Air Skating

Flying the poetry of skating & the strength of straps to the skies!

Stuart McKenzie

Stuart was born in London & began gymnastics at the age of 11. He
represented Great Britain in Sports Acrobatics for 10 years where his
Men's Four achieved a ranking of No. 1 in the world.
Once Stuart retired from competition he joined the world renowned
Cirque Du Soleil in 2008 performing Russian Swing & Chinese Pole in
SaltimBanco, Teeterboard in Kooza, Aerial Straps in Kurios and
created the Duo Aerial Straps for Mystere.
Stuart graduated from Northumbria University with a BSc (Hons) Sport
Management. He was artist coach for strength and conditioning on the
show Kooza & is also the founder of the well established company
Aerial Fitness Bodies.
In 2019, Stuart created AirSkating with former partner Angela Kim that
has brought the unique performing art discipline into Feuerwerk der
Turnkunst, featured on German television at ‘Das Supertalent’ with the
Golden Buzzer and Italian television at ‘Tu Si Que Vales’.

Sophia Adams

At the age of 5, Sophia started as a young talented figure skater full of
passion. Throughout the years Sophia’s gift of talent got her nationally
ranked in the USA. She has been performing as a professional figure
skater for 8 years earning most of her career achievements with Feld
Entertainment’s Disney on Ice, portraying various major characters.
Because Sophia was a strong competitive figure skater, she was instantly
hired as a soloist and rapidly expanded her skill set to become a well
known principal adagio skater. Sophia became a critical role as the only
double principal at Feld Entertainment in the most recent Disney on Ice
show “Road Trip Adventures”. As 2 of the 7 segments of the show, she
portrayed “Nala” from The Lion King as the main adagio pair and
“Jasmine” from the live action Aladdin as a soloist and pair along with
performing a remarkable harness fly act.
Successfully been on aerial straps and Spanish web on the ice, Sophia is
looking forward to continue to pursue her passion in the art of aerial
straps with Stuart McKenzie and interlace it with her mastery in
skating.

Minimum:
10 foot stage
20 foot height
Winch or pulley system