You can find out more about the specific program I'm attending this year by clicking on the link below. I've copied and pasted the more relevant of the details.
Timeframe: Sept 2010 - May 2011
Pro-track description: (from NECCA website)
"This program is for committed students wanting to focus on their core strength and technique and develop a variety of skills. Training will focus on stretching, tumbling, hand balancing, partner acrobatics, trapeze, and fabric, plus lyra, duo trapeze, mini tramp, tight wire, juggling and pole. Invented and requested apparatus will also be accommodated.
"During the first month of the program the work will focus on training core strength and awareness. This will be followed by a focus on new skills. Then we will explore the creative process with a group presentation at our Winter Cabaret show in December. Then we will return to learning more skills and gaining better technical proficiency as well as exploring performance qualities and creative endeavors."
Primary goals of the program: (from NECCA website)
- Teach how to stretch and strengthen the body for the rigors of professional circus work
- Teach basic skills on the floor and in the air
- Introduce intermediate/advanced skills as each student is ready
- Encourage the creative process
- Encourage the personal and creative support of an ensemble group
- 9 hours of group training sessions (Tu, Th, F mornings)
- 0.5 hours of private/semiprivate instruction (Tu/Th afternoon) (this number is per student, so if the lesson is combined with someone else, the times are added together, thus if you have a semiprivate with someone else, it'll last for an hour)
- 1 hour of dance (Th afternoon)
- 1 hour of tumbling (F afternoon)
- 10+ hours of open studio training either at the NECCA studio or the Outer Limits gym (every day)
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