Versatile Arts Family

Versatile Arts was started by one person but runs through the enthusiastic participation of many! Here are some of the folks you will find when you come to the Cathedral for classes or open gym.

	Beverly Sobelman, Director, Instructor, Impresario Three of the things Beverly loves to do: performing, teaching, and putting on shows. How lucky she is to have a job where she gets to do all three. You can learn more about her in the Sept 2010 issue of O Magazine!
	Sandy, Instructor Sandy loves challenging herself.   The more impossible something looks, the more she wants to learn it.   She loves working on the rope and is slowly learning to love the tissu, too.
	Lauren, Instructor Lauren (aka the Sling Maven) has been learning aerial since January 2008. She has dabbled in dance for most of her life, and more recently studied Wushu and Tai Chi Chen. Her apparatus of choice are the sling and static trapeze. She quite enjoys teaching, because she wants to share her love of aerial with everyone, and also because she is, at heart, very bossy..
	Sarah, Instructor Sarah (aka "Goody Goody") met Beverly backstage at the Columbia City Cabaret and quickly became one of her first students. You can find her performing in the air at local clubs like Motor when she's not assisting Beverly with 2-3 classes per week. She loves helping students succeed!
	Tamara, Instructor Tamara the Trapeze Lady started her aerial experience as a dancer with famed Seattle choreographer/dancer/inventor Robert Davidson. Her subsequent exploration took her around the country for classes and workshops at the SF Circus Center with lots of famous and talented people. She began teaching aerial dance in 1995 at her own studio in Pioneer Square and has performed around the U.S. and Canada as well as Spain, Portugal, and Thailand. Tamara has been teaching circus style aerial at Versatile Arts for the last year, while continuing her own neverending journey of skill building with the amazing array of talented instructors that Beverly has sponsored at V.A.
	Courtnee, Instructor Courtnee Papastathis brings 7 years aerial experience to her teaching at Versatile Arts. She performs as Zita the Aerialist, known for her powerful and edgy aerial acts. Courtnee's focus in teaching aerial is ushering beginners into the world of aerial expression. Once over that threshold, focus becomes character development, choreography, transitions and storytelling through use of aerial skills.
	Nancy, Instructor Nancy "Hoop Girl" Neyhart has been an aerialist for 6 years, with early training in corde lisse, circus trapeze, tissu and lyra. After years of studing various apparatus, Nancy’s true love has become the lyra. She is drawn to its symmetry, its ability to spin and simply for the physical challenges it presents. Soon after the arrival of her son, Nancy began teaching lyra in the spring of 2008. She has taught at the Circus Arts Institute in Atlanta under the guidance of Carrie Heller, author of “Aerial Circus Training and Safety Manual”, she had her own private students in Avondale Estates, GA and she is excited to be teaching lyra and introduction to aerial arts at Versatile Arts.

This site was last updated June 30, 2009