Summer Circs School
Summer Circus School
at TRAP - Circus Center Vienna
24. – 30.8.2026
Summer Circus School is a collectively organised DIY Workshop festival for circus practice in Vienna.
International artists teach and give insights in their work and methods.
Come by! Join us. 💜
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How to register
→ fill in the google form, then follow the steps described in the e-mail to pay within 14 days to reserve your spot. Important: Without advance Payment your Spot is not reserved!
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Prices – Pay as you can
Every workshop has a suggested price 💰 to guide you. This price reflects the monetary worth of the workshop. You always pay as you can, according to your income and your other possibilities.
Keep in mind that everyone involved earns a part of the overall income. There is no funding or other money involved apart from what you are able to pay. Keep it fair!
Calendar with all Workshops
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Open this link to find an overview of all the workshops in a calendar
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Questions?
please call Ariane: +43 660 9166915 (no messenger!)
Monday - Friday 11:00 – 18:00
or write an e-mail to ariane@circus-trap.org
Attendance- and Safeguarding Policy
We want everyone to feel welcome.
We know that safe spaces do not exist in the real world. We exist in the real world though and are thus working with the idea of “Brave Space”.
We are aware that some people feel less easily comfortable than others.
We do our best to create an environment that leads to (more) equity.
We are a self-organised festival in a self-governed space and do not yet have the means to have a professional awareness team or distinguished safer spaces.
However, our teachers are attentive to power dynamics, discrimination and barriers to participation, and will do their best to support participants and address conflicts when they arise. If you experience harm or feel unwell: please speak to the teachers and feel invited to ask for help.
If we notice harm or conflict, we will do our very best to create time and space for discussion, restoration and healing.
If you act in a way that is in conflict with our basic values (queer, feminist, antiracist, caring, accountability) → be prepared for discussions.
Stay hydrated.
Be gentle before you test boundaries.
Only yes means yes.
TIMETABLE Overview
Monday – Friday
10:00–11:30 Handstands: Inversion (only Monday to Thursday)
10:00–11:30 Cyr Wheel: Discovering the Wheel
11:45–13:15 Aerial: Questioning Patriarchal Patterns
11:45–13:15 Scaffold Research: Exploring a New Circus Prop
14:15–15:45 Dramaturgy for Your Circus Act BOOKED OUT
14:15–15:45 Object Manipulation & Dance
16:00–17:30 Aerial: Puzzles and Adrenaline
16:00–17:30 Flow Arts: Martial Arts & Object Manipulation
17:45–19:15 Pole: Intensive Research
17:45–19:15 Aerial Straps Technique (only 24.+26.8.) BOOKED OUT
17:45-19:15 Chinese Pole Technique (only 25.+27.+28.8.) BOOKED OUT
19:45–21:15 Acrodance (only Monday and Tuesday)
Saturday – Sunday
10:00–11:30 Dance: A Very Very Serious Playground
14:15–15:45 Interdisciplinary: Owning and Honouring Myself
16:00–17:30 Partnering: Grounded Collaboration
17:45–21:15 Voice: (sich) frei singen (Sunday 12:00–13:30)
19:45–21:15 Saturday Open Stage? → let us know if you want to perform!
ALL WORKSHOP Details
Detailed Descriptions, Dates, Suggested Prices and Times
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1. Handstands: Inversion 24.8. – 27.8. 10:00 – 11:30
💰Full course: 120 €
one day: 30 €
– Balance, Alignment and Inversion
This workshop focuses on the foundations and development of handstand practice through strength, alignment and body awareness. Participants explore balance techniques, weight shifting, posture and coordination while working individually and in pairs.
Through conditioning exercises, drills and playful inversions, we investigate how to build a stable and efficient handstand practice adapted to different levels and bodies. The workshop combines technical training with elements of movement exploration, helping participants develop confidence and ease while upside down.
Exercises can be adapted for beginners as well as more advanced practitioners working on endurance, shapes or transitions. The workshop emphasizes a supportive learning environment, individual progress and the joy of exploring inversion and movement.
