{{Short description|School teaching circus skills}} {{refimprove|date=May 2018}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2018}} '''Circus schools''' are institutions that offer professional and sometimes degree-level training in various circus skills such as acrobatics, aerial arts, object manipulation, and other specialized physical skills. The rise of the circus school as a venue for the transmission of traditional circus arts and the formalized research of new acts is a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of the circus.
== Notable professional circus schools == * {{ill|Académie Fratellini|fr}} (La Plaine Saint-Denis, France)<ref>{{cite web |title=Académie Fratellini |url=https://www.academie-fratellini.com/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=FEDEC: Academie Fratellini|url=https://www.fedec.eu/en/members/7-academie-fratellini}}</ref> * Circomedia (Bristol, UK) * Circus Juventas (St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.) * Circus Center (San Francisco, California, U.S.) * Cirkus Cirkör (Stockholm, Sweden) * École Nationale de Cirque de Châtellerault (Châtellerault, France)<ref>{{cite web | title=Ecole Nationale des Arts du Cirque de Châtellerault |url=http://www.ecoledecirque.org/}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Self source, does not establishnotability.|date=May 2022}} * Ecole Supérieure des Arts du Cirque (Brussels, Belgium) * The Flying Fruit Fly Circus (Albury, Australia) * Gamma Phi Circus (Illinois State University) * National Centre for Circus Arts (formerly The Circus Space; London, UK) * National Institute of Circus Arts (Melbourne, Australia) * New England Center for Circus Arts (Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S.) * Philadelphia School of Circus Arts (Philadelphia, U.S.)
== Circus programs within degree-awarding academic institutions == Gamma Phi Circus at Illinois State University is the oldest collegiate circus in the United States. It was founded in 1929 and is part of the College of Applied Science and Technology at ISU.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gammaphicircus.illinoisstate.edu/historyheritage/ |title=History and Heritage - Gamma Phi Circus |publisher=Gamma Phi Circus |accessdate=September 28, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715070927/http://gammaphicircus.illinoisstate.edu/historyheritage/ |archivedate=July 15, 2014 }}</ref> Florida State University Flying High Circus is a collegiate circus that was founded in 1947 as an extracurricular activity club. Members must be students who are registered and seeking degrees from FSU.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://circus.fsu.edu/About-Us |title=The FSU Flying High Circus |publisher=The FSU Flying High Circus |accessdate=September 28, 2015}}</ref> Student interest clubs that offer students the chance to train recreationally in contemporary circus arts include Cirque NouveaU: An Aerial Arts Club at Northwestern University, a club that offers ground skill workouts in partner balancing and tumbling to undergraduates.<ref>Chang, Annie [http://dailynorthwestern.com/2010/11/21/campus/campusarchived/student-group-looks-to-get-off-the-ground/ "Student Group Looks to Get off the Ground"], ''The Daily Northwestern'', November 22, 2010. Retrieved on September 28, 2015.</ref>
== External links == * [https://www.fedec.eu/en/ FEDEC] is an international network for professional circus education, with 84 members spanning 33 countries. Schools are classed as either preparatory school (based on the French model) or higher education.
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