08/30/2026
No choreography. No rehearsed counts. No knowing exactly what comes next. Just an apparatus, music, and a chance to create.
Improv might be one of my favorite categories to watch because it asks something completely different of an aerialist. You can have all the tricks in the world, but can you listen? Can you make choices in the moment? Can you recover when something doesn’t go exactly as planned? Can you make us believe it was supposed to happen that way?
That is artistry. And watching our Le Troupe athletes step onto the Nationals stage and TRUST themselves was such a beautiful way to close out these recaps. We spend so much time teaching skills, cleaning routines, fixing toes, counting beats and preparing every detail. Improv strips all of that away and asks one question:
What kind of artist are you when no one tells you what to do?
Turns out, ours have a whole lot to say. ❤️🖤
And with that… our Nationals recap series is officially complete. What a season. What a team. What a way to finish. 🏆