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Our Academy
Circomedia Academy is a world-renowned centre for contemporary circus and physical theatre. Since opening our doors in 1993, we’ve encouraged students to become bold, versatile artists who go on to shape the future of contemporary circus.
Our courses are designed to help you develop your artistic practice alongside essential professional skills. Training is highly physical, collaborative and industry-focused, with a strong emphasis on creativity, wellbeing and employability.
Courses delivered in partnership with City of Bristol College and Bath Spa University.
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Why study here?
Based in Bristol, we offer studio-led training in small groups, with plenty of individual support from experienced tutors. Our industry-informed teaching balances technical training with creation, devising and performance. You’ll collaborate, experiment and make work throughout your studies, while building professional networks that support your transition into the creative industries.
Circomedia became an invaluable, inspiring, and supportive environment… for me it was a space where I could grow not only as a performer but as a person.
Emba Wimbush, BTEC 2022 & BA (Hons) 2025
Can I apply?
You can join Circomedia Academy from age 16 on our BTEC course, with clear progression through to a degree in Circus and Physical Theatre. We also offer flexible Diplomas from 3 to 36 months, supporting ongoing specialisation and professional development.
If you’re motivated by hands-on learning, creativity and collaboration, Circomedia Academy could be the right place for you. Our graduates build careers in performance, teaching, directing, community arts, production, media and marketing, as well as further study in the arts.
Explore Our Courses
If you are aged 16 years+ you can join our Level 3 BTEC Extended Diploma in Performing Arts, the only two-year course in the UK where you can specialise in circus!
You’ll train in circus, movement, physical theatre and devising, learning in a hands-on, practical way that’s equivalent to A levels.
The course is delivered in partnership with City of Bristol College.
Find out moreOur undergraduate courses blend circus, physical theatre and innovative performance. If you’re ready to push your creativity, challenge your skills and shape your own artistic style, this is where you start discovering what’s possible.
Foundation Degree (FdA) and BA (Hons) in Contemporary Circus and Physical Theatre offered.
Validated by Bath Spa University.
Find out moreWe offer a privately funded, unaccredited Diploma designed to deepen your contemporary circus or physical theatre practice, without needing a formal qualification.
A flexible course where you can study for three months, create a full year of training or return for further blocks as your practice develops. Your options are endless.
Find out more“Circomedia had a massive influence on all of us. Looking at the possibilities of circus, where it can be taken – and that it’s a free artform, what do you want to do with it – really formed the way I look at it.”
Charlotte Mooney, co-artistic director of Ockham’s Razor
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