Specialty Workshops
✨ Workshops with Enya White @Blacktrapeze ✨
Ready to refine your technique, improve your movement quality, and unlock new creative pathways? Join us in September for an incredible series of specialty aerial workshops led by Enya White @Blacktrapeze designed to help you understand the why behind your movement, not just the tricks.
🎪 Workshop Lineup:
🌀 Inside the Skill: Deep Dive into the C-Shape Roll
Learn the biomechanics, timing, breath, drills, and apparatus specific techniques to build a lighter, smoother, more reliable C-shape roll on trapeze, lyra, and sling.
💫 Spin Club: Mastering the Art of Spinning
Develop better spin control, alignment, efficiency, and confidence with on and off apparatus exercises that will transform the way you spin.
🔄 Cross My Back: All the Ways In & Out of Cross Back
Discover 10+ creative entries, exits, and transitions to turn cross back into a versatile building block for dynamic sequences and choreography on dance trapeze.
🎭 Catch Me If You Can: All the Ways In & Out of Catcher
Explore creative pathways into and out of catcher, with drills, transitions, and movement concepts to build stronger technique and seamless flow on dance trapeze.
✨ Why train with Enya?
A graduate of the National Circus School of Montreal, Guinness World Record holder, and performer in Cirque du Soleil's Luzia, Enya has performed over 2,700 shows and spent more than a decade teaching aerialists around the world. Her workshops combine technical precision, creative exploration, and a deep understanding of movement to help you become a more expressive, efficient, and confident aerialist.
Whether you're looking to polish foundational skills, improve your spinning, or expand your movement vocabulary, these workshops are packed with practical drills and concepts you'll continue using long after the weekend ends.
Registration link in bio - don't miss this opportunity to train with one of the aerial industry's most sought-after coaches. Private lessons are also available.
Clown / Acting Workshops with Luzia Artist Andrii Lytvak
Discover Your Inner Clown: A Two-Part Workshop Series with Andrii Lytvak
September 15 & 29 | 7:30–9:30 PM
📍 LBO2201 & LBO1201, 10 Daly Avenue, Ottawa
🎭 Ages 14+
Ready to play, take some risks, and discover your inner clown?
Join Andrii Lytvak, a Cirque du Soleil performer, clown, comic character, and acrobat with over 15 years of professional performance experience, for a two-part workshop series exploring physical comedy, improvisation, stage presence, character, and authentic audience connection. Currently performing in Luzia, Andrii brings his unique approach to clown and physical comedy to Ottawa in these fun, engaging, and highly interactive workshops.
🎭 Part I — Discover Your Inner Clown
Tuesday, September 15 | 7:30–9:30 PM
Part I is an introduction to the playful world of clowning, designed to build confidence, creativity, spontaneity, and connection through games, improvisation, and exploration.
Participants will explore:
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Fun partner and ensemble warm-up games
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Building trust and connection
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Breaking the “fourth wall” and engaging an audience
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Presence, focus, and believability on stage
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Improvisation techniques
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Play, spontaneity, and creative risk-taking
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Q&A with a Cirque du Soleil artist
No previous experience is required. Whether you're interested in circus, theatre, public speaking, or simply want to step outside your comfort zone, Part I provides a welcoming space to experiment, play, and discover what makes you compelling on stage.
🃏 Part II — Going Deeper
Tuesday, September 29 | 7:30–9:30 PM
Ready to take it further?
Part II builds on the skills and concepts introduced in Part I, taking participants deeper into clown, character, physical comedy, improvisation, and audience interaction.
Through new games, exercises, and improvisation challenges, participants will explore:
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Developing and strengthening a unique clown character
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Physical comedy and communicating through the body
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Advanced improvisation and spontaneity
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Finding comedy through failure, surprise, and unexpected moments
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Character relationships and scene work
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Audience connection and breaking the fourth wall
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Presence, timing, focus, and commitment
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Playing with status, reactions, and character choices
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Creating comedic scenes from simple ideas
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Ensemble work and creating comedy together
Part II is designed to give participants more opportunities to experiment, perform, make mistakes, and discover where the comedy lives.
Part I is recommended before attending Part II, as the second workshop builds directly on the foundations established in the first. Participants with previous clown, theatre, circus, or improvisation experience may also be comfortable joining Part II.
Who Should Attend?
These workshops are open to teens and adults ages 14+ and are suitable for complete beginners as well as performers with previous experience.
You don't need to be a clown. You don't need to be an actor. You don't even need to think you're funny. You just need to be willing to play. Come explore confidence, creativity, spontaneity, and authentic connection in a supportive environment — and learn from an artist who has made clown and physical comedy part of his professional career on the Cirque du Soleil stage.
Workshop Details
📅 Part I: Tuesday, September 15 | 7:30–9:30 PM
📅 Part II: Tuesday, September 29 | 7:30–9:30 PM
📍 Location: LBO2201 and LBO1201, 10 Daly Avenue, Ottawa ON
🎭 Ages: 14+
⏱️ Duration: 2 hours each
Take one workshop or join us for both and follow the journey from playful exploration to deeper clown and character work!
Group Worshops
Group Workshops with Aerial Antics
Book us for group workshops for fun with friends or as a team building activity.
Come learn the basics, explore a new apparatus or take your skills to the next level with like minded people. Workshops can focus on one apparatus or explore several. Minimum of 5 people required to book a workshop. Workshop content, length and timing can be tailored, contact us to book your workshop today.
Dress code: For all apparatuses we recommend a close fitting t-shirt or tank and athletic pants that cover the knees, no zippers or buttons.
