INSTRUCTORS
KENDELL MACOMBER
Kendell has been a dancer for over thirty years and has taught dance to youth and adults in Fairbanks for over a decade. She has trained in all styles of dance from tap to ballet, breakdancing to contemporary and so many more. Kendell has taught dance in the Fairbanks Area and is the creator and Director for the successful Dance REVolution Crew for over a decade. Her experience and knowledge of dance styles makes her the go to instructor for technique, choreography, and performance.
She has been training on aerial silks, sling, and Lyra since 2011 and began teaching private lessons in 2014. She now also trains and teaches on Dance Trapeze and Cordelisse.
Kendell has completed many hours of Aerial Teacher Training focusing on Silks, Lyra, and Dance Trapeze from Jenn Bruyer of Versatile Arts, Level 1 and 2 Lyra Teacher Training with Hoop Artist T Simon- Lawrence, Aerial Rigging Workshops taught by Fight or Flight Ent, and continues to train at Aerial Festivals and takes classes weekly to further her aerial education on different techniques and how to safely train for advanced techniques.
Kendell’s teaching style focuses on having fun while learning and building strong foundations in safety, technique, and musicality. Her passion and dedication will have you flying in no time!
Check out her Instagram @Kendell.Mac
AMY BROWN
Amy has been training in aerial arts for about 10 years. She started training on silks and then developed a passion for sling and strap loops. when she’s not at the studio, you can find her traveling around the state playing on her outdoor aerial rig or you can catch her in a show with the Aerial View Circus Troupe.
JESSICA JOY
Jessica Joy spent her Arizona childhood studying tap, jazz, and ballet at the local dance studio, auditioning for roles in school plays and repertory theater, and forming bands with her friends. She rallied a full scholarship for Performing Arts at Eastern Arizona before she set her sites on Los Angeles. Her first few years in LA were spent singing in nightclubs, jumping at any small theater role, continuing to train at the ballet studio, until a pivotal moment in 2004. An audition for a spot in Hollywood Aerial Arts’ fast track program. She can recall that day with great enthusiasm, finding for the first time acceptance she never felt in the dance world.
While at HAA, she earned her burns and bruises on trapeze, silks, lyra, cordelisse, Spanish web, and hammock. She has also been lucky enough to train at Focus Fysh- LA, CA, Streb- NYC, NY, Boulder Circus Center- Boulder, CO, and under many Cirque du Soleil and world class performers. Other circus arts piqued her interest as well. She spent years spinning, eating, and breathing fire with LA and Burning Man Fire Conclaves, hula hooping for Vivavoom Burlesque, and acro-stilting with Wise Fool New Mexico.
After taking many years off to travel and start a family, circus arts are now a hobby for Jessica Joy, and she finds joy sharing this love with others!
KIT
Hey I’m Kit! I moved to Alaska almost 2 years ago and have fallen in love with all the state has to offer. I visited Alaska for the first time in 2022 and had the pleasure of seeing an aerial show live for the first time. Since then I have been captivated by this art form. When I started my aerial journey in 2023 I had no idea where it would take me. My curiosity turned into an obsession that has taken me places I’ve never dreamed, and becoming a performer that I never knew I could be. I started training at Aerial View in June of 23 and continued my training at Sora Aerial arts back home in Kentucky. Once I moved I could better dedicate my time to my training at Aerial view. Since then I have performed at numerous events in Alaska including Salmon festival, Girdwood Forest Fair and multiple shows at Aerial View. My love for spinning in the air is undying and as an artist I love expressing myself through movement.
BETH
Coach Beth has been a circus enthusiast for 10 years this winter. She began with hooping and in 2017 added Aerial silks to her repertoire. Having become an amateur performer, by 2019 she expanded into other art forms and added in Lyra and trapeze lessons, and began dabbling in new techniques and apparatus’ whenever possible.
In June of ‘24 she became an aerial instructor through the paper doll militia teacher training program and now teaches hoop regularly and is opening beginner trapeze lessons at Aerial View! She also performs with Aerial View Circus Troupe and is always learning and exploring the circus arts! Take a class or see a show.
EMILY
Coach Emily is amovement and visual artist who loves to create and share her work. Emily started her aerial journey in 2021 at first studying and performing on Lyra. To continue her study, she moved to Vegas and fell in love with Aerial Pole and Hair Hanging. She has just recently returned to Anchorage and excited to offer Intro to Aerial Pole.
