Aerial Residency Mexico
Fall 2020
Creative & Technical Development in Aerial Arts
at Casa Chango Mexico
October 3-December 26, 2020
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January 16-April 10, 2021
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Come quaran-train with us.
Spend 3 months immersing yourself in aerial arts at our safe, tropical paradise retreat center by the beach. Advance your skills, meet your goals, and develop yourself as an artist. Eat delicious, fresh food, learn Spanish, and absorb the warm, climate. In this Aerial Residency Mexico, all meals, accommodations, and classes are included in our pandemic safe facility.
Working from home? We have wifi!
Culture
Experience Mexican culture in a safe, friendly environment. Learn Spanish too!
Creative Development
Explore the creative process and develop yourself as an aerial artist.
Physical Development
Advance your technical skills, strength & flexibility.
Nature
Swim, surf, waterfalls, hot springs, baby turtles, bioluminescence, and more.
Immersion
Live with like-minded people. Work/study remotely. Eat better than ever!
Accommodations, meals, and classes
We have everything we need inside our Casa Chango Retreat & Training Center facility located 4 blocks from the beach. Accommodations options include a large shared house or a 2 bedroom casita. Classes are held in our beautiful open air gym. All meals are included, and you will never eat so well as when you are here. There is plenty of time to relax, work/study remotely, and enjoy the swimming pool. Spanish classes anyone? We are never in a rush, and we have all the time we need to reach our goals.
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Check out our Winter 2021 Residency Program
January 16-April 10, 2021
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Note about COVID 19
It is our first priority to make the residency program safe, fun and sustainable, and create a haven for people to feel healthy, active, and productive during this time. We are taking this global situation very seriously, and are enforcing extra safety policies for residency 2020.
- As long as COVID is an issue, our 2020 residency program is a ‘Quarantine in Paradise’ experience. This means residents will not leave the complex except for social distancing walks to the beach, trips to the river, and a few safe outings.
- All meals and food will be provided.
- Our gym and community areas are open air, so we have plenty of air flow, space and sunshine. We have nature on our side, and a swimming pool!
- These rules will update according to the state of the pandemic at any given time.
New arrivals
- Upon arrival residents will go through a 2 week period of social distancing quarantine from the rest of the residents and staff.
- During this time we will all act as if one of the residents has been exposed to the virus. You may be asked to wear a mask during community gatherings and classes.
- Meals will be served in the quarantine in paradise social distancing eating location around the swimming pool outside. It’s awesome!
- The new arrivals must keep 6 feet distance from each other at all times during this 2 weeks.
- During the first week, there will be no group classes. Students will have access to the gym during certain times, and are encouraged to acclimate with light training and stretching.
- During the second week, classes will begin. Each person will be assigned their own apparatus, and classes will be kept small. Students may be required to wear a mask.
- After the 2 weeks, providing there are no signs of coronavirus, full course curriculum class schedule will begin, and all residents can feel free to interact normally.
- No late arrivals. Everyone must arrive on or before the week of October 3, 2020. It is of utmost importance that we provide a safe, healthy space for our residents to live, train, and thrive without possible exposure to COVID.
See what our current residents are saying about the Residency Program
Hint: This will answer a lot of your questions.
Get a glimpse of the Residency Program
Warning: This will make you want to come.
Aerials. My main driving force to get here—I knew without aerials I would struggle physically and mentally in lockdown. Kerri is the most amazing coach—She encourages everyone to live in their own body, and recognises the strengths and limitations of each person, with no judgement, and a clear focus of how to help you meet your goals. Teaching here is not one-size-fits-all: Kerri tailors training to the individual.
Sallie Chedburn – June 2020
I have already made so much progress in my aerial practice.
I feel confident in exploring new pathways and movements with my body.
I am developing a sense of musicality and performance.
I am starting to break bad habits.
I feel as though I am on the pathway to becoming an artist .
Sample Schedule
Mon/Wed/Fri
7-9:30am Self Serve Coffee, Tea and Breakfast
10-11am Study Group Training Session
11-12:30pm Flexibility Class (Mon/Wed)
1pm Lunch
1:30-4pm Siesta/Pool/Study
4-5:30pm or 5:30-7pm – Course Program Technical Development Class
7:30pm Dinner
Tues/Thurs
7-9:30am Self Serve Coffee, Tea and Breakfast
8:30-10:30am – Open Gym
10:30am-12:30pm Course Program Creative Development Class
1pm Lunch
1:30-4pm Siesta/Pool/Study
4-7pm – Open gym
7:30pm – Dinner
During the Aerial Residency Mexico Program, open training is available whenever there are no other classes in session. The course program has 2 days off per week for resting, open training and exploring! We will bring you to local beaches, nature adventures, hot springs, bioluminescence lagoon, markets, and release baby turtles into the sea!
About the Aerial Residency Mexico program
Creative and Technical Development October 3-December 26, 2020
Residents must commit to the whole program.
