New students:

• Ages 2-Kindergarten should start in the Toddler & Kinders program
• Grades 1-12 enter the Youth Program. New students to circus should take Circus Experience (CE) in the fall and winter sessions of their first year with CJ. Circus Experience is a class which offers an overview and sampling of acts in all five genres of circus arts: acrobatics, juggling, circus theatre, aerial and balance. In the winter session, students should continue to take CE and add a performing class per the coach recommendation sheet from the Fall Circus Experience class. Spring session, they can focus entirely on the performing class and have fun in the May Shows
• Age 22 and over enter the Adult program that includes a general adult circus experience class and flying trapeze

• All students registered in performing classes are expected to perform.  May shows include Levels I through II-III and some Level III classes.

• Toddlers & Kinders perform in the May Show. 

• Costume fees apply per costume per act.

• Within the youth program there are several performance tracks of acts and classes:
  Circus Experience, a few strength building and technique classes, and some cross training classes do not perform and this is stated in the class description

• Most of the classes in the Youth program are for beginners and intermediate students and these levels perform in the May Show

• The most senior students that take level III & III+ classes, and whose acts are selected, perform in the summer show. Students taking level III/III+ aerial classes that have traditionally performed in the summer show are required to cross train by taking at least 3 approved classes

• Due to the size and limited number of spaces available in our performing acts/classes, non-performing classes have been added. These classes are marked with an “NP*” for “Non-Performing”

• Circus Juventas chooses students who are the most committed to CJ and cross-train in at least 3 other classes when considering act selection for the summer shows. Show themes and the artistic vision of each production also dictate act selection

• Adult classes do not perform