The Vertical Lab
Lab experiments: The Orbit Bar
At Carabiner’s Climbing & Fitness
📍 New Bedford, MA
🔗 carabiners.com
📅 Class Dates & Times: TBD
Come try your hand at centrifugal force.
Who It’s For:
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Beginner and experienced aerialists
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Rock climbers looking to cross-train
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Athletes, dancers, and movement lovers
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Anyone curious to defy gravity
Spinning trapeze is a powerful blend of strength, grace, and dynamic momentum. This iconic aerial apparatus—used in circuses worldwide—features a steel bar suspended by ropes, offering limitless possibilities in the air.
Expect to build total-body strength, spatial awareness, and fluid control in motion.
As a form of cross-training, spinning trapeze challenges your grip, core, shoulders, and coordination—offering climbers and fitness lovers a new way to train muscles, build endurance, and develop body intelligence in three dimensions. It's functional fitness with flight.
Whether you're a seasoned aerialist, a curious beginner, or a rock climber eager to cross-train
—you belong here.
About the owner:
Sarah Arrigo is the founder of The Vertical Lab—an experienced aerialist, educator, licensed occupational therapist, and ergonomics engineer.
With over 15 years of teaching experience, she combines performance training with therapeutic expertise, working with diverse populations from elite athletes to individuals in refugee camps.Her training spans leading circus institutions including NECCA, Circus Center SF, Circomedia, the National Centre for Circus Arts (UK), and École de Cirque de Québec. She has taught across the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Belgium at programs like Circadium and Acrosports.
Through The Vertical Lab, Sarah helps movers and athletes connect climbing and aerial work through science-based, creative training that emphasizes injury prevention, celebrates neurodivergence, and supports purpose-driven movement.