Aerial Dancing | AirAligned | TEDxSacramento

AirAligned brings dance into the air. Artistic director Tresa Honaker shares her story of the creation of this group and how it continues to thrive despite an injury causing her to become paralyzed from the waist down.

More than ten years ago, Tresa Honaker formed AirAligned Aerial Dance Group. Unlike traditional circus performers, AirAligned members are high-level athletes, who are formally trained dancers, acrobats and martial artists, using trapeze, lyra, bungee, straps and aerial fabric in their performances. The group has received additional training in the aerial arts from Ingrid Hoffman, Hollywood Aerial Arts and Cirque LA in Los Angeles, Trapeze Arts in Oakland and San Francisco Circus Center. AirAligned performs for a variety of audiences offering solo acts, duets and trios as well as dynamic full-length group productions.

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