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Circus Bone Idle is the first professionally constituted circus
performance and street arts company based in Belfast,
established in 2005 by four highly trained circus performers and
artists. A constant strive to investigate and improve their own practice
and push the boundaries of their art form led to the formation of
Circus Bone Idle, whose aim it is to advance circus by incorporating
other art forms like music, theatre, carnival arts and performance,
whilst maintaining the highest possible level of skill and creating
visually stimulating spectacles. At the same time Circus Bone Idle
are also dedicated to involve a varied audience and attract young and
inexperienced people to see their shows, by being entertaining
and accessible as well as artistically challenging.
Circus Bone Idle also provide high quality Circus, Carnival Arts and Percussion Workshops. These can be
arranged either on their own or in combination with any of our shows, in which case bookings as part of an
education and outreach programme are appropriate.
These Workshops can provide an easily accessible introduction to the arts, build confidence, promote
secondary skills such as communication, cooperation with others, and foster creativity.
Circus Workshops would consist of warm up games, a demonstration of skills and teaching of a range of
circus skills such juggling, stilt walking, diabolo, unicycle, and in some cases also acrobatics and aerial.
Carnival art workshops range from the making of masks, flamboyant headresses to building up of full
Carnival costumes and performance pieces. They put particular emphasis on creative expression and
experimentation.
Workshops in junk percussion consist of teaching of basic rhythmic skills whilst encouraging participants
to experiment with the use of everyday objects as instruments thereby making music accessible to everyone.
In combination these workshops can also lead up to groups participating in carnivals and parades.
Accessible introduction to the arts
Building participants’ confidence through learning of skills and performance
Increasing focus and concentration through practice
Fostering creativity through creative expression, crafts, rhythm, invention of routines
Communication
Group work which encourages co-operation and conflict resolution
Allowing for risk taking in safe environment
Increasing body awareness and therefore awareness of self and others
Fun physical exercise in a non competitive environment
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