About: Cherie

Cherie Carson is Artistic Director of UpSwing Aerial Dance & Company. As a contemporary choreographer, dancer, aerialist, teacher, and interdisciplinary artist, Cherie performed her first aerial dance piece in 1990. In 1992, Cherie began to incorporate video into my dance form. She has choreographed dances performed in a planetarium, on stilts, on roller blades, in sculpture gardens, reflection pools in a dress of 11 yards, on a bungee cord hanging from a Banyan tree, on trapeze and rope and harness. In 1998, Cherie performed to a sold-out house at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. Cherie studied with Molissa Fenley, Merce Cunningham and Bebe Miller at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, FL on scholarship. Cherie has created 20+ aerial pieces for herself, the company and other companies. She has created 10+ aerial pieces for the Teens Who Fly in the UpSwing programs.

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