April 30, 2012, 12:38 pm in events
I’ll be teaching an additional 4 week intro series this summer at Versatile Arts on Sundays from 3:00 to 4:30pm starting June 3rd.
In this class, you will learn the basics of working on the trapeze, the rope, and the tissu. It will cover all the skills you need in order to join one of our level 1 classes. Register online now!
http://www.versatilearts.net/register/intro.php
This series costs $100 for four 90-minute classes and prepayment is required. You can either pay with a credit card when you register or you can send your payment in within 5 days of registering.
If you don’t send your payment in, your spot in the class will be given to somebody else. This class is extremely popular and it fills up fast.
Your other payment options (other than credit card at time of online reservation) are:
- Mail a check to Versatile Arts; 7601 Greenwood Ave N, Suite 103; Seattle, WA 98103
- PayPal to versatile.arts@gmail.com. (If you can afford to add a few dollars to cover paypal’s cut (3%), you will earn good karma points.)
- Cash or check delivered to the studio. Please contact us to find out a good time to come by and drop off your payment.
If you miss out on this class, you can join the announcement list to find out about upcoming sessions: http://groups.google.com/group/versatile-arts-intro-announce
April 23, 2012, 2:07 pm in events
I’ll be teaching the next intro series at Versatile Arts on Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:00pm starting May 24th. In this class, you will learn the basics of working on the trapeze, the rope, and the tissu. It will cover all the skills you need in order to join one of our level 1 classes. Register online now!
http://www.versatilearts.net/register/intro.php
This series costs $100 for four 90-minute classes and prepayment is required. You can either pay with a credit card when you register or you can send your payment in within 5 days of registering.
If you don’t send your payment in, your spot in the class will be given to somebody else. This class is extremely popular and it fills up fast.
Your other payment options (other than credit card at time of online reservation) are:
- Mail a check to Versatile Arts; 7601 Greenwood Ave N, Suite 103; Seattle, WA 98103
- PayPal to versatile.arts@gmail.com. (If you can afford to add a few dollars to cover paypal’s cut (3%), you will earn good karma points.)
- Cash or check delivered to the studio. Please contact us to find out a good time to come by and drop off your payment.
If you miss out on this class, you can join the announcement list to find out about upcoming sessions: http://groups.google.com/group/versatile-arts-intro-announce
April 17, 2012, 8:45 am in events  Please join us for VA’s second not-quite-annual aerial improv competition! Aerialists of all levels will show off their ability to perform their choreography to a randomly-selected piece of music. Will they get Yanni, or Rammstein? Nobody knows until we hit that “random” button. Contestants get one free refusal, and after that they lose points for rejecting a song. Our panel of celebrity judges will tally the scores and select a new improv champion. What do they get? Cash! Where does that cash come from? The door! So please come out and enjoy a hilarious night of aerial virtuosity.
This year’s amazing judges’ panel includes: Armitage Shanks (Dog and Pony Show Productions), Martha Enson (En-Joy Productions) and the always-fabulous Tamara the Trapeze Lady representing VA.
Doors at 7:00, show starts promptly at 7:30.
Cost: $10
RSVP here to ensure a seat – note that Facebook RSVPs do NOT count.
http://www.versatilearts.net/rsvp/rsvp.php
PERFORMERS: please email improv@versatilearts.net if you have questions or are interested in participating. Preregistration is encouraged but not required. This is a great chance to be seen by Seattle’s biggest circus event producers, and it’s a ton of fun as well. And did we mention CASH PRIZES
March 27, 2012, 11:50 pm in public You know, there are a lot of things I can be unhappy with — a lot of stuff I put out there that just doesn’t quite hit the mark, or I pushed out too soon, that I can really gnaw on if I’m looking for things to dislike about myself.
There are improvements I want to make to it, and every time I’ve performed it I’ve refined it and made it better, but no one will ever be able to convince me that this isn’t a damn fine act — http://neevita.net/aerial
Sometimes I dislike living in America. I really wonder what the youtube stats would have been, and what life might be like if there were a snowballs chance in a fat mans asscrack that I could be hired to perform this consistently in Seattle.
February 26, 2012, 5:16 pm in updates My ass is so sore from my return to aerial I have to ease myself onto the toilet seat. All 125lbs of me. I didn’t work out that hard, either. Sheesh.
