ELEVATE Adult Circus Intensive Jan 1 – 14!

Circus Boot-Camp

ELEVATE is a “circus boot-camp” for adults of all ages (16-90+), body types, genders, and skill levels. Want to kick start 2024 with an exciting new hobby? This 2-week, circus-based fitness intensive is led by Wise Fool's professional circus artists and crafted around those working a 9-5 job.

The focus of ELEVATE is personal fitness through circus skills in a supportive, challenging, and gender equal environment.

By the end of ELEVATE you'll become familiar with:

  • Aerial Fabric
  • Trapeze
  • Partner Acrobatics
  • Stilts
  • Object manipulation
  • Clowning
  • Unicycling and Conditioning
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Raise your perceptions of what’s possible and get your workout off the ground!

Classes are 5 days a week in the evening and weekend.
Students receive 30 hours of conditioning and circus skills instruction.
No previous experience required, all levels welcome!

Workshop fee is $525.
Work-Trade and Partial Scholarships are available. Click here to apply

Agile Rascal Bike Theatre

Wise Fool is excited to host the traveling theatre company, Agile Rascal Bike Theatre, on Friday, October 13.

This is a family-friend donation-based show.

Chai Chai - Toured on Bicycle by Agile Rascal Theatre

For our fourth tour, Agile Rascal will be starting out at the Peñasco Theatre Collective, where we’ll spend two weeks, in residence, putting together our latest production.

Then we’ll strap our costumes, puppets, props and instruments onto our bikes and pedal over 400 miles (climbing over 21,000 feet!!) to bring this new play to towns across Northern New Mexico, in partnership with arts and cycling organizations across the region–all for free!

 

About The Play: Chai Chai

At the intersection of "this way" and "that way," a Giant sits at a Chai Stall, a Matchmaker wonders if she is losing her touch, and a very quiet character suddenly has a lot to say.

Guided by a mythical chorus of fly elders, Chai Chai is a play about remembrance, memory, and what happens when we begin to forget.

 

Show Time at Wise Fool

Friday, October 13 at 7:00 pm

This is a donation-based show, with no tickets being sold. Show up early to grab a seat!

 

New Mexico Tour Dates

Agile Rascal will be touring in several other locations! You can find out more about our other tour dates on our website:

https://www.agilerascaltheatre.com/newmexico

About Agile Rascal

Mission

Agile Rascal is a theatre company that intersects the arts and cycling.

Our mission is to make innovative theater accessible, promote cycling as a viable means of transportation, inspire reverence for our natural landscape and foster creative connections between artists, activists and cyclists.

 

Vision

We believe that art should be smart and funny, strange and lovely, and that it should be unstuffy, free, and inviting to all people.

We aim to create shows that explore the many connections between our beliefs and values and the natural world that we are a part of.

By touring on bicycle and creating from used materials, we challenge ourselves to imagine new and deeper connections to the earth, including the creatures and people who live on it.

We work to build a community that: does a lot with a little, minimizes our impact on the land, works collaboratively, shares decision-making and responsibilities, and values different backgrounds, experiences, bodies, and abilities.

 

History

Founded by Artistic Director, Dara Silverman, in 2014, Agile Rascal Theatre began as an impulsive and ambitious dream to bike a play across the country. Dara made that dream a reality in 2015, along with six other brave and scrappy artists, performing our first devised play, Sunlight On The Brink, in libraries, parks, parking lots, and bike shops in big cities and small towns across the United States.

That was bonkers. Learning from that inaugural tour, we reassessed and recommitted, not only to the sustainability of our travel, but to the sustainability of our company and the lasting impact we can have on the communities we travel through. With all of this in mind, we started focusing on specific regions and states to tour in. We cast the net wide to gather artist-athletes for our adventures, building a company of passionate and talented artistic velo-nomads from across the nation.

We intend to continue making wildly inventive, musical and funny plays for all ages and always by donation.

 

 

Land Acknowledgement

We, the artists of Agile Rascal, acknowledge that we are uninvited guests, traveling through the unceded lands of Turtle Island (North America).

As a bicycle-touring theatre company, we move freely through a landscape fraught with the histories of the forced removal and genocide of Indigenous people.

We acknowledge that the names that we’ve learned for the places we come from and tour through are colonial names.

Despite our disparate histories, we acknowledge that we are all products of ongoing colonization.

