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‘Annie Says’ – Week 5 @ Birmingham Youth Circus!
Hello everyone! I hope you're excited to hear how we got on this week...has it been 5 weeks already? Read on! What we did this week! This week we focused on show creation. Our tasks set all had a purpose towards it , for example we were all given random objects and we...
‘Annie Says’ BYC : Week 4!
Welcome to this weeks blog, readers! I hope your looking forward to hearing about what we did this week, as much as we enjoyed the experience ourselves! So, what did we do THIS week? To start of the day of this week we had Kat return to work with us. We focused on...
‘Annie Says’ BYC : Week 3!
Hello CircusMASH Friends! I hope your looking forward to hearing about this weeks training as its been very interesting! Here's what we got up to this week... To start of the session this week we all got our training plans from last week back with feedback about...
‘Annie Says’ BYC : Week 2!
Hello CircusMashers! I hope you're excited to hear about this weeks training - its been a good one! What we did this week... TRAINING PLANS To start of the session this week we all started to make our own personal training programmes. We had to set goals for...
‘Annie Says’ Week 1 : BYC commences!
Birmingham Youth Circus : Week One ! Hello fellow circus people! My name is Annie and I am a student at CircusMASH. I am now going to be your weekly columnist for Birmingham Youth Circus. I am going to be updating you each week on what we have been up to in BYC! So...
Aerialists : 5 Ways to Overcome Your Fear of Falling
On remarkably varying scales, we are all born with a sense of danger. Our drive to survive is powerful and can define how we choose to live on a daily basis. Perhaps it might be double checking our cars for faults before a journey, or going back to check we’ve...
Making friends in the circus ring – how does circus training help your child with social skills?
Did you study anything as a child? An instrument maybe, or a sport? Some of us were lucky as children to be sent off to ballet or football. Some of us might have attended Scouts, others to Guides. Perhaps we had classmates who went to art classes, or tried out for the...
We Won! Birmingham Arts & Culture award 2017
So, on Saturday night lots of the CircusMASH gang went along to the fabulous Birmingham Awards. We had been shortlisted for Arts & Culture 2017, up against four other amazing companies including Millennium Point & Ikon Gallery. Our jaws dropped faster than our...
RETROGRADE CREATION – WEEK 4
Well done this week guys! Was lovely to see so many break throughs in terms of strength and skill. Lets start with the fantastic Malcolm in adult Cirquestars… swinging his way to the CircusMASH ceiling as he trains in Cloud Swing. Be sure to come and see the rest of...
RETROGRADE Creation – WEEK 3
WEEK 3! Training is in full swing now and exploration is getting exciting! A big shout out this week to our adult Cirquestars for pushing through your dizziness and not turning away from anything that we are throwing at you, and one to our Youth for being the most...