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Indie Alaska
This Aerial Silk Dancer Performs in the Alaskan Outdoors
Season 9
Episode 4
Ten years have gone by since Aerialist, Stephany Jeffers fell in love with Aerial Acrobatics at a workshop at the University of Alaska Anchorage. After a few years studying Aerial in the lower 48, she returned to Alaska, but she found that there was no place to practice her silk. What do you do when there is nowhere to fly? You make a bridge your Aerial rig and the Alaskan wilderness your stage.
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