Workshops with Theresa Edge & Jordan Garcia
Saturday, October 28th – Sunday, October 29th | Workshops with Theresa Edge & Jordan Garcia
Join us for a special guest event that has us celebrating the circus arts. We’ll be joined by circus professionals, Theresa Edge and Jordan Garcia, of the Nouveau Sud Project. This duo has been training together for over six years and performing aerial, adagio, and partner/group acrobatic acts. They’re passionate about training, creating, and spreading the philosophy that everyone is capable of achieving success in the circus with the right dedication and progression regardless of your starting point. It is their goal to tell meaningful and impactful stories through movement and strive to find ways to make this art form more inclusive and accessible to all.
Theresa and Jordan will be offering a weekend full of workshops from handstands to partnered adagio and acrobatics. Drop in for one or take multiple workshops.
Our front desk is always happy to answer any questions. E-mail info@ensomovement.com for more information.
Schedule
Saturday, October 28th, 2023
- 04:00pm – 05:30pm – Floor to Freestanding Workshop (More info) (Register)
- 06:00pm – 07:30pm – Freestanding Forms Workshop (More info) (Register)
Sunday, October 29th, 2023
- 09:00am – 10:30am – Contact: A Theatrical Workshop for Movement Creatives Workshop (More info) (Register)
- 11:00am – 12:30pm – Intro to Standing Acro Workshop (More info) (Register)
- 01:00pm – 02:30pm – Handbalancing Movement Workshop (More info) (Register)
- 03:00pm – 04:00pm – A Path to Presses Workshop (More info) (Register)
Location
All workshops will be indoors at the Enso Movement Raleigh facilities located at 3200-115 Welington Ct, Raleigh, NC 27615.
Pricing
- Single workshop – $50
- Two or more workshops – $40/each
- Full weekend (6x workshops) – $210
Floor to Freestanding Workshop
Saturday, October 28th | 04:00pm – 05:30pm
This workshop is for those who have spent little to no time on their hands and want to achieve their freestanding handstand.
What we will be covering:
- How to properly warm up and prepare our bodies for handstands. Wrist, shoulder, spine, and hip stretching.
- Proper body position. How each piece of your body should be for your most optimal handstand.
- Progressions towards kicking up to a freestanding handstand.
- How to strengthen and mobilize your body so you can hold a handstand with greater ease and cleaner lines.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this workshop, all you need is a body and a willingness to learn and work hard.
Freestanding Forms Workshop
Saturday, October 28th | 06:00pm – 07:30pm
This workshop is for those who have a freestanding handstand and are looking for the next steps of progression.
What we will be covering:
- How to properly warm up and prepare our bodies for handstands. Wrist, shoulder, spine, and hip stretching;
- Basic entries into handstand;
- Basic handstand shapes;
- Mexican handstand progressions; &
- How to strengthen and mobilize your body so you can hold your shapes with greater ease and cleaner lines.
Prerequisites: Solid 20 second handstand (no walking)
Contact: A Theatrical Workshop for Movement Creatives
Sunday, October 29th | 09:00am – 10:30am
Contact: The state or condition of physical touching, communicating, and meeting.
In this workshop we will explore act creation for circus through the lens of physical theatre and exploration work with the body, ground, and (optional) apparatus.
Using a myriad of techniques lovingly borrowed from multiple renowned companies, coaches, and professors – we will be focusing on learning through play, and moving with intent. We will be largely working with the non-verbal nature of circus arts, theatre, and expressive movement inherent to you. It is at this intersection that we will find the freedom to create that encompasses more than just the area that your physical body takes up, but what it means to truly command the stage and connect with your audience regardless of the size.
Please come ready to move, explore, be weird, and willing to work in close proximity with others. This workshop is open to all creatives. There is no prerequisite necessary.
Prerequisites: A willingness to explore and be free.
