What do you teach at SANCA? What class is best for me? These are a few of the questions you might be asking yourself. Below is an alphabetical list of the classes that we teach here at SANCA with a brief description and a link to a class page, which will describe in more depth what activities and skills are taught in the class and show the class schedule.

• Acrobatics is the performance of extraordinary feats of balance, agility and coordination. Acrobatics is most often associated with activities that make extensive use of gymnastic elements, such as acro-dance, circus and gymnastics, but many other athletic activities—such as ballet and diving —may also employ acrobatics. Although acrobatics is most commonly associated with human body performance, it may also apply to other types of performance, such as aerial acrobatics. At SANCA Acrobatics is a part of every Circus class that we offer, from Baby & Me to Family Circus. SANCA offers Adult Acrobalance, Adult Intermediate Acrobalance, along with Adult Intro to Hand Balancing, for those who want to specialize. Acrobatics is a fantastic way to get a great workout while increasing strength and body awareness.
  
• Aerial Arts (Static Trapeze, Fabric/Tissu/Silk, Rope/Corde lisse):  Static Trapeze refers to a trapeze act in which the performer moves around the bar and ropes, performing a wide range of movements including balances, drops, hangs while the bar itself stays mostly in place. The difficulty on a static trapeze is making every move look effortless. It is like dance, in that most people of a reasonable level of strength can get onto the bar for the first time and do the tricks but an experienced artist will do them with much more grace and style. The trapeze bar is weighted and often has cable inside the supporting ropes for extra strength. Aerial Rope/Corde lisse is an aerial circus skill or act that involves acrobatics on a vertically hanging rope. The name is French for "smooth rope". Aerial Fabric is a type of performance in which one or more artists perform aerial acrobatics  while hanging from a special fabric. Performers use the fabric to wrap, suspend, fall, swing, and spiral their bodies into and out of various positions.
  At SANCA we offer Adult Intro to Aerial classes for students with little or no aerial background, mixed aerial classes called Adult Aerial I, and specialized classes in Aerial Rope, Aerial Static Trapeze, and Aerial Fabric.
• Baby & Me: a Circus Arts class for ages 2-3 with an adult. As in all of our Circus Arts classes, students improve their skills on the trampoline, tightwire, rolling globe, aerial apparati (trapeze, rope, rings), tumbling, acrobatics, and object manipulation. Class skills also include listening, taking turns, following instructions.
• Chinese Pole is a wonderful workout and a beautiful form of acrobatic movement. In our class, working around a straight, vertical pole, students will begin by learning the various techniques of climbing the pole from top to bottom, safely and with variable speeds. Basic positions will be taught and as students advance they will learn how to transition between the basic positions.
  
• Circus Arts: SANCA's Circus Arts classes will expose students to a variety of circus activities including Tightwire, Trampoline, Rolling Globe, Juggling, Aerial Arts, Tumbling, Acrobatics, Unicycle, and German Wheel. Skills taught are dependant upon the age group. These classes are intended to be taken several times.
  
• Circus Band: for those musicians interested in participating in a performing SANCA's very own circus band the SANCApators. Band practices are not held at SANCA but pre-performance rehearsals are. The SANCApators perform at several events each year along with performances for the Amazing Circus 1-ders and Magnificent 7.
  
• Falling - Students learn to fall with three intentions: Falling Safely, Pratfalls, Stunt Falling. In learning to fall safely a student will use her entire body to dissipate the energy of the fall over a longer period of time and a larger part of the body. With pratfalls students will learn the basics of physical comedy - how to fall intentionally to provide amusement. Stunt falling involves learning to "sell it" when you fall intentionally, making your safe fall look like a real fall. 55 minutes.
• Family Circus - a Circus Arts class offered specifically for adults and youth to participate together. Family Circus is for ages 6 and above.
  
