Greentop Summer Workshops – 15th year Anniversary

Here are some great summer activities for everyone! From absolute beginners to people with more experience. try Beginners Trapeze, Acrobatics, Burlesque, Dance and much more. Dont forget our ever popular family friendly Circus Taster Days.

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Aerial & Acrobatics

Acro Yoga with Justin Philpott • 11am - 4pm - May 1-2 & July 17-18

AcroYoga blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the loving kindness of Thai massage, and the dynamic power of Acrobatics. These three ancient lineages form this practice that cultivates trust, connection and playfulness. There are 7 main elements that make up the practice: circle ceremony, asana, partner flow, Thai massage, therapeutic flying, inversions & spotting, and partner acrobatics. Price: £70 / £60*

Swinging Sunday with Jon Cotton • 11am – 5pm, June 20, July 11

Swinging Trapeze Sunday Sessions led by an experienced trapeze tutor. Learn new techniques and improve existing skills, try moves on and under the bar, from standing and sitting and experience the thrill and the freedom of being weightless.  For beginners to more advanced students - open to everyone with some aerial experience and a reasonable level of fitness and a good head for heights. Price £35 / £30*

Swinging with Mike Wright • 11am – 6pm, May 7

An opportunity to train with an expert swinging trapeze teacher at your own level and pace, learn new moves, develop your range, improve your techniques under the tutor’s expert eye. Previous aerial experience, good fitness and appropriate upper body strength required. Pre-book your time slots. Price £40 / 35*

Aerial Straps with Nikolaj Munk • 11am – 4pm, June 27

An opportunity to explore this unique aerial discipline - a physical demanding apparatus that gives a good understanding of your body in the air. Straps mainly work with your upper body and are ideal for advanced aerialists of any discipline.

Price: £35 / £30*

Beginners Trapeze with Peter Murphy • 11am - 4pm, April 17, May 15, June 26 & July 24

An introduction to this exciting circus art, including: warm up, body conditioning, rope work, moves on and under the bar and some transitions. This workshop is suitable for adult beginners - no experience necessary. This workshop is also a good basis for further training in aerial silks and rope work in subsequent workshops. Price: £35 / £30*

 Acrobatics with Marcelo de Ramos • 10am - 4pm, May 4-7

This is an intensive 4-day workshop aimed at all acrobatic levels from beginner to professional. The intensive will cover tumbling, mini-trampoline and adagio. Marcelo is an acrobatic performer and teacher and a specialist stuntman with over 20 years experience. Price: £160 / £140*

 Intermediate Trapeze and Corde lisse • 11am – 4pm, June 5

Climbs, locks, hangs, balances and drops. Good technique, transitions, sequences, conditioning and how to progress will be covered. This is a good opportunity to expand your aerial repertoire and learn a new way of moving in the air on this diverse and challenging piece of equipment. Come prepared for a day of good challenges and hard work! Some aerial experience and fitness required. Claire Crook is an experienced aerial performer and teacher specialising in Corde lisse. Price: £35 / £30*

Performance, Dance & Movement

Contact Improvisation with Kate Dymoke • 11am – 4pm, July 6 – July 9

Contact improvisation (CI) is a movement form that is based in Yoga, Gymnastics, Aikido and Dance.  These elements make it accessible, full of somatic information and references to improve body awareness and usable in both training and performance contexts.  It is a mostly done as a duet form involving physical contact, weight bearing, supporting and being open to the moment to sustain fluidity, trust and ease. Over the four days we will work from the floor to standing and move towards more dynamic lifting and falling, working with gravity, against gravity, and with the surface of the floor and your body.  Towards the fourth day we will look at performative aspects of CI as an improvised dance/movement form adaptable to other surfaces, dimensions and inversions! Price: £120 / £100*

Aerial Dance with Gerry Turvey • 11am - 4pm, June 12 & 13

Aerial Dance Workshop with Gerry Turvey, aimed at both ground-based performers and aerial dancers to develop ways of working together that will challenge your techniques, styles and processes. Find common ground in the 'space between' air and floor. The workshop will go towards creating choreography which will be shared at the end of the workshop. The emphasis will be on play as a creative tool; partnerships with the equipment, the space and each other. Price: £80 / £70*

Belly Dancing with Sophie Mei • 11am – 2pm (Women only) May 8 & June 19

Belly dance derives from Middle-Eastern folkloric dance and has rapidly grown from the East and is becoming increasingly popular amongst men and women in the West. Sophie Mei has trained extensively and quite literally ‘From Pitsmoor to the Pyramids.’ She is an established belly dance performer and has performed across the world and most famously reached the Live Semi-finals of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent 2008. Price: £35 / £30*

Mask with Phil Coggins • 11am – 4pm, May 30

Throughout the world masks are used for their expressive power as a feature of masked performance- both ritually and in various theatre traditions, in performance, we can enter into a new persona, try out characters, take risks, explore and create. Phil Coggins is an experienced performer and director who will work with people at their own level, no experience necessary. Price: £35/30

Public Circus Event

Circus Taster Day • 11:30am – 2pm, May 29, July 31

Our Circus taster days are a great introduction to what you can do at Greentop Circus, including juggling, plate spinning, stilt walking, poi, diabolo and tight wire. Open to everyone, adults and kids, no experience necessary. Price: £2

To book onto any of these workshops call Greentop on: 0114 244 8828

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