Urban Circus has acro balance specialists available for your events. Amazing displays of human interactive balance.

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These experienced performers are very popular with festival and staged events such as the Edinburgh Fringe.

Suspended Motion perform a jaw dropping street show filled with comic moments, acrobatic stunts and extremely orange trousers (other costumes available!). This show builds towards a high level creative arco-balance performance which will stun and amaze all ages.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
" I would like to thank you very much for arranging the acro balance duo for our Children's Gala. They were a huge success. Thanks again for all your help. "

Regards
Lisa Hodgkinson.

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EAAC 2009  EAAC Dates  EAAC Cost


Edinburgh’s Aerial and Acrobatic Convention is in its third year of introducing arts such as trapeze, acrobalance, tumbling and aerial hoop to the Scottish public. The EAAC is the UK’s largest event of its kind and brings together individuals and groups from all over the country wishing to expand their existing practice through a wide range of workshops teaching new skills and arts.
 This year’s EAAC aims to further promote aerial and acrobatic arts and will include a focus on teaching standards and safe practice. Many of this year’s workshops will be led by world class performers and teachers who will be passing on their skills and techniques in this 3 day convention and will be including a number of new disciplines never taught here before. Saturday night will be a our annual showcase of Scottish and international talent with some spectacular acts and previously unseen performances brought together into an exciting showing of contemporary circus.

Dates
The Edinburgh Aerial & Acrobatics Convention this year will be on the Following dates:
Friday September 11th 18:00 to 22:00
Saturday September 12th 09:00 to 17:00
Sunday September 13th 09:00 to 17:00

Cost
 We are awaiting confirmation on funding before we can confirm pricing we will send another mail out as soon as we have this confirmed. We hope for news on this in the next week or so. As soon as we have confirmation we'll let you know.
Please Help
We are looking for help in a number of areas, firstly we will need aerial equipment to stage this years event if anyone would be able to loan us equipment it will help us to put on as many workshops as we would like.
We also need help in staffing the event so we are looking for volunteer stewards, first aiders and child minders
We have a great selection of teachers for this event but we would be happy to have some more volunteers
If you have any questions or can help out please contact us on
info@eaac.info
If you know of people who would like to be included on this mailing list please let me know
We will be releasing more information about the workshops and the show as we confirm the details.
Regards
Mark & Charmaine

UPDATE

Workshop Registration Open

We have been open for registrations for just over a week and have a record number of people signing up almost half the weekend places are gone already. We have just made the first set of workshops available for booking online. We will be releasing more over the next week.

These include trapeze, doubles trapeze, silks, hoop, rope, acrobalance, acrobatics, tumbling, tightwire and some creative workshops as well as workshops on safe rigging.

If you have already registered and paid the early bird discount then all workshops are of course free!

We are limiting the number of places on each workshop and they are available on a first come first served basis. So book now to avoid disappointment

The EAAC is 11th to 13th September so we start in two and a half weeks!


Discounted Pricing

The Early bird discount finishes at the end of August so you have 5 days left to get the discount.

  • £65 for individuals
  • £55 for clubs/groups of 5 or more
Registration goes back up to £75 from 1st of September

Taster Sessions

If you want to try some of the beginner workshops but are not up for the whole weekend then we have beginner classes that can be paid for on a workshop by workshop basis.

This will allow people who are new to aerial or acro to try out trapeze, silks, hoop, tightwire or acro for the discounted rate of £10 each


Youth Sessions

We have reserved some of our Friday 11th September workshops for 12 to 15 year olds. These will be available for £8 per student and we will be posting our Friday workshop schedule in a couple of days.


Teachers

We now have a fabulous line up of teachers this year and you can see the bios of each of our teachers on the site in the workshop section. We have a few more to add but they'll be there by the end of the week. We will be adding to our descriptions of the workshops as we finalise the details so you can see what you'll be learning and who you'll be training with. To all registered participants we'll be releasing news and highlighting particular classes.


The Show

The Saturday 12th September show is available for booking online. Standard pricing is £10 but if you've registered for the weekend workshops you can get one ticket at half price. We have a great line up forming and each year we showcase some of the best new acts in circus. We have a number of new acts from well established Scottish artists as well as acts from all over Europe.This is a great place to see some of the best that aerial and acro has to offer.


See you all there!