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Circus Arts Program for Kids Summer 2012 - 1/2 Days over 2 weeks.

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Waltham, United States
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2-week Session 1/2 Day Circus Program 1 hour before event $625.00 $9.95

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Calling all kids aged 7 - 12! Run away with the circus without actually having to leave home!  Circus stars Sacha and Melinda Melina Pavlata are hosting and teaching two 2-week sessions of circus camp in their headquarters, Moody Street Circus in Waltham, MA.  Each 2 week session costs $625. Class size is deliberately kept low - to under 10 kids per session, to maximize safety and ensure individual attention for all kids on all the equipment.  There will be a class held on Wednesday July 4th for those who wish to attend. Campers will participate in a mini circus show on the final Friday of each 2 week session at 11 a.m. Parents, caregivers and siblings are welcome to attend this show.

CAMP SESSIONS

JUNE 25 - JULY 6 :: 9 a.m. - noon :: $625

JULY 9 - JULY 20 :: 9 a.m. - noon :: $625

Campers will practice light assisted tumbling, pyramid formation, rola bola balancing, hula hoop, walking on the rolling globe, low wire tightrope walking, juggling and clowning skills, mini trampoline, and regular trampoline.  They will also learn the basics in circus aerial arts including cloud swing, static trapeze, web, lyra (aerial hoop) and silks.

  • We start the day with a warm-up and fun stretching and strengthening exercises. 
  • We proceed to circus tumbling skills on the tumbling mats, including forward rolls, monkey rolls, wheelbarrows, candlesticks, cartwheels and pyramid formation.
  • Throughout each session we introduce some of Sacha Pavlata's multi-generational circus family clowning skits, including Dead Man, Robin Hood the Coin comedy act, the Newspaper and more. KIds can practice their circus theatrics and comedy. 
  • We break into small groups for safe learning on the aerial equipment.  
  • Students have practice time on rola bola, rolling globe, low wire, plate spinning, juggling, trampoline.
  • We end the day perfecting skills on the mini-trampoline.

Camp will begin at 9 a.m. and end at 12:00 p.m.  Students can be dropped off at 8:45 a.m.  Campers must be picked up and signed for on time at noon by their parents or care-givers.

Attire:  Moody Street Circus is a gum-free, street-shoe free zone, even for parents who are dropping off and picking up.  Camp is mostly conducted barefoot, but indoor-use only sneakers and/or acrobatic shoes are suggested for work on unicycle and low wire.  Long hair must be worn pulled back in a pony-tail or in braids.  We go upside-down on equipment and always follow the SAFETY FIRST! Rule, so: Leotards and shorts or leggings for girls, shorts and shirts that can be well-tucked in for boys.  Campers should not be worried about tucking in their shirts when they are upside down, it is very distracting and dangerous when you are learning new tricks to be worried about your clothing. 

Waiver forms must be completed for each camper or participation in camp will not be allowed.

Call Melinda at 781 209 0950 or email her (melinda [at] cirquepassion [dot] com) with any questions. To secure your child's spot in a session, pay online now or email and send in a check (or make an appointment to stop into the studio and pay there).  Once you are registered, you will receive waiver forms to fill out for your child. This signed form is required prior to participation in any physical activity at Moody Street Circus studio.

Here are some links to our studio and recent press about Melinda and Sacha Pavlata:

  
 
 

Where



Moody Street Circus/Daughters of Rhea Dance Studios
397 Moody Street, 2nd Floor
Waltham, 02453

Hosted By

Melina of Daughters of Rhea / Moody Street Circus



Moody Street Circus is the professional family-run Waltham, MA-based headquarters of Sacha and Melinda Pavlata's Cirque Passion School of Circus Arts and Melina's Daughters of Rhea Belly Dance Company. We also offer tented entertainment circus events with our worldclass traveling circus family: cloud swing, high wire, unicycle, trapeze, aerial hoop, clowning and more.

At Moody Street Circus we teach the joy of life through circus arts and belly dance to children, teens and adults of all ages. Heart, humor and inclusive community spirit are at the core of our teaching.  We strive to bring out students' full potential, then challenge individuals to work on skills that will elevate their expression up to performance-grade levels.  

Moody Street Circus is the place for classes in belly dance, circus arts, and aerial arts; for birthday parties, summer and after-school programs and more for kids and adults.  No matter where you are in your life's journey, there is always room for learning new skills and having fun. Moody Street Circus is here for you when you are ready to learn to undulate, ululate or hang upsidedown from a static trapeze.

MSC Directors and teachers Sacha and Melinda (AKA Melina of Daughters of Rhea) share extraordinary family legacies in circus and dance.

Alexandre Sacha Pavlata is a fifth-generation Czech circus artist, master aerialist and world-renown circus arts teacher.  He grew up with his traveling circus family in a wooden circus wagon which crisscrossed Europe and North Africa presenting their famous unicycle and trampoline act under big tops all over the globe. From horses to high wire and everything in between, Sacha has since performed nearly every kind of circus act you could imagine, including touring with the legendary Flying Wallendas as an integral part of their breath-taking seven-person pyramid on the high wire.

Sacha's circus heritage goes back 5 generations on both sides.  His mother, Hungarian-born Anna Dubsky, came from a long line of Risley Act performers (the acrobatic foot juggling of people), and his father, Czech-born Karl Pavlata, descended from a family of aerialists known for their great physical strength and versatility in the air. More on Sacha extraordinary life and legacy in the circus at www.cirquepassion.com.

Melinda "Melina" Pavlata, Ph.D. (AKA Melina of Daughters of Rhea) is a 2nd generation circus and belly dance artist. Her mother is belly dance pioneer Rhea of Greece, her father is folk musician singer/songwriter Phil Marsh, and her step-mother is Shakespearean actress/juggler/circus artist Cecil MacKinnon.  She grew up fully immersed in her parents' international performing lives, performing with them in the Pickle Family Circus and dancing with her mother and sister Piper (Belly Dancer of the Year 2000) on taverna stages in the ancient city of Athens, Greece.

As an adult Melinda 'Melina' has toured around the world as an aerialist, circus artist and belly dancer with Circus Flora, The Wallenda Family Circus, Cirque Rocks, Amazing Grace Circus and currently with her own circus Cirque Passion. 

Melina is currently on the faculty of Kripalu where she teaches an annual summertime retreat "Wild Hips, Gypsy Heart: Belly Dance as self-empowerment." 

For more on Melina's belly dance family please visit www.daughtersofrhea.com. 

For more the Pavlata's circus life please visit www.cirquepassion.com.