Welcome to Best Bets, a weekly column in which The Oregonian's arts desk separates the wheat from the chaff of upcoming theater, classical music and dance performances and visual arts events. Here are ...

For aerial arts enthusiasts — spectators and practitioners alike — the local scene is soaring, from a festival this month to classes for all skill levels. ”There’s a rush — and a fear,” says aerial ...

You see aerial dance in circuses and burlesque shows, at gymnastics meets and even on the formal dance stage — but it wasn’t always so. And as Nancy Smith of Boulder’s Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance ...

AscenDance is Gainesville’s professional performing company of aerial dance and circus acrobatics. The company, which is directed by founder Corey Souza, gives three performances this month. First, ...

No one at the nineteenth International Aerial Dance Festival seems to be afraid of heights. At Frequent Flyers’ Boulder studio, dancers dangle from an arm wrapped in swaths of fabric or hang upside ...

After its launch last semester, AZ Pole and Aerial, the first club of its kind at the University of Arizona, is returning for its first fall semester on campus. Before you envision effortless showroom ...

What: Aerial Dance Festival 2011, produced by the local nonprofit aerial dance theater company, Frequent Flyers. Includes classes, lectures, demonstrations ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The first rule of Project Bandaloop: Anything can be a dance floor. From sheer rock faces to glassy skyscrapers to craggy cliffs, there are no boundaries.

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