Courses

Dance acrobatics

Mit Naomi Meyer & Luisa Schmitz

Aug. 18-25 to Feb. 2 26
Monday 18:30 - 20:00 hour
Location Training hall
Age From 14 years
Level All Levels
Normal price 798.00 CHF
Legi/Cultural Legi 570.00 CHF
Instructor Naomi Meyer & Luisa Schmitz
Course-free Dates:
  • 01.09.2025 (Festival ZIrQus)
  • 15.09.2025 (Knabenschiessen)
  • 06.10.2025 (Fall vacation)
  • 13.10.2025 (Fall vacation)
  • 22.12.2025 (Christmas vacation)
  • 29.12.2025 (Christmas vacation)

In a playful and sweat-inducing way, we strengthen body and mind, become supple and flexible, learn and refine acrobatic skills and bring them into flow, dancing together through all levels of space – sometimes as a duet, sometimes as a group animal.

Course content and objectives

  • make your hands your feet / experience the world as a trampoline.
  • the ground, your friend / the air, your partner / upside-down, your trump card
  • Awaken body intelligence / sharpen sensitivity / connected in musicality
  • strong & soft / clear & sensitive / pleasurable contact
  • fly and be flown / land and be landed

Clothing: Comfortable sportswear. In the winter months we recommend long training clothes for before and after the course.

Naomi Meyer

Naomi is a movement enthusiast for life and loves to share this passion as a trainer. She has always been fascinated by the diversity of the human body. After graduating from high school, she began studying sports science at the University of Basel and later developed into a professional circus artist. Before Naomi devoted herself fully to her circus training, she performed in the Christmas variety show Mugg and toured with Zirkus Chnopf in 2019. After a year of intensive circus training in Portugal, Naomi continued her training at the renowned École Nationale de Cirque circus school in Montréal.
Naomi loves lifelong learning. In addition to her work as a trainer, she is currently training part-time as a physiotherapist.

Luisa Schmitz

Luisa Schmitz was born in Zurich and works as a dancer, choreographer, coach and dance teacher. She completed her bachelor’s degree in stage dance and choreography at the Fontys Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg (NL). She spent two years on the road as an artist with Zirkus Chnopf and has been teaching circus and movement to children and teenagers ever since. She teaches children the art of circus in an encouraging and motivating way. When she is not teaching, she tours Europe with her own clown duo or walks through the woods of Zurich with her dog.

PriceLesson of 90 minutesEntire session (19 lessons)
Normal price: 42.00 CHF 798.00 CHF
Legi/Kulturlegi: 30.00 CHF 570.00 CHF

Individual lessons cannot be booked. Entry during the current session is possible at any time if capacity is available. The price will be adjusted accordingly.

Course information

General
  • The course takes place once a week (except during school vacations and public holidays)
  • Course duration: 90 minutes
  • Start: August 18, 25 (from the end of the 2025 school summer vacation)
  • End: February 2, 26 (until the start of the 2026 school sports vacations), 19 lessons in total

Trial lessons

  • Please book online.
  • The first lesson from the date of booking is always a trial lesson and costs CHF 20.
  • A final decision on the booking can then be made: The registration or deregistration for the entire course session must reach us by e-mail (kontakt@zirkusquartier.ch) three days after the trial lesson.
  • If you book and confirm the appointment, the trial lesson will be charged even if you do not attend.

Access

  • It is always possible to join the course during the current session if capacity is available.
  • Simply book online, the first lesson is a trial lesson.
  • You will only be charged from the definitive start date after the trial lesson.

Discounts

  • Legi & Kulturlegi
  • For children’s courses we also accept parents’ Legi and Kulturlegi.
  • We offer a 5 franc discount per lesson on the second course booked.