Kelsey Aicher
Kelsey began her aerial training on a whim in the summer of 2011 after moving to Portland, Oregon. She immediately fell in love, training silks, trapeze, and partner acrobatics diligently. Just over two years after her first class, Kelsey performed in her first professional show with Night Flight Aerial.
She has been fortunate to have some of the best coaches, including Daniela Steiner, Rachel Walker, and Aimée Hancock for trapeze, Stefan Furst for partner acrobatics, and Nicolo Kehrwald and Brittany Walsh for handstands. She has had the pleasure of performing with companies such as Night Flight Aerial, Prismagic, Sir Cupcake’s Queer Circus, and Aerheart KC Circus Company. In 2015, Kelsey was a semi-finalist in the 5th Annual Denver Aerial & Acrobatics Arts Festival Competition Show and in 2016, she was awarded an artistic residency at The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven in Portland.
After moving to Kansas City in June of 2017, Kelsey began coaching and performing at Kansas City Aerial Arts (then Lucia Aerial Performing Arts) where she became the Director of the student Training Company. Working with the KCAA Training Company as well as the professional company Aerheart KC Circus Company led to her falling in love with directing (read more about it here). As a director, Kelsey’s goal is to amplify the work of the artists around her rather than dampen it.
As a perfomer, her goal is to draw in the audience by creating a performance that feels relatable to every individual. The study of character through her screenwriting education and the heightened sensitivity through her clairvoyance apprenticeship guide Kelsey in her art and interactions. Every movement, every shape, every skill has intention.
Disciplines: Aerial, Partner Acrobatics, Tarot, Living Statue, Character
