Movement Arts
Circus, Physical Theater, Tumbling
After walking on stilts, riding a unicycle, juggling and doing audience animation for entertainment companies for a decade, I now teach circus arts to ages 7-12 at various performing arts organizations.
The diversity of engagement within the circus arts offers something for everyone. I teach tumbling, basic partner acrobatics, jugging, plate spinning, feather balancing, and clown routines.
A sharing for family and friends after a 10 session (1x/wk) tumbling class at Brooklyn Arts Exchange.
A sharing for family and friends after a 14 session (1x/wk) Wild Bodies class at Brooklyn Arts Exchange.
Students practicing “circle toss” at Workshop Middle School.
Wild Bodies
Wild Bodies is a physical theater and tumbling class for ages 7-12. The class combines elements of theater, circus arts, sports movement, parkour and to provide young people an imaginative and collaborative space where they can share stories and build friendships. The class currently meets once a week for 75 minutes for ages 7-12.
Over the course of a semester, students learn and invent theater games, blend sports and dance movement, and explore and create obstacle courses. They will learn the techniques in tumbling, theater and circus arts while exploring theme of while with stories and visual art. From these explorations students create a high energy performance that strings together scenes, characters, and choreography they’ve conjured along the way. At the end of the semester, the community is invited to a performance developed through their wild explorations. .
The goal is making kids feel good, confident, and part of an inclusive community through physical games, collaboration and creativity.
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