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Aerial silks (also known as aerial contortion, aerial ribbons, aerial tissues, fabric, ribbon, or tissu) is a type of performance in which one or more artists perform aerial acrobatics while hanging from a specialist fabric. The fabric may be hung as two pieces, or a single piece, folded to make a loop, classified as hammock silks.
The club was founded by Leslie Irvin of the Irvin Airchute Company of Canada in 1922. (Though Leslie Irvin is credited with inventing the first free-fall parachute in 1919, parachutes stored in canisters had saved the lives of observers in balloons and several German and Austro-Hungarian pilots of disabled military aircraft in the First World War. [2])
Spanish web – Aerial circus skill in which a performer climbs and performs various tricks on an apparatus resembling a vertically hanging rope. Surfing – Surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer, uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.
Acrobalance; Acrobatics; Acro dance; Adagio; Aerial hammock; Aerial hoop; Aerial pole; Aerial silk; Aerial straps; Artistic cycling; Balancing; Banquine; Baton twirling
Conquistadores del Cielo (Spanish for "Conquerors of the Sky") is a secretive club of high-level airline and aerospace industry executives. The Conquistadores del Cielo are still in existence today, [1] stating that they exist "To develop and promote interest in aerospace activities.
Most leases on flying sites not owned by an aeromodeling club require adequate insurance to be carried by all people who will be flying; many clubs — the great majority of which are already "chartered clubs" within the AMA organizational structure in the United States — require AMA membership even for guests flying models at their field. [9]
Membership in the 1920s cost one dollar and lasted until death. [5] In the 1920s, the emblem of the club was created: a blue shield with the letters QB in silver, the shield flanked by silver wings. In 1938, the club's meetings settled into the building owned by the Architectural League of New York. [4] [6]
The Flying Fruit Fly Circus (Albury, Australia) Gamma Phi Circus (Illinois State University) National Centre for Circus Arts (formerly The Circus Space; London, UK) National Institute of Circus Arts (Melbourne, Australia) New England Center for Circus Arts (Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S.) Philadelphia School of Circus Arts (Philadelphia, U.S.)