Aerial Choreography
&
Performance Retreat
New Year 2021 in Mexico
Aerial Silks & Hoop
Dec 27, 2020 -Jan 3, 2021
Bring in the new year with a BANG!
Learn exciting aerial choreography & performance skills that will knock their socks off!
a WEEK in beautiful Mexico in this Aerial Choreography & Performance Retreat with world class teachers, Kerri Kresinski and guests, new friends, the beach, delicious food, and loads of fun!
Choreography
You will learn interesting sequences of choreography that you will perfect throughout the week and then take home with you. The choreography will be challenging and have many opportunities to apply dynamic transitions. There will be modifications for varying skill levels so that everyone succeeds and feels confident in the choreography. Get more fluid and confident with choreography, and learn to dance in the air!
World class teachers, Kerri Kresinski and guests, will teach you secrets of the trade to transform the choreography into the most dynamic sequences to amaze your followers. Strong focus will be put on creating a supportive group dynamic so our best Super Stars can shine!
Choreography will be taught on silks and hoop. You do not have to be proficient on all 3 apparatuses. There will be options for varying skill levels. Everyone will be challenged and everyone will thrive!
Spectacle Performance
Circus is meant to be awe inspiring…to give the ‘WOW’ factor to the audience. Whether we want to be cheesy, deeply artistic, emotional, tell a story, or just entertain, learning HOW to perform is key to making creative choices. From burlesque to the big top to intimate theatrical settings to telling your story, learn techniques that create your most powerful performance.
In this retreat we will explore performance techniques that will give you more confidence to open up and become bigger than your physical body and to make a memorable performance. Learn how to create a meaningful and sometimes magical connection with the audience and yourself. Work with nuances, transitions, and dynamic movements to make any skill look breathtaking.
This is a body positive retreat! EveryBODY is welcome.
Whether you want to perform for big audiences, student showcases, or just for your instagram followers, this retreat will give you the tools to rock their socks off!
This retreat ends with a public performance and includes photos and videos.
Kerri has a fun, warm spirit, with a playful master of her craft. I literally feel that this workshop changed my life and released some artistic blocks.
Sarah Webb Boston, Massachusetts 2017
Kerri’s personality and teaching expertise made it all very natural, and enjoyable. There are teachers that stick with you all your life and that you hope to cross paths with again. Kerri Kresinski is one of these people.
Prerequisites
Intermediate level and above welcome! You must be able to safely and easily execute basic skills and be able stay in the air for 3-5 minutes. Basic moves are welcome as long as you can do them easily.
All Humans Welcome
We encourage humans of all shapes, ages, genders, sexual orientations, colors, nationalities, walks of life, and belief systems to join us. When we truly let ourselves be witnessed, we invite others to shine as well.
Sample of daily schedule
(choose as many or few classes/activities as you like)
8-9:30am Coffee, Tea and Breakfast
9:30-12:30pm Aerial Choreography
1pm Lunch
1:30-4pm Pool-time, relaxing
4-5:30pm Performance workshop (or open practice)
5:30-6:30pm Beach Play and Sunset
6:30pm Dinner
8-9:30pm Performance workshop (on days we have open practice in the afternoon)
We will also have time to relax, explore the local beaches, have adventures, and release baby turtles into the sea!
“Kerri’s 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.
Classes/Skills include
Learning Choreography
Learning & Creating Transitions
Musicality
Performance Skills
Character & Story
Dynamics
Entertainment vs Artistry
Connection with the Audience
Are you ready to rock your socks off?
Space is limited. Sign up now!
About your teacher
Kerri Kresinski has been performing and teaching acrobatics, yoga, dance, and aerial arts for over 20 years throughout the world. Her life’s work, as an artist and a leader, has been to develop and deepen her study of the body—physically, emotionally and spiritually. She’s started studying dance and theater at age 3 and never stopped. She has learned that anything is possible with patience, discipline and a positive attitude. Kerri expresses her passion and spirit through movement, and feels that the body is the gateway to the higher powers for healing, transformation and expression. She is truly a unique performer, engaging, thrilling, and moving audiences with her skills, style, and heart. Kerri approaches teaching from a body positive perspective, and always offers new ways to challenge and encourage everyBODY to find their way to achieve their goals. She thinks outside the box and finds solutions to most any problem. Kerri excels at teaching technique, theory, strength and flexibility training, choreography creativity, and developing personal style.
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– including my journey with aerials. Kerri is skilled and optimistic, is genuinely there for you, and 100% rooting for you to “get that thing” and if you’re not there yet, can show you what needs to be done to get you to progress. 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 at Sweet Retreats was a workshop on many levels, and not just in the air.
Elizabeth Ferretti, April 2019
Rates for Aerial Choreography & Performance Retreat
Rates are listed in USD.
$500 deposit is required to secure your spot.
| Room | Early Bird Price until Sept 1, 2020 | Full Price |
| Dorm (2-4 people) | $1800 | $2100 |
| Single Occupancy w shared bathroom | $2000 | $2300 |
| Single Occupancy w shared bathroom – PLUS | $2200 | $2500 |
| Single Occupancy w private bathroom | $2300 | $2600 |
Rates refer to cost of one person’s tuition. Couples must sign up together.
Prices for Aerial Choreography & Performance Retreat include:
- Ground transportation to/from the Puerto Escondido Airport (PXM) to our accommodations*
- Accommodations for the duration of the retreat
- Daily meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner, & snacks/smoothies!
- 1 Dinner out at our favorite local restaurant
- 2 Daily classes (6 hours total/day)
- 2 Photo shoots – Beach and Aerial
- Evening Activities
- Day trip to a local beach, turtle release, dinner out, and night market!
- 24 hour use of Swimming Pool, wi-fi, and Community Space
- End of the week Party / Performance
- Impromptu dance parties, pool parties, sunset cocktails (21+), and hanging out with new friends.
- Homemade chocolates, popsicles, and other treats
Extra Excursions:
- Evening trip to Bioluminescence Lagoon
- Zipline and Waterfall Adventure
- Dolphin Boat Ride
- Surfing
Aerial Choreography & Performance Retreat is limited to 10 participants.
For information about booking your travel to Puerto Escondido, click here.
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
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