Join us from June 28th to July 6th! This intensive group and standing partner acrobatics training experience is designed for dedicated practitioners to build their skills during 8 days of focused, goal-driven training.

Multiple progressive workshop tracks from beginner to advanced will allow participants to deepen their practice in specific areas such as dance lifts, dynamic partner skills, hand-to-hand, banquine, injury prevention, and more. Rather than simply learning isolated tricks, this experience supports long-term growth through structured training, personalized feedback, and a collaborative environment with world-renowned coaches.

The Intensive will take place at Emerald City Trapeze Arts, located just south of downtown Seattle in the former Canal Boiler Works building in SODO. The space features padded flooring, numerous sets of safety/spotting lines, and a variety of crash mats.

The intensive will run from June 28th to July 6th.
Daily sessions from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

— July 2 and July 4 will be half-days
— The first day (June 28) will begin slightly earlier, at 8:30 AM

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Youth Backflip Workshop
In this workshop Abraham will be covering basic strength, mobility, and drills to prepare you for backflips. This workshop will be the perfect introduction to the basic movements associated with the backflip. If you have ever been interested in learning to backflip this workshop is a must! In this workshop you will learn backflip related strength, mobility, and drills you can practice in your own time. You will also be prepared to take the Backflip Intensive Level 1 workshop in a few months when Abraham returns to SANCA for more workshops.

For ages 9 – 15

Saturday, June 28th | 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM 

Adult Backflip Fundamentals
In this workshop Abraham will be covering basic strength, mobility, and drills to prepare you for backflips. This workshop will be the perfect introduction to the basic movements associated with the backflip. If you have ever been interested in learning to backflip this workshop is a must! In this workshop you will learn backflip related strength, mobility, and drills you can practice in your own time. You will also be prepared to take the Backflip Intensive Level 1 workshop in a few months when Abraham returns to SANCA for more workshops.

Ages 16+

Saturday, June 28th | 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM

Adult Backflip Intensive Level 1
Have you always wanted to do a backflip, but never quite felt safe? Then this workshop is for you! In this intensive workshop Abraham will take you through how to do a standing backflip. Abraham has been teaching parkour, freerunning, acrobatics and more for over 10 years. The standing backflip will be broken down into safe, manageable steps, to ensure you feel comfortable with each drill and progression. The workshop will start with mobility, activations and drills, then participants will take turns working up to spotted backflips. Abraham teaches backflip using the two person spotting method. Participants can expect to complete assisted standing backflips by the end of the workshop and occasionally students complete unassisted backflips. The workshop is limited to eight spots to accommodate lots of specific work with each participant. Please bring along a heavy weight t-shirt or sweatshirt to help with spotting.

Ages 16+

Saturday, June 28 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM 

Adult Backflip Intensive Level 1
Have you always wanted to do a backflip, but never quite felt safe? Then this workshop is for you! In this intensive workshop Abraham will take you through how to do a standing backflip. Abraham has been teaching parkour, freerunning, acrobatics and more for over 10 years. The standing backflip will be broken down into safe, manageable steps, to ensure you feel comfortable with each drill and progression. The workshop will start with mobility, activations and drills, then participants will take turns working up to spotted backflips. Abraham teaches backflip using the two person spotting method. Participants can expect to complete assisted standing backflips by the end of the workshop and occasionally students complete unassisted backflips. The workshop is limited to eight spots to accommodate lots of specific work with each participant. Please bring along a heavy weight t-shirt or sweatshirt to help with spotting.

Ages 16+

Saturday, July 12th | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Adult Backflip Intensive Level 2
Abraham has been teaching parkour, freerunning, acrobatics and more, for over 10 years. This is the perfect workshop if you have previous experience with the standing backflip and want to spend some focused time progressing towards the unassisted flip. The workshop will start with mobility, activations, drills, and spotted standing backflips. The participants will then get the opportunity to practice spotted backflips in a variety of settings designed to help you build comfort with the flip. Abraham focuses on safety while he teaches backflips and tries to provide challenges to each student that will push them to achieve more while making sure everyone remains comfortable. During the workshop participants will be expected to complete assisted backflips in a variety of different settings. With participants’ consent, occasional flips will be recorded for video analysis coaching to help participants better understand the fundamental movements and timing involved in their backflips. Ideally by the end of the workshop some students will be doing completely unassisted backflips. The workshop is limited to eight spots to accommodate lots of specific work with each participant. Please bring along a water bottle and comfortable clothing you can flip in.

Saturday, July 12th | 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

3 Day Straps Intensive | Starting July 25th
This is a weekend immersion into straps development!  Based on the cohort goals, we will dive into shoulder mechanics, c shaping, dynamics, etc. This intensive aims to cover theory, conditioning, and self-spotting drills you can incorporate into your own training.
Friday, July 25, 2025 | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Saturday, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Sunday, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
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Finding Your Flare | July 26th
Whether it’s two arms or one, we’ll work on the mechanics of flares and leveraging them to your meathook, back flag, or even further. Standard, reverse, elbow, or armpit, we will cover flares in its variations.
Saturday, July 26, 2025 | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
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Swings & Things | July 26th
Dynamics on straps can seem intimidating. This workshop provides theory, conditioning, and progressions for swings on one or two arms. We’ll start from the ground up and target skills that leverage momentum.
Saturday, July 26, 2025 | 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
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Breaking Down Roll-ups | July 27th
Specifically two arm bicep roll-ups, we will go over off apparatus drills and conditioning that will improve you’re technique at any level. We’ll also look into entrances from hanging, exit strategies, and ways to embellish the pathway.
Sunday, July 27, 2025 | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
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This workshop focuses on developing collaborative aerial performance skills, culminating in a performance 5-15 minutes long.  Participants will explore group dynamics and creative composition through partner interactions on the floor and in the air, synchronization, mirroring, tableau, skills/transitions as motifs, and movements in cannon. The emphasis is on ensemble cohesion, while developing trusting relationships with one another and creating lasting collaborative bonds.

We will begin each session with research invitations and document skills and sequences that we come up with.  Guided games and drills will be provided for inspiration as needed.  As the group develops its sense of identity, we’ll come up with an objective (usually a narrative or visual representation) and use that as our goal to refine the piece.

At the end of each session, we’ll reflect and share successful moments and frustrations and connect as a group.

Our work will be shared at the end of the workshop in a casual “work in progress” setting, with optional Q&A after to discuss the process.  This showing can be used to showcase the artists’ individual acts and we can invite artists not involved in the ensemble to share their work as well.

Target audience is intermediate aerialists with a solid foundation of aerial technique who are ready to explore group-based movement.  Some performance and partnering experience is a plus, but not a prerequisite.  Multiple apparatus of the same type, several different apparatus, or one apparatus to be shared are all possibilities to be explored.