STUDIO UPDATES & SPECIAL EVENTS

Cobra Flexibility Labs with Julie Noblitt
Use your regular class credits to sign up!

Cobra Lab (All Levels Welcome) – every Thursday in February, 4:45pm
Find the perfect balance between stability and suppleness. Learn to fire up abdominals to protect the low back while unlocking the hidden mobility in upper spine. Build the strength to support flexibility and transform backbends from the inside out.

Eat Your Heart Out is a high-voltage pole and aerial arts show that celebrates every side of love — sweet, spicy and savagely anti-romantic. Expect sultry duets, fierce break-your-heart solos and gravity-defying acts dripping with attitude, desire and delicious rebellion.
Whether you’re swooning or scorched, this Valentine’s season our pull you in, turn up the heat and leave you breathless.
Come hungry. Leave heartless.
All tickets are $25 with a variety of seating options.
SATURDAY SHOW Tickets: https://buytickets.at/empyreanarts/2011889
SUNDAY SHOW Tickets: https://buytickets.at/empyreanarts/2011892
Where to find us:
Empyrean Arts is located at 32 Banks Avenue, Suite 108, on the west side of the building. We are located in the same building as Vortex Doughnuts. Empyrean’s front door entrance is located under a covered patio on the west side of the building. If you are facing the main entrance for Vortex Doughnuts, walk right to the edge of the Banks Avenue building and then turn left to follow the ramp with the red railing, you will see a covered patio area and our window decals at the studio’s entrance.
Parking:
Free street parking can be found on Banks Avenue and on surrounding streets, as well as several lots that require an app for payment. ParkMobile & Passport are common apps (we recommend setting up the ParkMobile app prior to your arrival to expedite parking). Towing is strictly enforced for non- payment in downtown parking lots. Empyrean Arts is not responsible for towing costs, does not lease or own any parking lots, nor do we enforce payment for parking anywhere
Untangled – A Fascia Care Workshop with Tiffany Dawn Chambers-Goldberg
Saturday, March 21st from 3:30-5:30pm, $75

Untangled – a fascia care workshop to help reduce chronic pain and improve your body’s ability to move freely. If your body has been living in high alert with gripping, bracing, buzzing, tension, or consistently feeling on edge, this workshop is your permission slip to let go. We will slow things way down and get deliciously intimate with our tissues using Yoga Tune Up® therapy balls to melt the sticky, overworked places that often get ignored. Expect deep, satisfying release as we hydrate fascia, soften scarred-over effort, and unwind long-held tension from shoulders, hips, spine, hands, and feet. This class is a full-body myofascial care method designed to nourish your system. As the body unravels, we will guide the nervous system out of overdrive and into repair mode with a soothing, breath-led meditation. This is a space to restore, reclaim sensation, and come home to your body—resilient, responsive, and ready to move with ease. Saturday March 21st 3:30-5:30pm, $75, and this price comes with a pair of your own take home yoga tune up balls so that you can continue on your own after this workshop. Workshop led by Tiffany Dawn Chambers-Goldberg and she can be found at DanceBrave.com.

RUCKUS — Advanced Floorwork with Tori Bailey
Saturday, March 21st at 7:30pm – use your class credits to sign up!
RUCKUS is loud, gritty, and grounded. This choreo-based class explores heavy textures, musicality, and full-body connection to the floor — with space to make the movement your own. Expect thrashy, rowdy energy and permission to move a little messy, a little unhinged, and very embodied.
Requirements: Heels + knee pads required (boots preferred)
Prerequisites: Some floorwork experience; comfortable with shoulder rolls and candlesticks
Photoshoot with Natalie Rey – Saturday March 28th 
15m sessions $155, 30m sessions $230
107U Available Time Slots – 12:15-3:15pm
108 Available Time Slots 4-6pm
A 15-minute session per dancer includes 4-edited photos of their choice as well as the photos from the session unedited.
A 30-minute session per dancer includes 6-edited photos of their choice as well as the photos from the session unedited.

Natalie is a dance photographer based in Miami. My approach is very collaborative and dancer-centered. I focus on creating imagery that feels authentic and empowering to each individual person. I love working through the creative process with studios and the individual to bring your vision to life.

You can view my work here: Portfolio

Instagram: @Nataliereyvisuals

Website – https://nataliereyvisuals.com

Alignment & Awareness for Aerial Instructors (Part 1) with Gena DuBose
Saturday, April 18th from 4-6pm, $80
This continuing education class is a glimpse into Gena’s teacher trainings for aerial instructors. Designed for aerial teachers who want to better understand how bodies move—and how to teach in a way that helps students feel good while they train. We’ll explore anatomy in movement in a practical, accessible way, focusing on how body awareness, proprioception, and movement quality show up on and off the apparatus.
Together, we’ll look at how to cue alignment within aerial skills and how to support students in organizing their bodies in ways that feel strong, efficient, and sustainable. This class is about helping students execute skills with more ease, clarity, and confidence.
A big focus of this course is learning how to work with different body types and movement patterns. You’ll gain tools to adapt skills, offer clearer feedback, and meet students where they are—so every body feels supported, capable, and welcome in aerial training.
This class is ideal for instructors who want to deepen their teaching, reduce strain and frustration for their students, and create a more inclusive, body-aware approach to aerial arts. Open to all aerial arts disciplines.
Aerial Dance/Harness Workshops with Emily Stratton
$80 per workshop (financial aid available)

Intro to Aerial Dance in Harness – Friday April 24th, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Aerial Harness is a unique and minimalist apparatus that supports one’s weight at the hips to allow the artist to both connect with the ground and explore space at any height. Glide, spin, hover and swing your way into a new world of artistic possibility! In this workshop you will learn about safety practices and the varied possibilities of movement in harness through a balance of skill acquisition and prompts for exploration.
Partnering for Aerial Dance in Harness – Saturday April 25th, 3:30pm-5:30pm
Aerial Harness enables us to use momentum, tension and gravity in ways that create unique opportunities for dance in small groups and partners. In this workshop we will explore the many formats and complexities of partnering in aerial harness. This includes grounded vs aerial movement, small group choreography, sharing weight and of course the crowd favorite known as “the body walk”. Consent, creation, and exploration all play main roles throughout our time together.