Anna Biebl
Anna grew up in Austria and began her artistic journey at the Akademiet For Utæmmet Kreativitet (AFUK) in Copenhagen. She continued her training at the National Institute of Circus Arts (INAC) in Portugal and at Creat in Valencia, where she further developed her technical and creative practice with a focus on aerial acrobatics and partner acrobatics.
Since 2021, she has been working as a freelance circus artist and circus educator, performing in various projects combining vertical rope, dance and acrobatics. She is a member of the collective Circle Circus Circus.
Alongside her performance work, Anna teaches circus classes and workshops for both adults and children. Her teaching focuses on building strength, body awareness and confidence through a playful and supportive approach
2. Aerial: Questioning Patriarchal Patterns 24.8. – 28.8. 11:45 – 13:15
💰160 €
– examine your technique into the smallest sensations and emotions
Like everything else, aerial acrobatics is not free from the pervasive and inherent power structures of our society. Both historically and in the present, many colonial and patriarchal hierarchies are reproduced within the practice—some quite obvious, others more subtle.
In this workshop, we will closely examine our technique by tuning into even the smallest sensations and emotions. Which movements evoke a sense of freedom and joy, and which ones feel more like control or constraint?
The workshop is supported by readings from a variety of texts and, alongside physical exploration, incorporates writing and awareness exercises.
Please bring something to write with, as well as training-appropriate clothing in which you feel comfortable.
Yolande Sommer
Yolande developed an interest in teaching at the age of sixteen and completed her training as a circus educator at eighteen. From that point on, she taught a wide range of circus courses for over ten years and led a children’s circus in Cologne-Kalk.
From the very beginning, her focus has been on supporting people in transforming their own ideas and personal themes into creative expression. Her approach is rooted in staying close to each individual’s story, while maintaining a caring and attentive perspective to ensure that the creative process remains nourishing and supportive for participants.
In recent years, she has developed several workshop concepts from a feminist perspective within the context of circus arts, including Embodied Patriarchy, Reclaim the Cycle, and The Body as an Archive.
3. (BOOKED OUT) Dramaturgy for Your Circus Act 24.8. – 28.8. 14:15 – 15:45
💰160 €
– Where Technique Meets Storytelling: Shaping Presence, Tension and Meaning
From Technique to Theatrical Experience, this workshop explores how dramaturgical thinking can support and deepen contemporary circus creation. Through practical exercises, improvisation and feedback, participants investigate storytelling, rhythm, stage presence and audience connection.
Using tools from theatre, writing and devised performance, we explore questions such as: What is the core idea of an act? How do tension, timing and transitions shape audience attention? And how can technique and emotion work together on stage?
Participants may bring existing material or ideas they want to develop. The workshop emphasizes experimentation, collaborative exchange and finding an individual artistic language.
· What is the core idea of my act?
· How do tension, rhythm and timing shape audience attention?
· What story does my body already tell?
· How can transitions, repetition and surprise support my performance?
· How do character, movement and emotional intention interact?
AnnPhie Fritz
is an Austrian actress, writer, dramaturg and theatre educator based between Vienna and Germany. Her work moves between theatre, performance, writing and comedy, with a focus on storytelling, devised theatre and contemporary performance practices.
She studied acting at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, as well as Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Scenic Writing at the Berlin University of the Arts. As a performer, she has worked with theatres and festivals including the Salzburg Festival, Schauspielbühnen Stuttgart, Kultursommer Wien and Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall.
Alongside her work as a performer, AnnPhie creates her own texts and theatre projects, combining humor, social observation and collaborative creation. As a theatre educator and workshop leader, she has worked with youth ensembles, schools and community projects in Austria, Germany and Nepal.
Her workshops combine dramaturgical tools with playful experimentation, helping performers develop authenticity, stage presence and their own artistic voice.
4. Aerial: Puzzles and Adrenaline 24.8. – 28.8. 16:00 – 17:30
💰160 €
– a playful approach to aerial rope
In this workshop series, we will, over the course of various sessions, dive into the diverse facets of aerial rope, with a focus on sequencing (puzzles) and adrenaline (beats, swings and drops) aiming to provide a well-grounded vocabulary for future practices and creation.
