Mômes Circus – Tournai Circus School

Mômes Circus is a circus school located in Tournai, Belgium. It develops a circus arts learning project aimed at a particularly wide audience, from toddlers to adults.

The school organizes its activities at two sites in Tournai: Mômes Circus Megaland , on Avenue de Maire, and the École du Château . This organization allows it to simultaneously offer introductory workshops, technical courses, and more specialized training.

A gradual learning process, starting from a very young age

The discovery can begin very early thanks to circus motor skills workshops. Adapted for young children, they use movement and the world of the circus to progressively develop motor skills, coordination, balance, spatial awareness and body confidence .

The Circo-discovery workshops then allow children aged 4 to 6 to continue this exploration in an approach specifically adapted to their age.

From the age of 6 , several circus skills workshops are organized by age group. They allow children to discover and progressively develop the major families of circus disciplines.

Juggling , acrobatics , and balancing are among the activities offered by Mômes Circus. Children can thus develop their dexterity, coordination, balance, and body control through a wide variety of situations.

Progress over several years

The progression is organized over several years. Workshops for 6-7 year olds are followed by groups for 7-8 year olds and then for 8-12 year olds , allowing young practitioners to continue to progress within the school.

Teenagers who wish to continue their practice can then move towards more specialized workshops where technical learning is gradually associated with a genuine artistic approach .

The trapeze and artistic creation

The trapeze plays a particularly important role in the program. Mômes Circus offers several artistic creation and trapeze groups, adapted to the level and age of the participants.

In these workshops, aerial technique is no longer just a physical exercise: it also becomes a material allowing one to imagine , construct and present a creation .

An aerial research and creation workshop is offered to teenagers and adults who have already acquired some experience. It allows them to deepen their aerial practice while developing a personal approach to research and creation.

Adults also have access to a workshop specifically dedicated to the trapeze. Mômes Circus is therefore not limited to a school for children and teenagers, but allows adults to continue or begin certain circus arts practices.

Open training and supervision

The school also offers open training sessions covering all techniques . These sessions allow practitioners to have a space and equipment to develop their practice with greater autonomy .

This continuity between discovery, technical learning, specialization, and independent practice is one of the interesting aspects of Mômes Circus. A child can start very young with circus-based motor skills and then gradually progress towards circus techniques, the trapeze, aerial arts, or creative expression.

The workshops are led by qualified circus instructors . The number of instructors is adjusted to the number of participants to ensure optimal learning conditions.

Internships and one-off events

In addition to the weekly workshops, Mômes Circus organizes a significant program of workshops during school holidays .

Younger children can participate in courses combining circus skills and artistic activities , while older children can participate in courses devoted to circus techniques and various creative activities.

These workshops allow participants to discover the world of circus for the first time as well as to continue a practice begun during regular workshops.

Mômes Circus also offers one-off entertainment . Birthday parties organized on its premises, for example, allow children to discover different juggling, acrobatics and balancing techniques under the guidance of an instructor.

A comprehensive approach to circus arts

Artistic creation plays a significant role in the training of the most advanced practitioners. Workshops combining creation, trapeze, and aerial research allow teenagers and adults to move beyond simply learning a series of figures and to reflect on the development of an artistic project .

This approach helps to introduce circus arts in all their diversity: motor activity for the youngest, leisure and technical learning for children, specialization for experienced practitioners and a means of expression and creation for teenagers and adults.

With its regular classes, different levels of progression, aerial disciplines, creative workshops, open training sessions and holiday camps, Mômes Circus is today a particularly comprehensive circus school for the Tournai region.