Why Circus Camp Is the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Kid This Summer

Our summer camp runs July 27 to 31, 2026, from 9am to 1pm, for kids 8 and up, inside our 1931 Art Deco cinema in Petite-Italie. Over five days, campers rotate through every aerial discipline we teach: flying trapeze, aerial silk, aerial strap, and lyra, along with floor acrobatics as the foundation underneath all of it.

We don't pre-sort kids into "the trapeze one" or "the silks one" on day one. We let them try all of it, because you don't actually know what you're good at, or what you love, until you've hung upside down in it. Some kids find their nerve on the strap. Some kids discover they were built for the hoop. Some kids surprise everyone, including themselves, the first time they let go of the trapeze bar mid-air and just fly.

Here's the part that separates a circus camp from a gymnastics camp: we don't just teach skills, we teach kids how to turn those skills into a performance. Every day builds toward a finale number where campers perform what they've learned, not as a solo trick demonstration, but as a piece of theater.

That's the whole philosophy behind Le Château de Cirque: circus isn't just apparatus work. It's dance. It's acting. It's clowning. A real circus show asks a kid to combine all of it at once, and that combination is where the actual growth happens. A trapeze catch is impressive. A trapeze catch that lands a story beat, in character, with the room holding its breath, is something else entirely.

That skill doesn't stay in the theater. It shows up in job interviews fifteen years later.

We only take 8 kids per session, because this isn't a crowd-control camp, it's hands-on instruction with real spotting and real attention. The location is 6956 Rue St-Denis in Montreal, a short walk from Rosemont or Beaubien metro.

If your kid has ever watched an aerialist and thought "I want to try that," this is the week to find out.