Puzzles will focus on a creative, task-based approach to rope. We will find pathways and connections, climbs and resting positions, and we will create our own sequences with both the familiar and the unknown.
All levels are welcome.
Adrenaline will explore beats, swings and inversions, and generally, how to play with gravity. A familiarity with side and front beats and being able to comfortably invert (bent or straight arms) is recommended.
Rosalía and Malu
Rosalía and Malu are two circus artists based in Vienna. Rosalía fell in love with rope during her formation at CreatCirc (Valencia) where she learnt under the wing of Rosa Schmidt.
She has taught rope at Espai de Circ and CreatCirc (Valencia), where Malu had also undergo formation with Rosa Schmidt and Melina Benposta, quickly moving onto the dynamic and acrobatic aspect of rope.
Both of them were part of the street arts collective Colectivo Cremaetéreo. Among their teachers were Roque Bisciotti, Giullia Lupelli or Gaia Santuccio.
5. Scaffold Research: exploring a prop 24.8. – 28.8. 11:45 – 13:15
💰150 €
– a new prop, a new way of working
This workshop explores the scaffold as an experimental circus apparatus and movement environment. Combining elements of object manipulation, movement research and contemporary circus practice, participants investigate the scaffold not only as a structure, but as a creative partner.
Through guided improvisation, physical tasks and collaborative exploration, we research balance, weight, rhythm, spatial relationships and different ways of interacting with the apparatus. The workshop encourages participants to discover unusual movement possibilities, images and dynamics emerging from the interaction between body and scaffold.
Rather than focusing on fixed tricks or techniques, the workshop emphasizes experimentation, playfulness and collective research. Participants are invited to approach the scaffold from different perspectives: as architecture, obstacle, support structure, dance partner or moving object.
The workshop is open to movers, circus artists and curious beginners alike. Exercises are adapted to different levels of experience and aim to create a supportive environment for artistic exploration and exchange.
Ariane Oechsner
is a Vienna-based director, choreographer and movement artist working at the intersection of contemporary circus, object manipulation and physical theatre. The artistic practice combines juggling, choreography and movement research, with a focus on the relationship between body, object and space.
Coming from both dance and circus backgrounds, Ariane develops performances and workshop formats that explore movement beyond technical virtuosity, creating playful and expressive forms of interaction with objects and materials. Improvisation, rhythm, spatial awareness and collaborative experimentation are central elements of the work.
As a performer and collaborator, Ariane has been involved in interdisciplinary productions, site-specific performances and contemporary circus projects. In teaching, the focus lies on curiosity, accessibility and developing an individual artistic language through movement and creative research.
6. Object Manipulation and Dance 24.8. – 28.8. 14:15 – 15:45
💰160 €
– Whole Body Juggling
This workshop explores the connection between object manipulation, juggling and contemporary movement practices. Instead of focusing only on tricks, we investigate how the entire body can become part of the juggling process.
Through guided improvisation, movement exercises and technical research, participants explore coordination, rhythm, flow and spatial awareness. We work with objects as creative partners, discovering how movement can emerge from the interaction between body, object and space.
Using tools from dance, contemporary circus and physical theatre, the workshop encourages participants to develop a more organic, expressive and playful approach to object manipulation.
Exercises can be adapted to different levels of experience, from beginners to advanced movers and jugglers. The workshop emphasizes experimentation, personal movement language and collective exchange in a supportive environment.
Ariane Oechsner
is a Vienna-based choreographer and director working at the intersection of circus, contemporary dance, physical theatre and political activism. Ariane’s artistic practice explores how objects and bodies can move together as interactive partners on stage and what they express in our socio-political setting.
Coming from both circus and dance backgrounds, Ariane develops performances and workshop formats that focus on expressive aesthetics, coordination, rhythm and playful experimentation.
In object manipulation, Ariane is particularly interested in expanding juggling beyond technical patterns towards a holistic and expressive movement language — what Ariane describes as “whole body juggling.”
