Ms. Namita Nayyar: What exercises comprise your fitness regime or workout routine you shall like to share?
Ms. Serenity Forchion: We primarily train together on our apparatus – both of us run regularly for aerobic fitness, but neither of us goes to the gym though that can be a very good way of keeping in shape. I believe knowing how to stay in shape without a gym is important for anyone traveling for work, as we do. But generally it is important for anyone in this industry to treat their training as sacred and important and part of their job so they don’t let it slide for ‘tea with friends’. We are very careful to separate our fitness training from our creative training so that we are constantly assessing our level of fitness for injury prevention. Creative training can be so much more fun than doing pull-ups and so many people forget to keep paying attention to the fundamentals.
Ms. Namita Nayyar: Do you take some special diet or have a strict menu that you follow to remain healthy and physically fit?
Ms. Serenity Forchion: Not at all! We both like good wholesome home cooked food. A healthy balance of everything, including chocolate! That’s it!
Ms. Namita Nayyar: You have glowing skin and gorgeous hair. Do you take some kind of skin treatment to keep it young and glowing and secondly what you do to your hair to make them look so stunning?
Ms. Serenity Forchion: For our birthday once a year we try to get a facial! Besides that we don’t do much but moisturize every night. No soap. Splash some water on in the morning. We don’t wear makeup regularly and living in the good clean country air is definitely good. But we pretty much have to thank our parents for good genes!
Ms. Namita Nayyar: Advice and motivational words to the inspiring and budding professional aerial artist girls who all are your fans and shall like to know from you for their climb to ladder of success in the field of being a professional aerial artist?
Ms. Serenity Forchion: Work hard, work harder, dream big, be patient, don’t be patient, be honest about what you are asking your body to do, be honest about how much you want to work on it, adapt to fit your body, embrace who you really are, don’t be like everyone else, don’t settle for less than you want. Many conundrums exist in how to rest and relax and cross train and adapt to be yourself while also not settling for the here and now. I think it is helpful for some people to understand that we were slightly pudgy, sedentary bookworms when we were 15 years old. Growing up and growing older and growing smarter has been the best thing for our physical and creative abilities. Embrace age!
Ms. Namita Nayyar: Tell us about your memorable experience of working on the Aerial dance project with disabled dancers “AIM to FLY: disabled dancers in the air”. How you have been able to achieve and quench your thirst of giving back to the society through this endeavor of your?
Ms. Serenity Forchion: The ability to adapt to unique bodies is something I believe I have always done as a teacher. But I am especially challenged and inspired by working with people who have incredible talents and who don’t sit back and act ‘disabled’. But biggest learning from working with Aim to FLY is that the ‘disabled’ are often far less disabled than many people who suffer greatly from being unmotivated, unfit, unhealthy, unmoving. I regret greatly when I meet people who are ‘able bodied’ but don’t care for their body.
Ms. Namita Nayyar: Who has been your inspiration and motivation in choosing to be an aerialist, acrobat and trapeze artist as your profession?
Ms. Serenity Forchion: I wish I had an answer, but I think this profession chose me. I feel like Elsie and I have been each other’s motivation and prompting, and yet there have been people in my life as I look back who I realize had a great affect on me that I was not aware of at that time. Wendy Parkman, mother of 3, teacher of Circus arts in San Francisco who I had the honor of learning alongside as her assistant. At the time, I had no idea how much I absorbed from being with her. Tandy Beal and the ensemble of the Pickle Family Circus – how much I absorbed by being on stage and directed and taught by her and the others I was thrown in with. At the time, I had no idea, but looking back I see how my own creative sensibilities are colored by their ideas and values of inclusiveness, community, ensemble creativity. Lu Yi who was patient and taught me a handstand when I was 22 even though he was accustomed to working with hand picked young people.
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