The frustrations...

Oh the joys of being an aerial artist! Once again we've had a superkeen group of people wanting me and my girls to do a routine for a national conference. Just when we thought it would happen the organisers realised what we were going to do and came back asking us to get insurance. This is really difficult as the two girls I have trained to perform with me are under the age of 18, which means they can't get insurance. I asked my insurance broker to do some inquiries to find resonable (price wise) insurance cover. He came back to say everyone balked when they found out what it was for and quoted me for thousands!

Fortunately through my circus contacts in Melbourne I have been able to find a broker that is specifically for circus performers. This has brought the cost down substancially to two hundred. Much more reasonable! But it doesn't include cover for the girls as again, they don't provide cover for underage performers. Will have to do some more investigating.

On another topic, the organisation I teach and train through up in Darwin have asked me to take on another two classes to cater for the interest, this will include adults. Myself and the other tutor have both been explicit saying we only want to dedicate one night a week (in which we currently have two successive classes on) to teaching as we both still want to train and have other things on during the week. The problem with this organisation is they have no experience with aerial circus arts. They are only interested in expanding the number of teaching opportunities without considering the implications. They even suggested that we could teach during the one night a week we've dedicated to training ourselves! We'll stay firm in our decision though, we both consider ourselves as artists before teachers so our priorities will not change!