As a performer and collaborator, Ariane has worked in contemporary and classical circus, site-specific performance and interdisciplinary stage productions, for example: Cirque Romanés in Paris, Jémome Thomas, Stefan Sing, at Residenztheater München and toured own projects.
In teaching, Ariane creates an open and supportive atmosphere that encourages curiosity, creativity and individual approaches to movement and object work.
7. Flow Arts: Martial Arts & Object Manipulation 24.8. – 28.8. 16:00 – 17:30
💰160 €
– movement, rhythm, and flow
In this workshop, we will explore the connection between martial arts and object manipulation through movement, rhythm, and flow.
We will learn the five basic Kung Fu steps and connect them into fluid combinations, working with contrasts such as slow and fast, up and down, soft and strong.
The goal is to blend the structure and power of martial arts with the fluidity and creativity of object manipulation.
The workshop focuses mainly on staff manipulation and includes:
• Basic spinning techniques
• Contact manipulation fundamentals
• Throws
• Martial arts poses and transitions
• Flow development and movement quality
Peter Smohai
I come from a martial arts background with more than 20 years of experience across different disciplines, including active competition in several styles.
In 2012, while living in London, I began training in object manipulation and fire performance at Spinning@. In 2016, I moved to China, where I spent two years training intensively at the Shaolin Temple.
During this time, I developed my vision of combining the soft Yin qualities of contact manipulation with the strong Yang energy of Kung Fu.
After this period of disciplined training, I spent the following five years performing professionally in fire shows across China.
Now based in Vienna, I am developing new concepts and seeking collaborations with artists and movers who want to grow, create, and inspire each other through shared practice and creativity.
8. Pole: Intensive Research 24.8. – 28.8. 17:45 – 19:15
💰160 €
– explore your relationship with the apparatus through
a lens of creative autonomy
Five-day intensive offers a technical and creative exploration of pole dance, structured for both complete beginners and experienced practitioners.
Each 90-minute session functions as an independent module, allowing for single-class drop-ins, while the full sequence provides a progressive framework for those attending the entire week.
The curriculum is divided into three distinct phases:
1) Conditioning – a pole-specific warmup focusing on body awareness, joint mobilization, shoulder stability, and core activation.
2) Technical Analysis – an introduction to the physics of movement. This section covers the mechanics of friction, torque, and momentum to ensure safe and efficient execution of elements.
3) Movement Research – a guided improvisation period where technical skills are integrated into personal movement patterns.
Participants explore their relationship with the apparatus through
a lens of creative autonomy. The course aims to build a functional understanding of the pole while fostering an inclusive environment
for movement exploration across all levels of experience.
Oleksii Kolbei
Oleksii is a queer, neurodivergent Ukrainian pole artist currently based in Austria (he/they/no pronouns). His movement practice is built on a foundation of ten years in ballroom dance and five years in pole, where he specializes in blending pole heels with contemporary movement.
Rather than following a strictly traditional path, Oleksii’s approach is rooted in consistent self-exploration and intentional exchanges with contemporary movers who inspire him, alongside various online teacher trainings, workshops and camps.
Since 2023, he has traveled to teach and perform across Georgia, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and other countries. For Oleksii, pole is an inherently political practice, and he believes it is essential to acknowledge its history and roots in sex work and club culture.
In his classes, he prioritizes the creation of a safer, inclusive, and supportive environment. He strives to build relationships with his students based on mutual trust and respect, consciously working to dismantle traditional teaching hierarchies in favor of a more collaborative and empowering learning experience.
9. AcroDance: Handstand-Flow 24.8.+ 25.8. 19:45 – 21:15
💰80 €
– Movement Insights: noticing your patterns and uncovering new possibilities
Through gentle, intentional movement, we will explore awareness and coordination and discovering practical ways to move with greater ease. This workshop is open to anyone interested in injury prevention, increasing flexibility, or finding more freedom in movement.
