SANCA Youth Companies
The Youth Performance Troupes from the School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts (SANCA) will be performing! Come see these youth performers flip, fly, and juggle as they perform their circus acts and Big Day of Play.
SANCA’s Youth Company is an immersive, multi-year arts program that gives youth ages 5 to 18 a unique arts experience and a progressive track to develop performance skills based on traditional and modern circus arts. They create and perform original acts at major festivals in Seattle such as Moisture Festival and Seattle Center’s Winterfest as well as the Chicago Social Circus Festival and AYCO. The program includes four troupes divided based on age: Stratus Circus, Nimbus Circus, Celestial Circus, and Cirrus Circus.
Youth in the program learn the necessary skills to perform many elements of circus solo and with others in a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment that provides both challenge and reward to the student.
Youth are trained in:
Acrobatic Arts (tumbling, partner balancing, human pyramids)
Juggling (balls, rings, and clubs, club passing, plate & carpet spinning, diabolo)
Balance (walking globe, tightrope, unicycle)
Aerial Arts (trapeze, rope, fabric, hoop)
Dance
Theatre and Performance Skills