OUTREACH PROGRAMMING
Echo Theater Company encourages physical confidence, freedom, and grace in a creative, non-competitive atmosphere. Students of all abilities develop strength, balance, flexibility, and creativity while working with others to explore the intersection of circus, movement, and storytelling.
ECHO AT YOUR EVENT
Great for school auctions, carnivals, and festive family events! Our teen pre-professional performance company, the Zig Zags, will entertain guests at your next event with circus arts! Let us dazzle your community with atmospheric antics or performances such as stilt-walkers, acrobats, or aerialists.
Looking for more interactive entertainment for guests? Bring circus fun to your block party, carnival, or community event! Our interactive Circus Play pop-ups include circus arts options for all ages as well as juggling equipment, mats, stilts, instructor-led obstacle courses & youth demonstrations.
Talk to us about your upcoming event, and we will create an original performance tailored to your unique wishes!
TEAM-BUILDING &
WORKSHOPS
Bring your team or group to Echo!
ETC workshops are great for corporations, non-profits, clubs, and any group that wants to build trust within their community. Using movement exercises, partner and group acrobatics, creative problem-solving, and aerial challenges, your team will grow together. Workshops are inclusive, playful, and accessible for all ages and all body types. We will provide opportunities to challenge assumptions, explore supported risks, collaborate, and laugh together.
We can create a curriculum based on your team’s goals, with classes tailored to your interests. Choose Your Ingredients: Trapeze, Acrobatics (Partner/group challenges), Aerial Fabric (Silks), Obstacle Course/Group Challenge Courses, Aerial Harness, Mindful Movement, Aerial Yoga, Physical Theater, Juggling and Object Manipulation
IN-SCHOOL WORKSHOPS
Bring Circus Theater to your school! Play, learn, and grow together in these versatile workshops — great for students of all abilities (ages 3+). Focuses include partner and group acrobatics, juggling and object manipulation, creative movement, and collaborative physical theater. Students build confidence, strength, and grace in a creative and supportive environment.
We recommend 30 minutes for ages 3 – 5 and 60 minutes for ages 6+. We prefer to send 2 teachers for each session to allow for safe and successful instruction.
SCHOOL RESIDENCIES
Our residency, Theater in Motion, is an all access pass to Circus Theater for K – 12 students of all abilities. Our goal is to introduce students to physical theater, acrobatics, and creative problem-solving in a safe and supportive environment. We are creative problem-solvers ourselves and love to adapt our curriculum to the needs and interests of a given group.
We will work with you to create a 3 – 6 week curriculum that meets your needs. In the past, we have used circus skills and theater to help students embody lessons such as: forms for energy (MELTS), balance and motion, life-cycles, rhythm and rhyme, and collaborative storytelling, to name a few. Skills include acrobatics, partner and group acrobatics, juggling, object manipulation, stilt-walking, and more. We have decades of experience using collaborative circus theater to illuminate your curriculum.
We recommend 6 sessions of 30 – 55 minutes for each classroom. We will send at least 2 teachers for each session to allow for safe and successful instruction.
Our mission is to provide spaces for people to create fearlessly.
Pricing for outreach programming varies. Contact us for more information:
josie@echotheaterpdx.org
TESTIMONIALS