Contact: A Theatrical Workshop for Movement Creatives
Sunday, October 29th, 2023 | 11:00am – 12:30pm
In this workshop, we will learn the foundations for skills such as two high, foot-to-hand, and overhead positions. We will discuss best practices for spotting, progressions, and acro conditioning. If you have a consistent partner you’d like to grow with, that’s great! If not that is perfectly fine too as you do not need a partner to take this workshop. Come level up your ground game with a solid start and embark on a journey learning a discipline that will help you build lifelong connections, communication skills, and some pretty sick moves.
Clothes: Please be comfortable and able to move, preferably wearing non-slip materials and shorts or something that can be rolled up to allow access to the flyer’s calves.
Prerequisites: An open mind and positive attitude, comfortable working closely with others in a safe environment.
Things we will discuss in person: Pre-existing injuries. Boundaries and consent within acro and training.
Handbalancing Movement Workshop
Sunday, October 29th, 2023 | 01:00pm – 02:30pm
This workshop is for those who have a freestanding handstand and are looking for the next steps of progression.
What we will be covering:
- How to properly warm up and prepare our bodies for handstands. Wrist, shoulder, spine, and hip stretching;
- Advanced handstand entries;
- Basic handstand movements;
- Creating handstand sequences; &
- How to strengthen and mobilize your body so you can transition between shapes with greater ease and control.
Prerequisites: A solid 45 second handstand (no walking) and a single press handstand (no jump and both feet must leave the floor at the same time)
A Path to Presses Workshop
Sunday, October 29th, 2023 | 03:00pm – 04:00pm
This workshop is for those who have a freestanding handstand and are looking to achieve their first handstand press or start to rep them out!
What we will be covering:
- How to properly warm up and prepare our bodies for handstands. Wrist, shoulder, spine, and hip stretching;
- Straight and bent arm press handstand progressions; &
- How to strengthen and mobilize your body so you can hold/press into a handstand with greater ease and cleaner lines.
Prerequisites: A solid 20 second handstand (no walking)
About the Instructors
About Theresa Edge
Theresa Edge, born in Fayeteville, NC, started her circus journey at the age of 26 with no background in dance, gymnastics, or any of the physical disciplines customarily seen in this industry. In lieu of a traditional movement background, her passion was in theatre and creative writing. Since her first aerial class she’s been enamored with the potential for storytelling through circus arts. This hunger led her to contemporary circus company “the Nouveau Sud project” and she has since performed in multiple main stage shows, various gigs of all varieties, and teaches workshops/classes. Theresa is also the Assistant Artistic Director of Nouveau Sud and serves on the Social Circus Committee with the American Circus Educators – both in hopes of creating more equity around circus arts.
Her performing repertoire currently consists of fabric, aerial hoop, aerial straps, adagio, and partner/group acrobatics. Theresa has been fortunate enough to travel extensively as a freelance artist for many years but these days if she’s not training you can find her chasing around her two sons in Charlotte, NC.
About Jordan Garcia
Jordan Garcia, born in Nokesville, VA, began his journey in the movement world with the pursuit to become stronger. Starting off in high school weightlifting classes he soon moved towards calisthenics and handbalancing. As he learned more about physical culture he dove into various disciplines including parkour, gymnastics, rock climbing, and others before arriving to circus arts.
After arriving to Charlotte, NC he joined “the Nouveau Sud project” and it was with this group that he began to hone his skills in other disciplinary fields such as aerial straps, adagio, juggling, and partner acrobatics. In addition to performing Jordan is also a reputable coach having taken the steps to continue to learn about the body and exercise sciences. He has traveled nationally and internationally to teach workshops along with instructing a myriad of online students.
About Nouveau Sud
Theresa and Jordan met in “the Nouveau Sud project” and have been training together for over six years performing duo aerial acts, adagio acts, and partner/group acrobatic acts. They’re passionate about training, creating, and spreading the philosophy that everyone is capable of achieving success in circus with the right dedication and progression regardless of your starting point. It is their goal to tell meaningful and impactful stories through movement and strive to find ways to make this art form more inclusive and accessible to all.