Meet our instructors

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. 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

 Madi is an author, performer, fitness instructor and aerial coach in the Kansas City area. Madi has been teaching fitness since 2014 and began teaching aerial arts in 2023 under Kelsey Aicher's training program. Madi holds a NASM Personal Training Certificate, 500 HR Yoga Teacher Training Certification, 50 HR Child Yoga Certification and many other trainings in cardio kickboxing, dance, cycling, HIIT, flexibility conditioning, aerial yoga, beginner aerial and much more. Additionally, Madi is a junior member of Circus Scorpius professional company as a juggler.  

 Madi currently teaches at Great Plains Circus Center and Dance Fit flow where she values creating spaces of exploration, creativity and empowerment for all individuals. She loves storytelling in all forms whether that be in her published novels or through movement art. Outside of the circus, Madi enjoys reading, video games and travel. 

 Madeline began her aerial training in the Chicagoland area after seeing a lyra performer at the age of twelve. Her primary apparatuses are Roman rings and lyra. Despite that, she is a generalist at heart and has performed in such disciplines as trapeze, German wheel, perch pole, Spanish web, and so much more. She is deeply interested in Circus history and is currently a full-time student.