The School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts is excited to announce the acquisition of Emerald City Trapeze Arts (ECTA) and the return of Flying Trapeze!

SANCA’s mission is to improve the mental, emotional, and physical health of children of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities by engaging them in the joyous creativity of acrobatics and circus arts. This important acquisition is an opportunity to extend SANCA’s mission by bringing Seattle’s circus community together and revitalizing the Flying Trapeze community at ECTA. SANCA will ensure current and existing programming at ECTA will continue during this exciting new transition. SANCA couldn’t have done this alone and extends an enormous amount of gratitude and appreciation to those who donated to make this happen – thank you, supporters!

To continue the effort to sustain Flying Trapeze and all circus arts at ECTA for many years to come, SANCA is hosting “The Sky’s the Limit: Supporting Seattle’s Flying Trapeze Community” on the evening of May 4th in connection with Give Big, at Emerald City. It will be quite the show!  Save the date and be on the lookout for ticket information soon. Until then, anyone who feels moved to support bringing back Flying Trapeze and the future of Seattle Circus led by SANCA may do so by donating at https://sancaseattle.org/give/

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Again, a warm thank you to all who helped make this acquisition happen!”

Hello! My name is Angela, I am SANCA’s newest Board Member. I am very happy to be a part of SANCA and excited to serve as a Board Member and Treasurer. I have over ten years of financial management experience spanning a wide variety of industries and growth phases. My professional career has been heavily focused on implementing finance operations, preparing budgets/forecasts, and constructing executive-level presentations and board slides. I have been studying aerial in my free time for four years and have been a lifelong appreciator of the circus, dance, and theater arts. I have been a member of the SANCA training community taking classes, private lessons, and self-training here for the last two years. I am a single parent of two lovely humans, Adia & Daschiell, who also train and take classes at SANCA. I am excited to combine my personal life experience and understanding of diverse family structures with my ten-plus years of corporate business management knowledge to make SANCA the best circus training environment for all!

Today we announce that the talented circus artist Terry Crane has accepted the role of AIR Coordinator here at SANCA! Terry loves to perform and facilitate the performance of live circus. He currently resides at Equinox Studios, where he is a proud plant parent. Born and raised in the foothills of the cascades, he has been a climber and a ham since his earliest days. He specializes in vertical rope, trapeze, Cyr wheel, partner acrobatics, and slack rope. As founder of two circus companies, Circus Syzygy and Acrobatic Conundrum, he has made it his mission to further expression and ensemble work in contemporary circus in the Pacific Northwest. He brings his acumen as a producer, director, and performer to the role of Artist in Residency Coordinator at SANCA. His favorite color is green. He sometimes glazes over in conversation as he is concocting his next pun. As A.I.R. coordinator, his goal is to bring the circus community a breath of fresh air.

Did you know that Terry also runs Acrobatic Conundrum, Seattle’s premier contemporary circus arts company? Check out the amazing shows he produces and see what’s upcoming here.

Today we announce that our talented Coach Ivanna has accepted the role of Aerial Coordinator!

Ivanna started out in a career dancing with various companies in Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles and was introduced to aerial arts along the way. She has always found a deep sense of freedom and connection within movement. The ability to simultaneously tune in and get lost inside the expressiveness of moving is glorious. She was delighted to find that same sense of expressiveness in aerial, just with a different set of boundaries. She currently performs on various apparatus and sees each as a different dance partner to get to know and discover how to create with. In addition to performing, Ivanna is also an instructor in multiple studios in Seattle. She started at SANCA in 2017 and is excited to now step into the Aerial Coordinator position. She previously held the Lead Instructor position at Art Flying Aerial in Los Angeles and Aerial Director at Emerald City Trapeze Arts here in Seattle. Her teaching style is heavily influenced by her work as a Pilates instructor and bodyworker and her fascination with anatomy and biomechanics. We are overjoyed that she accepted this new position, please join us in congratulating her!

For Indigenous Peoples Day 2022, we stand in solidarity with past and present caregivers of this land, water, and air. We share this resource to uplift Indigenous femme voices.

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The featured portrait is an original commissioned from Washington, D.C.-based artist and illustrator Tracie Ching (Kanaka Maoli), designed in collaboration with Cindy Chischilly (Diné).

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