Episode #17: Traveling as an Aerial Instructor with Jenn Bruyer

Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete Jenn Bruyer teaches aerialists across the world. Shannon sat down with her in Munich to eat chocolate and talk about what makes a good aerial coach, matrices, and finding balance when you're always on the road. Find Jenn on the interwebs instagram: @heelhang website: http://www.heelhang.com Join Shannon McKenna of The Artist Athlete and Jenn Bruyer at The Southern Fried Circus Festival in Dallas Texas, September 29th-October 7th. Tickets are at: http://www.southernfriedcircusfest.com Or for a week long aerial intensives at Sky Candy in Austin Texas October 8th-12th Sign up at http://www.skycandyaustin.com This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top. Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and worked on both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia including the Shrine Circus and SOAP. She holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how's that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials about circus arts including a line of e-books to help aerial artists train safely and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the industry about their careers. If you're reading this, you're probably listening to it. Thank you! She currently lives in whichever circus community is the warmest. Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com Facebook: The Artist Athlete Instagram: @the_artist_athlete