Circus Skills

Open to everyone – you don’t have to be a gymnast

A fantastic course involving aerial tissu and rope skills, static trapeze and ring, acrobatic balancing and tumbling, group and partner work, object manipulation (juggling balls, scarves, clubs, staff, poi, hoops and more); unicycle, rollabola and stilts. Although you don’t have to be a gymnast to give it a go, a good level of strength and fitness will help you make the most of this course. You will have the thrill of presenting some very exciting and spectacular work after only one week with the most supportive of tutors!

Alice Capper-Starr, physical trainer for Wellington Circus Trust (retired aerialist); choreographer and stilt dancer with Empress Stiltdance company; physical theatre performer with AkeAke Theatre Company; producer & director of her own company Kiwi Circus Adventures. Credits include: Circus Proms with Vector Wellington Orchestra, Maui the stageshow; Our Secret Garden with AkeAke Theatre Company; Skye with Empress Stiltdance; Stars Revenge and Flying through the Frickn Air with Kiwi Circus Adventures. Alice coordinated the stunt department on Lord of the Rings and worked for Weta as a Big Rig operator.