CL Guide to Summer School May 20 2004

DARING YOUNG MAN: Silks, ropes and a trapeze. Give you any ideas? That’s right: classes in aerial acrobatics and dance at Canopy Studio! The Athens studio will prepare you to run off with Cirque du Soleil, or just help you build up some killer core strength while you fling off any fears of flying. Canopy Studio, 160 Tracy St., No. 6, Athens. Mon.-Thurs., Sat., beginning June 7. $20-$90. 706-549-8501. www.canopystudio.com.?

TOO SEXY: Once a month, at the Cheetah’s “Catwalk” class, five instructors teach 50 women (sorry guys, women only) how to crawl all sexy like, work a chair and take off their clothes using arousing alternatives to the ol’ “one leg at a time.” Open bar if you need a little liquid courage. The Cheetah, 887 Spring St. $25. 21-and-over only. June 12, July 10, Aug. 14. Noon-2 p.m. 404-892-3037.?

EN PLEIN AIRE: Learn how to draw the birds and the bees (not to mention the flowers and the trees). Artist Carol Sutherland will teach several drawing classes this summer, all using the grounds of the Atlanta Botanical Garden for inspiration. Atlanta Botanical Garden, 1345 Piedmont Ave. June 5-Oct. 14. $75-$150 (10 percent discount for members). 404-876-5859. www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org.?

INTO THE WOODS: Hate to stop and ask for directions? Learn how to read a map and navigate through the wilds with instruction from the Georgia Orienteering Club. Instruction is offered at 10 a.m. on the day of each local meet, or attend GRITS’2004 — the club’s weeklong orienteering convention — for more extensive training. GRITS’2004 is June 26-July 4 at Truett-McConnell College, Cleveland, Ga. 404-366-3396. www.gaorienteering.org.?

TOOL TUTELAGE: Did you used to make fun of the shop kids, but now you can’t be trusted with a hammer? Learn how to build a chair, turn a wooden bowl, cut dovetail joints and take care of your tools at Highland Hardware — the bourgeois-bohemian woodworking wonderland. Dozens of classes throughout the summer. Highland Hardware, 1045 N. Highland Ave. Classes start at $45. 404-872-4466. www.highlandhardware.com.?

GYPSY GYRATIONS: Learn to stomp your feet and practice your smoldering face with flamenco classes offered by Perla Flamenca co-founder Julie Galle Baggenstoss. Various locations. Sundays and Tuesdays through July 25. $12-$15. 404-277-1499. www.flamencoclasses.com. For other instructors and classes, see www.frankflamenco.com/ class.htm.?

PICTURE THIS: Need a cover story for your beach perv photography? Tell ‘em you’re an artist. The Showcase School of Photography offers classes in photography, portraiture, digital photography and manipulation, darkroom techniques, framing, and other image arts. The Showcase School of Photography, 1135 Sheridan Road. Classes start mid-June. $29-$695. 404-965-2205. www.theshowcaseschool.com.