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Live out your passion all day every day in NECCA’s most intensive 3 week performance-centered program! You’ll spend your days developing your individual act with guidance in circus, theater and dance technique with additional professional development classes, movement research, ensemble work, performance refinement, and holistic exercise sessions to round out a full body training and creation experience.

Train and create in our incredible custom built facility including an in-ground foam pit, trampoline, 40′ and 24′ rigging points, and air conditioning. All this while surrounded by the natural beauty of a Vermont summer.

Each day includes group training, private focus time with a coach in your skill area, and open training times for you to practice and rehearse, bringing the total hours of training to 30+ per week. You’ll be pushing to gain the specific skills you’ve been reaching for and building a performance-ready act at a higher level.

The program is overseen by an internationally recognized artistic team of directors and coaches and culminates with a show including acts and devised vignettes. This show will be photographed, with a link to the photos sent to you shortly after the end of the program.
Boot Camp is specifically created for (pre)professional circus students aged 14 and up.


WHEN: July 18 – August 5, 2022
Monday through Friday 9:00 am–5:00 pm
The final Friday will end by 9 pm.

WHERE: NECCA
10 Town Crier Dr.
Brattleboro, VT 05301

COST: $1750. A deposit of $850 will secure your spot, and we can set up flexible installments with the final payment being due July 5th.
* There is a 10% discount off the Performance Boot Camp Program if folks also sign up for the Summer Intensive Program (https://necenterforcircusarts.org/summer-intensive-program/)
* We also have some scholarships available for these programs. Please contact us for more info: [email protected]

APPLICATION: Please fill out the online application with your video submission of your most recent work or performance on the discipline that you will use in Boot Camp: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGhUIhGMN5vA4NWwScQxg3A7dBlzuj0pLzLMgdkoHEHTIL2A/viewform
Some exceptions can be made for experienced performers wishing to use Boot Camp as a place to create on a new discipline. Applicants are selected based on technical development and creativity. There is a limited amount of space for each discipline/apparatus.

MORE INFO: https://necenterforcircusarts.org/training/performance-boot-camp/