This compulsory second year module for the BA Physical Theatre introduces students to the broad range of circus skills needed to create circus. It provides an individual performance focus and encourages development of individual performance ability in a particular skill such as aerials, juggling, clowning or stilt-walking. The course delivers physical conditioning for circus skills and development of acrobatic skills.
Circus is a predominantly specialist discipline in which the focus is on skills and virtuoso performance. Students build on their understanding of, and experience in a variety of circus skills, and work toward a professional level of expertise in their individual circus discipline such as corde lisse, bungy, trapeze, juggling, or clowning. This unit also further develops acrobatic balancing and tumbling to a professional level.
By the end of the module students will have developed and experienced a range of advanced circus skills, an individual creative performance focus in a discipline such as corde lisse, bungy, trapeze, juggling, or clowning and advanced acrobatic balancing and tumbling skills.
The work of the module also includes an element of street theatre training which aims to integrate and apply elements of mask, clowning skills and commedia and thus provides students with opportunities to put into practice a wide range of the skills they have learned in the first year of the course.
Circus is a predominantly specialist discipline in which the focus is on skills and virtuoso performance. Students build on their understanding of, and experience in a variety of circus skills, and work toward a professional level of expertise in their individual circus discipline such as corde lisse, bungy, trapeze, juggling, or clowning. This unit also further develops acrobatic balancing and tumbling to a professional level.
By the end of the module students will have developed and experienced a range of advanced circus skills, an individual creative performance focus in a discipline such as corde lisse, bungy, trapeze, juggling, or clowning and advanced acrobatic balancing and tumbling skills.
The work of the module also includes an element of street theatre training which aims to integrate and apply elements of mask, clowning skills and commedia and thus provides students with opportunities to put into practice a wide range of the skills they have learned in the first year of the course.
- Module Supervisor: Simon Hunt