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Versatile Arts

Name: Versatile Arts
Address: 7601 Greenwood Avenue N Ste 103, Seattle, WA, 98103, US
Telephone: +18668875256
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04/16/2024

Help us keep the BIPOC scholarship program going!

Our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, is distributing $1,000 to 20 different projects for their annual Spring Match campaign. Every donation that you make to the fund between Monday, April 15 and Friday, April 19 equals one extra chance for us to receive the $1k, so we're here to ask for your support! Even $5 counts!

Click on the link below to make a donation of any amount to improve our odds, and be sure to share our fundraiser far and wide—every donation counts!

https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/bipoc-circus-artist-financial-aid

12/18/2023

As the sun sets on Versatile Arts….a New Moon rises. 🌙

Join us as we ring in the new year with a new name! At the stroke of midnight, Versatile Arts becomes New Moon Movement Arts, and Bev passes the torch to Jen Ryan. It will be a night to celebrate the community we’ve built over the past 17 years, and toast the future and all it will bring. And of course there will be performances! And dancing! And a photo booth!

Tickets and info available here: https://www.versatilearts.net/events/new-moon-rising-a-nye-soiree/

12/01/2023

Join us for an enchanting evening filled with aerial artistry and nostalgic wonder as we present “Retro-spectacle,” a mesmerizing student showcase that pays homage to the rich history of VA’s productions. 💜🎪💜

This spectacular event is not just a show; it’s a stroll down memory lane, a celebration of the incredible journey that has defined our studio’s legacy.

📅 Date: December 16, 2023
🕕 Time: 4 pm & 7:30 pm
📍 Venue: Versatile Arts, 7601 Greenwood Ave N UNIT 103, Seattle, WA 98103

Tickets and info available here:
https://www.versatilearts.net/events/retro-spectacle-a-stroll-down-memory-lane/

11/15/2023

By supporting the Versatile Arts BIPOC Scholarship, you're paving the way for more voices to be heard, more stories to be told, and more faces to see themselves in the magic of the circus.

We believe that circus can be transformative. As aerial educators, we are grateful to have the opportunity to witness people achieve difficult skills all the time. There's something empowering about working hard towards a skill surrounded by the camaraderie and cheers of your classmates. Aerial is a rewarding outlet for both artistry and athleticism, and we want to help make that available to more of the folks that have been historically excluded.

Donations are tax deductible and eligible for employer match. Link in bio to donate!

Oh and applications are still open for the Jan-June 2024 term!

10/16/2023

Applications for the January - June 2024 BIPOC scholarship program are now open!

We recognize that the persistent inequities pervasive in American society have made access to circus training inherently difficult for members of historically marginalized groups, particularly Black, Indigenous, People of Color. Our studio is located in a predominantly white, affluent neighborhood of Seattle, further exacerbating this issue and limiting entry to folks outside of that group.

We believe wholeheartedly in the transformative benefits of circus as an art form, physical practice, and community. This scholarship aims to make circus training available to those who have been historically excluded, and to benefit VA as a whole by addressing a lack of diversity in our community.

Applications will be accepted through November 20th, 2023 🎪♥️
Apply Here: https://forms.gle/uu3435UpwR5F7BWg7

10/10/2023

Versatile Arts is celebrating Spooky Season with a goth themed Soiree. Our soirees are parties with performances, and this one is sure to fright and delight!

Only $10 cover! Costumes encouraged! (But you’ll still need to take your shoes off.)

This event is BYOB. You are welcome to bring [adult] beverages, but glass is not allowed upstairs. We strongly recommend cans or single-serving drinks. If you bring something larger, please do not leave any open bottles around.

Note: This is an adult event, and also a Halloween event. There will be loud music, coarse and crude lyrics, and possible stage blood. There will also be projected horror films.

