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Adult/Teen Classes

We are offering safe in-studio classes. In-studio classes require a mask and we are maintaining a minimum of 6' physical distance at all times. For more information on our COVID Policies and Procedures please visit this website:
https://wisefoolnewmexico.org/2959-2-2-2-2-3-2/


To Register:

We are moving to a Session Registration Model! What does this mean?

Our classes meet once a week for six weeks. Our classes need a minimum of four students enrolled for the full session (all 6 classes) to remain active on our schedule. Classes that reach the 4-student enrollment minimum will then be able to offer drop-ins, meaning you can join and pay on a class-to-class basis. We highly encourage you to enroll ahead of time- it saves you money and helps our coaches and community!

How to enroll in a session:
1. Visit our registration software, Pike13 here. If you do not have a profile create a profile.
2. Purchase a 6 class pass for the type of class you would like (purple or green).
Purple: https://wisefool.pike13.com/pack_products/730563
Green: https://wisefool.pike13.com/pack_products/428338
3. Either enroll yourself in each individual class in the session through the calendar or Email amelia@wisefoolnm.org the name and time of the classes you want to enroll in and our Adult Programs Coordinator will bulk enroll you.


Sliding Scale Payments:

In order to ensure that everyone in Northern New Mexico has access to the magic of the circus arts,we are implementing a sliding scale payment policy. We are allowing folks to enroll at a regular price, a discounted price or at a price that allows us to pay extra and subsidize our classes. Pay it forward (which pays over basic price and supports other student’s needing a discount)true cost, and the discounted price. When you enroll please enter the following codes to ensure you are paying the right price:

Purple, AKA Adult Aerial Classes:

  • 6 week passes are set up to be $168, or $28 per class
  • For the True Cost tier($25/class) please enter this code: PURPLE100
  • For the Discounted Price ($23/ class): PURPLEDISCOUNT

For Green, or ground-based, classes please use the following discount codes:
  • 6 week passes are set up to be $132, or $22 per class
  • For the True Cost tier ($20/CLASS) please enter this code: GREEN100
  • For the Discounted PricE ($18/CLASS): GREENDISCOUNT


For Teen/ Tween and Youth Aerials, please use the following:

  • 6 week passes are set up to be $150, or $25 per class
  • For the True Cost tier($22/class) please enter this code: YOUTH100
  • For the Discounted Price ($23/ class): YOUTHDISCOUNT


Questions? Email Amelia at amelia@wisefoolnm.org or call (845) 901-2251.


(TT) Youth Aerials $24 per class From $25 per visit with (AS) Youth Aerials Pass 6-Weeks pass Purchase required to enroll

A great chance for kids with a passion for aerials to try or develop further skills in trapeze and aerial fabric. Suitable for kids ages 7 - 12 of all experience levels. Drop-ins allowed! Please email studio@wisefoolnm.org if you are planning to drop in.

(AC) Aerial Fabric (mixed level) $28 per class From $23 per visit with (AC) Drop-In Purple 5-Class Pass pass Purchase required to enroll

Learn or further develop the fundamentals of aerial fabric, sometimes called "silks". This course will include climbing, wraps, foot locks, drops, and poses. From conditioning and basic skills to explorations in choreography, fabrics are a fun way to build core strength and flexibility while defying gravity! Pre-registration is encouraged as classes fill up fast! Sign up for one or more classes per week. Mixed Level Fabric: suitable for complete beginners all the way through advanced students.


(AC) Juggling & Unicycling All Ages (D) $22 per class From $22 per visit with (AC) Green Class Session Pass pass Purchase required to enroll

For folks ages 7-77+. You'll have the opportunity to learn and practice juggling and unicycling. No experience necessary!

(AC) Partner Acrobalance -- All Levels $22 per class From $22 per visit with (AC) Green Class Session Pass pass Purchase required to enroll

Also known as "acroyoga", Partner Acro involves sharing weight and balancing between two or more people. We'll explore acrobal­ance from the circus per­spec­tives, blending trust and con­nec­tion with dynamic play, flex­i­bil­ity for mind and body, and phys­i­cal con­di­tion­ing. Acrobalance will lit­er­ally turn you upside down and give you a whole new per­spec­tive on your poten­tial to be both strong and sup­ported from the ground up into the air. No partner and no experience necessary!

