The financially-stretched owners of Queenstown’s aerial silks and hoops studio have pulled the pin, leaving 100-plus students hanging. Gravity Entertainment Ltd’s Sarah Jane and Mike Harford have surrendered the lease on their Remarkables Park premises and are staring down bankruptcy. Gravity owners Mike and Sarah Jane Harford, with their 10-week-old boy Phoenix Fynn, closed shop last Friday. Sarah Jane and Mike say they’d dreamt their facility could become a performing arts hub, in lieu of the local council having anything on its radar. “I’ve been quite emotional about it – it’s just something that’s become a real passion for me.”scoop@scene.co.nzSarah Jane and Mike Harford’s contact is gravityqt@gmail.com
Source: Otago Daily Times April 18, 2019 22:07 UTC