The MANDARINE circus school

 
Created in October 1992, the non-profit organization “Les Matinées de Mandarine” (the Mornings of Mandarine) offers to anyone passionately fond of circus, mainly kids and teenagers, infrastructures which may allow them to learn or to master every circus skill, especially the clowning art.
 
The school is more concerned about giving kids an original way to express themselves according to a current pedagogical way of thinking rather than just forming circus artists.
 
Anyone can learn how to act (voice - diction - space occupation), how to juggle (handkerchiefs - balls - plates - hammers - diabolos), how to control balance (unicycle - stilts - balance bowl - rola-bola - tightrope walking), how to master acrobatics (somersault - pyramids) and how to use a trapeze.
 
Each youngster will find a new way to express himself and to bloom in a role that best fits his personality and his hidden goals, even though there's no competition spirit at all.
 
The school offers you different kind of classes, among others :
 
CLASSIC Circus skills - Acrobatics - Acting
                for youngsters from 6 to 18 years old
 
CIRCOMOTRICITY for kids from 4 to 5 years old
                                for kids from 5 to 6 years old
 
A LA CARTE : TRAPEZE level A, minimum age of 11 required
                       TRAPEZE level B, for teenagers
                       JUGGLING, for teenagers and adults  
CLASSIC     for youngsters from 6 to 18
 
Many different workshops are offered, every student participates to any of them :
 
Theatrical skills and clowning art
voice - diction - concentration improvement - space occupation - mime - funny shows
 
Circus skills
juggling  (handkerchiefs - balls - plates - hammers - diabolos)
balance  (funambulism - stilts - rola-bola - balance bowl)
unicycle  (10 years and older)
trapeze  (10 years and older)
 
Acrobatics
somersault - volte - pyramids
CIRCOMOTRICITY    for kids from 4 to 6
 
Purposes of the Circomotricity and Corporal Expression class
 
Mathilde's goals is to make children discover their own corporal scheme, in other words their main instrument, their body. Through exercises and playing experiences, they'll be able to realize who they are and to discover the world that surrounds them.
 
CIRCOMOTRICITY offers :
  • An improvement of the child's self confidence and the development of expressive, imaginative and artistic skills;
  • A development of communication, sociability and team spirit;
  • The possibility to acquire a corporal conscience, a good corporal attitude in order to develop more specific skills.
This class also aims to make the child bloom while developing his autonomy and making him used to face his responsibilities.
A LA CARTE    for teenagers and adults                    
 
TRAPEZE level A, 11 and older
TRAPEZE level B, teenagers
JUGGLING, teenagers and adults
GENERAL INFORMATION
 
To contact the school, write to :
Les Matinées de Mandarine ASBL
7, Chemin du Puits
1180 Brussels
Belgium
By phone : 023-741-825