Current and Future Courses, Classes and Workshops
Tuesdays 7.15-8.45pm: Intermediate level Aerial Classes for ages 16+
Tuesdays 8.40-10pm: Beginner level Aerial Classes for ages 16+
Tuesdays 7.30-10pm: Juggling Club for ages 16+
Fridays 6-8pm: Youth Circus all skills for ages 10-19
Youth Circus
To register your interest email: mail@circussuburbia.co.uk or phone Katie on 07984017223.
Come with your friends and challenge yourselves to learn to skills, perfect some tricks and put together acts for the public to watch. Improve your strength, flexibility, coordination, confidence and team work. Sign up now for the 12 week challenge!
Classes held at Hollyfield School gymnasium - Lamberts Road entrance. Car parking available, or just a 5 minute walk from Surbiton train station.
Circus classes are a great way to improve your strength, co-ordination, flexibility and confidence. Learn to love your body for the amazing things it can do. Circus Suburbia offers expert tuition in these extremely specialised classes for the first time in Surbiton. A combination of gymnastics, dance and performance, circus allows you to get fit and stay fit whilst having fun!
Aerial classes - first term will begin with an introduction to aerial skills, where you will try out some static trapeze, aerial hoop, rope and silks. You will then be able to choose your favourite equipment to concentrate on.
Teachers:
Katie Hardwick teaches Silks Classes and Youth Circus.
She began her teaching career as an assistant on the Youth Programme at The Circus Space, and at the Barbican during a Cirque Eloize run, learning how to teach warm-ups and aerial skills. She also did some gymnastics coaching at Avondale Gymnastics Club in Tolworth before becoming a lead and specialist aerial teacher at Swamp Circus and Circo Kernow in Cornwall, teaching all skills at the Youth Circus, silks and trapeze on a full time course for adults out of work and education and at secondary schools where pupils earned half a GCSE on the Key Skills Through Circus programme. She also taught acrobatics and balance (stilt walking, tight rope etc) at Swamp Circus summer schools in the Big Top. Katie now teaches adult evening classes in silks at The Hangar for Aircraft Circus, as well as on their full time course.
Maddy Hardwick teaches Static Trapeze and Hoop and Youth Circus
Maddy trained at The Circus Space Youth Circus and then completed a BTEC at Circomedia in Bristol, where she specialised in static trapeze and swinging trapeze. Maddy also teaches at Aircraft Circus.
Ned Rose will be leading the Juggling Club
Ned is an experienced juggler, having worked with the Gandinis, on tour with Cirq'ulation in Belgium and as a solo and duo performer in his own right. Juggler, unicyclist, musician, acrobat.
If you would like workshops in aerial skills, juggling or acrobatics, please contact us for more detail and technical requirements. To enquire about circus workshops, please email mail@circussuburbia.co.uk.
Feedback from a recent careers talk and short circus skills session involving juggling and acrobatics:
Gosh, Katie, you were marvellous! Katherine and me were
overjoyed at how you got on with the kids! Thanks from bottom of my heart and we look
forward to seeing you soon. We really do!!
Jason
From the Anstee Bridge Project.