Tickets available here: https://www.versatilearts.net/events/what-we-do-in-the-circus-a-goth-soiree/

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08/09/2023

✨ Jen Ryan - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

Before discovering circus, Jen (she/her) was a soul divided- an artsy weirdo with a passion for athletics. She worked at a rock climbing gym to support herself through art school and ran marathons when she wasn’t teaching art to teenagers. Then, one day, Jen saw a circus performance at a science-fiction convention and her two worlds collided. “Omg!” she thought, “You can be artistic and athletic at the same time!” She was dazzled by the efficiency of this prospect. Serendipitously, a circus school opened in Boston shortly thereafter.

Since that time, Jen has moved from east coast to west coast and up to the PNW, with some international stints in between. She seizes every opportunity to train wherever she goes, picking up new styles, approaches, and theories. Jen tries to impress upon her students that circus is the place where you can have it all- strength, beauty, creativity, discipline, and all the weirdness you can imagine.

See the full schedule and register here:
https://www.versatilearts.net/training/workshop-events/2023-workshop-week/

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08/07/2023

✨ Kyla Helgeland Alexander - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

Kyla Helgeland Alexander (she/her) grew up here in Western Washington. She has been teaching in some fashion since she was 14: piano & vocal lessons, as a preceptor for student midwives, and more recently as a functional strength coach and CPR/First Aid instructor. Her experience as a midwife and as the mother of 3 children led to a particular interest in core function and how it affects the way the rest of the body moves. This has proven useful in her circus training, and she has a particular interest in helping people build functional strength in order to move their bodies safely. Kyla loves training rope, and practices partner acro with her husband as well as dabbling in other circus arts.

In addition to aerial teacher trainings & extensive personal training education, she is a Pregnancy & Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist and a Low Pressure Fitness Certified Trainer.

See the full schedule and register through the link in our bio!

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08/04/2023

✨ Terry Crane - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

Terry Crane has been practicing vertical rope since 2001, and performing and teaching rope for over 10 years. He has taught workshops at the Fratellini Academy, FLIC Scuola in Torino, and all across the United States in various circus schools and studios. He is a respected leader in dynamic rope technique and convoluted knotwork on this apparatus.

A growing number of his students have gone on to be accepted at the National Circus School of Montréal, where he also graduated in 2006. He regularly performs his own fiercely unique style of rope at Teatro Zinzanni Seattle and with his circus company, Acrobatic Conundrum

See the full schedule and register here:
https://www.versatilearts.net/training/workshop-events/2023-workshop-week/

08/03/2023

✨ Kim Zmolek - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

Kim Zmolek (she/her) stepped off the ground in 2012 and has never looked back. With a background in Pilates, she brings her knowledge of body mechanics and movement pathways to her teaching, helping students to find success in their aerial endeavors. Her classes emphasize theory and technique, grounding students in proper mechanics while also teaching artistry and creative choreography.

She offers keys to unlocking what can feel impossible and provides students with tools to build consistency and reliability in their aerial skills. Specializing in silks, rope, and sling, Kim is a sought after instructor having worked for VA, Apex Aerial Arts, Arcadia and the Bellingham Circus Guild. For more about Kim’s work, please see www.armbreakeraerial.com.

See the full schedule and register here:
https://www.versatilearts.net/training/workshop-events/2023-workshop-week/

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07/31/2023

✨ Valentina Zackrone - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

Valentina Zackrone is a life long performer, choreographer, award-winning educator and coach. Most recently she won a gold medal at 2020 Крылья/ Wings International Aerial Festival for her innovative tension chains act. She holds a master’s degree in teaching/ education and 4 coaching certifications, including coaching for breakthrough (a methodology for achieving results you never thought possible). She performed on stages big and small all over the world, from Bernard Shaw theater in London, UK and White Nights festival in St. Petersburg, Russia to Emerald City Trapeze Arts in Seattle and at sea aboard Windstar Cruises. She specializes in aerial chains, rope and hammock and enjoys infusing her aerial style with a touch of ballroom flare.

