Aerial Silk course with Amina Riccetti and Tanja Peinsipp
Course content: This course combines climbing techniques, figures and sequences on the silks using creative expression and performative play. After an intrinsic warm-up programme, we will specifically strengthen endurance and flexibility on the silks. We will try and strengthen various figures within a safe space and will hereby explore new movement qualities. Using this as a stable basis, we will finally transition to creative improvisation and performative experiment, aiming to find intuitive ways and to playfully develop your own movement quality in the air.
About the person: Amina Riccetti is a circus artist living in Vienna. She received her bachelor degree at the BOKU Vienna and studied circus arts in London (Great Britain) and Turin (Italy), where she specialized in silks and straps. In July 2026 she finished her masters degree in Performance Practices at the ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL). In her projects she examines feminist questions and combines trans- and multi-disciplinary knowledge, where she explores materials, elements, movement and their relationships to each other. She’s synergizing performance art, edible craftwork and scientific work.
Amongst others she’s currently teaching courses and workshops with key aspects in technique, creation and the menstruating body in Vienna and all over Europe.
www.aminariccetti.com
