Actor's Gym Day 15 & 16/Reflection

Hello all,

Yes my time at the Actor's Gym is done. For now. The last two days have been a blast at the Actor's Gym. It was fun before, but now it was just a blast.

In aerial on tuesday we went to trapeze again. I really do love trapeze. What made it even more fun though is that we did Double Trapeze. What's more fun than trapeze? 2 people on a trapeze. This was a ton of fun. A little scary at first, but after that it was a ton of fun. I'll post a video down below. This was a lot of fun and a really good test of the things we have learned throughout the summer.

We also did double trapeze in circus as well. That's where I got the video. It's all the same routine from the 2 days. We also worked on double lyra and learned a new silk knot routine. Before all of this for our acrobatics part of the class we worked on doing the things we have learned in sync. So we lined up into lines of four across and did forward rolls, dolphin rolls, backward rolls, and handstand roll-downs in sync. As well as we could. This was brought up again when we had four silk knots down at once and did the new silk knot routine in sync as much as we could. It all ended up looking really cool. Everyone was in a very good mood today which made it even more fun.

I really enjoyed my time at the Actor's Gym. I learned so much and stuff that'll come in useful in the future projects at ISU. I really fell in love with circus arts having come here. It is something I very well could pursue more in the future. I talked to Sylvia about coming back next summer for the Intensive Summer program. I'll need to save up my money, but she said it would be something that would be very good for me to look into. I thought that was nice, because she believed in me. The summer intensive program is very intense and full of students who are very good so to hear her say that meant a lot. Having done research on some of the collaborations and past projects the Actor's Gym has worked on really blew my mind. I would be more than happy to come back. It gave me a little more incentive on considering Chicago as an option to moving to in the future. In retrospect it was a pretty awesome summer.

Thanks,

-Chris