February 24, 2012, 5:17 pm in updates First time back to aerial training since November. It is gong.. slowly.
February 18, 2012, 1:22 am in public I’ve been approached to perform for this event in support of Planned Parenthood, and while I am unsure whether I can get back in the air in time for this after recovering from recent health issues, I want to show my support for the project regardless.
http://pinkcarpetproject.com/
PINK CARPET PROJECT:
Seattle Fashion Stands with Planned Parenthood
Thursday, March 1st (8pm)
Location FRED.
This is a 21+ event.
$25 Standing //
$50 VIP (Front row and swag bag) //
$300 Table Host (Front row table seating for three people, two bottles of Girly Girl Wines, a generously donated Black Car service to and from the event by Black Crown Car, appetizers, and swag bag)
To purchase tickets please visit: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/225926
February 8, 2012, 4:31 am in updates One of the more pleasing details of the house concert I’ve agreed to do in Spokane this March; the unlikeliness that I will perform a 4 minute trapeze act and then have to immediately sit down to sing. The was a cool challenge, though.
February 5, 2012, 12:14 pm in updates My awesome aerial student (the only one I am teaching privately right now) totally brought me a present after my two month absence. <3
January 6, 2012, 2:52 pm in public It’s official: Due to health factors, I will not be teaching aerial at VA this session. The point at which i will consider returning to assisting groups, private lessons, and my personal training when I’ve gone a month without a consciousness episode. Leading classes will depend on the results of those experiments.
September 5, 2011, 12:33 am in public PSA to all performing aerialists out there: the rigging at the Noc Noc is NOT safe. Please do not agree to perform there. They have been told numerous times to upgrade it but have not done so, so clearly our safety is not important to them. As long as aerialists agree to perform on the current setup, they will not be motivated to upgrade it. Just say no….and ALWAYS have a professional check the rigging before you agree to perform in an unfamiliar venue.
June 4, 2011, 2:14 am in events
What: Zita the Aerialist, accompanied by cello and poetry
When: Friday, June 10, beginning 9pm (I’ll be performing around 10:45)
Where: Faire Gallery Cafe 206.652.0781
1351 E Olive Way
Seattle, WA
Cost: $5 donation suggested
I’ll be performing aerial alongside the Floating Mountain Poets, accompanied by cello (YAY!!) and spoken word. Poets include kerry cox and david jones (Seen in my most recent show, How Art Saved My Life, in Jan 2011), dobbie reese norris, terry johnson, noel parkinson, lydia swartz, solo gyrl, tom nivison, tito titus, mishabae mahoney. It’s a free and informal event. PLEASE STOP BY TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!
June 3, 2011, 11:54 pm in updates That was a really nice feeling performance. I’d forgotten how much I like my black silks. It was like visiting an old friend.
June 1, 2011, 11:35 am in events
Who: Zita the aerialist
When: Friday June 3, 7-11pm
Where: Georgetown Ballroom 5623 Airport Way S
Cost: FREE!
Reception details:
There will be aerials, acrobalance, juggling, and sweet tunes interspersed with presentations from NASA, Google, GWOB, Microsoft, and Crisis Commons VIPs. Entrance is free but beer is not. Must be 21+ to attend the reception. We’ll start at 19:00 and run until 23:30.
May 15, 2011, 8:58 pm in updates Ice packs on my quads, my mid back and my neck. I should have just sucked it up and done an ice bath.
May 15, 2011, 11:11 am in public “You blew my mind”.
It’s most often difficult for me to accept that I have a fan base, and I think part of the reason I stay small is the fear surrounding embracing that and what kind of person that makes me. For me to think of myself as a person with fans… I just cringe at the size my ego must be and how much work it would take to keep it appropriately inflated. I know there are people out there with healthy esteem who could recognize fandom without fucking it up somehow but that doesn’t feel like something I have the wisdom to do yet. I’m not ready to handle fame gracefully.
And then I remember, that wisdom is what I’m cultivating in my life right now. Bringing feeling intuition into perspective, reevaluating how much hold I allow it to have on what makes my reality. I read back on that second paragraph up there, and I already don’t agree with myself. I already think it’s silly to be afraid of success like that.
So let me say this, as deeply and sincerely as I ever have; Thank you so much to the fans of my work. I am really blessed to have the kind of encouragement and support I have from the people who’ve noticed what I’m up to in life. You consistently overwhelm and fuel me in ways I couldn’t ever comprehend asking for. Thank you so much for being so generous toward me with your praise.