(AC) Rope Beg/Intermed $28 per class From $23 per visit with (AC) Drop-In Purple 5-Class Pass pass Purchase required to enroll

Aerial rope, also known as corde lisse, is a challenging but exciting aerial apparatus. Students will learn to climb, hold themselves in various positions, wrap for and perform drops and explore movement quality. Beginner/Intermediate: Suitable for students with no experience through to students who are working on beats, inversions and multiple climbs.


(AC) Trapeze/Lyra Beg/Intermediate $28 per class From $23 per visit with (AC) Drop-In Purple 5-Class Pass pass Purchase required to enroll

Learn or deepen your skills in either trapeze or lyra or both! Class includes a dynamic warm-up, floor exercises and aerial vocabulary, technique, and conditioning on static trapeze & lyra/aerial hoop in a supportive, non-competitive environment. Trapeze and Lyra are hung low at 3' to 7' high. This class is suitable for folks with no experience all the way through students working on level 6.

(TT) Tween/Teen Aerials $24 per class From $19 per visit with (AC) Teen/Tween with Kristen pass Purchase required to enroll

For students ages 11 - 15, this class will offer instruction on trapeze, lyra, fabric and rope--students may choose which they'd like to focus on, or try them all! Suitable for brand new beginners all the way through advanced students.

(AS) Circus Play for Families -- Friday $20 per class No purchase required to enroll

Join us for a Circus jam where parents and children (ages 4-10) play in the circus together! Families get to try stilt-walking, juggling, tumbling, partner acrobatics, hoola hoops, aerial fabric, and trapeze in a safe and supportive environment. This class is an open studio format where Wise Fool coaches will be on hand to support family play and experimentation.

(SR) Private Lesson $75 per class No purchase required to enroll

(AC) Beginning Fabric $28 per class From $23 per visit with (AC) Drop-In Purple 5-Class Pass pass Purchase required to enroll

(SR) One Hour Studio Rental $35 per class No purchase required to enroll

(AC) Queer Burlesque with Audrey $22 per class From $22 per visit with (AC) Green Class Session Pass pass Purchase required to enroll

(AC) Poi and Slacklining with Eli $25 per class From $28 per visit with (AC) Purple - 6 Week Sesssion pass No purchase required to enroll

Slacklining All Levels:No matter your experience in slacklining this class will offer you the next steps to progress in the direction you want to. You can learn the basics of sitting and standing on a line, dynamic and static tricks, and all the fundamentals you need to be able to highline. We will also explore surfing on rodeo lines, and using props on a line, ex: juggling, hoops, poi, anything you could imagine. Strengthen your core and mind through the art of slacklining. A multidimensional slackline class to have fun and get creative with balance.

Teen Intro to Circus $25 per class From $22 per visit with (AC) Green Class Session Pass pass No purchase required to enroll

Partnering in the Air $28 per class From $28 per visit with (AC) Purple - 6 Week Sesssion pass No purchase required to enroll

How do we work with a partner in the air?

This class will explore how to interact in the magical space above the ground with someone else, on trapeze, hoop or fabric.

We will look at ways to share weight, move together and create choreography together.

This is a beginning partner class, but is meant for people who already are comfortable on an aerial apparatus.

This class is open to participants 10 and up.


Striptease as Reclamation - Queerlesque $25 per class From $22 per visit with (AC) Green Class Session Pass pass No purchase required to enroll

Burlesque is a performance art of sensual, theatrically exaggerated storytelling.

This is a safe space for a queer-centric deconstruction of burlesque. It's a movement class, and also a gender studies, burlesque theory, queer theory class mixed with self-confidence bootcamp. To reclaim the striptease, you'll learn the fundamentals of the stripping, teasing, performance art, gender performativity, and storytelling in the most theoretical way possible. Then we'll apply that theory to reconstruct those elements into Queerlesque: an artform that tells your story for a community that gets it.

This class is drop-in accessible, but each class synergizes with the next and the prior. Each week teaches a different tool, then applies all the tools collected thus far; the more tools you have, the easier. For stripping, bring a loose fitting tank top, crop top, or short sleeved shirt. Also bring something that opens from the front, like a button down or a jacket. If you've taken Queer Burlesque before, consider this the 201 version of that 101 class.