The SandiaCircus youth residency program provides a one of a kind experience for local aerial artists ages 6 - 18, wanting to expand their performance skills and experiences. This exciting aerial arts residency provides one month of skill building for excelling at acrobatic training, aerial choreography, staging technique for site-specific theater, storytelling workshops for script creation, costuming and set design.

Each day includes a gentle warm-up, flexibility and strength training, lessons in aerial mechanics and acrobatic technique, apparatus play, and scheduled free times that allow students to interpret the knowledge within their own bodies.

*This residency concluded with a live performance! Click the link to “Run Away with the Circus!”. We hope you enjoy the show.

Script Writing Classes provided by Stephanie Baker

Rapelling and Stilt Walking Classes, Rigging and Lighting Design provided by Benjy Young

Make-Up Classes provided by Maggie Powers

Artistic Director, Sandia Sexton

SandiaCircus is a non-corporate, locally owned organization providing advanced Pre-Professional Youth Programming that could otherwise be cost prohibitive. Our one-of-a-kind concentrated youth programming gives students the time and attention needed to specialized on the advanced skillet needed to present their hard-earned achievements in a professional theater, in front of a live audience.