airtime acrobatics
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About Airtime Acrobatics
Airtime Acrobatics is offering a 3-week long acrobatics program in October in Mannheim Germany.
We provide a circus school training structure which contains a mix of high-intensity, technical classes alongside creative and fun classes – to give everyone the chance to both work hard on their technique and discover their own style in the world of acrobatics. There is always space for free training with some teachers to help you individually.
Every day has multiple classes for different levels and interests which will orientate to the wishes of the participants. Every week contains around 37 hours of standing acrobatics, Icarian games, tumbling, handstands, strength and flexibility classes.Â
People talk a lot about safety and spotting … We will practice !!! There will be regular high level spotting – training and specific sessions, where you practice to train in a ‘high stakes ’ environment with the full focus of everyone.Â
The program is designed to help you in your process, no matter how long you are staying. Of course you will get the most out of it, if you stay for all four weeks. But we know this is not possible for everyone, so we designed the program so that there are progressions during a week and even greater progression during the whole program!
Tracks Overview
We offer multiple disciplines/tracks per week.
Each track is full time (you can’t switch between the tracks in a week) and follows the same daily schedule.
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Week 1
6. – 10. Oct
Week 2
13. – 17. Oct
Week 3
20. – 24. Oct
Track 1
Partner Acrobatics
Megan, Caitlin, Tom
Partner Acrobatics
Fer & Fifi, Caitlin & Tom
Partner Acrobatics
Fer & Fifi, Caitlin & Tom
Track 2
Dance Acro
Kat & Jared
Act Creation
Kat & Jared
Icarian
Acrolinks Jessica & Cuzio
Track 3
Handbalancing
Jules
Handbalancing
Toni
Floor Acrobatics
Winston
Track Description & Pre-Requisites
Here you find a detailed descriptions and pre-requisites of the different tracks, by the teachers.Â
You can only join one track per week,.Â
If you have questions, you can contact the teachers directly.Â
Partner Acrobatics
with Tom, Caitlin, Megan (week 1), Fer & Fifi (week 2 & 3)
Pre-Requisites: sign up only in duos, standing h2h & f2h
The program is designed for intermediate & advanced acrobats (please check the prerequisites).
Each round of classes will have different classes (intermediate, advanced, Icarians)
The students can pick between different classes depending on their level and their interests.Â
The program is designed to help you in your process, no matter how long you are staying. Of course you will get the most out of it, if you stay for all four weeks. But we know this is not possible for everyone, so we designed the program so that there are progressions during a week and even greater progression during the whole program!
Intermediate: (Pre-Reqs standing H2H & F2H 5 sec)
General Content:
- H2H and F2H basic trainingÂ
- Tricks in H2H and F2H (entrances, transitions, dismounts)
- Podshedshka, Pitching, tempos
- Courbet, Cascade & more in longe
- How to spot skills
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Advanced: (Podshedshka, Pitch to f2h, straight throws/jumps in h2h & f2h, Courbet & Cascade with lines or spotters)
General Content:
- cleaning up Podshedshka, Pitches and tempos
- taking tricks out of lines (courbet & cascade & more)
- advanced statics (one arms, high one foots)
- starting and improving saltos, handsprings and more
- how to spot dynamic skills
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Advanced +: (Courbet & Cascade without longe; and more)
General Content:
- cleaning up tempos, courbet & cascade
- saltos, handspring, flik, and more
- taking tricks out of linesÂ
- 1arm pirouettes, high knots and more
- how to spot dynamic skills
Icarian
with Acrolinks Jessica & Cuzio
Pre-Requisites: sign ups only in duos, courbet (rev) star to throne, cascade (rev) throne to star
in our week we will focus on refining the basic icarians to make them the most efficient possible, develop and improve the individual acrobatic abilities, increase the perception of the body (proprioception) during the acrobatic movements and clean up and master the higher level icarians, all of this seasoned with a good amount of conditioning.
Dance Acro
with: Kat & Jared
Pre-Requisites: sign up only in duos, High bird, 2-high, 30sec spotted handstand (base & flyer)
you will learn moves, quality of movement and concrete tools and pieces of choreography to combine your big h2h and partner acrobatics tricks into a flow and style that both looks and feels good for you and your partner.
We will get creative with your technical skills and pull from a lot of different movement disciplines (such as floor acrobatics, contemporary dance and partnering, floor work, partner dances like lindy hop and of course contemporary and traditional circus in all its diversity) to gain a wide range of beautiful transitional/moving partner acrobatics material.
Aimed for both people who are looking to create material for performances but also for the ones who want to just learn more cool moves and to have fun and find softness and variation in your technical h2h practice.
We will teach you parts of our own personal choreographies and acro dance style as well as give you tools and a structured approach to creating similar movement choreography from your own vocabulary of movement and skills.
