All of our coaches are experienced teaching artists who are also working professional circus performers. Organizations our coaches have worked for include Ringling Brothers, Cirque du Soleil, Circus Smirkus, Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm.
Circus Arts Workshop was created to provide everybody the opportunity to try learning circus skills. We come to your location and provide all of the equipment necessary to teach the workshop. Our workshops can be designed for parties, company picnics, on-going afterschool classes, or summer camp intensives.
Circus Arts Workshop is owned and operated by Donna Wood-Babcock. Donna has made her living as a clown and circus arts instructor since graduating from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's Clown College in 1981. Donna is also a graduate of Pacific Oaks University where she earned a Bachelor Degree in Human Development with and specialization in Arts Education.
Donna is the former Executive Director of the Jumbo Shrimp Circus Academy. Her experience as a Circus Arts teacher includes working as a trainer for Cirque du Soleil’s social outreach program, Cirque du Monde, developing the position of Director of Education for the Los Angeles Foundation of the Circus Arts, creating the Circus Arts program for City Hearts, Kids Say Yes to the Arts, working as a Director of Clown College at Ocean Park, Hong Kong, and teaching thousands of students and directing dozens of youth circuses at schools and community centers throughout Los Angeles.
Donna is a Board Member of the American Youth Circus Organization. To learn more about AYCO please visit http://www.americanyouthcircus.org