Albertville Circus School Patate'Hi & Patate'Ha
A community-based circus school in Albertville offering amateur and multidisciplinary training in acrobatics, juggling, balancing and aerial disciplines.
73200 Albertville
The Albertville Circus School
The Albertville Circus School is a non-profit school located in Albertville, Savoie.
Present in the area for many years, it offers an amateur practice of circus arts allowing children and young people to discover different disciplines, to progress over the sessions and to develop a regular practice.
The historic Albertville Circus School was founded in 1984. This long history testifies to the enduring presence of circus arts in Albertville's community and cultural life. Over the years, the school has allowed several generations of practitioners to discover circus techniques in an environment dedicated to learning and recreational practice.
Education
Subjects taught
The curriculum is multidisciplinary. It allows students to explore several major branches of circus arts rather than immediately focusing on a single specialty. Acrobatics, juggling, balancing, and aerial disciplines are among the practices associated with the school.
- Juggling allows students to progressively develop their coordination, dexterity, concentration, and control of movement. The various manipulations of objects also provide a field of experimentation in which each student can progress at their own pace, from the first exercises to more complex sequences.
- Balance exercises are another important component of learning. They allow participants to work on posture, weight-bearing, coordination, and body awareness in space. As with other disciplines, the exercises can be adapted to the age and experience of the participants in order to gradually build the foundations necessary for more independent practice.
- Acrobatics complements this work by developing general motor skills, flexibility, muscle tone, and body control. Students gradually learn different movements and sequences while developing the physical qualities and awareness essential for safe practice.
- Aerial disciplines, on the other hand, allow you to discover another dimension of circus arts. They progressively require the development of strength, positioning, coordination and confidence while learning to move on apparatus and in a space different from that of ground work.
The diversity of disciplines is one of the strengths of a multidisciplinary circus school. Each student can experiment with different techniques, identify those that suit them best, and gradually build their own path. Some students will be more drawn to object manipulation, others to acrobatics, balancing, or aerial arts.
Beyond technical skills, practicing circus arts allows for the development of numerous individual and collective qualities. Concentration, perseverance, autonomy, and confidence are required during training, while group exercises develop listening skills, mutual support, and the ability to work with others.
The school operates within an amateur framework. Its primary objective is to introduce and facilitate the discovery of circus arts, and then to support the participants' progress within a structured environment. Historically, these courses have been identified within the "discovery and initiation" levels of networks dedicated to circus schools.
The weekly sessions allow this discovery to take root over time. The regularity of the classes gives students the time to gradually acquire the technical basics, repeat the movements, overcome certain difficulties, and expand their repertoire.
The collective dimension naturally plays an important role in this type of learning. Circus arts allow for alternating individual work, partner exercises, and group activities. Participants thus learn to observe others, share space and equipment, and contribute to a collective dynamic.
The Albertville Circus School also participates in local community life. Its activities are still recognized in Albertville and in neighboring towns, where the association remains one of the organizations that families can use for their children's activities.
The existence of a circus school in Albertville for several decades has ensured the continued availability of amateur circus arts in the heart of Savoy. It provides an alternative to more traditional sports and artistic activities by offering training where physical abilities, skill, creativity, and expression converge.
Through acrobatics, juggling, balancing and aerial disciplines, the Albertville Circus School allows participants to discover the diversity of circus arts and to gradually experience the different techniques.
The school thus constitutes a place for discovery, learning and regular practice of circus arts in Albertville, with an associative project that has been part of local life for several decades.
