CIRCUS ARTS TRainings
UPCOMING TRAINING DATES
Beginner: May 7-10, 2021 Beginner: June 25-28, 2021 Intermediate: July 9-12, 2021 Advanced: March 4-7, 2022 |
Level 1: June 25, 2021 - July 5, 2021 Level 2: July 6-11, 2021 |
Who are our trainings for?
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Aerial Teacher Training
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Circus Arts Therapy® Training
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Recreational Adaptive Teacher Training
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Our interactive online TRAINING'S are for everyone!
The Circus Arts Institute's Educational branch has been proudly teaching circus educators, therapists, occupational therapists, and many more for 30+ years. Through our School of Circus Arts we offer Teacher Training programs in both ground-based and aerial skills.
Creating a safe and healthy learning environment includes not discriminating (or tolerating fellow learners to discriminate) based on age, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, ethnicity, religion, or socioeconomic status.
Creating a safe and healthy learning environment includes not discriminating (or tolerating fellow learners to discriminate) based on age, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, ethnicity, religion, or socioeconomic status.
WHY train at Circus Arts Institute?
- Circus Arts Institute is a flagship member of the Safety Network for the American Circus Educators (ACE) that recognizes our training and certifications .
- Our Aerial Teacher Training programs were created mindfully based on decades of experience and have responsibly evolved as the discipline of circus arts has expanded and modernized.
- As a student in our training program, you will have direct access to Carrie Heller, our Director, who has over 40+ years experience as a performer, mentor, and aerial teacher.
- All of our trainers have at least 10 years of hands-on experience training aerial instructors.
- The expert training our teachers offer is built upon years of experience working with a diverse body of students of varying ages, aptitudes, body types, and aspirations.
- As a National Training Organization
- We offer individualized instruction, feedback, and assessments by highly experienced, certified teachers.
- We deliver programs that provide codified, step-by-step instructions for each skill in meaningfully scaffolded skill progressions.
- Lastly and certainly not least, we extend beyond pedestrian "trick teaching" by providing didactic information about the philosophy of teaching in the aerial arts and nurture the emergent qualities required for you to be an expert teacher.
video library
Our trainees will have access to our growing online video library. Thank you to Hilary Riall, Annika Egerstedt, Olivia Egerstedt, Kasumi Kato, and Amber Monson for the superb display of your talents in our online video library! Thank you to Lauren Taglialatela for all of your contributions to the videos, including so masterfully editing and putting together each and every video you see in our library.
FREE CAI shirts!
While supply lasts, early registrants who pay in full when registering will be provided a free T-shirt or Tank Top!
YOUR RiG
All Circus Arts Institute training's will be live and interactive online. During registration you will be asked to provide information about your "safe rig".
If you have a rig:
If you have a rig:
- To ensure that your home or private studio aerial rig and space are safe, we follow the safety standards of the American Circus Educators (ACE), the Safety Network that recognizes our training and certifications.
- We will also be scheduling a short ZOOM meeting to view your rig with you before our training.
- We request that you have a ‘student’ who you can practice with and physically work through how to teach and spot the skills.
- A detailed schedule will be provided so you know the exact hours we will be using the aerial equipment vs. lecture time. If your ‘student’ is unavailable at any time, you will still participate fully by watching others intently to develop your teacher’s eye, taking notes and asking questions.
- If your rig is outside and weather does not permit you to use it on the day of training, it is the same as noted below (if you do not have a rig). You will still participate in the session by watching others intently, taking notes, asking questions and practicing the skills later.
- You may still take this training and participate in full by using the time to develop your teacher’s eye by watching others intently, taking notes and asking questions.
- You do not have to have a rig at the time of the training to participate and learn.
- You will have access to the Teaching and Spotting videos for your apparatus, so you can review the material/skills at your convenience with your ‘student’ & local aerial trainer anytime afterwards.
COVID-19
Even though we will meet online for our training, we understand you might be sharing a space with others and/or you will have your own ‘student’ who you will practice with. For these reasons, we also request everyone practice safe social distancing. When not possible (for example when you are practicing spotting your student up close) that you wear masks as well as protocols for disinfecting. We also request all participants to sign our Safety First Partnership Agreement with regards to COVID-19 Safety and precautions.
We use Zoom for our interactive online training and will need a good view of each other from the following locations:
- Your lecture and discussion Space
- Your Floor Space for warm ups & cool downs
- Your Aerial Space (if you are using a rig)
- We recommend you perform a test run with a peer to try out each view before you join us online.
