Summer School 2025
Join us at the National Centre for four days of jam packed circus skills and training this August.
Try your hand at flying trapeze, Cyr wheel, tumbling, silks, clowning, and much more!
Our Summer School offers the chance for young people to try out a range of circus disciplines across a period of four days, located at our magnificent converted power station between Hoxton Square and Old Street.
Participants will have the opportunity to try out a variety of skills and will be taught by our team of experienced circus teachers and performers in our purpose-built professional training spaces.
Our Summer School is split into two mixed-ability, age categories and is suitable for those who have never done any sort of circus before or for those that have been participating in classes recreationally for the past few years.
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Details
Booking opens Feb 4 2025 at 4.15pm
This year we are running two sessions of summer school, choose from:
Summer school 2025
- Monday 18 – Thursday 21 August | 10am – 4pm | ages 8-11 years old
- Monday 18 – Thursday 21 August | 10am – 4pm | ages 12-15 years old
Early Bird Price: ÂŁ326.25 (10% off)
Full Price: ÂŁ362.50
More information
From Monday to Wednesday participants will have the opportunity to try out a variety of circus skills. Examples of the skills they will get to try are:
- Aerial Skills – Silks, rope, flying trapeze, static trapeze, Chinese pole and aerial hoop.
- Equilibristics – Tightwire and juggling
- All things hoop – Cyr wheel, hula hooping
- Acrobatics – Tumbling, parkour and acrobalance
- Theatrics – Movement and clowning
On Thursday, participants will be able to choose a skill/discipline from a selection of the skills done earlier in the week. Then working individually or in small groups with a trainer they will work to create a short performance.
Those who would like to will then be able to show their routine at the end of the day to friends and family.
While we cannot specify in advance what skills your child will do each day we aim to ensure that all participants experience a wide variety of disciplines from each of the main categories. These timetables are a guide and are subject to changes.
*example timetable subject to change