See the full schedule and register here:
https://www.versatilearts.net/training/workshop-events/2023-workshop-week/

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07/28/2023

✨ Lauren Kehl - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

Lauren Kehl is an aerial coach, Pilates instructor, and personal trainer based in Seattle, WA who has been coaching for over 10 years. Starting her aerial journey as a recreational adult at age 28, Lauren has a particular gift for working with adult beginners and students who struggle, and strives to teach in a way that is accessible and inclusive.Lauren attended the Intensive year at NECCA in 2011 before deciding to pursue coaching full time. Since then, she has helped to expand and develop the curriculum at Versatile Arts, her home studio, and is one half of the teacher training team there. She has led workshops at AYCOfest, the American Circus Educators conference, and NECCA’s workshop weekend. You can learn more about Lauren at laurenkehl.com.

See the full schedule and register here:
https://www.versatilearts.net/training/workshop-events/2023-workshop-week/

07/26/2023

✨ Leah Jones - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

Leah Jones (she/her) passion for dance and choreography began in her childhood home, where her living room was her rehearsal (and performance) space and where her parents were her willing audience. While the living room, and parents, admittedly made for a pretty good set up, Leah eventually saw the need to explore dance outside of her immediate confines; she proceeded to spend the next five years training ballet in Oregon Ballet Theater’s pre-professional program. This comprehensive foundation in ballet ended up being extremely useful when, a few years after deciding that a life in ballet wasn’t quite the right fit, she discovered Aerial Straps.

Straps provided the combination of physical rigor, requisite discipline, and creative demand that Leah had always craved. It was truly love at first sight and has now been an all-consuming fixation for the past decade. Straps has taken Leah to circus schools up and down the West Coast to train and to coach; to Montreal, where she received her most formative training with Cirque du Soleil straps specialist Chloé Farah; to local stages with companies such as the Acrobatic Conundrum; and to national and international contracts as far away as Macau, China.
Leah is currently based in Seattle, Washington, where her bread and butter is coaching straps, training, choreographing, and collaborating with other artists.

See the full schedule and register here:
https://www.versatilearts.net/training/workshop-events/2023-workshop-week/

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07/24/2023

✨ Dream Frohe - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

Dream Frohe is an aerialist with a passion for thoughtful and dynamic movement. Renowned for her fresh style, flowing choreography and precise technical skill, she brings a strong foundation and unique movement quality to her work as a performer, instructor and choreographer.
Using her background as a gymnast, and wealth of experience in aerial dance other art forms, she offers a focus on unusual movement pathways as well as building a solid base of strength and technique. She has been teaching and performing aerial arts at home and abroad, for more than 10 years and is a founding member of the Bellingham Circus Guild, where she currently teaches and trains.

See the full schedule and register here:
https://www.versatilearts.net/training/workshop-events/2023-workshop-week/

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07/22/2023

✨ Charlie Faraday - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

Charlie Faraday is an acrobat currently in the Cirque du Soleil and Marvel Universe Live casting databases. She won Best Artistic Performance at the 2012 Denver Aerial Acrobatic Arts Festival, has performed for Disney, Quixotic, Emerald City Trapeze, Cirquetacular Entertainment, Airealistic, and the Culpepper And Merriweather Circus. She has been featured on AMC’s Showville, America’s Got Talent, and ABC7 Los Angeles. Charlie has been a well-respected industry veteran for over 15 years and is the author of Vertical Apparatus Drop Theory, the first comprehensive textbook on advanced drop skills in aerial arts. She routinely tours across the United States and Canada to offer training to coaches and students on the methods she has developed in aerial acrobatics.

In addition to circus arts, Charlie and husband Celestino own and operate the live variety entertainment production company Darker Marker Productions, and spice company The Sweatshop Pepper Farm.

