Katrijn De Wilde
Kat is a passionate handbalancer from Belgium that has a hard time choosing between handstands, standing acro, icarian and recently also whips and whip-pops! She started gymnastics at the age of 6 in a small town club ‘De Greves’ in Hamme.
From the age of 15 til 27 she trained as an autodidact to roll into the circusworld 4 years ago, traveling- teaching – performing around the world.
Teaching and performing together with Kiljan Kaffenberger, they are combining their skills like Butter and toast, peanut butter and bananas or skateboarder skin and asphalt – performing and teaching a big variety of workshops since march 2022.
Sessions
You want to learn how to do a front tuck/salto on a L-base?
Please bring:
experiences in icarians
your straight throws are high and clean
being ready to spot turning dynamic tricks
We bring a big bag full of tricks in which the flyer is in all kind of ways on top of a base in a handstand position - unusual connections that you don’t see often.
Prereqs : stable H2H
flyer standing in front of the base, both facing the same direction, hands connected in a hand to hand grip behind the flyers back -> both perform a tempo to end up in a standing hand to hand
Please bring:
- stable standing hand to hand
We share a whip pop sequence which included various different whip pop techniques
Please bring:
- clean backwhip
- clean tarzan
- the energy and awareness to spot dynamic tricks
You got a handstand and you want to perform it on a base but hand to hand is too boring? Try hand to body! We share a variety of options out of this genre.
cool dynamic (with a throw: full release of the flyer from the base) moves on a L-base connecting throne and reverse star in 3 different ways.
Please bring:
experiences in icarians
your straight throws are high and clean
being ready to spot turning dynamic tricks
We share a whip pop sequence which included various different whip pop techniques