While current public health orders have put our classes, performances and public events on pause, we still have a beautiful building that we’d love to share for solo retreats, family fun days, physical fitness and creative practice! So if stay at home orders have you feeling cabin feverish, consider a private rental! You’d be the …
We believe that being physically active, engaging our imaginations and laughing are critical parts of staying healthy and sane these days. We’ve thought long and hard and gained practical experience through our summer seasons of smaller, physically distanced but still fantastic Wild Rumpus Circus Camps. We think the best use of our time and talents, …
This, our 20th season of circus camps, will be another rather different one. Last year, we made some changes to comply with specific guidance from state and county departments of public health for summer camps and day care providers. Our plans for 2021 are as follows. They are subject to change, based on state and …
During these strange, necessary days of physical distancing, we are really MISSING the smiles and laughter of our Wild Rumpus gang! So we are inviting you to join us, from a distance, in this little video experiment…. By April 26, 2020, record and send us a short video (10-20 sec.) of yourself ON PARADE! Parade …
Here is the resource guide written by Polly Craig to accompany our “Wild Rumpus WORLD Circus; Stilts, Masks, Multiculturalism” project. In May of 2018, a team of four teaching artists conducted two residencies, one at Mazomanie Elementary and the other at the Lussier Community and Education Center in Madison, with generous support from Dane Arts, …
Our scholarship fund was initiated in 2013, as a way to make the workshops, classes and camps we offer more accessible to all. Most of our funds come from our annual original community-based production, “The Wild Rumpus Winter Circus.” All profits after show expenses are met go into our scholarship fund. We have raised and …
The Circus Bus has been an integral part of our camp for the past few summers. The bus picks up/drops off passengers at Demetral Park, (Commercial and N. 6th St., east Madison) at approximately 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., and Clark St. Community School (off Parmenter St. in Middleton) at 8:30/4:30. We have had increase of …
My Adventures as a Circus Camp Counselor I recently spent three weeks as a circus camp counselor for a small circus day camp in Mazomanie, Wisconsin. The kids I was working with were ages six to twelve, a pretty large age range. It was fascinating to see kids try out circus arts for the first …