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Now Accepting Applications for ProTrack 2019-20!
New England Center for Circus Arts

Who Should Apply?
Anyone who has trained circus extensively and is looking to take their training to the next level. Anyone who has mastered what their current training can offer and needs a full-time program in order to realize their potential. Anyone who has experience in high-level gymnastics, dance, ice skating or another athletic performing endeavor and is ready to apply their skills to circus.

Anyone who has decided THIS is what they want to do with their life!

If you want to make your recreation your profession, NECCA's ProTrack program can give you the skills, knowledge and well-rounded Circus education to make the leap. We've done it already! Our coaches' extraordinary creative and compassionate work is evident in our students' successes and our graduates have already been IN shows worldwide including Cique du Soleil, Les 7 doigts, Circus Cirkör, Cirque Éloize, Circa, Cirque Mechanics and an array of festivals, cabarets and cruise ships. If this is really what you want to do, NECCA is the place that can help you make it happen.

What it is
A full-time, three-year professional circus program designed to create professional circus performers ready for the world stage. Each year's schedule is designed to meet each student where they are and help them achieve the goals and gains they'll need to work in the industry. The program consists of a full-time schedule of classes including a major and minor discipline, dance, theater, tumbling, hand balancing, juggling, flexibility, partner acrobatics, conditioning, creation, injury prevention and rehabilitation work, and academic classes to learn the business of being a performing artist. In each class, you'll find masters of the field working with students of each level—challenging them creatively, artistically, and athletically to bring out their best and guide them each step of the way.

SCHOOL YEAR
The 2019-2020 school year runs from September 3, 2019 to June 7, 2020.

MAJORS AND MINORS
The Major and Minor disciplines offered are:
Trapeze - dance, static, duo, and swinging
Fabric
Rope
Trampoline, Mini Tramp & Tramp Wall
Chinese Pole
Hand Balancing
Straps
Partner Acrobatics
Lyra
German Wheel and Cyr Wheel
Clown
Wire
Juggling & Manipulation
Sling or Hammock
Cloud Swing
Invented Apparatus
Bungee

APPLICATION DUE DATES
Applications for round 1 are due by January 31st. Select applicants will be invited to live auditions in Brattleboro, VT on March 9&10, 2019. Round 2 applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until all remaining spots have been filled.

TUITION
The total tuition for the 2019-20 school year is $10,750. Details about the payment schedule are available online.

For more information go to: necenterforcircusarts.org/learn/professional or contact us directly with any questions at 802-254-7980 or at [email protected].