Aerialists
She’s an aerialists? What’s that?
I used to date an aerialist, and when I would tell people what she did for a living, most everyone would return a quizzical look as if I suddenly started speaking Cantonese. 
Then I would say, “Have you seen Cirque Du Soleil?” If they said, “Yes,” I would then proceed to tell them that she was one of the girls that hung with no wires or safety nets in the air, often holding herself with only her hands and her cast iron wits some forty feet off the ground doing flips and twists while wrapped in a sheer fabric, or dangling from a Spanish web… which is basically a rope.
“Wow,” Is what usually followed, “Really? That’s amazing she must be so strong!”
And that she was. Hundreds of hours a month, lifting pulling, twisting and climbing, her arms made my arms look like the arms of a twelve-year old weakling.
And so I developed a fondness for the art form, but was constantly disappointed by the same old routines done over and over again by most aerial acrobats and aerial performers (also called cirque performers). For years I have watched aerial artists and wished somebody would push the envelope a bit more in terms of content and context.
Zen Arts is starting to do just that. With Susie Culini creating costumes of profound artistry and deep sexiness; while Doug Miller is choosing only the highest quality talent, no pun intended, for their acrobats and performance artists, I see some massive possibility for contribution to the aerial world emerging from Zen Arts innovations.
Deep in the streets of Los Angeles, from urban warehouses and steamy nightclubs to corporate event centers, Zen Arts aerialists are using any and all means to reach new heights in the aerial arts world. What better place than the entertainment capital of the world to cut your diamond, refine your art and help it expand to new paradigms of possibility?
Zen Arts aerialist give the people what they want in terms of entertainment and wow factor… but most of all they are giving people visions of such unparalleled beauty that people are stunned, and usually left totally unaware, that they could not have asked to see such indelible grace… and yet it showed up anyway.