FAQs

Aerial silks is a circus and gymnastics art where you’re suspended in the air by two lengths of fabric rigged from a high point. Your body wraps and knots around the fabric whilst striking incredible positions and drops.
Our classes are available to all sizes,
abilities and ages, you can never be too old to join us in the air.

Although aerial silks can be easier if you have previous upper body strength or fitness training it is not a necessity! We start our students off with the complete basics when joining our beginner silks or aerial silks foundation course.

Aerial Hoop is also air based but you are suspended in a steel circle rather than fabric. You’ll spin, roll and drop in a captivating dance, moving through a range of glamorous positions.  

Hoop is a good place to start as a beginner into aerial, as once you’re up and in the hoop you can stay there! It attracts many dancers, polers and bendy people who love making beautiful splits, and back bend shapes in the hoop. You’ll also see some of our most advanced aerialists performing hoop in our showcase so there is always plenty of room for development! 

Not only do we build physical gains in this class we also focus on boosting self confidence, achieving personal goals, and giving yourself that time to breathe, away from a hectic work or home life.

NOPE! We get asked this question a lot and although previous dance, gymnastic or weight training can help progress your training in aerial it is 100% not a necessity! We have plenty of aerialist who join with absolutely NO experience who end up performing solo routines at our yearly showcases. We guide our students with the complete beginner foundations. If you have never tried aerial before we advise you book onto our beginner or foundation courses.

We group classes roughly by age: Kids 6 – 7, Juniors 8 – 10,  Teens 11 – 14, and Adults. We allow 14+ to attend our adult classes. Within each age bracket, we run beginner and intermediate classes. But we’re all different, so if you think your child would do better in an older or younger class, that’s fine.  

If you’re an adult with no previous experience of aerial training, come along to a beginner’s class and see how you do! Once you’re ready to climb the silks unsupported – and then go upside down – you’re ready for an intermediate class.

Kids, Juniors and Teen Classes:
1 child – £40 a month
2 children – £76 a month
We get parents to set up a standing order of £40 a month. This is a pro-rata amount which is taken every month of the year and covers their place in class until they want to leave. We found this easier than running courses as parents now just set up one recurring payment when signing up and then don’t have any more admin! We run classes alongside school terming and have school holidays off from classes. Notice period: if a child would like to leave a class you must let us know at least 2 weeks prior to the half term break. We ask students to commit to a half term at a time, so we don’t have disruptions in classes with new sign ups midterm.

Adult Courses:
We run 6 week courses which cost £65. We tend to have breaks in half terms and we run drop in sessions, workshops and intensives during the 6 week summer holiday instead of our block courses. This is because we know a lot of our students can’t commit to a 6 week course during the summer period. When signing up to a course you are paying for ALL 6 sessions, if you can’t attend a session due to illness, holidays or any other reason you will still have to pay for the session. If we have notice of 2 weeks we may be able to find you a catch up class in another class at the studio although this is dependent on class capacity.

Yes we do! We charge £40 for a 1:1 and £45 for a 2:1 session. We also offer group private sessions. Drop us an email on our contact form if you want more information or would like to book.

Comfortable gym/dance wear. We recommend leggings or jogging bottoms and a sports top, or leotard and tights. Covering your legs and stomachs help prevent friction burns and bruises. We will ask for all jewelry to be removed before a class to protect the equipment and for your own safety, this includes; smart watches, fit bits, rings etc.

We are based on Street High Street, next to WHSmith. You’ll see the white door to the Crispin Hall. If the front door is shut please ring our doorbell on the left-hand side and a teacher will be down to let you in. You’ll have the florist & cafe on the first floor. Go up the 3 x sets of stairs and we will be on the left; there should be plenty of signage to help direct you.
Parking: Southside Car Park (this is 2 minutes walk from the studio and free after 6pm), Cranhill Road Car Park, Goswell Road (2 hours), or Clarks Car Park.

Please see our timetable here

We have a maximum of 12 students per class. This means you will only be sharing with a maximum of one other person during a 1 hour class. There will be many occasions where you will be able to have your own piece of equipment for the full hour when the classes are not full.

Although we predominantly run aerial silks and aerial hoop classes on a regular basis we also run the occasional course in dance, trapeze, aerial rope, handstands, yoga, circus and more. These courses tend to be special one off short courses with either our Cirque de Silk teacher team or guest teachers.

We also run regular workshops and short intensives for our students during the holiday breaks.

Yes! We run holiday clubs in October half term, Easter half term and the Summer Holidays.
Tuesday – Thursday 3 days for October half-term 2025
Tuesday – Thursday 3 days x 2 weeks for Easter 2025
Monday – Friday 5 days for Summer School
October & Easter £120 for 3 day
Summer School £45 a day or £200 for a week, 2 x siblings for a week £380

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