Over the course of the four months we are hoping to not just teach juggling skills but to incorporate a whole variety of social skills too.  Circus is a lot more than just juggling, over the span of the term we would hope to develop presentation skills (which is very much a part of circus ) "one person could juggle 10 balls which would be impressive, but after a minute boring " but if presented in the right way someone juggling 3 balls can be just if not more impressive, entertaining, funny and engaging, this is part of what we hope to achieve over the course as well as looking at building confidence and team work .

 

Some of the juggling skills we will be teaching in the course are juggling balls /clubs, diabalo, devil stick, spinning plates, stilt walking, rola bola  (a board which is balanced on a tube ) and unicycle.

 

During the course, once the students have grasped the basics of these skills, then we will build on the basic elements to start passing clubs and balls, working on routines which will culminate in a show in January.

 

As well as the juggling aspect of our circus school, we are hoping to bring in specialist tutors who will teach the likes of clowning, acrobalance, hat manipulation, bull whip, balloon modelling, poi and puppetiring all of which are elements of the circus .