entertainment and workshops
Kingston-Upon-Thames - South West London - Surrey
A new community circus based in Kingston-Upon-Thames.
We offer fun, challenging and affordable circus skills workshops and entertainment for community events and projects, as well as high quality corporate entertainment, festival acts, cabarets, club and promotional performances. All of our performers are professional, highly skilled and versatile. We pride ourselves on being adaptable and flexible.
We are a collective of young and energetic performers and teachers, working as a social enterprise to ensure that all profits are invested in the future of Circus Suburbia. We have worked with highly regarded and well established companies such as The Circus Space, Swamp Circus and Gandini Juggling, gaining a wealth of experience to bring to Circus Suburbia.
Our workshops develop fitness, creativity, social confidence, team building and much more. Workshops and courses can be tailored to suit any event or project, and for any age group.
We can provide a wide range of entertainment including stilt walking, juggling, aerial dance, magic, acrobatics and more.
Find out more about our circus classes here.
Meet the founders of Circus Suburbia:
KATIE started out as a member of the local artistic gymnastics squad and drama club, then joined the Circus Space childrens' classes where she met Leyla Rees. Together the pair formed the aerial duo, Starfiz, beginning their performing careers at the Glastonbury Festival circus big top at the age of fourteen.
Whilst studying English at university in Falmouth, Katie taught and performed with Swamp Circus and Circo Kernow, represented Circo Kernow Youth Circus at Circus Arts Forum meetings and was a student representative at the Hall for Cornwall.
Since graduating in 2008 Katie has moved back to Kingston from where she continues to perform solo and duo aerial acts, stilt walking and acrobatics for a wide range of clients.
Katie teaches aerial skills and acrobatics, including trapeze, rope, silks, circeau, acrobalance, tumbling, tight rope and stilt walking.
CRB checked, First Aid in sport and Child Protection & Safeguarding trained.
JON has been training to perfect his skills in juggling and manipulation for the last decade. Having gained valuable experience performing with established companies such as Gandini Juggling and Swamp Circus, Jon is also more than capable of delivering fantastic solo performances ranging from street entertainment, corporate events, festivals, walkabouts, and stage shows. Above this, Jon was the first person to be crowned British Young Juggler of the Year, and has won a number of other awards through juggling.
Jon teaches juggling and manipulation, including balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, diabolo, unicycle and stilt walking.
CRB checked.
Circus Suburbia teachers and performers:
Ed Clarke Leyla Rees Maddy Hardwick Rachel Fox
Magician Aerialist - Dancer Aerialist - Acrobat Acrobat - Aerialist - Stilt walker
LEYLA REES is a multi-skilled performer and teacher, having trained in circus skills at The Circus Space Youth Programme and in dance at The Place and the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. She completed an art foundation at Central Saint Martins, plays piano and saxophone and teaches performing arts to school children, as well as Pilates to adults. Leyla teaches aerial skills, stilt & globe walking and movement. CRB checked, First Aid trained.
MADDY HARDWICK began her circus training with The Circus Space Youth Programme and continued her training with a BTEC at Circomedia in Bristol, where she specialised in swinging and static trapeze, also developing her acrobalance and performance skills. She was awarded the Cirque Bijou Young Circus Award in 2008, and continues to improve her swinging skills in London. Maddy teaches acrobatics, trapeze, stilt walking and basic juggling. Maddy is also a swim teacher to children, is CRB checked, Child Protection and First Aid trained.
RACHEL FOX started training in circus at the age of 11. After participating in Swamp Circus workshops, she soon progressed to become a performer trainee and basic circus skills tutor for people of all ages, touring the South West under Swamp's Big Top. After becoming assistant tutor on the NCFE in circus performance delivered by Circo Kernow, and teaching circus skills in schools, Rachel achieved a triple distinction in Performing Arts at college, but seeking more intensive training to satisfy her enthusiasm for circus performance, she attended the Foundation Degree in Contemporary Circus and Physical Theatre at Circomedia. Rachel has now performed Aerial and Acro-balance in well known venues such as The Cardiff Millenium Centre, London Stratford Circus, The Bristol Old Vic, Glastonbury Big Top and Colston Hall. She is more than capable to deliver quality performance in a variety of styles, from theatrical, comedy and corporate, to cabaret, walk about and installation.
Type font by Rosie Hardwick.