Frequent Flyers is the Western U.S. pre-eminent
low-flying trapeze and aerial dance-theatre company. They venture indoors
and out, blending aerial work seamlessly with dance. Vampires, a period
Swing
piece, computers, and even holiday travel serve to supplement all manner
of flying apparatus, ensuring Frequent Flyers Productions' a vibrant
place in your memory.
Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc. was
founded in 1988 and incorporated as a non-profit in 1990 by artistic
director Nancy Smith. Ms. Smith and her work with Frequent Flyers have
received top honors in Colorado: The Colorado Dance Alliance 2005 Cutting
Edge Award;
the 1997 Glenwood Springs Dance Festival's Choreographer's Project Award,
the 1996 AHAB/Neodata Choreographer's Fellowship, the 1993 Pacesetter's
Award for Arts & Entertainment and the 1990 Arts Innovation Award
for Excellence in Dance, as well as numerous grants from corporations,
foundations, and government agencies. Frequent Flyers is one of only
a dozen or so aerial dance companies in the US.
In June 2005, Frequent Flyers performed for Cirque du
Soleil hanging 60 feet on the side of their headquarters. The company
received the readers' choice
for "Best Dance Performance" from the Daily Camera in 1992
and 1997 for Theatre of the Vampires and participated in the first-ever
aerial dance festival in Boston, April, 1992.
Frequent Flyers is known for pushing boundaries through collaboration
and site-specific works. Performances have been held in a park, a drive-in
theatre, a church,
galleries, and traditional theatre spaces. Collaborations have involved
heavy equipment operators, snakes, composers, computer graphics, children,
and visual artists, as well as a variety of environments such as a graveyard,
a meat locker, a junk yard, a drive-in theatre, and abandoned greenhouses.
Frequent Flyers also explores the relationship of art and technology
through computer animation, computer-generated choreography, video,
and live performance.
Frequent Flyers' mission is to create, present, and promote original and
magical low-flying trapeze and aerial dance performances of the highest
quality for diverse
public audiences and to enrich people's lives through educational opportunities.
Frequent Flyers' vision is to help people to see the world from a new
perspective through experiencing the upside-down realm of low-flying
trapeze. We
believe this expanded consciousness helps people to maximize their creative
potential.
About The Director
Nancy Smith is the founder and artistic director of
Frequent Flyers Productions. Ms. Smith is the recipient of the 2005 "Cutting
Edge" Award
from the Colorado Dance Alliance, the 1997 Glenwood Springs Dance Festival
Choreographer's
Project Award, the 1996 AHAB/Neodata Choreographer's Fellowship, and the
1993 Boulder County Pacesetter's Award in Arts & Entertainment.
Nancy was one of the founders of the Boulder Dance Alliance/Space for
Dance and has served on several boards of directors. Nancy studied under
the Master's program in Dance at UCLA, worked with Joan Skinner's company
in Seattle, where she met Robert Davidson, who became her low-flying
trapeze mentor. She has been producing her own work since 1986. Her penultimate
ambition is to make upside-down, spinning dances in zero gravity and/or
to receive a prehensile tail through the miracles of modern science.
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