Creation
with Kat & Jared
Pre-Requisites:Â you need have at least an idea and some material for an act or a show deadline and you need to send a short 1-2min video of your training or work in progress with your partner or trio to join.
we will teach you how to create a professional level contemporary circus act or show. Through a series of workshops we share techniques and processes that we consider most effective and useful when creating performances. If you already have an act you are working on or you have interest in creating one, this is the track for you.
You will work on your own act/performance with professional coaches and circus artists specialised in a huge range of partner acrobatics performance styles and creation tools. We will help you with both the acrobatic/technical and the creative side to make your existing act better or to create a new piece from an existing idea (or for an approaching deadline)! This week is not just about the h2h but mixing it with theatre/dance/storytelling. We will learn about how to hook your audience, to establish your theme, and to still be relatable even when we are doing amazing tricks and skills. You will learn how to better analyse and direct your own work. We will experiment with dramaturgic techniques and tasks as well as concrete steps and principals for creating interesting content / developing your existing show material further.
This track is perfect if you can’t hire a full-time director or go to a circus school for years but you want to start or already are performing.
Handbalancing
with Jules Kuehner
Pre-Requisites: free-standing handstand 30 sec. and 1 min Handstand chest to wall
This handstand track guarantees a full immersion into handstands by building and refining unbreakable foundations. The program includes a focus on handstand alignment, strong building blocks for one arm balance, consistent handstand presses,, as well as many different shapes (like figa, flags, hollowback,..). Elevate your practice with additional tools like tumbling, entries, sequences or using a variety of props. Added with flexibility work to unlock the full range of motion, implementing crucial counter training to build resilience and equip you with rehab strategies.
This program is meant to empower your handstand training physically and mentally, with great training structure and essential tools to lay the groundwork for progressing to the next level of mastery.
Topics of the Handstand Track:
– One arm technique, one arm shapes
– Sidebends, flags
– Alignment of all Basic shapes
– Figa
– Presses
– Hallowback
– Flexibility for handstands
– Conditioning
– Rehab/Prehab
– Strength training
Handbalancing
with Tony Panaro
Pre-Requisites: 1 min two arms handstand with closed legs and a good alignment of the body.
The main goal of this 5 days programme is to share with the participants an idea of a training method, in order to make them more conscious about the path and the details that are necessary to build and get more handstand vocabulary.
Few guidelines for this intensive will be: good balance is a consequence of a good and precise shape; good and solid basics build good and solid complex tricks and shapes; clean shapes and lines are not just a matter of esthetic but also a question of efficiency while hand balancing.
MAIN TOPICS
- Injuries prevention and conditioning
- 2 arms basics (ways up and down, legs movements and head isolation)
- Press and shoulders control
- Seven
- Shoulder extension and Mexicans
- One arm basics 4 positions (full, small straddle, straddle and tuck)
- Legs movements
- Torsion shapes and figa
- Flags
- 1 arm press
BONUS TOPICS
- Crocodile combos
- Switches
Microbatics
with Winston Reynolds
Pre-Requisites: tba
Team
The team consists of professional acrobats with many years of experience as both performers and teachers. They have much experience in taking tricks out of line, training towards goals – not only training strict technique, but adding creative work and transitions into tricks.
TomÂ
hand to hand & organizor
week 1 – 3Â
Tom is a dynamic circus artist and teacher whose acrobatic style blends technical precision with playful creativity, shaped by diverse influences from different top European coaches.
Caitlin Cook (Duo Die)
hand to hand
week 1 – 3
Caitlin has nearly 20 years of hand to hand experience that comes after competing in artistic gymnastics from an early age. Along with strength, she focuses on flyer’s spacial awareness and control in the air.Â
Megan Vaughan GriesbrechtÂ
hand to hand
week 1
Megan has been upside down since age three, first as an elite acrobatic gymnast and later as a hand-to-hand circus performer touring globally with Gravity and Other Myths. Now based in Berlin and studying Clinical Exercise Science, she combines 11 years of coaching experience with a passion for helping each student grow through personalized, biomechanics-informed training.
Fifi Rosenblatt
hand to hand
week 2 & 3
Fifi comes from a background of gymnastics, she has been teaching in the past few years, having her eyes on the flyer, looking for the right path, shape, rhythm and state of mind in every movement.
Fernando Melki
hand to handÂ
week 2 & 3
Fer has been a hand to hand base for more than 20 years and a teacher for more than 13 years.
For him acrobatics and aesthetics comes together, when combined with hard work. He keeps looking into different ways to build up your tricks, while going through a good clean technique.
Dane Heimann
hand to hand
week 2 & 3
Dane started life as a weightlifter but has been basing hand to hand for over 15 years. His attention to detail and progression makes him an ideal coach for breaking down the learning process, and making skills feel easy. Because in the end, all of us bases are lazy.
