‘Making your body lighter’: Acrobats mentor students at Nelson circus festival

‘Making your body lighter’: Acrobats mentor students at Nelson circus festival

Cody Tudor spent the afternoon of May 3 teaching students how to perform a handstand on another standing person. “They are essentially standing on the ground, feet planted, and then within a half second to one second they are upside down, doing a handstand on top of a human being,” he says. The class, attended by about a dozen people, was part of last weekend’s Kootenay Circus Arts Festival where Tudor, from the U.S. southwest, was a guest perfo…