Aerial Classes...
Katy is a wonderful person, talented teacher and an incredible circus performer. She lives and breathes the circus and this passion comes through in the classes she teaches and the shows she puts together. Her classes teach children and young people incredible skills using silks, hoop, rope, trapeze and sometimes floor routines and bring out each performers unique style and their own creative spirt to life. She is committed and always puts the children and young people int the centre of what she does. An incredible performer herself, she constantly improves her own skills and passes any new learnings onto her classes. She has a vision and that vision come alive through her dedication, commitment, patience and energy she brings to each class. Katy selflessly gives up weeks of her own free time to write, create and produce shows that always bring a bit of magic into the audiences life. She is a wonderful member of our local community and always has the best interest of her performers in mind when she showcases at annual events such as the Marlow Regatta. Marlow wouldn't be the same without her and we are incredibly lucky to have her in our life
NINA 2022
Our 7 year old has just had her very first show with Katy - it was amazing!
Katy is so talented and an excellent teacher. She’s talented, patient and caring.
Our daughter has loved her classes and will continue next term.
DONNA 2022
We have just seen the 2022 Christmas Aerial Circus show in Marlow. It was absolutely brilliant. We are so lucky to have Katy and her talented crew to teach our children and nurture them to be inspiring athletes within this wonderfully creative, expressive and unusual performance art. Highly recommend
TASH 2022
Dear Katy, Thank You for teaching our teens!!! You are such an inspiration and do amazing work with the kids. You bring out the best in them, teach them hard work and resilience and let them embrace their creativity and individuality! We miss you next year but look forward to seeing you at Georgie's Birthday! Merry Christmas, beautiful Soul, to you and your family
NINA 2020
Katy & all, congratulations for such a marvellous performance!!! It was awesome and it was very evident the effort and enthusiasm you put to achieve this success. It is a shame that Circus cannot continue next term, but Maria is already excited thinking on coming back in September next year. Have a Happy Christmas and Best Wishes for this coming year 2020!!!
MARIA 2020
Katy Kartwheel is a professional circus artist who trained with Zippo's Circus and is a performer with Aircraft Circus. She has done my aerial training and I know from first hand experience what an incredible teacher she is.
NIKKI 2019
Children's Parties...
Katy was our entertainer for the College’s children’s party that we hold every year. Not only did Katy capture all of the children’s attention she managed to get parents to join in on the fun as well. The children loved Katy’s vibrant and fun performance with the spinning plates and her acrobatic dancing. The children all had a go with spinning plates and laughing throughout, using the tight wire and showing off their circus skills with the diablos. Katy stands out among other entertainers as an original, cater to all ages, fun performer who I would be happy to recommend.
BECKY
Thank you so much for bringing Ellie's party to life on Friday, they absolutely loved what you did and Ellie thought you were amazing, it was also such a relief for me that they were all suddenly fixated on you for that hour!
FRANCESCA
Adult / Family Parties...
Hi Katy
Yesterday was just simply brilliant. Thank you truly.
Sarah
Schools...
Our Year Two class had a fantastic morning with Katy. She knew exactly how to manage the children and combined the right level of fun and excitement with ensuring they listened well and improved their skills. Katy was well equipped with quality equipment for the children to try and she worked tirelessly to ensure they all had a great time whilst developing their motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Katy performed breathtaking displays on the tight wire and her hula hooping is incredible! We were literally open-mouthed and you could have heard a pin drop as the children watched her. Her magic show had us all in fits of laughter. The children were buzzing for days afterwards and the workshop tied in nicely to different areas of the curriculum, including science, literacy, numeracy and PE. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Katy to any school: we loved our morning with her from start to finish.
MR ROBERTS, GREAT KIMBLE C OF E SCHOOL
Katy and Clare provided us with a fantastic end of year show. It was a great way for us to celebrate a fantastic year together with lots parents in the sun being wowed by their amazing skills! Everyone had a thoroughly enjoyable time!
MR GARNER, BURFORD SCHOOL
Katy Kartwheel provided a fabulous circus workshop for our Jammy kids. The friendly, fun, encouraging atmosphere she created made sure every child felt comfortable to give things a go. Katy was well prepared and organised and completely in control of 40 kids at the same time. They loved it! She is completely professional in all aspects, and I highly recommend her for any age group.
JO NOEL-HARTLEY, JAM THEATRE
Weddings...
