about the workshop

Black Widow Baby: exploring an aerial spider web: Webs Circus uses a 15 foot aerial spider web as a centerpiece of their show about healing from sexualized violence. The web’s frame was constructed by Todd Spiering (Circus Gear) with rope layout by Webs cast. Come explore this unique apparatus with us, finding ways to move in and around the web and ways to put different movement qualities in/on this web. 

Prerequisites: none.

about the instructor

Lissa McLeod has been teaching and performing circus arts and aerial dance for over ten years throughout the Southeast, nationally and internationally. Lissa toured with the Olive Tree Circus in Palestine and the US in 2008 and founded One World Circus with partner Jake Weinstein in 2010. Lissa has trained at the New England Center for Circus Arts (including a three month artist residency in 2017) and the Circus Arts Institute. Lissa teaches and performs extensively with Dragonfly Aerial and Circus Arts Studio in Knoxville, TN. A survivor and mother to children who are survivors, Lissa has directed the creation and production of “Webs”.