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It's like nothing you've ever seen before: the Professional Track Training Program graduation show From Out of the Ordinary will be at the Greenhoe Theater at Landmark College May 12 & 13 and May 18 & 19. Extraordinary circus. Get tickets here.
Come see The Book of Dreams, the graduation show of the Intensive Training Program, June 9 & 10 at the Cotton Mill. Plus: June 9 show features the WRCC high school circus students in VS. Lyrical, beautiful circus. Get tickets here.
Want to work with our founders, Elsie & Serenity, this summer? Register for our Aerial Skills workshop (all skill levels) or join Boot Camp for advanced training with a performance focus. And check here soon for our Summer Circus Workshop Weekend Aug 9 - 12!
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HistoryIn 2003, identical twins Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion, world renowned circus performers and teachers, settled in Brattleboro, VT. They started their own circus school and performing troupe, Nimble Arts, LLC, offering lessons in aerial and acrobatic arts as well as choreographing for top circuses, schools and dance companies and performing with their troupe around the United States and as top aerial acts around the world. The company also manufactured and sold custom circus equipment trapezes and aerial fabrics, 'by aerialists, for aerialists'.
In 2006, the school had grown to include hundreds of local students and hundreds more from around the world who were coming to Brattleboro for private lessons, workshops and professional level training. Elsie & Serenity, also busy with their successful performing troupe, concluded that the school would be better able to serve its students as a not for profit company in order to expand course offerings to under served populations, to build a custom circus building in Brattleboro, VT and to promote the perpetuity of the school for the public beyond its dependence on its founders.
The incorporation of NECCA and the filing of not for profit papers has been the culmination of much work from a supportive community, school members and a full Board of Directors who believe that it is an important next step in the building of an internationally recognized yet locally vital circus center. NECCA received its 501(c)(3) not for profit status in December 2007 and can now accept tax deductible donations.
As part of its plans to build a custom 'trapezium', NECCA will build adjacent to the New England Youth Theater in downtown Brattleboro. NECCA will be one of the main participants in a growing arts campus that will include other arts organizations creating a nexus for interactive creativity in rural Vermont.
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" . . . The instructors (are) . . well trained in whatever discipline they're teaching. They work with you at your level and will only push when they are confident that you can handle a little bit of a push. So, when I started training on fabric about a year and a half ago, I could do nothing more than pull on the fabric hoping that somehow magically I would be able to do what other beginner students could do which was to climb. I spent a whole summer and a portion of the fall session completely land locked. But, the instructors were still very patient and supportive. Untill finally my body, started cooperating with my brain."
Manzall Mitchell-Dwyer
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