Technical classes include aerial silks/tissue and hoop/lyra
Technical Development
Strong Beginner to High Intermediate Level Aerial Students
Course Program
This program is for people who want to work on and achieve their technical goals of strength, flexibility, and skills. Learn how to train, how to make calculated, progressive improvements, overcome plateaus, and take ownership of your aerial practice. This is a time to hone in on your training and dive into learning on a deeper level.
We are body positive! Circus and aerial arts can be applied to any body type. Some bodies adapt to the physical challenges differently than others. This program supports all bodies to build strength and flexibility, and execute tricks with excellent technique for injury free training.
The course includes 3 group aerial skills classes and 1-2 flexibility classes per week. Apparatuses include silks and lyra, and residents have a choice to focus on one or both during the program. There will be supplementary work on sling and rope. Students will have 1 monthly check in with coach and 3 weekly study group training sessions. Open gym training is available every day.
Focus will be on aerial hoop and/or silks technique, flexibility, strength, and injury prevention. Handstand training is an option as well.
Creative Development
Strong Beginner to High Intermediate Level Aerial Students
Course Program
This program is designed for people who want to experience the creative process, develop their personal style, potentially create an act act and be challenged outside of the typical class structure.
Transform your technical skills, and develop yourself as an artist. Learn how to make tricks look different, unpredictable, and dynamic. Work on choreography, transitions, musicality, character, emotion, connection to your audience and your apparatus, impulse, dynamics, personal style, and refinement.
The course includes 2 group classes per week in artistic creative development as well as 1 monthly check in with coach and support to create a video project using your unique skills. Aerial apparatuses include silks, sling, dance trapeze, rope, straps, and lyra. Open gym training is available every day.
In addition to your classes you will also be encouraged to do your own creative research.
Students will be invited to perform in our online public shows and other video performance opportunities.
Professional Artist Residency
Advanced to Professional Level Aerialists
Open Gym Only
No Classes
This program is for professional and pre-professional aerial artists who wish to further develop their craft in a supportive and immersive environment. Artists must be self motivated and directed.
Each artist receives time in the aerial gym/studio (when classes are not in session), peer support, and the opportunity to show their work in a public setting.
It is the chance for an artist to live their art in a focused way in a relaxed, supportive environment. Here the energy can be dedicated to artistic development, self care, community, great food and the ocean.
This program does not include classes, but residents are encouraged to motivate and support each other. Residents can request private and group classes at an additional cost.
Participants will be invited to perform in our online public shows and other video performance opportunities..
Total Course Program includes 6 weekly classes (3 technical, 2 creative, and 1 flexibility), 3 weekly guided study group training sessions, applied anatomy and injury prevention workshops, and 1 monthly teacher check in.
As part of the program, each resident will be required to do 1-2 hours of community service per week including keeping the living, eating, and training areas clean.
Students will complete a video project showing the work they created during the Aerial Residency Program. There will be performance opportunities throughout the residency to show work.
The 3 month course program is best suited for aerialists at the intermediate level wishing to advance their skills. You will leave the program with a better understanding of how to train to get results, create a unique act, develop your own training practice.
Teacher Training! New and aspiring aerial teachers will come away from the course program with a comprehensive approach to teaching aerial arts. This program will be a prerequisite for our upcoming teacher training course residency program.
“Kerri’s Aerial Artistry Retreat gave me more than I could’ve imagined. We challenged our bodies, mind, and our spirit…allowing you to enter a deeper part of yourself, one that you usually avoid facing. It taught me how to connect with the audience, how to express myself in my movements and how to tell a story through my work.
Josephine Reyes, Miami, FL 2016
Such an adventure, an awakening experience I will hold close to me forever.
Kerri, you have a huge heart and a beautifully creative mind. Your process was genius.
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January 16-April 10, 2021
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Aerial Residency Mexico Program
About your teachers
Kerri and Chloe have been teaching, training, and performing together as a duo for over 12 years. As time passes, their friendship has deepened, their working relationship has become intuitive, and their collective wisdom of the body creates a dynamic and comprehensive teaching team. They are truly a duo with infinite possibilities. One of the many things that makes this duo so special is that they love teaching, and find delight in watching their students grow and learn. In teaching, they stress the importance of good form, efficient training, refinement & artistry, and most important, FUN. You can read more about Kerri and Chloe here. Click here to see videos of their performances (duo and solos).
Kerri has been performing and teaching acrobatics, dance, and aerial arts for over 20 years. Her life’s work, as an artist and teacher, has been to develop and deepen her study of the body—physically, emotionally and spiritually. She has learned that anything is possible with patience, discipline and a positive attitude. She is truly a unique performer, engaging, thrilling, and moving audiences with her skills, style, and heart.
Kerri teaches her students how to own their practice. Focusing on fundamental elements of technique, anatomy, and the physics of movement, her students learn how to train. Kerri goes beyond teaching skills and sequences. She teaches how to identify, alter, and create your own skills and sequences, and best of all how to fully embody the movement of each skill in the most satisfying way for the doer and the viewer. Technique, balance, stability, mobility, movement pathways, creativity, 360 degree movement, musicality, originality, intentional movement, elements of surprise and awe, and a deep connection to humanity is what you will get if you work with Kerri. She is truly one of a kind.
