Brattleboro Reformer After nearly 10 years of continuous growth, New England Center for Circus Arts is constructing a new place to call home. “This is an incredible, very fine thing we are about to do – this state-of-the-art, one and only, custom-built trapezium in the United States, in the one and only Brattleboro,” NECCA Board […]
brattleborodevelopment.com By Jerry Goldberg/The Commons ONE OF THE PERKS that come with a Chamber of Commerce gig is a front-row center seat at the pageant of players who step onto our community stage every day to show us what they’ve got. From service providers to shopkeepers, builders to bakers, they weave the fabric of our […]
ABC News 10A circus school based in Brattleboro, Vermont, plans to start building a new 8,400-square-foot facility in September. View full article HERE
The Commons New England Center for Circus Arts is celebrating World Circus Day in a big fashion as is fit for the school that is now the most comprehensive circus training destination in the United States. Saturday, April 16 is the seventh annual World Circus Day. Established in 2010 by H. S. H. Princess Stephanie […]
Brattleboro Reformer The founders of the New England Center for Circus Arts have a dream: To create the country’s first state-of-the-art circus training facility right here in Brattleboro. On Saturday, twin sisters Elsie and Serenity Smith Forchion announced they had reached a major milestone toward making that dream a reality. During the opening of the […]
Brattleboro Reformer Elsie Smith, artistic director and instructor at New England Center for Circus Arts, said she was “super excited” to host a news conference Monday morning at their new studio in the Cotton Mill building owned by the BDCC. Design and construction of a circus school and performing arts facility off Putney Road was […]
vtdigger.org BRATTLEBORO – Economic development meetings typically don’t include talk of trapeze artists. But the New England Center for Circus Arts’ high-flying expansion plan was a big part of the buzz here Monday morning at the announcement of 14 high-priority economic projects for Windham County. The ‘vital projects’ announcement comes with no funding attached; rather, […]
Vermont Arts Living By Jon Potter Photos by Jeffrey M. Lewis Balance is a core value at a school whose curriculum boasts Trapeze, Teeterboard, and Acrobatics, and whose students are often found 10 feet off the ground, swinging from bars, beams, and fabrics. But for Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion, identical twins and co-founders […]
Brattleboro Reformer Circus Smirkus and the New England Center for Circus Arts have so much in common that they teamed up on the Austine Campus on Jan. 16 and 17 to host auditions for Circus Smirkus’ 2016 season. According to a press release from Circus Smirkus, the reason it held auditions in Brattleboro was because […]
Brattleboro Reformer Walier is heading to Latvia to perform her fixed trapeze act in a competition and if the ground is hard enough, she’ll be able to show off her bottle walking skills. She said she has never been that far east. “I’m almost going to Russia. It’s going to be so cold,” Walier laughed. […]
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