Classes

The next round of Saturday Circus Classes start September 8, 2012.  Stay tuned for registration information.

Tumbling & Mini-Trampoline – SAT: 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: Tumbling Level 1 Skill Competency and Instructor Permission
This class will focus primarily on tumbling. Students will continue working on somersaults, bridges, cartwheels, headstands, and body positions necessary for Mini-Trampoline, Trampoline, Partner Acrobatics. Strength and flexibility will be emphasized. Part of each lesson will include Mini-Trampoline.
Instructor: Carlo Gentile

Unicycle – Beyond Beginner – SAT: 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: Ability to ride unassisted and Instructor Permission. Closed-toe shoes.
**NEW** While Beginner Unicycle focuses on the fundamentals, the Beyond Beginner class will focus on mounts, hops, and idling. Trick mounts, acrobatic riding, one pedal and no pedal tricks will be introduced to more advanced riders. If you can ride across the Youth Center without a spotter, this class is for you.
Instructor: Sam Sake

Aerial Arts Level 3 – SAT: 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: Aerial Arts Level 2 Skill Competency and Instructor Permission
Building on the skills introduced in Aerial Arts Level 2, students in this class will focus on choreography and act creation specifically refining transitions between tricks and creating polished acts using trapeze & fabric.
Instructor: Tera McBlaine

Aerial Arts Level 2 – SAT: 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: Aerial Arts Level 1 Skill Competency and Instructor Permission
Building on the skills introduced in Aerial Arts Level 1, students in this class will focus on more difficult trapeze and fabric tricks, flexibility and grace along with full body strength.
Instructor: Lizzy Gifford

Aerial Arts Level 1 – SAT: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: None
This class will focus on static trapeze and hanging fabric (silk). Building strength, coordination, and a basic aerialist vocabulary are its goals.
Instructors: Lizzy Gifford, Tera McBlaine

Chinese Pole – SAT: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. AND 11:45-1:00 p.m. $160 per session

Pre-requisite: Tumbling Level 1 Skill Competency and Instructor Permission. Thin-soled shoes.
**NEW** Unleash your inner monkey. Learn the basic climbs and static holds for Chinese pole. No rosin, no tape, no rubber, no padding. Just cold hard steel. For this introductory class, much of our focus will be on building strength and coordination. Did I forget to mention you’re going to be sore, buff, and cool?
Instructor: Carlo Gentile

Tight Wire – SAT: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: Circus Level 1 or Circus Camp and Instructor Permission. Socks.
Learn wire walking fundamentals. The majority of the instruction will take place 2 feet off the ground. Focus will be on technique and form in order to build the confidence necessary to cross the wire unassisted.
Instructor(s): TBA

Unicycle Beginner – SAT: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: Circus Level 1 or Circus Camp and Instructor Permission. Closed-toe shoes.
Learn to unicycle! The Free Mount, straight line, turns and idling are all possibilities for beginners. This class has an enforced maximum of 8 students. Register early!
Instructors: Colvin Creveling, Sam Sake

Circus Buffet – SAT: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: None
Formerly Circus 1 Circus 2 and Beginner/Intermediate Circus. The Circus Buffet focuses on the basic principles of circus: balance, coordination and clowning. Curriculum rotates. Session 2 curriculum may include juggling, spinning plates, diabolo, partner acrobatics, etc. However, tight wire will not be offered.
Instructors: Anthony Courser, Carlo Gentile, Brian P. Dailey, Sam Sake

Physical Comedy, Performance Technique & Clowning: – SAT: 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: Generosity. Openness. Imagination. Instructor Permission.
**NEW** Through play we will discover what it is to be onstage and in performance! We will learn to embrace our inner silliness as we explore, and celebrate, our impulses: following, giving, receiving, and committing. We will begin to develop your own personal clown character and how he or she lives, and plays, in a world with other clowns!
Instructor: Anthony Courser

Juggling & Manipulation – SAT: 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: Solid 3 ball cascade (at least 50 continuous throws-catches). Or Instructor Permission.
**NEW** This class will focus on individual skill development in the toss juggling universe. Content could include Balls, Rings, Clubs, Diabolos, Cigar Boxes—basically, whatever students can “throw at” their instructor. Brian will help students set and accomplish personal goals no matter what the prop. Using good technique and finding a personal aesthetic will be stressed. Though this class will emphasize solo work, group work is definitely possible.
Instructor: Brian P. Dailey

Pure Mini-Trampoline – SAT: 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: Safely execute dive roll from mini-tramp. Instructor Permission. Socks.
**NEW** Title says it all. What more do you need to know? This is not a beginner level class. Expect to flip. Expect to fly. Expect to sweat.
Instructor: Sam Sake

Aerial Web & Hoop – WED: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. $160 per session
Pre-requisite: Aerial Arts Level 1 Skill Competency and Instructor Permission
Building on the foundational skills and aerialist vocabulary introduced in Aerial Arts Level 1, this class will introduce similar, but complimentary aerial equipment. As with all other Aerial Arts, flexibility, grace and full body strength will be emphasized.
Instructor: Lizzy Gifford

Advancement through Levels

Moving up a level (e.g., from Aerial Arts Level 1 to Level 2) is possible when a student is competent in all of the skills of that level. We realize kids will progress at different rates. It may take a student one Session to move up to the next Level. It may take multiple sessions. Precisely what skills are required to advance within the levels will be addressed in each class and will vary by discipline.