I can feel another layer of the gnarled, debilitating onion I carry around in my guts being peeled off like a piece of scotch tape against a hairy arm. That’s what sharing my stories with you does for me. That’s the kind of inner work you enable me to accomplish by allowing me into your lives the way you do. It’s inexplicable pure soul sharing and it goes both ways.
I have worked so FUCKING hard peeling at this thing inside me that was fucking my life up, fucking up how I thought, fucking up how I was capable of seeing the world, how I was capable of being with people. I’ve learned so much. And now I use my hard won abilities from that experience to come to meet, and stimulate, the hearts in others.
‘The task of art is to turn tears into knowledge’ – Schopenhauer
I shift lives. That’s what I’ve done with the desperate, massive mindfuck of a place that I came from. I earned this. I want to be doing this. I want to be this person. And I embrace and accept every beautiful thing I was told because of Friday night. Thank you so very much to all the guests and performers who made it an utterly amazing, transformative experience.
I see you guys. Thank you for letting me know you’re watching. I’ll keep on sharing and I’ll keep on kicking ass. For me. And for you.
<3
April 26, 2011, 7:04 pm in events
What: Little Red Speakeasy
When: Friday, May 13· 8:30pm – 12am
Where: Hengst Studio
1506 Franklin Ave. E.
Seattle, WA 98102
How: Cost is $20, RSVP to Jeff Hengst jeff@littleredbistro.com
I am deeply pleased to be returning to LRS in its most distilled, raw formula to sing and perform my signature aerial act. You may also catch me painting throughout the evening as well, surrounded by friends and artists and creative energy.
The cost is $20, and RSVP goes to Jeff Hengst.
The underlying mission of The Little Red Studio is to celebrate the intersection between art and erotic energy in a relaxed and positive space. What makes The Little Red Studio work is that models, artists, and guests are in an unconventional environment with the utmost of mutual respect. 18+ (It ain’t a sex club people, but you may see a nipple or three.). Here there is no fourth wall, and in being so a whole new world is opened up for both guests and the artists alike.
The monthly “Speakeasy” events continue to delight and infuse our audiences with a sense of artistic indulgence and fun social interaction. If you haven’t been to one in awhile, you may want to come check it out again and experience the new things, while relaxing into the familiar. If you’ve never been to one – now is the time to come see for yourself what Little Red Studio is truly all about.
The performances will amuse, mystify and perhaps even move you, while the opportunities to engage your senses will tickle your inner artist and open your heart. The Speakeasy events are part party, part performance, part spa experience and all kinds of in between. Bring some close friends and make a night of making new ones.
April 24, 2011, 5:20 pm in public Listening to my aerial performance music. Crying.
April 8, 2011, 1:59 pm in events
Who: Chimera
What: Date Night at Versatil Arts
When: Friday, May 27 · 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Where: The Cathedral
7601 Greenwood Ave N, Suite 103
Seattle, WA
You won’t know who to trust at this event teeming with secret agents and double-crossers. Our versions of 007 may not be skiing down the Alps with machine guns or scuba diving in tuxedos, but they will show you some thrilling aerial escapades never seen in any Bond flick.
Since there are so very many movies to choose from, we’ll be sending out a poll to all attendees the week of the show. Make sure to RSVP so that you get a chance to vote – and to guarantee yourself a seat since these shows do tend to fill up.
RSVP using our handy new on-line tool:
http://www.versatilearts.net/rsvp/rsvp.php
Please note that Facebook RSVPs do NOT count. You must use the tool above to be on the list for the show.
Doors at 7:30 PM, show starts promptly at 8. Movie to follow around 9.
Cost is $5 – the cheapest date in town!
BYOB, and feel free to bring snacks and pillows or low chairs for the movie if you decide to stay for it. You are always welcome to just come for the aerial performance, however.
February 16, 2011, 2:13 pm in updates Just submitted a performance proposal for SEAF. I have mixed feelings about it. Ultimately, though, my act is amazing and fitting and lovely and I want more people to see it. I think I’d feel more conflicted if I pissed the chance to perform it again away on avoiding having to deal with some knob who used to know me.
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I’ll be teaching an additional 4 week intro series this summer at Versatile Arts on Sundays from 3:00 to 4:30pm starting June 3rd. 
