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 aerial ring (lyra), acrobatic balancing and tumbling, group and partner work, object manipulation (hoops, balls, scarves, clubs, poi and more), unicycle and rollabola. You don’t have to be a gymnast to give it a go, but 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 skilled and supportive tutors!
TUTOR: Pipi-Ayesha Evans
Pipi-Ayesha is a circus and physical theatre performer and tutor. In performance, Pipi specialises in aerials and stilts, in particular combining them with physical theatre and aerial dance. She aims to create work that is provocative and beautiful, combining physicality with innovative storytelling to create compelling theatre. Pipi has performed and trained extensively throughout New Zealand and internationally, including trapeze off a hot air balloon in the Wairarapa, and stilts in the Himalalyas. For the past two years Pipi has been working with Dreamcast Theatre in the Solomon Islands. She worked with them teaching circus skills, and mentoring Dreamcast to continue teaching circus in the Solomon Islands. This will be Pipi’s 6th time teaching at NYDS.
TUTOR: Irene Göed
Irene has been performing and teaching various circus skills for over 25 years. Her passion lies with object manipulation like juggling, hula hoops and aerial acrobatics. She has been performing stilt and street theatre, as well as juggling and firedance in her native Austria and other European countries. Since moving to New Zealand in 2000 Irene has finished a diploma in Circus Arts at Christchurch Polytech where she specialized in swinging trapeze and other aerials. For the last 14 years she has been performing in her very own circus – Circus Aotearoa – which she runs together with husband Damian and son Matthias. Irene is also teaching circus skills and yoga-based movement to people of all ages in rural Raglan. Her fascination with circus is never ending as there are always new things to explore and learn – regardless of age and abilities.
