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‘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...
RETROGRADE Creation – WEEK 2
Week 2 Retrograde Creation with Adult & Youth CirqueStars So, this past week the Mash crew casted 20 youth & 20 adult participants into a variety of acts that will feature in our show Retrograde in December. Each participant was given a specialist and a...
RETROGRADE Creation – WEEK 1
Well, week 1 was a fabulous success! Here started the ‘Retrograde’ journey. If you don’t already know, Retrograde is our community winter show 2017 which will be created with our Sunday Cirquestars group over this term. Week one was all about assessment of fitness...
Doddington Hall & Gardens show with Arts NK
What a week! After being commissioned by Arts NK and Doddington Hall to create a magical outdoor piece of circus theatre, we spent the wee working with 10 community members from circus, dance and theatre backgrounds. It culminated in a piece that took audiences on a...
The Odyssey- Summer School 2017
Well... that was one very exciting week! Here is Director Katie's Blog as well as a video that you can all get your teeth into! Apologies for the shaky hands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDM2vM7KKL4&feature=em-upload_owner Hello circus squad! Katie here, I...