to me by helpIng young aerialists arrive at their goals.” – Jill Crook
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