On the ground, Charlie is a staff member at Des Moines Danzarts Studio, where she teaches Strength And Flexibility, which uses the training methodologies she has developed for circus students to help dancers improve their skills in an efficient, body aware way. She also teaches all levels of Hip Hop where she enjoys introducing students to different hip hop subgenres, and often makes custom music for her classes with her musician husband.

See the full schedule and register here:
https://www.versatilearts.net/training/workshop-events/2023-workshop-week/

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07/20/2023

✨ Peter Amelia - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

Peter Amelia (they/them) is a flexibility/contortion coach at Versatile Arts. They specialize in performing Single Point Trapeze and Contortion. They love teaching people who can’t touch their toes all the way to people whose toes touch their head. Peter has worked with a number of contortion coaches from around the world and has found themselves to be most successful as both a coach and a performer in the Mongolian style of conditioning and contortion. When not at the studio and reaching their head to their butt they are at home playing with and training a menagerie of goats, birds, and reptiles! Expect to hear the catch phrase “Chins up, we are Proud, Beautiful and Happy to be here!”

See the full schedule and register here:
https://www.versatilearts.net/training/workshop-events/2023-workshop-week/

Photo by Baby Claypool
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07/18/2023

✨ Tsengelmaa Byambadorj - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

Tsengelmaa Byambadorj was born and raised in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia. When she was 9 years old she was selected for the Mongolian National Circus contortion program and trained with world famous contortionist, coach Norovsambuu Begzsuren. After training and performing with the Mongolian National Circus, in 1995 she moved to Germany and continued to perform with venues all over the world including Friedtichstadtpalast Berlin, Lido de Paris, Monte Carlo Circus festival, Le Cirque de Demain, Music Hall festival, Bollywood movie festival in Bombay, Sheraton Walker Hill in Korea, Harris resort in Lake Tahoe, Wintergarten variety, Apollo variety etc… She has experience performing and creating solo, duo, trio and group contortion acts. She performed in Duo Battseren, Arabesque, Aliens, Aphrodite, Comedy, Under the water and Fantasy and had over a 20 year career in Europe and Asia. Tsengelmaa moved to United States 2006 to work with Cirque Le Maske and to perform and coach with Pendulum Ariel Arts. While she officially retired performing 2013, she has over 26 years of performing experience and 13 years of coaching experience.

Tsengelmaa teaches beginner level, intermediate level, advanced level, master level and Choreography and Act Creation. Her focus is in teaching proper warm-up, breathing, technique, and transition to tricks.

See the full schedule and register here: https://www.versatilearts.net/training/workshop-events/2023-workshop-week/
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07/15/2023

✨ Jenn Bruyer - Instructor Spotlight - 2023 Workshop Week ✨

After 18 years of living in Seattle WA Jenn (she/her) now enjoys the ranch life in the beautiful Kootenay Boundary area of British Columbia where she lives with her partner, horses, dogs, goats, ducks, and chickens. She is a multidisciplinary performance artist, choreographer, and coach. She has entertained audiences and guided students around the world including over 30 US states, China, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, and Mexico since 2008.

As an Aerial Coach and avid learner herself, she seeks to provide the highest quality instruction to aerialists of all abilities from novice to professional performer through a constantly evolving toolkit.

See the full schedule and register here:
https://www.versatilearts.net/training/workshop-events/2023-workshop-week/

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Address

7601 Greenwood Avenue N Ste 103
Seattle, WA
98103

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Monday	8am - 9pm
Tuesday	8am - 9pm
Wednesday	8am - 9pm
Thursday	8am - 9pm
Friday	8am - 9pm
Saturday	10am - 2pm
Sunday	11am - 8pm

