The Latest at Circus Academy

Circus Academy presents a variety show with a brilliant array of upcoming artists. Featuring Legs, Persephone, Sapphire Wilde, Lottie T. Totler, Jake and Nicole, Nicole Long, Sage Ribbons, Bush Baby, and Rebecca & very special guest barracuda, Clair! When Sunday, August 9th Starts @ 5:00pm, Doors @ 4:30pm $15 general admission, $25 reserved seats Where The Slipper Room* 167 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002 *This is a 21+ event. There is a $20 minimum on all credit card purchas

This workshop will focus on dynamic duo trapeze skills, working together as base and flyer, and creating unique pathways and sequences. Signing up as a duo is encouraged but not mandatory. If you sign up solo you'll either be paired up with another student or with an instructor! Pre-requisites: ability to invert, has come to at least 1 duo class or has some familiarity with duo trapeze. Price: $75 for 1 student, $130 for 2 students if signed up as a duo* *If signing up as a d

Want to level up your trampoline skills and aerial awareness? Join us for our Trampoline Workshop with Steven Gluckstein, Olympian and USA Trampoline National Team Head Coach On July 19, Steven is coming to CANY to share his knowledge and love of trampoline as an athlete of 17 years and coach of 22 years. In addition to coaching current Olympic trampolinists, Steven works with athletes across the country to improve their trampoline for cross-training with circus, freestyle sk

Circus Academy New York is partnering with the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) to host an Immigrants Rights Workshop. During the workshop, a representative from MOIA will present information on knowing your rights when dealing with ICE, supporting immigrant New Yorkers in the face of increased enforcement, and resources offered by the City of New York. We invite everyone interested in supporting immigrant rights to join. The presentation will last about an hour wit

Born and raised in Bogota Colombia, Sebastian discovered his passion for movement at a young age. Before diving into the circus world, he trained martial arts for more than 10 years, spending 1 year in China at the Shaolin Temple. He graduated from L’École de Cirque de Québec with Diabolo as his main discipline. Since then he’s worked with companies like 7 Fingers, Machine de Cirque and Les Productions Haut-Vol. Circus Academy Brooklyn 30 Tompkins Ave, NY 11206 (directions) C

WTF IS A 'MERICA: A JULY 4TH CELEBRATION? Join us for the show we will be hosting right before the fireworks over the Hudson on the 4th of July! We have assembled an incredible cast of NYC's most talented and boundary-pushing artists to celebrate the beauty of freedom of expression, diversity, absurdity, queerness, and the dream of an egalitarian society. This show is for ADULTS only and will feature a variety of circus, neo-burlesque, absurdist performance art, drag and a tr

This semester’s emerging artist show will take place in the FOREST. Come join us for some frolicking and exploring as fungi come to life, fairies emerge, (Kate) bushes take flight and a chameleon transforms before your eyes… and that is just the beginning! We are thrilled to invite you to see not just how strong, skilled and talented this group of artists is, they are also supremely creative. There will be lots of aerial, some drag, and maybe even some wushu. You don’t want

Born and raised in Bogota Colombia, Sebastian discovered his passion for movement at a young age. Before diving into the circus world, he trained martial arts for more than 10 years, spending 1 year in China at the Shaolin Temple. He graduated from L’École de Cirque de Québec with Diabolo as his main discipline. Since then he’s worked with companies like 7 Fingers, Machine de Cirque and Les Productions Haut-Vol. Circus Academy Brooklyn 30 Tompkins Ave, NY 11206 (directions) A

Want to add a dynamic quality to even simple sequences? Want to learn to find your center and spin into a blur? Spinning quickly makes almost everything look cooler, so let’s make it easy! Come learn techniques to: Tornado spin in center (on 1 or 2 arms or legs) Use the momentum of the spin to make your flare feel easy-breezy (we’ll work on flares to straddle, nutcracker, meathooks, and vertical nutcracker on 1 or 2 arms) Explore techniques for moving through and with your sp