airtime acrobatics
more teachers, more tracks, and food 🙂
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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.
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.
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!
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.
Tom
hand to hand & organizor
week 1 – 3
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.
Megan Vaughan Griesbrecht
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 hand
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 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 Sofia
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.
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.
Paul Kilian
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.
Tracks & Pre-Requisites
Week 1
6. – 10. Oct
Week 2
13. – 17. Oct
Week 3
20. – 24. Oct
Track 1
Hand to Hand
Hand to Hand
Hand to Hand
Track 2
Dance Acro
Contemporary Creation
Icarian
Track 3
to be announced
to be announced
to be announced
Schedule
Food
If 8 hours of hard training force you to consume food, we have you covered!
For a small fee, you can book:
– a delicious protein smoothy in the morning
– a fresh, healthy, nutritious lunch
provided by the one and only Paul (the hero behind Acromania)
Registration & Prices
We only accept sign-ups as duos or as groups, so we are sure everyone has a partner to train with and we have enough spotters to keep each other safe.
If you are looking for a partner, you can sign up in this Drive sheet, and contact people if they want to team up with you:
DRIVE SHEET coming soon!!!
We cannot guarantee that you will be able to always train at your level if you don’t come with a fixed partner or group.