ROLL UP! ROLL UP! CIRCUS GERBOLA TO AMAZE AUDIENCES IN KILLARNEY!!
JULY 30TH TO AUGUST 8TH
The award-winning and critically acclaimed Circus Gerbola rumbles into Killarney, in association with Killarney Summerfest, from July 30th to August 8th
For their latest exhilarating spectacle, Gerbola, Ireland's greatest family experience, are set to thrill the town with a troupe of home grown and international performers creating a mesmerizing feast of circus delights. Be prepared to be spellbound by their Aerial Artists, Chinese Pole Acrobats, Comedy Trampoline, Liberty Horses, Crazy Clowns, Incredible Foot Jugglers, The Slinky and much much more...
You can't miss their Big Top on Park Road opposite McDonald's. Circus Gerbola is known for quality family entertainment and won the AOIFE Best Festival Entertainment Award in 2009. The show in 2010 is even bigger and more daring!
For younger circus goers, see Barney in Killarney! Barney & Friends will be dancing in the ring and visiting various venues in the town. Look out for the big purple dinosaur and be sure to ask him for discount vouchers!
And for all the budding talent out there, Circus Gerbola are opening their circus school to the public. Students learn a variety of circus skills including Aerial Silks, Trampoline, Stilt Walking, Juggling & many more. If you would like to book circus skills workshops, please contact the number below.
For showtimes please see: www.circusgerbola.ie or posters in the town
For circus bookings: 086 3700620
For workshop bookings: 087 7436722
For more information: info@circusgerbola.ie
JIGS IN THE RING
Irish Traditional Music, Song and Dance with CIRCUS GERBOLA
Friday August 6th 5pm & 7.30pm and Saturday August 7th 2.30pm & 5pm
Welcome to the exciting marriage of two ancient traditions - LIVE Irish Circus and LIVE Irish Traditional Music & Dance. Circus Gerbola and Spraoi Chiarraí, in association with Killarney Summerfest, have come together to create four charmingly unique and highly entertaining shows. The Gerbola Big Top will ring out with magical Irish traditional Jigs and Reels as daring circus acts spectacularly fly above the heads of the audience. Spraoi Chiarrai Irish dancers will do their finest to try to fend off the hilarious clowns who's attempts at the dancing cause uproar. There's a huge comical element to these extraordinary shows and audiences can be guaranteed to get a laugh be they 9 or 90!
Circus Gerbola is an Irish owned family circus whose passion is to provide the very best in live circus entertainment to family audiences. It's commitment is to present highly skilled and internationally diverse acts in a traditional circus environment. The circus is proud to be sponsored by The Arts Council of Ireland and last year won the AOIFE Best Festival Entertainment award.
Spraoi Chiarrai is an Irish Traditional performance collective based in Killarney presenting the finest young performers, aged 17 to 24, in the Irish Traditional Arts of dancing and music.
CIRCUS GERBOLA'S CIRCUS SCHOOL
For all the budding talent out there, Circus Gerbola have now opened their Circus School to the public!
Have you ever dreamed of flying through the air in a circus Big Top? Or doing summersaults on a trampoline? Or finding your own clown face and making children laugh their heads off? Now you can make that dream come true by training with Circus Gerbola's Circus School.
How it works:
Your group come to the Big Top and workshop circus disciplines with a team of highly skilled professional tutors. During these workshops, you can choose to learn ground skills like juggling, slack wire, foot juggling, poi, stilt walking and trampoline or you can go up into the sky and learn aerial skills like aerial hoop, aerial silks and Corde Lise. Workshops are great fun and at all times, participants are learing something be it the skill itself or learning how to assist a learner.
The school has a flexible policy and workshops can be tailored to meet the needs of a particular group eg. One hour, one and a half hour or two hour workshops. Although it is best for participants, especially under 18s, to be of a similar age, it is possible to hold workshops with varied ages (for reasons of child protection, we cannot hold adult and child workshops together).
Our tutors can also come to your space to teach skills on your own home ground but please note that it is not always possible to erect aerial rigging in certain venues.
Then What?
If your group has worked hard within a minimum of 4 workshops, Circus Gerbola will invite the group to perform in the Big Top as part of a real circus show and you get to show off your newly learned skills in front of a live audience! Now, don't worry, you'll also be taught performance skills and you'll have the cues drilled into you, after all, the audience has paid in to see YOU!
Learning Outcomes:
As circus is an international discipline and holds no barriers to age, gender, nationality, cultural or social background, these barriers are transcended
participants will be exposed to alternative ways of living and working
the depth of training and commitment required to become a professional circus performer will become apparent
participants will have workshopped a new physical skill
If you would like to book circus workshops for your group, or would like further information on the school, please phone Annette on 087 7436722.
