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Fall session begins September 7. Classes fill up fast, so sign up now!
NECCA is proud to be hosting AYCO's 2010 Educators Conference 9/17-9/19. Join us to learn more about teaching all areas of circus. Among other things, AYCO is offering a 3 day Trapeze Teacher Training, led by NECCA staff, Wed Sept 15 - Fri Sept 17. Register now at AYCO.
Circus Weekend Workshops Join us for workshops for all ages and abilities, featuring guest teachers Francois Gravel & Michael Lanphear, and Molly Gawler & Damon Honeycutt from Pilobolus Dance. Take an advanced class in something you have experience with and want help perfecting, or try something brand new, just for kicks! Click here for more.
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 Judy Greenberg Guilford, VT Judy,a licensed psychologist for over twenty-five years, specializes in working with adolescents and trauma survivors, both in Vermont and internationally. She has been trained in EMDR (a trauma resolution therapy) and is a consultant and facilitator in EMDR. She is a mental health counselor at SIT Graduate Institute and a mental health consultant to Farm and Wilderness Camps. In addition, Judy started a non- profit in the Dominican Republic that provides material support to local elementary schools there, as well as teacher training and programs for local at-risk children and teens. She is on the Board of Directors for Witness for Peace and has lead delegations to Nicaragua, and an upcoming delegation to Cuba. Her daughter's and her own experience at NECCA have given her a great respect and appreciation for the connection between circus arts and the strengthening of self esteem, self confidence and community building. judybg@comcast.net
 Arlie Hart Brattleboro, VT Arlie, after receiving his Masters degree in Experimental Psychology, joined IBM as a member of an interdisciplinary team designing usable software for the IBM mainframe computer systems. In 2001 he swung into the circus world, helping to start Trapeze School World, which opened the first flying trapeze school in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2002, he designed and built his first flying trapeze rig, which was installed in the first full-time flying trapeze school, Trapeze School New York, in New York City. That school's success led to the opening of a second rig built by Arlie in Baltimore, MD. He is very happy to bring his rigging and teaching expertise to Brattleboro, where he lives with his family, teaching at Vermont Community College and helping students learn the joys of flight on the flying trapeze rig during the summers. arliehart@yahoo.com
 Margaret Minsky Amherst, MA Margaret is Chief Operating Officer of StyleCart, a web software company. Holding a PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory, she contributed research in the field of haptic interfaces (computational interfaces that simulate objects that you can touch and feel) as well as in computer graphics, educational technology, and human-computer interaction. She has presented invited teaching and lectures in the USA and Japan, as well as Program Committee service for conferences and publications in her field. She also founded a design/manufacturing company innovating pleated fleece clothing. Her previous positions include Research Director at Atari Cambridge Laboratory, and she was on the Board of Directors of Logo Computer Systems, Inc. She maintains an avid and eclectic life in her own body, having studied Modern Dance with Susan Rose, Pilates Movement with Kirk Smith and Jen Polins, and now hopefully life-long learning of Aerial Circus. marg@media.mit.edu
 Wendy Redlinger Brattleboro, VT Wendy enjoyed a successful career as a Program Manager at World Learning, working with educational institutions around the world for placement of ESL teachers. Over the years, she has been involved in all aspects of arts performance and management. Wendy began her current career as a booking agent by representing the medieval duo Asteria following their winning of the 2004 EMA Medieval/Renaissance competition (her son, Eric, is half the duo). She now represents ten New York-based early music ensembles, booking them in concert series throughout the US. Wendy served for 15 years on the board of the Yellow Barn Music Festival and School. She hosts a monthly house concert series 'Soirées Musicales' featuring jazz and world music in Guilford. Wendy holds a B. Mus. degree in piano performance, and has performed since 1991 with Edmund Brelsford in Ensemble Cordiforme where she sings and plays portative organ and harpsichord. Wendy looks forward to serving on the board of NECCA, having attended our performances with great enthusiasm for years! wredlinger@gemsny.org
 Kerry Secrest (Board Vice-President)Brattleboro, Vermont is Principal of Watershed Coaching. Kerry is a leadership coach for individuals and organizations, who coaches executives and works with clients on team-building, change management, strategic planning, diversity, conflict resolution, and leadership development. Her clients include local, national, and international organizations. Kerry formerly served as Director of Youth Programs in the Washington, D.C. area for the American Red Cross, and has broad experience working in, and consulting to, non-profit entities. In her youth, Kerry was a competitive gymnast who trained at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. As a happy student in NECCA's adult aerial fabrics class, she is pleased now to have a reason again to do pull-ups at home. kerry@watershedcoachingllc.com
 Paul Stumpf Andover, VT Paul began building balloons in his teens. His interest continued through college at Rhode Island School of Design, and shortly after graduation, he decided to make his custom products available to balloonists throughout the nation via a mail order catalog. This, along with a commercial flying business, became the foundation for Stumpf Balloons. Paul flies primarily in coastal New England, but has also flown in Switzerland, Venezuela, and at the 1983 Ballooning Bicentennial celebration in Annonay, France for which he built a one-man harness balloon. Paul has also been recognized for designing and building various "art inflatables" as well as for building and flying the world's first "glass bottom balloon basket. Paul currently works and plays in Andover, VT where he enjoys the outdoors, especially mountain biking, XC skiing, and snowshoeing. Paul is married and has a son and daughter. psstumpf@aol.com
 David Woodberry (Board President) Brattleboro, VT David worked in the non-profit world in NYC from '73-'86. He received grants and won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts three times, the NY State Council on the Arts twice, the Vermont Council on the Arts three times, as well as numerous private foundations. He served as the Executive Director of the Arts Council of Windham County from 1978-80, and in that role was awarded grants from the Windham Foundation and the Dunham Mason Foundation. As a performer, David toured Europe a dozen times, including a yearlong tour of Philip Glass' Einstein on the Beach. David has been stage manager for the New England Bach Festival, the Brattleboro Music Center and the Brattleboro Arts Initiative as well as the production manager of the acclaimed Strolling of the Heifers, a statewide celebration of small farms of Vermont. dpwoodberry@yahoo.com
 Britta Reida Brattleboro, VT [on Medical Leave] Britta holds a degree in Psychology from Keene State College and has been working with children and families for 16 years as an in-home childcare provider, an Intensive Services Provider for children with autism through Rise, for Baby and Family, and as the Integration Facilitator for children with special needs at Winston L. Prouty Center. As a Steering Committee member of the Cape Cod group Circles for Change, she created and facilitated community workshops in media literacy, women's rights, violence prevention, and mentoring and created and facilitated empowerment for girls from low-income families teaching self-awareness, positive body image, healthy risk-taking and communication skills through drama and role-playing, dance and movement, art, journaling and other expressive arts. britskye1@yahoo.com |
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"We threw all new apparatus at you & you helped the troupers develop a whole new vocabulary in a VERY short period of time. It's a real tribute to your professional approach & dedication to your art. We were very lucky to have you!"
Ed LeClair, Executive Director of Circus Smirkus
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