Circus Fit for Older Adults (60+)

Improve balance, coordination, and strength while learning fun new skills in a supportive group setting.

Experienced instructors offer modifications for every activity, supporting safe and comfortable participation across a wide range of abilities and fitness levels.

Aerial skills are taught at a very low height, introducing accessible basics on trapeze, aerial hoop, and hammock. Ground-based activities include juggling, hula hoop, poi, and other balance and object-manipulation skills.

This class is suitable for all levels of fitness and physical ability. Please let us know if you have any conditions or physical restrictions that you would like the tutors to be aware of so they can best accommodate the class for you.

Requirements:

For participants aged 60+

Please make sure your clothes don’t have zips as they can damage our aerial fabrics

Timing and location:

Mondays @ 1:30-2:30pm & Wednesdays @ 11:00am-12:00pm

Movement Studio 2,

Level 2, Parakiore

Price:

$12 (on-line booking or payment on the day)

$80 for the 8 week term booking (on-line booking only)

Your tutor

Treesa Green & Jenny Ritchie

Treesa has trained in circus arts, yoga, and acroyoga for over a decade across Canterbury, Wellington, Auckland, and Sydney. Since 2016, she has been teaching children, youth, and adults in Christchurch, Selwyn, and the Banks Peninsula. Her favourite disciplines include trapeze, duo aerials, hand balancing, and partner acro, though she is skilled in a wide range of circus arts, from silks and hammock to hula hoops, juggling, lyra, and tumbling. Treesa creates supportive, fun classes where students of all abilities can explore movement, build confidence, and enjoy the creativity and excitement of circus.

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Jenny is a multidisciplinary circus and visual artist specialising in aerial choreography, act development, and aerial equipment design.
Over the past 24 years, Jenny has worked across contemporary circus, live performance, opera, and film, both internationally and throughout Aotearoa. Her career includes working as a movement artist with Robert Lepage’s Ex Machina for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, touring internationally with Cavalia, and creating and performing with Zurich-based contemporary circus company Rigolo.
Jenny is currently in her fifth year as Aerial Director for the World of WearableArt (WOW) and a core artistic member of Movement of the Human (MOTH). She is also a costume designer and textile artist, with recent projects including Twelfth Night at The Court Theatre, as well as costume work for several international film productions over the past decade.
Now based back home, Jenny is passionate about sharing the world of circus with others and supporting the next generation of movement artists.

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