In the depths of darkest Vermont is a most excellent Circus school – NECCA. A few of us have been talking about going for some time now so go we did. Lourdes, Brendan and I drove the couple of hundred miles up to Vermont on a Friday night (although it seemed rather further as I was too busy chatting to heed dire warnings about avoiding Manhattan on a Friday night – urgh).Anyway we were able to improve some skills in familiar areas (trapeze and rope) and learn some completely new ones (Flying trapeze for me, Straps for Brendan the crazy fool, and Chinese pole for us both). What a laugh. Here’s the trapeze:
And some Chinese pole. This is crazy – you can actually walk up the pole and do some other things. Actually looking at the photo I don’t even believe I did that ;-).
As for Brendan…he did straps. And did a really good job of it too.
