Online Circus Camps
Online circus summer camps offered by ACE member organizations!
Wherever you are, you can sign up for a circus camp this summer and have fun, learn new skills, and stay connected!
We’ve done our best to keep this information up to date, but things are constantly changing. If you are an ACE circus organization offering an online summer camp and would like to be added to this list (or if you would like to update the information provided for your organization) please email info@americanyouthcircus.org.
Circus Harmony
(St. Louis, MO)
https://circusharmony.org/online-summer-camps/
Circus Harmony is offering new Online Circus Summer Camps!!! We are offering two sessions- one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Your child will get stronger, more flexible, and improve their hand-eye coordination while they learn circus arts like juggling, balancing, and clowning. The camp will also include dance, acting, and other exciting activities. Each camp will run for one week from Monday thru Friday and culminate in a Friday Spotlight where these budding circus artists will show what they have learned.
Dates: June 15 – Aug 7
Cost: $100/week for each two hour session
Supplies: Prop Box $50 (required) includes: juggling balls, spinning plate, hula hoop, peacock feather, hula hoop, and Circus Harmony t-shirt
Ages: 6-13
The Circus Project
https://www.thecircusproject.
Our online circus camps are fully interactive, using the Zoom video platform to keep students engaged and active. Students will use their whole bodies, and engage their minds and creativity. Camps are supplemented with a printable activity packet for screen-free time as well.
Each day starts with an engaging warm-up to prepare students for all the bending, jumping, twisting, and flying we’ll do throughout the day. Students then move through acrobatics, juggling, theater, and more, all from the comfort of their own home. Our coaches will be there every step of the way to help each student work toward individual goals in a fun and friendly team atmosphere. We are also still accepting auditions for the August session of our Youth Summer Intensive, for the experienced circus student age 10-17.
Dates: June 15 – Aug 29
Cost: $50-$250 per week (sliding scale).
Ages: Little Circus Camp for ages 5-6, Kids Circus Camp for ages 7-11, and the Youth Summer Intensive for the experienced circus student at 10-17 (by audition)
Circus Smirkus
(Greensboro, VT)
https://www.smirkus.org/smirkus-camp/camp-sessions/
Get your first look at our virtual summer camp in this one-day live online camp, designed for first-timers, and perfect for the young monkeys and clowns in your house. Join Mama Bear (Camp Director William Forchion), Head Coach Doug Stewart, Assistant Camp Director Amira Silverman and more of your Smirkus Camp friends for a virtual camp experience – Smirkus style! We’ll send you a camp package with everything you’ll need for a full day of circus at home, including a camp t-shirt, postcards, popcorn and a movie for movie night, juggling scarves, a spinning plate, a peacock feather, and more ($50 value). Then, log into the online campsite on June 20 for your circus adventure.
Smirkus @ Home: June 20, $195, ages 5 to 11
Smirkling Camp@Home: June 13-14, $425, ages 5 to 11
Flying Gravity Circus
(Wilton, NH)
https://www.flyinggravitycircus.org/circus-in-a-box
Presenting: Circus In A Box, an at-home circus camp experience! Each Box is designed to follow a 5-day structure, starting on a Monday and ending with a Show-And-Tell for your folks at home on Friday.
Circus In A Box Junior: Ages 6-11: materials for one circus-themed craft project per day, including a circus tent puppet stage, link to download custom-recorded circus stories that relate to the day’s craft, a circus T-shirt, a clown nose, of course, and posters to color and distribute – invite your family to see the show! Real-time online classes included with each session include physical challenges, games, and circus activities and optional meeting time at the end of the day to share the day’s work!
Circus In A Box Youth: Ages 9-14: a diabolo and DIY Juggling balls, Circus Themed Games, A Circus T-shirt, a clown nose, of course, and posters to color and distribute – invite your family to see the show! Real-time online classes included with each session include social games, circus classes, and an end of the week showcase!
Dates:
Session I: June 29-July 3
Session II: July 6-10
Session III: July 13-17
(Circus in a Box Youth Session III is the RANDOM PROPS PERFORMANCE PROJECT: How to create a circus with items from around your own home! We will play games and create acts to show at the end of the week. Session III does not come with a Box.)
Cost: $100 (additional sessions $75 each)
My Nose Turns Red
https://www.mynoseturnsred.org/classes-and-camps/circus-camps/
My Nose Turns Red Youth Circus is offering five, one-week summer circus camps from the comfort and safety of your home. Fun activities daily Monday-Friday, 2.5 hrs from 9-11:30 am with five coaches to lead your child through games, conditioning, stretching plus a kit that includes a diabolo (Chinese yo-yo), hula hoop, spinning plate and juggling bags you can keep. Live coaches and pre-recorded tutorials will lead your child through learning how to master the circus skills.
Ages: 7-12
Dates:
June 8-12
June 15-19
June 22-26
July 6-10
July 13-17
Cost: $100 + $60 for equipment
Children’s Circus of Middletown
Middletown, CT
https://www.oddfellows.org/
Platform: Google Meets, Youtube
Cost: All classes are offered free, thanks to funding from the Middletown Commission on the Arts and Middlesex United Way. Registration is open to all kids everywhere.
The 32nd Annual Children’s Circus of Middletown Goes Virtual: From the Big Top to the Lap Top!
Dates: Classes will be offered from 9 am to 3 pm Monday through Friday from July 6 to August 7. Registration is on a week by week basis, and students may choose to do as much or as little as they want. Classes include circus skills like juggling, flexibility, strength, clowning, object manipulation, and unicycling, but also music, dance, visual arts, capoeira, stop motion animation and movie making.
Ages: 3-4 classes are offered for ages 8 – 15 in each session (4 sessions per day), and each session includes an option for ages 5 – 7. (Teeny Tiny Troupe).
