Kidsport grant changes will cut circus out.
Changes to Kidsport grants will mean that CirQuest Circus will no longer be eligible to accept Kidsport vouchers for participants’ fees, as of July 2018. Until then we are still registered as a Kidsport club but, after July, families with access to the grants will no longer be able to use them for CirQuest classes. The hugely successful program has enabled 70,000 children in low-income families to access physical activity outside of school, and has been a model which other s
Point your toes! Or flex them, whatever. Just do something with them that looks like you remember
I love how this aspect of technique in aerials and acrobatics has changed over the course of my career in circus. Awareness of your whole body, right down to your toes, is and always has been such an important part of the skill of trick-based circus training, and the intentionality of what your hands and feet are doing is a powerful tool in the kit of every physical performer. Training your feet to point automatically is a practice thing, but also training your toe point is
