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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...
The Hardcore Hand Balancer!
We love bringing people together at CircusMASH – and if we get a chance to bring them together and then turn them upside down that’s even better! We’ve just wrapped up a weekend of hand balancing; hosting two phenomenal teachers over two days of inversion training....
A July 2017 Summer Update!
Hello circus explorers! We are CircusMASH, based in Kings Heath we spread circus as far and wide as we can. In the run up to 2018, the 250th year of Circus we are giving a lot of focus to our youth programme as we believe that circus is the most powerful tool to...
A Round up of OPERATION CIRCUS!
I can't quite believe it is all over! We are thrilled to have raised a whopping £3970 from our Operation Circus crowd funding campaign to go into our pot to raise £15,000 needed for a new rigging system for the circus space in Kings Heath. Here is a round up of the...
A Massive Thank You | NAME & FAME! It’s OVER!
Well that's it! We can hardly believe it's over! Over the last 28 days we have managed to raise £3970 from 68 backers! We want to say a massive thank you to those who have pledged and are continuing to support our campaign, and those who have become as involved as we...
A Picture of CircusMASH for the future!
Today marks the final 1722nd day that CircusMASH has been running. It started very simply with very few classes and over the past (almost) five years we have come so far and the company has started to take hold of itself and understand who it is and where it is going....
A Celebration of Circus in Birmingham!
Happy Sunday circus peeps! So we only have today and tomorrow left on our Operation Circus crowd funder and we'll be sad to see it come to an end... however, we've seemed to create quite a buzz around circus in Birmingham! Wahooooo! From 2004 through until 2010, when...