Circus-Arts Competitors

With our extensive expertise in successfully training students both in Europe and in the U.S., Flying Academy has become a global name in the aviation industry. Our core specialty is to prepare future airline pilots and to bring aviation to a different level, as our trainees display optimum precision and professionalism. Therefore, many of our students are successfully flying around the world. The feedback that we receive encourages us to continue growing and to offer the best education for future pilots. In other words, we are a dynamically expanding flight training provider, with over 32 years of experience. Flying Academy is an FAA and EASA Flight School, managed by airline pilots. Moreover, most of the flight instructors are rigorously selected current or ex-commercial pilots, providing to each trainee first-hand aviation information, adequate advice and real life pilot experiences. The passion for aviation is palpable from the first one-to-one interaction with the flight instructor. Our diverse programs are offered in a range of learning environments from on-site in Europe or the U.S., in classrooms and online, through modern mobile applications. Flying Academy is authorized in Europe by the Civil Aviation Authority as an Approved Training Organization (CZ/ATO-014) and all training is performed under Part FCL regulations. In the United States of America, Flying Academy is performing flight training under Part-141 and Part-61 FAA regulations, with the base in one of the busiest airports in the United States. The academy’s highest priority is to provide a safe flying environment to all its pilots. Whether your goal is to fly for the airlines or just as a hobby, the training you will receive in Flying Academy will be at the highest standards and safety levels. Our promise to each trainee is to take care of every person who is ready to come and fly with us. Welcome to a community of highly passionate professionals! Welcome to Flying Academy!

AcroYoga elevates the connection between you and others through movement, connection, and play. Acro in Greek means high, or elevated. Yoga in Sanskrit commonly translates to notions of union, or joining. The experience of taking flight with AcroYoga instantly dissolves fears and invites practitioners to tap into new and infinite possibilities of communication, trust, and union. By combining acrobatics, yoga, and healing arts, the practice of AcroYoga has built a community of active teachers and practitioners all over the world. AcroYoga International was founded by Jason Nemer and Jenny Sauer-Klein in 2003. They were the first to codify the AcroYoga practice in 2006. Their work culminated into not only manuals, but also cultivated formalized educational paths that have promoted the highest levels of safety, expression, and straight up fun.

Circus Smirkus is an award-winning international youth circus founded in 1987 and described by The Boston Globe as “one of New England’s most treasured cultural and educational resources.” Based on a 38-acre parcel of land in Greensboro, Vermont, and nestled among the rolling hills of the Northeast Kingdom, the organization is dedicated to promoting the skills, culture, and traditions of the traveling circus and to inspiring youth to engage in life-changing adventures in the circus arts. Circus Smirkus comprises three principal programs: Smirkus Big Top Tour takes place every summer, during which about 30 young people aged 10-18 spend three weeks at the Greensboro HQ to create and rehearse a new circus production and then take it on the road throughout New England for professional quality performances under our 720-seat big top circus tent. Smirkus Camp offers the country’s only residential circus arts training—ranging from one-day to two-week sessions—conducted in a traditional summer camp setting. Smirkus School Residencies provide opportunities for trained circus professionals to come to schools throughout the North East to teach children circus arts in an educational environment. Circus Smirkus has just succeeded in a $2 million challenge grant towards our $3.5 million Capital Campaign to construct a permanent, purpose-built summer camp facility, which will enable the project to be expanded to include 200 more campers each summer. At Smirkus we believe the universal allure of the performing arts, and circus in particular, helps children to form friendships and bonds that transcend the barriers of economic situation, class, culture, geography, age, and ability.