Aerial Residency Mexico
Winter 2021
Creative & Technical Development in Aerial Arts
at Casa Chango Mexico
January 16-April 10, 2021
This residency is now FULL.
Check out our Spring/Summer Residency here.
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? Work from here!
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.
This residency is now FULL.
Check out our Spring/Summer Residency here.
Note about COVID 19
Read our full COVID Policy here.
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 2021.
- As long as COVID is an issue, our 2021 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 small group classes designed to ease students back into the aerial training safely.
- Each person will be assigned their own apparatus, and classes will be kept small. Students are 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 January 16 or 17, 2021. 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
Wed/Fri/Sun
7-9:30am Self Serve Coffee, Tea and Breakfast
10-11am Open Gym
11-12:30pm Flexibility Class Wednesdays
1pm Lunch
3-6:30pm Technical Development /Skills Class
7:30pm Dinner
Thurs/Sat
7-9:30am Self Serve Coffee, Tea and Breakfast
8:30-10:30am – Open Gym
10:30am-12:30pm Creative Development Class
1pm Lunch
3-4:30pm Flexibility Saturdays
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 January 16-April 10, 2021
Residents must all arrive on January 16 or 17.
Technical classes include aerial silks/tissu and rope w supplementary work on hoop/lyra and sling.
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. Skills classes include aerial silks, rope, and dance trapeze.
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. There will be 2 skills classes per week on silks and rope, and one skills class per week on dance trapeze. There may be supplemental work on sling and hoop. 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 silks technique, flexibility, strength, and injury prevention.
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 10 week 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.
This residency is now FULL.
Check out our Spring/Summer Residency here.
Aerial Residency Mexico Program
About your teachers
Kerri Kresinski – silks, rope, flexibility, artistry
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. Check her out on Instagram here.
Kalina Suter – dance trapeze, flexibility
Kalina is a dance trapeze and flexibility coach who guides artists and movers to unearth their creative style. She took up circus arts in 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, which led her to study at both the Rogelio Rivel Circus School in Barcelona and the New England Center for Circus Arts, where she specialised in dance trapeze and flexibility. Kalina developed her own approach to dance trapeze, born from a desire to feel free and organic in her movement – her primary objective as an artist is to feel like a seal swimming through seaweed. She has spent the last 5 years traveling, teaching, and performing in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, and throughout Europe.
She currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and spends her spare time obsessed with collecting dead leaves and then having them tattooed on her body.
You can find Kalina’s Instagram page 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
This residency is now FULL.
Check out our Spring/Summer Residency here.
Tuition for Aerial Residency Mexico Course Program– January 16-April 10, 2021
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 October 1, 2020 | Full Price |
| Shared Room (2-3 people) in shared house | $5500 | $5800 |
| Private studio apartment | $8000 | $8300 |
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.
Extras:
- Spanish Classes – daily and weekly packages available
- Massage and Acupuncture – $25-$60/hour
- Various nature excursions – $20-$80
- Surfing – packages available
Professional Artist Residency
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.
This aerial residency program is limited to 10 participants.
This residency is now FULL.
Check out our Spring/Summer Residency here.
Upcoming Residency Programs 2021
- May-October, 2021
- Aerial Residency Teacher Training Program 2021
Links for more information
- Accommodations
- Meals and Food
- Travel info – our advice on booking your travel
- COVID Policy
- Testimonials
- Excursions
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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