A Destination

"Best Way to Learn How to Fly" SF Weekly's 'Best of the Bay of 2006'

Upswing Aerial Classes on of the "Top 5 exclusive classes to take This Summer 2015" - TheCultureTrip.com

UpSwing classes are featured in “Your 2019 Workout Horoscope: The Best New Exercises to Try in the Bay Area.”

Listed in 2019 Oct issue of Diablo Magazine as one of five events not to miss.

Since 2005, UpSwing Aerial Dance Company has been a Berkeley destination for dancers and aerialists to lift their artistry and skills to new heights. Director Cherie Carson uses her unique style to blend movement and encourage improvisation and collaboration among her dancers and students. We specialize in merging dance with rope and harness, low flying trapeze (Motivity Trapeze), aerial slings, bungees, tissu, and other flying apparatuses. We currently have 5 performing dancers/aerialists in the Company.

UpSwing Aerial Dance Company classes and workshops offer a rare blend of creativity, aerial technique, improvisation, time, and space to motivate the artist within.

Our mission is to inspire and share our love of original, aerial dance, and show that through aerial dance, we can reveal human imagination, our relationships with one another, and one’s inner self. Creative expression and safety are the two core values in our classes and performances.

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UpSwing Company

UpSwing is a contemporary aerial dance company that features the repertory of Artistic Director Cherie Carson. The Company has been presented nationally in Atlanta, New York, Seattle & Houston and San Francisco.

UpSwing Community

UpSwing offers opportunities for students to take classes from the Company as well as nationally recognized choreographers and teachers. We also teach workshops across the US when traveling. Cities where we have taught include Atlanta, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Seattle and Santa Barbara.

Studio

ALL classes, workshops and most performances are held at Studio 12 in Berkeley California under the direction of Cherie Carson and UpSwing Aerial Dance Company.