Silks - Beginner/int

Aerial Technique for Finding Fluidity

The first half of this workshop focuses on combining aerial technique with Pilates knowledge. Georgina will share her continuous research on how to bring core control to the air. With a speciality in delivering technical understanding for strengthening foundational skills, her teaching is ideal for anyone looking to refine technique and hone in on the bio-mechanics of the body. The second half of the workshop will explore fluidity in aerial movement quality. Looking at climbs and figures combined into a choreography to not only widen skillsets, we apply further exercises that thread the sequence to focus on delicacy and sensitivity in quality of movement. This workshop looks at explorative elements that can be applied further to all aerial apparatus.

Georgina Ilona Cassels is a circus artist educated at the National Centre for Circus Arts and Gravity Circus Centre and is currently based in Budapest. Georgina is a member of ‘Konstrukt’ by Cirkus Kolektiv and was a fellow of the New Horizon’s Leadership Program EU of 2023-24 under the mentorship of Maartje Bonarius, Artistic Director of Tall Tales Company. In 2017 Georgina volunteered at the Palestinian Circus School as an aerial instructor. In 2018, she moved to Budapest and has since performed for Firebirds Circus and collaborated as part of an aerial rope duo ‘Rollmeknot’. She is the co-founder of the aerial collective One Thousand Faces and both Rollmeknot & OTF were granted awards at the Cyrkulacje Contemporary Circus Festival.

In 2019 Georgina organised and co-hosted the Budapest Aerial Meeting with additional editions in 2022 & 2024.

In 2024 Georgina received the Capital Circus of Budapest award at the Much Festival Showcase and debuted her tissu act “Indigo” at the Night of Circuses.

Instagram: @georgina.ilona