Each session adapts to participants’ interests, whether you’re curious about expanding your range of motion or want to explore the world upside down. We’ll work with balance, acro dance, handstands, and dynamic transitions. Central to our time together is a resource-oriented approach: noticing your patterns and uncovering new possibilities in movement. Drawing from my experience as a circus artist, I’ll share perspectives on balance, spatial awareness and creative flow.
Everyone is welcome, whatever your background or experience.
Lou Riegler
Lou Riegler is a Vienna-based contemporary circus artist, handbalancer, and Feldenkrais Practitioner. They completed a Bachelor's in Circus and Performance Art at Fontys University of Applied Sciences (NL 2024). Lou uses the disciplines of handbalancing and acro dance to explore fluid moments and overlooked perspectives.
The Feldenkrais Method informs their understanding of movement and influences directly into their teaching. Lou is a scholarship recipient of the Austrian Federal Ministry (BMWKMS, 2025), with recent performances at Kultursommer Wien (AUT), Lightyears Beyond the Expected (D), and residencies at Makerhuis (NL), Zirkus Halle Dornbirn (AUT), Zirkusquartier (CH) and Stationszirkus (CH).
10. Interdisciplinary: Owning an Honouring myself 29. + 30.8. 14:15 – 15:45
💰130 €
– grounding and self-awareness
In this class, we will practise different ways of grounding and expressing ourselves.
Breathing ourselves into an elevated state of self-awareness. Listening to what it is we desire in the here and now. Dancing, moving, performing and expressing these embodied sensations.
So, let’s gather, to celebrate each other and to practise owning & honouring ourselves with whatever, whoever and however we are. All feelings and abilities are welcome!
mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni
mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni’s interdisciplinary artistic practice focuses on empowerment & collaborative healing processes. Inspired by everyday life & extraordinary night experiences, de-colonial and anti-racist methods are used & elaborated to take up space in public & private spaces, with non-binary, queer, Black aesthetics.
Moving bodies, self-presentation & continuous energy exchange as well as music, text, styling, comedy & sculpture are the main components for complex creations, representing visible signs of change.
11. Voice: (sich) frei singen 29.8. 19:45 – 21:15 + 30.8. 10:00 – 13:15
💰130 €
– singing, shouting, stomping
What does anger do to my voice? How do I find the right tones to blend into a group, and how do I stand out? How do I connect my voice with my body and my movements?
In this workshop, you won’t just learn how to warm up and strengthen your voice, you’ll also dive deep into improvisation through group singing, harmonizing, and shared musical experience.
You’ll enjoy the powerful energy of our many voices coming together, singing together, shouting together.
Antonia Dering
Antonia is a singer and double-bass-player from Munich. For 15 years, she hasworked as a musician, performer, and composer in the German and Austrian jazz, theatre, and performance scene. She is performer and singer of the Sonic Art Collective, founder and leader of the band SiEA. In Vienna, she worked in 2025 with the independent theater ensemble “E3-Ensemble” on the piece titled “Eine Ballettoper”.
She studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, as well as at the MuK Wien.
Antonia has led a wide range of bands, composed and performed music for 12 theatre productions, and collaborated with dancers, circus artists, and creators from various disciplines. Her pedagogical focus lies in vocal technique, stage presence, free improvisation and extended vocal techniques.
12. Dance: A Very Very Serious Playground 29.8. + 30.8. 10:00 – 13:15
💰130 €
– curiosity, play and ongoing research
A Very Very Serious Playground is a movement improvisation workshop exploring the body as a site of curiosity, play and ongoing research.
Inspired by contemporary dance and physical theatre practices, it works with everyday actions as material for movement, where rhythm, momentum, emotional shifts, release and body-space awareness inform how we move and respond.
Through guided improvisations in individual, in pairs and group constellations, participants are invited to listen closely to the body, notice habitual patterns and expand their physical choices.
The practice supports both stepping beyond comfort zones and staying with familiarity, in a safe and open environment. People of different backgrounds and abilities are welcome, with diversity enriching the shared exploration. So… shall we play?
