Programmes

Full time & pro training

Full Time & Pro Training

On this page you’ll get an overview of our programmes, with links to a dedicated page for each of them.

You get a high-quality programme for the lowest possible price at Aerial Edge, with plenty of fun and laughter included! We charge as little as we can, because that way more people can fulfil their circus dreams.

You’ll emerge from our courses with a strong skillset in circus techniques – and not just that. Challenges inevitably crop up as you train, and that’s good! We’re big on developing people through circus. We’ll help you to learn through these experiences, whether they’re physical, emotional or mental obstacles.

Whatever level you’re at when you join, we’ll make sure you make great progress from there. That means when you finish your course, you could do it all over again! Each time you’d make it your own, and you’d continue to build on your success.

You’re in good hands at Aerial Edge. We have decades of high-level expertise in circus arts and the global industry of creating education packages. People love our supportive and encouraging atmosphere – your instructors are there for you all the way. Come and join us!

Dates of upcoming programmes

  • Circus Professional Development Course: One year, 10am-5pm, Mon-Thu. £5995. Apply here
    • 16th September 2024 to 20th June 2025
    • 15th September 2025 to 19th June 2026
  • Foundation Course in Circus Arts: Four months, 10am-5pm, Mon-Fri. £2999. Apply here
    • March 3rd to June 23rd 2025
    • August 11th to November 28th 2025
    • March 2nd to June 20th 2026
    • August 10th to November 28th 2026
  • Circus Intensive Courses: 4 weeks, 10am-5pm, Mon-Fri. £795 Apply here
    • 3rd March to 28th March 2025
    • 30th June to 25th July 2025
    • 11th August to 5th September 2025
    • 29th September to 24th October 2025
  • Pro-Track Training: Personalised programme based on classes and self-training slots in our daytime schedule, which are reserved for circus pros and full-time students, as well as our evening sessions. Your part-time programme is adaptable and changes monthly. Apply Here
  • Easter Edge Circus Festival: 4 days of progress-focused workshops for circus pros and recreation students – £249 Details Here
    • 18th - 21st April 2025

1-year Professional Development Course

If you’ve already got circus skills and want to move towards professional level, this is a great route. Maybe you don’t have a proper act, or you want to improve your technique to gain performance capability, or you want a bridge to a degree course.

Or perhaps you’ve done our Foundation Course and want to immerse yourself for a year in the friendly, empathic and supportive atmosphere! That’s why this course was created.

You focus on your chosen arts while still training others. You make huge leaps in performance. You get to grips with essential documentation. And you get a pro showreel!

More info on the One-Year Professional Development Course here


Four-Month Foundation Course in Circus Arts

This is like no other Foundation Course. Our unique approach means you can gain solid skills in a broad range of arts, and life skills along the way

Plus you get an amazing show reel, filmed by our cinematographer Gabriel Stella! Use it with applications for courses, funding or work.

You’ll create a solo act and work with a professional Director to perform in an ensemble show.

More info on the Four-Month Full-Time Foundation Course here.


Four-Week Circus Intensive Courses

Like the Foundation Course, this gives you a broad range of circus disciplines. You can create a solo act and perform it if you choose.

It’s a great way to discover if full-time training is for you. It’s also good if you can’t commit to a whole four months, but you could free up four weeks of your life to dedicate yourself to circus and see where that takes you.

Warning: People sometimes can’t bear to leave so they stay on to finish the Foundation Course!

More info on the Four-Week Circus Intensive Course here


Pro-Track Training

This programme is a selection of classes and self-training sessions from our daytime and evening schedules, curated specially for you.

It’s particularly suitable if you’re a circus professional, you want to become one, or you want to train like a pro.

We discuss your aims to understand what you need to learn and develop. Then we check your availability against our schedule, and your budget.

More on Pro-Track Training here


Easter Edge Circus Festival

This is a fantastic four full days giving you 24 hours of progress-driven training with the Aerial Edge team and specialist guest instructors.

You choose four arts to focus on over the four days. Each pathway has a 90-minute session in that art every day, for four days.

People make appreciable improvements because everyone is moving together through the experience, and some arts improve technique in others.

More about Easter Edge here


Circus Holidays

Fancy training on a beachside rig with your Aerial Edge friends and instructors? Doing an intensive training camp at specialist facilities? Enjoying some sightseeing a nightlife while you’re there?

Aerial Edge collaborations over the last two years have given groups of students the opportunity to train at circus schools in beautiful landscapes like Goa in India, Florianopolis in Brazil, and Beirut in Lebanon.

More about circus holidays coming soon

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  • Date: January 2024

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