Kattariina van Earle
dance acro & creation
week 1 & 2
Jared van Earle
dance acro & creation
week 1 & 2
Jared (AUS) is a professional acrobat, dancer and circus performer based in Oulu, Finland. He has a brilliant way of combining clear structure, drills and creation tools with a broad set of movement material, being both a very physical and strong mover but also letting bodies tell stories through softness, whether he is being on stage as a performer or off-stage choreographing, directing, set and light-designing and teaching.
Jessica Pietribiasi
icarian
week 3
Graduate in motor science, gymnastics and parkour teacher from 2008 she taught at many events around the world.
Her passion is to create didactic paths to facilitate the understanding of the acrobatic movement.
Cuzio Trapattoni
icarian
week 3
Acroyoga teacher (vancityacro) since 2019. With the will of sharing his knowledge in the discipline, he taught weekly classes for years and lately to many different events around the world.Â
Starting his road being a parkour teacher he has a careful and precise vision of acrobatic movements.
Sebastian Friess
Icarian
week 1 – 3
Sebastian began his AcroYoga journey in 2015 as a self-starter. Drawn to the thrill and precision of Icarian, he dove deep into the world of pops. Since then, he’s trained and taught at intensive programs across Europe and shared his passion at Acro festivals worldwide. His teaching is rooted in keeping things safe, skillful, and fun.
Jules Kühner
Handbalancing
week 1
Jules is a handbalancer and handstand teacher at heart, both in Germany and around the world. Over the past 10 years, she has specialized in combining softness and strength by integrating functional movement, flexibility, Pilates, and various other movement practices into the art of handbalancing. She continuously educates herself on rehabilitation science and on creating sustainable training environments and education.
Tony Panaro
Handbalancing
week 2
After 11 years of artistic gymnastics and 5 years of professional circus education, first in Flic Scuola di Circo (Torino, Italy) and then in DOCH/SKH University of Dance and Circus (Stockholm, Sweden), Tony is now a professional circus artist, hand balancer and acrobat. He currently works in different projects, shows and companies around Europe such as: Fabbrica C, Circus Cirkör, Right Way Down and Bulldogs Duo (together with Elaine Briant). He also teaches hand balancing internationally.
Winston Reynolds
Microbatics/Acro Dance
week 3
is a movement artist and educator specializing in acrobatics, partnering, and physical research. With a background in physical theatre and circus, and having studied at Circomedia and ACAPA, Winston’s approach merges technical refinement with inner awareness. He currently teaches and performs internationally and is a core contributor to the collective ferus animi // terra nova
Paul KilianÂ
food & happiness
week 1 – 3
Hey ! My name is Paul, I am a professional chef cooking with more than 8 years experience specialized in retreats & sports events and now happy to cook for you at Airtime. Over the years Acromania became one of my favorite events and I am proud to say over the years no acrobat had to go to bed hungry. Good Food for good People !
Next to the physical part. It is important to us to also share our experience in dealing with injuries and how to deal with bad days. We’ll help you design your own training to achieve the goals you set – sharing knowledge of strength training, recovery and mindset.
Schedule
Training days are:
Monday – Friday
8:30 – 17:30
Lunch & more
If 8 hours of hard training force you to consume food, we have you covered!
Paul is the mvp of Acromania since 5 years! He is a trained chef, with more than 10 years experience, specialized in cheffing retreats, coachings & sports events.
He will provide you with a breakfast protein-smoothie in the morning, and a delicious healthy nutritious lunch.
What to Expect:
- 100% vegetarian & vegan menu
- Colorful, fresh and seasonal ingredients
- Globally inspired recipes – never boring, always
energizing and ever-changing variety of dishes - Packed with plant-based proteins, complex carbs,
and healthy fats - Crafted with culinary expertise and sports nutrition
in mind - Carefully crafted with attention to food allergies and
intolerances - Clear labeling and ingredient transparency for your
safety and comfort
You can add it to your booking for 60 € per week.
Registration & Prices
If you are looking for a partner (mandatory for all acrobatic tracks), you can sign up in this google form, and contact people if they want to team up with you:
If you sign up, you will get a regular email update in which we share the provided contacts so you can contact or get contacted by acrobats.
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!Returning students get 10 % off the ticket price!
 |  | early bird | regular |
three weeks |  | 410 € per week (1230 € total) | 455 € per week (1370 € total) |
two weeks |  | 435 € per week (875 € total) | 485 € per week (975 € total) |
one week |  | 465 € | 515 € |
Social Pricing: We try to make this acrobatic program accessible to everyone, who wants to join, regardless of their economic background. If you are able to pay more, you contribute to the social pricing system and help others to afford the program.
– 100+ %: you can donate to support others
– 100 %: normal ticket price
– Social price: you can use the promo codes „social10“ or „social20“ to get a discount on your ticket.