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info@circusmaniacs.com
t/f: +44 (0) 117 9477 042
www.circusmaniacs.com
Office 8a, Kingswood Foundation
Britannia Road, Kingswood,
Bristol, BS15 8DB, England.
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Originally founded in 1995, Circus Maniacs is an independent circus training school operating as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee.
Circus Maniacs offers a full-time professional training/mentoring programme for over 16's leading to act creation + support with self-employment. The training program is flexible in duration and personally tailored, supporting each artistes unique development.
We offer a full and broad-based curriculum spanning: Acrobatics, Juggling & Manipulation, Equilibristics, Trapeze & Aerial Acrobatics.
We have the UK's top youth circus company for young people aged 10 to 26 (see photos).
We run a variety of recreational classes for children 3+ and adults which encompasses weekly classes, tasters, short courses, summer schools, private classes, as well as teambuilding parties etc.
Circus Maniacs also is involved with a lot of outreach workshops with schools, youth + community groups.
The school's Director is Jacqueline Welbourne, formerly the UK's top International award-winning aerial acrobat who won major prizes at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain, also at the Festival International du Cirque de Monte-Carlo; and performed her aerial act all around the world including starring with the world famous Cirque du Soleil.
We have a full-time resident Chinese Acrobatic coach, many of our teachers are professional Circus Artistes. We also have great support from a number of Voluntary tutors working with our Youth Circus programmes.
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Our Objectives Are:
- To promote, maintain, improve and advance education and health by the encouragement of the arts including, without limitation, the arts of circus, acrobatics, drama, mime, dance, singing, music, visual arts and multi-media.
- To advance the education of the public in the subject of circus arts.
- To support talented and gifted young people in the field of circus and performing arts by providing opportunities for their personal development and growth that they would otherwise not have access to.
- To increase the number of high quality opportunities for the continuing professional development of circus performers, teachers and technicians, and circus and performing arts companies.
- To reduce the number of people who feel excluded from society by increasing access to circus and the performing arts, with the object of improving their quality of life, aspirations, attainment.
- To work with community, national and international partners to improve cultural diversity and social inclusion, exchange knowledge and innovate ideas, in particular towards furthering the development of circus arts at all levels.
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Country: ENGLAND
Last Updated: 2006-10-15
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