Dear Circus Center community,
San Francisco has allowed gyms to open for indoor services on extremely limited terms. The current health order allows for students ages 18 and up to train in gyms at 10% capacity or less in either private lessons or solo training. Circus Center will start offering private lessons on October 5. Soon, we will also roll out a plan for students to do supervised solo training.
Whether for private lessons or solo training, some fundamentals will be true:
- Everyone will undergo a health screening upon arrival.
- Everyone will be required to wear a mask the entire time they are in the building.
- Everyone must remain at least 6ft from everyone in the building and at least 12ft from anyone breathing heavily (i.e. there can be no hands-on spotting).
- Per the health order, we are only able to use equipment that can be easily cleaned or allowed to "rest" for 3 days between individual uses. This means that, for now, there can be no access to trampoline or flying trapeze.
- Students and Instructors will be permitted to bring their own equipment
At this time, we will only be offering 60-minute solo private lessons for students ages 18 and up. If a student wants a 2-hour lesson, they can book two lessons back to back, with the instructor's consent.
For more information about private lessons, please keep an eye on our private lesson page, which is currently being updated on a daily basis with new information from instructors as we receive it. We will be coming out with more information about our hours of operation and more in the coming days, and we will begin processing booking requests on Wednesday, September 30.
Meanwhile, we are very grateful for everyone's support, and we ask your patience as we all work together to adapt, get your questions answered, and do everything we can to serve our community and stay safe during these tough times. We are very excited to be able to welcome students back to the building, but we are also sober and serious about the need to keep everyone safe. As a community we are lucky in so many ways, but we have certainly not escaped the terrible toll the current crisis has exacted on the entire world. The current team running Circus Center is lean and working our butts off. The next couple weeks may be a slow or rocky start, but we can and will come together to learn, adapt, and thrive once again.
Thank you,
Barry, Tracey, and the Circus Center Team