About Circus Maniacs
Originally founded in 1995, Circus Maniacs is an independent circus training school operating as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee.
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.
The school's objects 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.
Professional Training
Circus Maniacs specialises in offering high-level training in Circus, Acrobatic & Aerial Techniques; Professional Mentoring; Product Creation and support for students becoming a self-employed performing artistes. The emphasis is on supporting each Artistes' unique development, as an individual.
The professional full-time training program is flexible in duration and personally tailored.
It is a fast-track opportunity for performers to achieve a good standard of physical performance skills precisely relevent to the acts or shows they are hoping to create.
Recreational Training for children aged 3+ and adults
Also weekly sessions, tasters, short courses, summers schools, private classes, teambuilding, parties & outreach workshops for children 3+ years and adults.
Circus Maniacs offers full and broad-based curriculum is offered spanning: Acrobatics, Juggling & Manipulation, Equilibristics, Trapeze & Aerial Acrobatics.
Circus Maniacs Youth Circus Company
There is also an International Award winning (UK-based) Youth Circus Company for young people aged 10 to 26. Check out the website for information on auditions, training, productions, shows, bookings and gallery.
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