Research Youth Circus

YOUNG PEOPLE'S PARTICIPATORY THEATRE PROJECT (YPPT) 2006 - 2009

The strands of this plan are:

Swamp Silk dancer - Cornwall : Swamp Circus
Swamp Silk dancer - Cornwall : Swamp Circus

1. 4-5 Skills Sharing workshops for youth circus practitioners

2. National youth circus newsletter

3. A Good Practice Handbook (Covering Child Protection, Health and Safety and Best Practice Case Studies)

4. Increase opportunities for partnership working with other youth arts providers in local/ regional areas

A working model for a biennial youth circus event

5. Increase opportunities for critical debate and impact studies working in partnership with the Higher Education sector

6. A plan for the accreditation of circus teachers

7. A forward looking plan to ensure the sustainability of the work

8. Careers in circus

To find out more about this project visit www.yppt-circus.co.uk

Click here for details on YOUNG PEOPLE'S PARTICIPATORY THEATRE PROJECT (YPPT) - in CDA Current News

CIRCUS ARTS FORUM - YOUTH CIRCUS CONFERENCE 2007

At The Roundhouse, Camden, London - 25th July 2007

You can read or download records of the event below:

CAF Youth Circus Conference 2007

CAF CONFERENCE Summary of Outcomes

A Code of Practice

You might find this useful, when running workshops.
Code of Practice from Kent Circus School Ltd

Development of Youth Circus in the UK: How to maximise potential and strengthen the sector

a dissertation on Youth Circus which you can read by clicking here

Written by Emma Taylor
June 2007
thecircusproject@ntlworld.com

"Youth circus: Exploring the production process behind performances."

You can read Owen Gaynor's Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship 2002

by clicking here

If you wish to get in contact with Owen Gaynor about this material, please email the site moderator who will forward your enquiries: toby@circusarts.org.uk

Case Studies

Along with my colleague Laura Drane, I am putting together a new website for the Arts Council that will be called www.getintotheatre.org

It is a national site aimed at young people with an interest in working in the theatre industry and will give information on the huge variety of jobs that people do in the industry — both as employees and as freelancers and in building-based and street arts/ circus environments.

Circo Kernow graduate trainees performing on 5 rings at the team south west Olympiad summit in Plymouth March 2008.
Circo Kernow graduate trainees performing on 5 rings at the team south west
Olympiad summit in Plymouth March 2008.

We are looking for inspiring case studies of people working in the industry (costume designers, street arts agencies, pyrotechnicians, circus performers, sound and lighting designers/ engineers etc etc) to feature on the site.

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