Defne Uluer
Defne Uluer (she/they) is a Vienna-based contemporary dance artist, instructor and theatre-maker. She studied at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (Erasmus). Her solo work Goodbye Moonmen has been presented at several venues and festivals in Vienna, including Brut Wien Imagetanz Festival.
Since 2021, she has been offering a variety of workshops in different countries, focusing on physical theatre, contemporary dance, ballet, clowning, composition, improvisation and body conditioning. Recently, she premiered COWBOYS at Dschungel Wien.
She is currently preparing for upcoming projects including Office Creatures, a physical theatre performance, INFLATABLE, a clown & drag performance and Wir.War by Ariane Öchsner.
14. Partnering: Grounded Collaboration 29.8. + 30.8. 16:00 – 19:15
💰130 €
– Moving Through Connection Partnering in Dance and Circus
In this workshop we are deepening understanding and exploring physical tools to act and react in interaction with others. These interactions become the means for awareness and learning about both, the connection and oneself as well.
Through a process of building trust, we engage with the relation between giving and taking weight. We emphasize the use of gravity and momentum, and investigate the importance of the floor and one’s own axis in partnering.
Using tools from contemporary dance, partnering and partner acrobatics, we engage with different constellations in duos and groups to explore interdependency and collaboration.
The level is adapted to the experience of the participants.
Consent is emphasized and practiced as a base for respectful collaboration.
Maja Karolina Franke
www.majakarolinafranke.com
Maja (she/her) is a dance and circus artist, performer, choreographer and maker based in Vienna. Her practice is informed by contemporary dance, circus and performance art, focusing on relational practices between bodies, objects and space, which is manifested in Maja’s work with the help of a multiplicity of techniques, perspectives and approaches like partnering, couple dancing and partner acrobatics and kink practices.
Artistically she explores communication, vulnerability and interdependency, questioning gender roles and their impact on physical interaction, particularly in partner acrobatics. Her work also engages with trust, responsibility and the role of the audience.
Maja studied at MuK Wien and Anton Bruckner Universität Linz.
Since 2012 she has been working as a freelance artist in dance and performance art and since 2017 within the realm of contemporary circus as well. Currently she is pursuing her artistic research as part of the MA program in Performance Practice at ArtEZ University in Arnhem (NL). For 2024/2025 Maja was a member of the artistic jury for curating residencies and performances at Red Sapata, Linz.
She shared her workshops amongst others at Impulstanz Vienna / Public Moves, Burgtheater Vienna, MuK University Vienna, Pro Dance Vienna, CircArtive School, Gschwend, Red Sapata, Linz and Circustrainingscentrum, Salzburg.
15. Cyr Wheel: Discover the Wheel 24.8. – 27.8. 10:00 – 11:30
💰130 €
– hanging, manipulating and spinning
Discover the wheel from multiple perspectives. In this workshop, we explore the wheel as an object, a partner, an unfamiliar device. Through guided exercises, we investigate its weight, the ways it influences us and the various possibilities of interaction it offers.
We will work both individually and as a group, playing with each other and the wheel while discovering what spaces and experiences we can create together. Drawing on elements of partnering, contemporary dance and object manipulation, we will explore new possibilities of movement and expression with the wheel.
Technical elements are integrated into the explorations, making the workshop accessible to participants of all levels. The exercises can be adapted to individual experience and abilities, allowing everyone to explore the discipline beyond traditional technique.
Please let us know in the registration form whether you will be bringing your own wheel. It is not a requirement.
Sasha Parkhomchuk
Sasha (she/her) discovered a passion for circus arts during a stay abroad in Granada, Spain. After completing the first training as a circus educator at the Circus Academy Vienna, Sasha continued professional studies at the renowned Rogelio Rivel Circus School in Barcelona, specializing in Cyr wheel, handstands and partner acrobatics.
As a freelance circus artist, trainer and choreographer, Sasha has developed a diverse artistic practice spanning performance, creation and teaching. Working in both solo projects and collaborative productions, Sasha is a member of the CIRCle Circus Collective and Rhizomatic Circus.
