Escuela de Circo CARAMPA

The Asociación de Malabaristas (A.M.) was created in 1987 as a platform for those who wish to meet, learn, exchange, communicate ideas, share knowledge and experiences and undertake projects in the circus arts.  In 1994, the association bought its first circus tent (carpa), and started a circus training project - the project of the AM in its car_pa: carAMpa!

La Escuela de Circo Carampa has been at the heart of the professional circus training movement in Spain since 1994.  The staff is made up of professional artists, competition level athletes, and excellent teachers with years of experience, pedagogical rigor, and a lively and open way of thinking about the training process.  All this gives the programme a dynamic character - we learn from what we teach, and as a result, the quality of the training process improves from day to day.

Carampa´s professional training is a programme based on respect towards the students and their aspirations, where creativity, technical excellence, safety, and teamwork of utmost importance. 

Aside from the professional programme, Carampa offers a full schedule of youth and leisure circus courses, as well as specialist courses for professionals and high-level amateurs.

The professional training programme offers practical and theoretical training in the circus arts, as well as a full range of vocational experiences, aimed at preparing the performer for his/her integration into the arts field.

Carampa´s tent, in the centre of Madrid´s biggest park, Casa de Campo, is a meeting point for artists and circus practitioners from all over the world.  Both the staff and the student body come from a dozen different countries, maintaining the cosmopolitan character that has always been a part of the circus arts.

The main tent is a 600m² space, equipped with the best teaching materials, and the secondary tent, 100m², is ideal for theatre, dance and technical classes for smaller groups.

Carampa is a centre dedicated exclusively to circus training, and participates, with other centres from Spain and around the world, in the definition and the development of this field.  Every year, more than 10,000 people practice, learn, investigate, perfect and create circus arts within its walls, as students, teachers, practitioners and spectators of circus.

Carampa receives economic support from the European Social Fund through the government of the Comunidad de Madrid, from Spain´s Ministerio de Cultura, and from the Comunidad de Madrid.

A beautiful new space for the Carampa School is being built in Alcorcón, a town just outside of Madrid, and will be inaugurated in 2011.

Escuela de Circo CARAMPA
Albergue Juvenil, Casa de Campo
28011  Madrid,   MADRID
SPAIN

info@carampa.com
www.carampa.com

Phone: +34 91 479 2602
Fax: +34 91 463 6625

Founded in 1994

Director: Donald B. Lehn
Educational director: Helena Beatriz Lario

Curriculum offered:

• Preparatory and Professional Training programme: 2 year full-time training programme (7 hours a day, 9 months a year). Non official certification issued by Carampa.
  This programme sometimes receives funding as an Escuela Taller – an official vocational training programme sponsored by the Madrid Regional Government. In this case, the certification issued is officially recognised as equivalent to Formación Professional 1.

Selection: one week entrance exam/audition offered in the last week of June and the third week of September.
In 2013: Auditions for the 2013-2015 vocational training programme will be held from 1st to 4th July and from 9th to 12th September, 2013.

School year from 1^st October to 31^st July for the first year, to 31^st May for the second year.