Workshops for Groups & Events
Circus Skills
Widely known for building confidence, keeping fit, improving balance and coordination whilst encouraging a strong sense of team building through the nature of play. Our workshops introduce floor based practices such as Juggling, Poi, Diablo, Staff and Hula Hoop. Guiding absolute beginners to professional performers. We can provide “drop in” workshops for busy events or structured sessions for a more focused group.
Learn Living Statue
Laura Wheeler, our artistic director is a passionate living statue performer and has been developing a workshop practice for participants to learn the art of stillness. This long running form of street performance brings together mindfulness, physical theatre, costume and character to create what we know as the human statue.
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Learn Living Statue workshops focus on the physical and mental aspect of this art form and include a guided meditation to relax into the practice.
Drop in circus workshops at busy events can be run by one or two tutors and let people of any age and ability come and go as they please to try out the equipment with help at hand.
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Structured sessions for 1-2 hours can specialise in different areas and props and include all sorts of fun games and physical warm ups for classes and groups young or old to work together.
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Sessions can optionally also come with a renegade show to share skills learnt though out the process or contact us if you want to build a more substantial series of sessions leading to a showcase.
Stilt Walking
Beginners to Expert Class
Ross Wheeler has been stilt walking for over 15 years and focuses on smaller peg stilts for agile movements in interactive comedic walkabouts and stilt dancing cabaret acts. Beginner to expert classes for circus groups involve exercises and teachings around the anatomy of peg stilt walking, dancing and agile movements for different terrains and characters. Sessions are delivered firstly by exploring the physical movements without stilts before repeating these with stilt practice and developing short peer performances. These sessions can be for young to adult ages for people who can already walk on stilts, however separate beginner stilt walking workshops can also be arranged.
Regular classes at Cirk Hes
Our creative manager Ross is also a regular teacher at Cirk Hes​ - a registered charity and circus school based in Helston. Ross runs regular classes, including sessions for children with neuro diversities, disabled adults and home educated families to explore circus in a relaxed and non pressured environment. These sessions are very much geared around person led and play based learning. Something that is often overlooked in traditional educational settings. Ross is also trained in the neuro assessment profiling tool and ever expanding his knowledge of the benefits of circus for those with disabilities.