Combining technical precision with creativity and emotional expression, Sasha's work draws inspiration from dance, contemporary circus and visual arts. Through performance and pedagogy, the focus lies on creating innovative movement languages that foster connection, curiosity and artistic exploration.
16. (BOOKED OUT) Aerial Straps Technique 24.+26.8. 17:45-19:15
💰50 € both classes / 30 € one class
– train safe and stable movement mechanics
This workshop focuses on body-safe technique, stabilization, and movement mechanics to help you train more efficiently and sustainably.
Through technical drills and movement concepts, we will explore how the body reacts under load and how to use that understanding to improve control, strength, and execution of skills.
The goal is to make learning new tricks easier while giving you tools to create and understand your own movement.
Alberto Rabago
Alberto Rabago is a professional circus artist and coach from Mexico with over 10 years of experience in performance and teaching. A graduate of École de Cirque de Québec, he specializes in Chinese Pole, Aerial Straps, acrobatic conditioning, and movement development. His teaching combines technical precision, strength, and artistic exploration, helping students build efficient technique and body awareness. Alberto works with all levels, supporting each student in developing both skill and personal movement expression.
17. (BOOKED OUT) Chinese Pole Technique 25.+27.+28.8. 17:45-19:15
💰70 € 3 classes / 30 € one class
– explore tricks, climbs, transitions, and dynamic movements
A technique-focused workshop open to all levels, designed to create a fun, social, and encouraging learning environment.
We will explore tricks, climbs, transitions, and dynamic movements while building strong technical foundations that adapt to each participant’s level. The focus is on understanding efficient technique to move with more confidence, control, and freedom on the pole.
Alberto Rabago
Alberto Rabago is a professional circus artist and coach from Mexico with over 10 years of experience in performance and teaching. A graduate of École de Cirque de Québec, he specializes in Chinese Pole, Aerial Straps, acrobatic conditioning, and movement development. His teaching combines technical precision, strength, and artistic exploration, helping students build efficient technique and body awareness. Alberto works with all levels, supporting each student in developing both skill and personal movement expression.
TIMETABLE Overview
Studio | Mon 24.8. | Tue 25.8. | Wed 26.8. | Thu 27.8. | Fri 28.8. | Sat 29.8. | Sun 30.8. | |
10:00-11:30 | 1. Handstands: Inversion | |||||||
11:45-13:15 | 2. Aerial: Questioning Patriarchal Patterns | 11. Voice: (sich) frei singen | ||||||
LUNCH BREAK | Lunch Break | |||||||
14:15-15:45 | 3. Dramaturgy for Your Circus Act | 10. Interdisciplinary: Owning an Honouring myself | ||||||
16:00-17:30 | 4. Aerial: Puzzles and Adrenaline | |||||||
17:45-19:15 | 8. Pole: Intensive Research | 11. Voice: (sich) frei singen | ||||||
19:30-21:00 | optional: Voice: (sich) frei singen | |||||||
Half Hall | Mon 24.8. | Tue 25.8. | Wed 26.8. | Thu 27.8. | Fri 28.8. | Sat 29.8. | Sun 30.8. | |
10:00-11:30 | 15. Cyr-Wheel | 12. Dance: A Very Very Serious Playground | ||||||
11:45-13:15 | 5. Scaffold Research: exploring a new circus prop | |||||||
LUNCH BREAK | Lunch Break | |||||||
14:15-15:45 | 6. Object Manipulation and Dance aka "whole body juggling" | free space to exchange, stretch, enjoy | ||||||
16:00-17:30 | 7. Flow Arts: Martial Arts & Object Manipulation | 14. Partnering: Grounded Collaboration | ||||||
17:45-19:15 | 16. Aerial Straps | 17. Chinese Pole | 16. Aerial Straps | 17. Chinese Pole | 17. Chinese Pole | |||
19:45-21:15 | 9. Acrodance | OPEN STAGE? | ||||||
More Info // Contact // Other Dates
Concept, Idea, Organisation: https://www.instagram.com/ariane_moves/
More Circus and Art: https://www.instagram.com/idiom_kulturverein/
Venue: www.circus-trap.org