Mobile Circus School transforms your school gym into the Big Top and your students into circus performers. Offering interactive circus arts workshops for Kindergarten to Grade 12 in French, English or both. You can customize circus school curriculum with workshop, performance and stagecraft elements to suit your educational needs. Circus School challenges your students to new learning and performing heights. Physical Education, Performing Arts and Circus Magic all combine in one package with astounding results.

Customized Circus School Curriculum:

• Choose workshop content for up to five classes a day
• Explore up to eight different circus disciplines
• Create Student Performances
• Learn to Build Circus Props and Equipment
• Book a One Woman Circus Show
• Develop Solo Routines for Public Performance
• Get accessible, adaptable activities for all ages and abilities

Educational Objectives:

To empower students to meet new physical challenges successfully and confidently; to broaden students’ understanding of Circus Arts and develop their performance abilities; to create an exciting, safe and cooperative learning atmosphere that meets your school’s objectives.

Bio:

Sand Northrup loves to teach the skills she uses in her own performances: juggling, unicycling, clowning and equilibristics. Since 1984, she has brought circus arts to literally thousands-- schools across the country, innumerable community centres, festivals, corporate events and special education projects. Sand co-founded the Ailanthus Street Performing program for inner-city youth and taught there three seasons. She coaches at Saskatoon’s Circus Arts Project and the One Wheel Wonders, a unicycle basketball team. She recently coordinated the wildly successful Circo Circuit project for the Vancouver International Children’s Festival and now takes her mobile “Circus School” to schools throughout BC.