| Circus skills and trainingHistory 1989 - First learnt to juggle. 1990 - KPS Year 5 practicuum - "Circus Theme". 1992 - Took on the role of Artistic Director of "Circus Yeo". 1993 - September - "Circus Yeo" delights audiences. 1994 - February - I worked for Max Oddball, building juggling clubs, and selling juggling related products at the "Oddballs Juggling Shop" in Oxford, England. - I attended meetings at the "Oxford Juggling Club". - I was selected and represented the "Oxford Cyco's" Unicycle hockey team in the National competition and English team selection weekend. 1995 - I made my debut flying on the trapeze at Byron Bay Circus School. 1996 - I continued my development on the flying trapeze at Byron Bay Circus School. 1997 - While job shadowing with "Circus Monoxide" in Lismore, I made a cameo performance in their Anzac Day Show. - I attended the National Circus Festival at Stradbroke Island, where I attended my first swinging trapeze workshop. I also made my debut in the sport of "Crate stacking". 1998 - I attended the first three days of the NIDA 5 day Circus summer school, where I assisted with instruction and equipment supplies. 2000 - I was Director of the Sydney Academy of Sport Circus Camps. - I made my debut on the "Spanish web", "Triple trapeze", and "Swinging trapeze". - October - I represented "Quasar Flying Trapeze" and the "Sydney Academy of Sport" at the National Physical Theatre and Circus Conference, in Brisbane. There I also attended master-class workshops, and untook an audition for NICA. 2001 - Crate climbing set a personal best climb of 15 crates, and assited Matt with his climb - 22 crates!! 2004 - Visited NICA, Prahan, Melbourne, to inspect the facilities. Circus Teaching Highlights. 1992-1993 Artistic Director and Circus skills trainer at "Circus Yeo" - Yeoval Central School. - Formed the YCS Juggling club. - Formed the YCS Unicycle troupe. - Formied the YCS Ring-tossing. - Tightrope act for students. (Youngest students to learn 3 ball cascade - 7 years old - Jonathon Job - 1993, 6 year old - Christopher Tremain 1998) - 1993 Taught Grant Sherringham to juggle. (He went on to read, study and practise and within two years had easily developed beyond my skill level. He then in turn assisted me with the development of my 5-ball juggling, and my club juggling, and taught me intermediate 6 club passing eg "3-3-10", fire-club and knife juggling, and introductory diabolo and devli sticks. "Sherro" also went on to start up juggling clubs at each of the three schools he taught at.) -1996 - watching Primary students develop beyond my level. - Matthew Wilken- foot toss start to juggle three clubs, Shawn Miller - bounce juggling routine against a wall. - International experiences teaching juggling. -1994 -fastest student learnt the 3-ball cascade - A 15 year old Italian boy in 5 minutes! -1994 Two primary school aged girls, street kids in Northern Ireland, were watching me practise and wanted a lesson. I taught them the basics, some new variations to learn, and told them to teach their friends! -1994 - I had a New Zealand backpacker came to Ireland especially to find me for a juggling lesson, based on my reputation from another backpacker I had taught there! -1994 - In Wales, a Japanese backpacker who spoke no English but wanted to learn to juggle when she saw us practising, - Assisting Sherro teaching unicycling and juggling skills for the first three days of the NIDA Circus skills summer camp. - Assisting Sherro teaching juggling skills at a private Creative Arts holiday camp in Sydney. - 1999-2001 SAS Circus Camps - Diabolos, Balloons animals, face painting, Flying trapeze, Juggling, unicycling, Spanish web, mini-tramp. -2001 SAS Hearing impaired Camp - Nose balancing students. -2006 Taught Year 9 staff at M.F.G.S.College, who then taught juggling skills to Year 9 students. - 2008 Taught Juggling skills to Year 7 Creative Arts classes at Grovedale College. |
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