Aerial Edge is a training and performance company specialising in static trapeze. Aerial Edge have been teaching and performing in London and Glasgow for the last 5 years. Our classes provide a safe, fun and encouraging environment where students and performers can develop their skills, strength, and love for aerial arts
Charmaine Piggott has been training intensively in static trapeze for the last 10 years and teaching since 2001 in both Sydney and London and has now settled in Scotland. Charmaine is renowned for her encyclopedic knowledge of static trapeze techniques and the high standard of her tuition.
She is even better known for her conditioning classes!
Charmaine is currently the lead instructor for Aerial Edge
Mark Gibson has an extensive background in Chinese Martial Arts and Tai Chi, he is an international gold medal winner and has been training and teaching for the last 23 years.
In 2001 Mark begun training in static trapeze and has since been performing with both solo and doubles aerial acts for the last eight years. Mark loves teaching and performing big f*%^ off tricks in both solo and doubles trapeze.
Sarah Jean Couzens is one of the founders of London's The Circus Space and is one of the UK's premier aerial teachers. She has been performing, training, teaching and producing circus and theatre for twenty years.
Firstly specializing in Flying trapeze, she studied at Trapeze Volant Jean Palacy and subsequently toured with the Circus Space's outdoor flying trapeze shows. Other performances include producing and performing in '1080 Original Gravity' and 'Spellbound', both 4 star theatrical pieces and performing as the aerialist in Improbable Theatre's 'Sticky' which toured the world and was described in the Observer as 'The most imaginative event of the year'.
Sarah Jean's skills include:
- Flying Trapeze
- Solo and doubles Static Trapeze
- Cloud Swing
- Swinging Trapeze
- Silks and Corde Lisse
- Bungee Harness Work
- Acrobatic Balance