Kerri’s technical expertise comes from working with students of all ages, shapes, sizes, and challenges. Kerri’s knowledge of anatomy, physics, injury prevention, creative problem solving, and realistic goal setting makes her one of the most masterful coaches of her time.
You can find Kerri’s performance videos here and Circus Fit free online tutorial videos here.
Chloe Marvel Light Axelrod is a powerhouse performance artist and teacher whose talents have carried her around the world. She has performed for a variety of acclaimed companies in world-class productions. Chloe is known for her dynamic performance style, full of high-level acrobatic and aerial skills combined with effortless grace and incredible form.
Chloe has been teaching circus since 2005 and trained with masters of acrobatics, contortion, and flying trapeze. She has years of experience and passion under her belt.
Chloe’s specialty is aerial hoop on which she has a solo act and a doubles act. With these acts, she synthesizes years of training, a love for spinning, strong, fierce passion for movement into a whirlwind of virtuosic expertise. Chloe teaches in the professional training program at the San Francisco Circus Center as well as recreational classes.
Through teaching and performing she shares the magic of circus all over the world. Check out Chloe’s website as well and her hoop videos here.
“Kerri imbues her classes with a really sweet combination of focused work, zany playfulness, and an earthy and body-positive sensuality. I walked away from my time as Kerri’s student more capable, skilled, and excited not just about aerial, but about the journey to reaching my goals. I typically have given myself a hard time about a number of things in life. Kerri is skilled and optimistic, is genuinely there for you, and 100% rooting for you. She knows the value of the hard or ugly work, but she knows how to do it in a way that is fun and full of compassion for yourself and your journey. I truly appreciate this woman and friend, and I now know that my time was a workshop on many levels.”
Elizabeth Ferretti – 2019
“Chloe is an amazing teacher, which I knew, but I think what impressed me the most was how invested she became in us, how quickly she got to know us and that she was able to anticipate our challenges/what would work for us – she was able to set us up to succeed while also challenging us. It made me trust her immensely which definitely made the experience more valuable/productive. She was incredibly patient and helpful, and I loved working with her. “
Sarah Hluchan – 2017
Sold out.
Check out our Winter 2021 Residency Program
January 16-April 10, 2021
Click here for info.
Tuition for Aerial Residency Mexico Course Program– October 3-December 26, 2020
For Strong Beginner to Strong Intermediate Level Aerial Students
Rates refer to cost of one person’s tuition. Listed in USD.
$1000 deposit is required to secure your spot.
Prices listed are for the full 3 month program.
| Room | Early Bird – pay before July 15, 2020 | Full Price |
| Shared Room (2-3 people) in shared house | $5500 | $5800 |
| Single Occupancy Room w shared bathroom (less privacy) in shared house* | $6000 | $6300 |
| Private studio/ 1 bedroom apartment w private bathroom | $8000 | $8300 |
*Single occupancy room w shared bathroom (less privacy) in shared house. This room shares an adjoining door and bathroom with another room. The person staying in the other room must walk through your room to get to the bathroom. You will have more privacy and space than a shared room, and less privacy than a total private room.
Ask us about our significant other and family prices. Space is limited.
Prices for the 3 month Course Program include:
- Ground transportation to/from the Puerto Escondido Airport (PXM) to our accommodations
- Accommodations for 3 months in a shared house or 2 bedroom casita
- Daily meals
- Breakfast – We stock the kitchen with breakfast essentials for you to make what you like.
- Lunch & Dinner – Simple, healthy, and delicious food is prepared for you to enjoy without having to cook.
- Residents can order and purchase specialty snacks, food/drink and other items to be delivered for them.
- 6-7 weekly classes
- 3 weekly study group training sessions
- anatomy and injury prevention workshops
- Monthly check in with coaches
- Open Gym/Studio (when classes are not in session)
- Photo shoot (w free access to all photos)
- Adventures to local beaches, nature excursions, and markets.
- 24 hour use of Swimming Pool and wi-fi
- Invitation to participate/perform in virtual public show in December.
- Opportunity to create video art projects
- Impromptu dance parties, pool parties, and hanging out with new friends.
If you are a professional and wish to come for the Aerial Artist Residency to develop your own work, please email us at SweetRetreatsdr@gmail.com for information.
Extras:
- Spanish Classes – daily and weekly packages available
- Massage and Acupuncture – $25-$60/hour
- Various nature excursions – $20-$80
- Surfing – packages available
This aerial residency program is limited to 10 participants.
Sold out
Check out our Winter 2021 Residency Program
January 16-April 10, 2021
Click here for info.
Upcoming Residency Programs 2021
- February-October, 2021
- Aerial Residency Teacher Training Program 2021
Links for more information
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Kerri’s aerial artistry workshop was soooooo rewarding! Kerri creates a welcoming, encouraging environment just by being herself, and in turn I was able to let myself be more free, more silly, more open, more EVERYTHING. Just MORE.
Angela Jackson – Halifax, NS. 2017