This AAPI Heritage Month, we're highlighting the baton twirling prodigy who's been dazzling audiences for two decades now in Cirque du Soleil's KÀ at the MGM Grand.

Another baton twirler is a Texan in town to visit her daughter and son-in-law. One of the youngest is a 7-year-old Forest Glen Elementary School student who has been twirling for a year.

According to Merigliano, cardio is the most important aspect of twirling. Her team’s performance lasted 4 minutes and 30 seconds, with nonstop action, so it required a lot of stamina.

Baton twirling takes a lot of skill, stamina, balance, and hand-eye coordination, all of which are learned at the 57th Annual UT Twirling Camp.

About 500 of the nation's top baton twirlers gathered at the Stockton Arena to compete in the 2022 U.S. National Baton Twirling Championships, which began Monday and ran through Saturday. The ...

Twirling may have gone out of vogue compared to the 1950s to 1970s and dipped to its lowest numbers in the 1990s, Nash said, but it has never disappeared.