All you need is love – and a well-aimed hurricane kick
Ariel Artist Michelle Bolong. Photo by Nicola Marsh Computers can crash. Is there anything scarier than flying 30 feet above the heads of a crowd in a harness attached to computerized rigging? Yes: flying without a harness. Dancer, aerialist and Taekwondo master Michelle Bolong has done both. After three years of swooping over the stage to the sound of the Beatles in the Cirque du Soleil production “Love,” the Peninsula High alum returned to the South Bay to share her knowledge. In January 2009 she opened the Power Plant Aerial & Martial Arts Center in Manhattan Beach. Now, about 100 adults and children as young as two-and-a-half are empowering themselves by fearlessly swinging on silks or trapezes and by mastering self-defense. Blame it on London. On the road to academia — she planned to be an English professor — Bolong swerved. A few years later, instead of standing at a lectern, she was soaring over the heads of thousands of spectators at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. Bolong grew up from age four in Rancho Palos Verdes, tagging along with her older brother, Michael, and his friends, playing their rough and tumble games. When he studied martial arts so did she. Starting high…
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