Fran Sperling

Fran has a passion for coaching and choreographing on various aerial apparatus. Her focused direction on form, technique, and conditioning, her ability to rapidly assess each individual strengths and needs, along with her vast aerial vocabulary, offer students opportunity to achieve their goals safely, and advance them into the next level of training and performance.

With a background in theater and dance, she took to the air originally as the flyer in a 2-woman acrobatic duo, performing in the US and abroad for 17 years. It was during this time that she also found her love for performing in the air, and she and her acro partner quickly incorporated her aerial choreography into their shows. Initially performing on Spanish Web and Trapeze, she began to explore silks, corde lisse, lyra, aerial net, harness, and duos. She also spent 5 years learning Flying trapeze, achieving a number of tricks out of lines. Her nickname became: Frantastic!

Some of her performing credits include Late Night with David Letterman, Lincoln Center Outdoors and with the Little Orchestra Society, the Slipper Room, Big Apple Circus, Dixon Place, Pavel Zustiak Dance Co, Madison Square Garden: Phish Concerts, and in events working for Chezzam, Patricia Birch, Cirque-tacular, Heliummm, and Lululemon Athletica. Her signature Skybody aerial classes have been hailed by Good Morning America, Live with Regis and Kelly, TV Guide Network’s Hollywood Bodies, Shape Mag, NY Magazine, Allure and Vogue. 

She currently enjoys practicing straps, cyr wheel, Pilates on her reformer, going to Argentine Tango classes and relaxes with the company of her beloved cat, Oliver. 

Certification: RYT-200 Hour ISHTA Yoga Certification

Favorite mentors: Juliana Neves, Serenity & Elsie Smith, Terry Beeman, Alyosia Gavre, Brett Womack, Chelsea Bacon, Tanya Gagne, and the San Francisco Circus Center.