Telephone

+18668875256

Website

http://www.versatilearts.net/

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🚨✨ Workshop Alert ✨🚨 Camille Swift (a.k.a, @femme_fenix ) will be bringing TWO workshops to VA next week: -Tactical Technique on Trapeze on 4/7 -“No Frills” Skills & Drills on sling on 4/8 Camille is a professional aerialist from Chicago with 11 years of training and practice in static trapeze, dance trapeze, and aerial sling. She has performed and taught in France and throughout the United States. Her classes and workshops focus on dynamic movement in the aerial arts, building strength and honing technique for maximum efficiency and ease in the air, performance with power and precision. Register via VAMP or through the link in bio 🎪♥️ #femmefenix #aerialsling #trapeze #dynamics #dynamicaerial #circus #versatilearts #seattlecircus #circusschool #circuseducation

🚨✨Workshop Alert ✨🚨 Adam Wooley ( @proud_coach ) will be gracing us with a series of workshops this month. Check them out and register through your VAMP account, or the link in our bio 😊🎪❤️

Workshop Reminder 🚨• @proudcoach will be gracing us with 6 workshops this coming weekend! Not the least of which is Advanced Rope: Half Releases. Check out Adam’s student, @alexandra_feit showing us an epic pirouette at @circadiumschool 🙉 Register through the link in our bio or your VAMP account ❣️🎪 #seattlecircus #circusarts #cordelisse #pirouette #aerialist #aerialrope #contortion #flex #circuseverydamnday #versatilearts #circusschool

✨🚨Guest Coach Alert 🚨 ✨ @proud_coach will be joining us from Sep. 30th through Oct. 4th offering private lessons and 6 different workshops! Workshops include int-adv fabric & rope, flex, contortion, and handstands! Adam Woolley has been coaching circus for the past fifteen years. He has served as the Safety Committee Chair for the American Circus Educators Association, has coached professionals around the country, and has produced five international circus showcases during his time living in NYC. He has worked tirelessly as an advocate for circus arts, presenting at and helping to organize events for the Smithsonian Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP). Since 2015 he has been growing circus in Philadelphia – as a coach, as Programs Director for Philadelphia School of Circus Arts and as Creative Outreach Director for Circadium. You definitely don’t want to miss this - Register via the link in bio or through your VAMP account ❤️ #versatilearts #proudcoach #adamwoolley #circusarts #contortion #cordelisse #aerialsilks #handstands #presshandstand #circus

Congratulations to @msgriffin206 for winning our @cirquedusoleil giveaway! ✨🎪✨ You’re going to see Alegria! ❣️ DM us to claim your prize 🎟💥 Thanks so much to everyone who entered!

✨ New instructor alert! 🚨 Bianca Swain has been teaching since she was a teenager, with an overwhelming focus on kids gymnastics programs. The majority of the last 20 years of teaching have been directing Junior Olympic competitive teams at multiple gyms in multiple states. Most recently, she finished her teaching certification in Pilates instruction. ✨ We couldn’t be more excited to have her 🎪🤸‍♀️ Be sure to check out her classes this session! Youth Tumbling - Tuesdays 4:30pm Tumbling 101 - Tuesdays 6pm Stretch with Strength - Tuesdays 7:30pm #versatilearts #seattlecircus #circusarts #tumbling #strengthtraining #activeflexibility #handstands #carthweels #backbends #gymnastics #circusschool #circuseverydamnday

We all know the coaches at VA are super humans, but did you know some of them are… more than humans? 🧜‍♀️🐬 @traptortion serving up some mermagic at the VA summer staff party this weekend ☀️🤿🎪 #versatilearts #seattlecircus #mermagic #mermaiding #circusarts #pnwsummer

Loving this emotive bungee flow from @graysonaerialarts ✨Movement really is the best medicine Reposted• “Someone’s words sparked some very bad body dysmorphia this week. Dancing helps.” #movementismedicine #seattlecircus #versatilearts #aerialist #aerialarts #circusarts #bungee #circuseverydamnday

Hoop Workshop Alert. Intermediate Hoop people near and far. C shapes (rolling) and Momentum pathways with Dream Frohe. June 15th & 22nd. 7:30p - 9p Pacific. $80.