Katy performed at our wedding reception and she was fantastic! Everyone still talks about how fun and memorable our wedding was. Our wedding was attended by all ages, lots of children and some more senior and they all loved the variety Katy brought. There was plenty of equipment so that people could join in and attempt their best to mimic her talents (finding out it's not nearly so easy as it looks), and Katy did a brilliant job of encouraging those around to get involved and start them off on a career in circus skills... when dusk descended she wowed people with fire poi and fire juggling (no audience participation there though!). All in all she made the evening fun and joyful - I think people at our wedding forgot they were suited & booted and were able to be themselves, enjoy one another's company and have a thoroughly enjoyable day - that's in no small part due to Katy's charisma, skill, and infectious personality.
LINDSEY
A huge thank you for your fantastic children's entertainment at our wedding on Saturday! Every time I walked through you seemed to have them all totally captivated which is a rarity! Everyone has said how good you were! I hope you enjoyed it too! Thanks again,
KATY AND CHRIS
Corporate...
*Fabulous performance*
Katy added the glitz and glamour we needed to our event.
In the planning stages, she was professional to discuss various options with and provided her creative ideas for our event.
Always prompt to reply to communications and overall, an excellent performer - our audience loved her.
Would highly recommend Katy if you need someone to provide some spontaneity and variety to your event and keep the audience engaged throughout.
ACTION 4 YOUTH
We would like to thank you and Claire for the spectacular representation of what circus means and providing edge-of-your-seat entertainment at all times for our 10 Years celebration BBQ. The circus workshop was enjoyed by parents and children alike. We are looking forward to seeing you again!“
DANELA CANTARAGIA, PILON
Thanks for your great work on Saturday – everyone had an awesome time, and largely down to you and all your toys! Awesome performance too!
STEVE CUNNINGHAM, 20-20 EVENTS
Therapeutic Circus Skills...
My daughter has suffered with mental health, eating disorder, depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation since 2017.
She received support from countless professionals (CAMHS, School and Children’s Services) for over 3 years however she was unable to engage with any of them as no one actually ‘understood her’, or ‘got her’. It was all very textbook driven. Sitting in a room being asked ‘and how are you today?’, ‘why do you feel like that?’, ‘what do you think would make you feel better?’ just did not work. Our daughter didn’t know why she felt the way she did or know what she wanted to achieve by her actions and sometimes the result of her actions was not even what she wanted for herself!
In January 2021 we got in touch with Katy as our daughter expressed an interest in getting back on the trapeze and had signed up to a full time Intensive Foundation Course in Circus Arts in London starting in August, and could Katy get her circus ready.
Having given Katy a full run down of her background, she agreed to having some 1:1 training sessions but would also see if she could help her have a purpose in life.
Katy had a totally different approach to any of the other professionals we had used. Katy spent time getting to understand her, finding out how she operated, listening to her and over time our daughter began to trust and open up and bond with Katy. Katy helped our daughter have a sense of belonging and learn how to express herself in different ways using lots of different techniques.
She worked on breathing techniques and how to cope with panic and anxiety, how to approach with confidence so others felt at ease and she felt empowered, they did meditation, had real in depth discussions about self-consciousness and lack of motivation, explored signature strengths and recognized what achievements she was actually making.
Katy was able to refleck back to her the situations and emotions she could see more deeply once our daughter started to open up. She motivated her and gave her the confidence to ask for help and how it was ok, to not be ok and that it wasn’t the end of the world.
Katy has been a constant support over the last year and a half. Through the love of circus arts and the extreme talents and caring nature from Katy, our daughter has found a way to express herself, have a sense of belonging and be happy just being her.
Positive choices lead to more positive choices, strength to more strength and so the same with self-esteem, self-respect, everything she wants she knows she can be. She just has to make the best choices.
I wanted to just send an email with a huge thanks for coming on Friday. I have heard such positive feedback from the circus skills and how fun it was! Thank you for all your hard work and for teaching out staff something new and exciting! I really wish I could have joined in. I apologise I couldn’t catch you at the end to thank you personally, it was a bit hectic getting everyone out of the school.
Saskia, Well being Lead, NHS Bucks Talking Therapies
Good Morning,
We have not met but my mother Lizzie is a resident at the LDC in Nanyuki Cottage Hospital.
The videos of your visit last week were shared with me by the team there.
I just wanted to reach out to you personally to thank you for the time you took with the residents there. I cannot begin to tell you what an incredible impact your visit had.
Mum has a very aggressive form of dementia and she has no recollection of anything that has happened after about 15mins.
When I spoke with her this morning about her valentines week as usual she had no recollection of the dancing and singing on valentines day, the day at the swimming pool with one of her oldest friends or the lovely valentines lunch with a special girlfriend. However as soon as I mentioned your visit she instantly began telling me how amazing it was, the dancing the scarves and the spinning plates!
It is very very seldom a connection like this is still made in her mind and so special when it does still happen.
Thank you.
Kerry Outram