About

The Gainesville Circus Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit social circus and a licensed child care facility. 

​

Our mission is to cultivate an inclusive community through the practice of social circus.

 

Our vision is

• To make circus and movement arts accessible to children and adults of all backgrounds. 

• To promote cultural and generational exchange.

• To build a thriving artistic community and performing arts economy. 

• To promote professionalism and professional development in the field of circus arts. 

• Cultivating community consists of: promoting individual growth on personal and professional levels; support collaborative projects; contribute to the local economy.

​

Circus arts have the power to build strength on physical, emotional and mental levels and to promote cross-cultural and inter-generational collaboration. From aerial silks to trapeze to group acrobatics, Gainesville Circus Center is dedicated to teaching circus arts to anyone willing and interested in learning for the purpose of bettering their physical, mental, social and spiritual self.

​

Gainesville Circus Center offers aerial and acrobatics classes, camps, workshops, and performances for kids and adults. Our school accepts both recreational and professionally minded practitioners of circus arts.

​

The Gainesville Circus Center admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It doesn’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, and other school-administered programs.