INAC - Instituto Nacional de Artes do Circo

Certificate Programs

The two years course will have a workload of 2,800 hours, divided between classes and practical projects. In the first three months of the course will be privileged the teaching of the bases, acrobatics, dance, interpretation and circus techniques, and at the end of the third month each student will choose an area of specialization. It is intended in this way to provide students the maximum knowledge that gradually develops his technical and artistic skills, the tools for himself as a creator or a performer. Throughout the course will be developed different public exercises. Each student must then integrate a final first year show, that aims to consolidate team spirit and cooperation required in the universe at the circus. At the end of the course, each student will be submitted to a Professional Aptitude Test (PAP), the aim is to create a personal work to be presented to a jury and general public. At the end of the professional course the students will be able to: Integrate circus companies; Apply to higher program circus schools; Create or integrate artistic projects that relate to the circus area; In order to allow individual monitoring of each student and to analyze their evolution during the course, the pedagogical council meets at the end of each quarter. Its composed by the INAC board, the study coordinator and the pedagogical team. The school year runs from September to June.