• Flying Trapeze is a specific form of the trapeze in which a performer jumps from a platform with the trapeze so that gravity makes the trapeze swing. The performance was invented in 1859, by a Frenchman named Jules Leotard who connected a bar to some ventilator cords above the swimming pool in his father's gymnasium in Toulouse, France. After practising tricks above the pool, Leotard performed his act in the Cirque Napoleon (now known as the Cirque d'hiver). The traditional flyer’s costume, the leotard, is named after him. In a traditional flying trapeze act, flyers mount a narrow board (usually by climbing a tall ladder), and take off from the board on the fly bar. The flyer must wait for a call from the catcher to make sure he or she leaves at the correct time. Otherwise the catcher will not be close enough to the flyer to make a successful catch. The flyer then performs one of many aerial tricks, and is caught by the catcher, who is swinging from a separate catch bar. Once in the catcher's hands, the flyer continues to swing, and is thrust back toward the fly bar in a maneuver called a "return". A return could consist of some kind of twist back to the bar, an "angel" (when the catcher holds the flyer by the feet and one arm), or any other trick that a flyer can think of to get back to the bar. Once back to the fly bar, the flyer can return back to the board, and another flyer takes a turn. For more information about classes offered by the SANCA School of Flight please click here.
  
• German wheel - The German wheel was invented in 1925 by Otto Feick in Schönau an der Brend. Feick was the son of a blacksmith and inspired by a childhood event in Reichenbach, during which he tied sticks between two beer barrel bands which is father had made and rolled down a hill. German wheel acrobatics involve getting on and moving within the wheel, rolling and making figures.
• Hand Balancing: A handstand is the act of supporting the body in a stable, inverted vertical position by balancing on the hands. In a basic handstand the body is held straight with arms and legs fully extended, with hands spaced approximately shoulder-width apart. There are many variations of handstands, but in all cases a handstand performer must possess adequate balance and upper body strength.
  
• Hoop:
  
• Juggling, Passing and Foot Juggling: Juggling is a skill involving moving objects for entertainment or sport.  The classical and best known form (toss juggling) is throwing and catching objects in the air without touching the ground. Bounce juggling is bouncing objects (usually balls) off the ground. Contact juggling is manipulating the object in constant contact with the body. The most common props are balls or beanbags, rings, clubs, and special bounce balls. Some performers use more dramatic objects such as knives, fire torches, and even chainsaws. The term juggling can also refer to other prop-based skills such as diabolo, devil sticks, poi, cigar boxes, fire-dancing, contact juggling, hooping, foot bag and hat manipulation. Everyone has seen a person juggling some collection of objects at some time of their life whether it was on television, in a circus or somewhere else. The art of juggling is not an easy one and not everyone can learn to do it with equal skill. Like most performing arts it takes an equal amount of raw talent and skill with regular practice. But what is even more amazing is the art of foot juggling where the person balances a collection of objects on their feet and manages to keep them aloft, usually while the person is sitting down, lying down, or even standing on their head.
  
• Tot Circus: a Circus Arts class for ages 3-4. As in all of our Circus Arts classes, students improve their skills on the trampoline, tightwire, rolling globe, aerial apparati (trapeze, rope, rings), tumbling, acrobatics, and object manipulation. Class skills also include listening, taking turns, following instructions.
• Trampoline:
  
• Tumbling is a general term referring to floor gymnastics such as forward rolls, cartwheels, back-handsprings, and everyone’s favorite, back tucks (back flips!). Be ready to jump, go upside-down, sideways, and support all of your body weight on your hands. We teach proper technique, safe progressions and the required conditioning to you’re your tumbling goals. SANCA offers an all ages (12-99), all levels Tumbling Class, an Adult Beginning Tumbling and Trampoline Class, and an Adult Intermediate Tumbling and Trampoline Class.
  
• Unicycle:
  
• Wire walking - This class combines the instruction of Tightwire and Slackwire. Tightwire is the art of maintaining balance while walking along a tensioned wire between two points. It can be done either using a balancing tool (umbrella, fan, balance pole, etc.) or "freehand", using only one's body to maintain balance. Slackwire is when the tension on the wire is only provided by the load, i.e. the performer and props. The difference is that to balance on a tight wire the performer must keep his center of mass above his feet, while on a slack wire he moves the wire to be under his center of mass. Increase your body awareness and focus by learning to travel along wires less than one inch wide. Learn turning, squaring, sitting, lying down, and side balances. Students who can already juggle or pass clubs can also learn to juggle on the wire.