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

• Professional Development Programme: Six months, 10am-5pm, Mon-Fri. £4,499. Two intakes a year, in March and August, alongside the Foundation Course. Apply here
  • 10th August 2026 to 28th November 2026, then 4th January to 19th February 2027
  • 1st March 2027 to 19th June 2027, then 21st June to 6th August 2027
  • 9th August 2027 to 27th November 2027, then 3rd January to 18th February 2028
• Foundation Course in Circus Arts: Four months, 10am-5pm, Mon-Fri. £2,999. Apply here
  • 10th August to 28th November 2026
  • 1st March to 19th June 2027
  • 9th August to 27th November 2027
• Circus Intensive Courses: 4 weeks, 10am-5pm, Mon-Fri. £795. Apply here
  • 29th June to 24th July 2026
  • 10th August to 4th September 2026
  • 28th September to 22nd October 2026 (ends Thursday — Friday 23rd is October Edge)
  • 1st March to 25th March 2027 (ends Thursday — Friday 26th is Easter Edge)
  • 19th April to 14th May 2027
  • 28th June to 23rd July 2027
  • 9th August to 3rd September 2027
• 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. £269. Details here
  • 26th to 29th March 2027

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Professional Development Programme

If you’ve already got some circus skills and you want to develop as a creator and a performer, this is the route. You might not have a finished act yet, you might want to sharpen your technique and your performance, or you might want a bridge towards a degree or a performing career.

It’s also for you if you’ve done our Foundation Course or a Four-Week Intensive and you want to go deeper into your own solo work.

You ride the full Foundation Course journey, sharing the ensemble show, then carry on for two more months focused entirely on your solo act. You’ll work on choreography, character, stagecraft and performing for camera, and you’ll leave with a professional showreel filmed by our cinematographer Gabriel Stella.

More on the Professional Development Programme here

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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