-Trapeze
-Tissue/silks
-Contortion/Flexibility
-Spanish web
-Acrobatics/Acrobalance
-Hula Hoops
- Chinese Pole
-Circus and Aerial Skills
-Teenage class (12-16)
-Kids Classes (5-12)
Trapeze- Beginners
Build strength and learn the basics of static trapeze whilst having fun. This class focuses solely on trapeze and will take you through warm up, stretching and conditioning. You will go on to learn tricks on the trapeze and will be encouraged to put them together in a routine at the end of term for a showing.
Trapeze- Intermediate
Take your skills further and learn new, more involved tricks and techniques on the trapeze. Performance skills and techniques are introduced and further developed in this class. This course is designed for people who have completed at least one term of Beginners Trapeze.
Trapeze- Advanced
This course is for students who have been doing the intermediate trapeze course and would like to focus more on performance techniques. In this class you will work with different ideas and concepts such as improvisation, props and unusual equipment. You will work on more elite aerial skills.
Tissue/silks - Beginners/Intermediate
A Tissue is two strips of fabric hung from a single point approx 7m high. You will learn to climb and drop, and twist yourself in knots high in the air. A certain amount of basic strength is required and often people will complete another course before beginning this one, but that is not compulsory.
Tissue/silks - Advanced
This class is for people who have completed at least 2 terms of the beginners/intermediate course. You will learn more involved and scarier tricks and drops. Every encouragement is given to people to construct their own routine, and develop performance techniques.
Contortion/Flexibility
This class in an open class and will focus on increasing flexibility, forward and backward walkovers and contortion moves. You do not need to be a contortionist to attend this class.
Spanish Web- All levels
If you love to spin around at dizzying heights then Spanish Web is for you. You will learn to climb to the top of a rope and attach yourself by a hand or foot loop. Someone on the ground will then spin you around while you learn different tricks and positions. You will learn to develop sequences of tricks to form your own routine. This is a mixed class for beginners to people with more advanced skills. A certain amount of basic strength and the ability to climb a rope is required and often people will complete another course before beginning this one.
Acrobalance/Acrobatics- All levels
In this class you will learn the basics of acrobalance, acrobatics, tumbling, mini-tramp and handstands. This course is designed for people with all ranges of experience, from beginners to advanced.
Hula Hoops
This is an open class and is a great wat to get fit and have fun. Come along and bring some friends to learn some great party tricks or develop new performance skills to add to your repertoire.
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Chinese Pole
A simple and elegant circus apparatus, the Chinese Pole is a sticky aluminum pole generally about 6.5metres high, you will learn many different climbs, tricks and slides as well as develop technique and loads of strength.
Circus and Aerial Skills for Everyone- All levels
This class is great for people who just want to try it all. It is designed as an introduction to circus and aerial skills and aims to establish a solid grounding in the circus essentials whilst also enhancing fitness, co-ordination, strength, flexibility and confidence. This eight week course will focus on a variety of circus basics from hula hoops and juggling to acrobatics, trapeze, tissue and more. Each class will begin with a warm up and stretching and some strength conditioning. It is open to beginners and we work at the pace of the students. The class is ideal for people who are interested in trying something new and outside their normal routine. Each week we spend 40 minutes on aerial skills.
NOTE - This class starts Week 2 of every term
Teenage Class (12 - 16 yrs)
This class is open to students who have progressed from the kid's classes as well as new students. They will have the opportunity to learn ground skills such as hula hoops, acrobalance, tumbling, juggling, poi, Diablo, and more. A large emphasis is also given to the aerial skills where the students will work on the following apparatus: solo or double static trapeze, aerial ring, tissue, corde lisse, and Spanish web. The students will be given the freedom to choose which skills they would most like to focus on, and they will be encouraged to put together routines for the end of term showings.
Kids Classes (5 - 12 yrs)
In these classes children will participate in a variety of circus skills including hula hoops, juggling, acrobatics, acrobalance, mini tramp, trapeze, aerial ring, tissue, rope and Spanish web. These classes cater to all abilities from beginners through to advanced levels. The children are encouraged to progress at their own pace and they can choose the aerial skills on which they prefer to focus.
Each term the students will work towards a showing of their skills in the last week of term and they can invite family and friends to come along and see what amazing things they have learnt.
Beginners Circus and Aerial
In this class the children will learn the basics of tumbling, hula hoops, acrobalance, and aerial skills.
Intermediate Circus and Aerial
This class is for students who have developed strength and flexibility and a good understanding of aerial acrobatics in the beginner's course and are deemed by the instructors ready for the next level.
Advanced Circus and Aerial Performance
This class is by invitation only.
The children in this class are encouraged to focus on more performance based skills.