Circus Artist, Instructor, Circus Therapist & Social Circus Trainer
Snapshot:
Primary discipline: Static Trapeze
Trains: A bit of everything!
Teaches/Leads: Youth, Adults, and Adaptive Circus (trapeze, silks, hoop, sling, floor disciplines), Circus Therapy
Performs: Static & Dance Trapeze
Specialty: Teaching and providing adaptive circus programming, training other coaches, blending neurobiology/psychology with circus, providing circus arts therapy sessions (individual or group) with a focus on trauma, anxiety and depression
trainings & workshops
Lacy offers customized trainings, consulting, and workshops that cover a wide-range of circus and social circus topics. Trainings are offered both in person and online. Some training topics include: youth program development, compassionate behavioral management, working with students who have specialized needs, adapting circus for all, therapeutic applications of the expressive arts, universal design in circus, developmentally appropriate skill progressions, interpersonal neurobiology & the circus arts etc.
See the flyer at the bottom of this page for more information, and check out the “Circus Arts” tab on my training website for additional training options or the online training page for a list of current webinars.
Circus Arts Therapy
Lacy provides circus and movement-based therapy for individuals and groups of all ages.
Movement-based therapies are an excellent tool for use with all populations, especially those who have trauma histories or are neurodiverse.
Circus therapy is a unique tool that guides clients to get in touch with their bodies in a safe and progressive way - all while having fun.
As we explore circus skills and build body-awareness, our sense of self expands and shifts - which can unlock and integrate new layers of cognitive processing. Each circus therapy session is unique. Contact Lacy for more info!
mixing skills
As a psychotherapist and circus artist, Lacy blends these disciplines to provide unique and specialized programming beyond performance and mainstream teaching.
For example, Lacy served as a youth program director at Sky Candy in Austin, Texas and founded multiple levels of youth classes and camps for mainstream and specialized populations, and developed a comprehensive program that included developmentally appropriate curriculum, safe-skill progressions, compassionate behavioral management systems, and a youth teacher training program.
Lacy is passionate about social circus, and currently runs an adaptive social circus program in Montreal for autistic teenagers, and was an instructor for the first Camputee, an adaptive adult circus camp for adults with limb differences founded by Erin Ball. (Photo credit: Erin Ball)
certifications
Lacy is a trained circus arts instructor, and has attended the following courses with Nimble Arts with the New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA):
-Intro to Teaching Aerials
-Foundation Level Trapeze
-Foundation Level Lyra
-Foundation Level Fabric
-Foundation Level Sling
-Intermediate Level Trapeze
Lacy also participated in a training mentorship program when studying to become an aerial arts teacher, and integrates a wide-range of tangential materials, including psychology and neurobiology from her years as a psychotherapist.