In-Flight Theater

Aerial Classes

FLYING OVER 40
An Aerial Class For Women 40 and Beyond
7-9pm, 4 Mondays Nov 9,16,23,30
$175 All levels welcome (really)
Spin, float, fly, and glide on low flying trapezes and invented aerial objects as vehicles to explore female communication, physical expression, and a GREAT work out!! Class will focus on ways in which we can partner with gravity in order to create a fuller connection to physical play both on and off the ground. Sessions will be taught in an atmosphere of safety and respect as we explore balance, risk, and the flying feminine over 40! Class will be augmented by a rigorous conditioning component and discussion.

For all class registration contact
mara.inflighttheater@gmail.com
www.in-flighttheater.com
www.loadoffun.net

In-Flight Theater/Instructor Mara Neimanis creates theater in the air using trapeze and invented aerial apparatus that include floating sculptures and incongruous large objects. Her work integrates circus arts with physical acting to create stories, text, and characters set in multi-dimensional landscapes. Mara is interested in using acting and aerialism in nontraditional ways in order to cross personal boundaries and limitations

Aerial Theater
7-9pm 4 Tuesdays Nov 10,17 & Dec 1,8
$175 All levels welcome
Class will focus on learning aerial technique in creating physical images off the ground using low flying trapeze and invented aerial objects. We will experiment with risk, height, gravity, and balance in order to produce a richly imaginative physical language and three-dimensional communication. Suggested for anyone who has an imagination and a body. Class will include a rigorous conditioning component. A GREAT work out!!!

Family Flight
A flying workshop for kids & parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents too!
11:30-1:00pm 3 Saturdays Nov 7,14,21 $115 adults,$112 per child
Everyone will have fun in this special workshop where kids and parents fly together! Using low flying trapeze and swinging steel objects, family flight will feature family partner work, aerial improvisation and circus skills for everyone. Is family the same thing as gravity? Come find out in this safe, fun, and creative way to communicate and fly!

Guest Artist Residencies and Commissions

In Flight Theater residencies are designed for any performance group, educational institution, or community. Classes foster the spirit of the performer and three dimensional communication skills. Students receive rigorous training for investigating acting choices, risk, and the process of creating. Classes include how to use gravity to a new advantage on mounted or low flying aerial apparatus as well as principles in physical theatre to develop and integrate kinesthetic awareness, presence, and physical craft. All residencies can be tied to performances of Air Heart, The Snow Queen, or Out Of The Blue.

2008-2009
-Guest instructor/ performer Air Heart Rhodes College, Memphis TN,
-Guest Director/Instructor/Playwright Stevenson University Theatre and Sociology Dept, Aerial project about Social Issues and Economic Recession, Stevenson, MD
-Created, produced The Snow Queen, commissioned by Quest Arts,
-Guest Artist with cast of The Snow Queen, Gallaudet University, Washington DC December 2008
-Guest Instructor, Maryland College Institute Of Art animation department, teaching physical acting to animators

2004-2007
Resident artist with The Creative Alliance Residency Program

2004 Guest Speaker and Performer University of Toronto Graduate Theatre Program

2005 Guest artist in Aerial Theatre, University of Missouri at Springfield

2003 Guest Artist and Instructor, International Global Theatre, Riga, Latvia Presented Out Of The Blue solo aerial performanc

2000 Guest Instructor and Director University of Missouri in Kansas City Graduate Department

2000 Guest Instructor for Cal Arts Graduate Department for Directing Film and Video

"Mara has a knack for precision and clarity. These are invaluable things when teaching a student such a highly technical medium as arial performance; they were for me, at any rate. This made me feel really safe when learning in a field entirely new to me, which allowed me to have some real fun. In that way, I think it really helped the performance come alive - I think the audience can really tell when an actor is struggling, and I didn't have to worry about that. I knew it was handled, and in a good way."

-Skyler, student

Load Of Fun Studio, 120 North Ave, Baltimore MD
Tel 410 800 8685
mara.inflighttheater@gmail.com
2006 West Rogers Ave, Baltimore MD 21209