Tightrope basics
Mit Ulla Tikka
| Location | Training hall |
| Age | From 14 years |
| Level | Basic |
| Normal price | 840.00 CHF |
| Legi/Cultural Legi | 600.00 CHF |
| Instructor | Ulla Tikka |
- 02.09.2025 (Festival ZirQus)
- 07.10.2025 (Fall vacation)
- 14.10.2025 (Fall vacation)
- 23.12.2025 (Christmas vacation)
- 30.12.2025 (Christmas vacation)
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Individual tightrope walking lessons for beginners in small groups.
We are offering a new course in tightrope walking! This is aimed at anyone who already has some experience on the tightrope and can walk it alone.
Course content
- Learning a good and solid basic technique
- Different running techniques
- Different dance steps, turns, movement sequences
- The elements/the lesson content is adapted to the respective level of the individual students.
Prerequisite:
You should already be able to walk independently and safely on a rope – this course builds on existing basics.
Please bring:
Your own tightrope shoes with leather soles over the entire length of the foot.
Ulla Tikka
After graduating from high school in Finland, Ulla Tikka trained as a tightrope walker in Paris and Berlin (graduating in 2000). She has performed worldwide with various contemporary circus companies (including Cirkus Cirkör and Les Colporteurs) and then increasingly satisfied her artistic urge with her own productions.
She is currently on the road with her Cie Roikkuva and several productions. Parallel to her stage work, she also works as a teacher of acrobatics and tightrope walking. In recent years, she has also repeatedly taken on challenges as a choreographer and director (e.g. Circus Chnopf, Circus Monti, Fahraway).
| Price: | Lesson of 90 minutes: | Entire session (20 lessons): |
| Normal price: | 42.00 CHF | 840.00 CHF |
| Legi/Kulturlegi: | 30.00 CHF | 600.00 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 19, 25 (from the end of the 2025 school summer vacation)
- End: February 3, 26 (until the start of the 2026 school sports vacations), 20 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 CHF 5 discount per lesson on the second course booked.