We acknowledge that this website was created and is maintained by technologies that leave a significant carbon footprint and contribute to changes in the climate that disproportionately affect indigenous people worldwide.

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Accessible Juggling Workshop with Ian Slater – 9/02 at 11am

We are very excited to host guest instructor Ian Slater, who is visiting from Chicago, for an accessible juggling workshop!

 

Workshop Date

Wise Fool New Mexico
September 2, 2023 - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Description

Have you ever wanted to juggle, but you've been intimidated or thought it was too challenging? Think again!

Juggling is for everyone, and there are so many different styles; all you need is a little time and dedication, and you'll find yourself manipulating circus props in no time. In a one hour exploration, Ian will take you through the basics of prop manipulation, from scarves and ribbons to balls and rings (perhaps more if time allows!)

This workshop is suitable for all ages and abilities.

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About Ian

Ian R. Q. Slater (they/she) is a Chicago based actor, musician, juggler, and dialect coach. They hold a BFA in acting from the Chicago College of Performing Arts.

Ian has been onstage since she was 6 years old, and got her start in the circus in 2018 with CircEsteem, Chicago's Non-Profit Social Circus.

Ian is passionate about social justice, storytelling, and new experiences.

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Elevate! Adult Circus Intensive Jan 2 – 13!

ELEVATE is personal fitness through circus skills in a supportive, challenging, body positive and gender-equal environment. Get your new year's workout off the ground with a 2-week, circus-based fitness intensive led by Wise Fool's professional circus artists.

You'll become familiar with:
Aerial Fabric, Trapeze, Partner Acrobatics, Stilts, Object manipulation, Clowning, Unicycling and Conditioning.

Workshop fee is $350.
No previous experience required!

Classes are 5 days a week in the evening and weekend.

Click here for more info and registration.

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Elevate! Adult Circus Intensive Jan 3 – 15th

ELEVATE is personal fitness through circus skills in a supportive, challenging, body positive and gender-equal environment.
Get your new year's workout off the ground with a 2-week, circus-based fitness intensive led by Wise Fool's professional circus artists.

You'll become familiar with:
Aerial Fabric, Trapeze, Partner Acrobatics, Stilts, Object manipulation, Clowning, Unicycling and Conditioning.

Workshop fee is $300.
No previous experience required!

Classes are 5 days a week in the evening and weekend.

Click here for more info and registration.

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Drop-in Classes for Adults, Teens & Tweens!

Join us anytime for our ongoing classes in handstands, aerials silks, partner acro, trapeze, lyra, juggling/unicycling, clown, flexibility & more! No experience necessary! All levels of fitness, genders, body types and ages are welcome!!

See below for our schedule — tweens ages 11 – 12 are welcome to join the tween/teen aerials, juggling/unicycling, and Sunday 3:30 fabric. Teens 13 – 16 are welcome to any of the green classes and the tween/teen aerials, and folks ages 16+ are invited to all our non-youth classes.

Contact studio@wisefoolnm.org for questions. Or, just show on up!


Adult Classes–New Session Starts September 5th

Our next session of adult/teen classes starts Tuesday, September 5th! The session runs through November 20th. See the class schedule for more details.

The fall session is 10 weeks, but you can pay in chunks, buy the whole session or start with a 5-week session pass. Earlybird registration discount before August 31st. Use the coupon code EARLYBIRDFALL when you purchase your class pass to receive 15% off OR register for 3 or more classes and get the 3rd class 20% off. Contact Ilana at studio@wisefoolnm.org to take advantage of this discount.

And, if it’s hard to cover the cost all at once, we’re happy to offer a payment plan. Just email studio@wisefoolnm.org and we can make a payment arrangement that works for you. Limited tuition assistance and work trade is also available. Click here to apply.

If you have any questions about registration or class offerings, feel free to call or email ilana at studio@wisefoolnm.org or 505-310-9723.

Fall Session of Youth Classes–Sign Up Now!

Session runs September 11 – Nov 17Click here to register.

Fall is just around the corner and we’d love to spend it with your kiddos in our Fall AfterschoolSession. We have classes for ages 4 – 18 on afternoons, evenings & weekends, plus a NEW DAYTIME classes for homeschool or alternative school kids. Click here for schedule and class descriptions. Tuition Assistance and Payment Plans available. Click here to apply. Questions? Email Ilana at studio@wisefoolnm.org