Freefall

Freefall is an aerial and circus arts organisation based in Liverpool. We teach and perform on trapeze, silks, hoop and rope and run ground based circus skills workshops for young people.

Freefall aim to promote, develop and engage in the arts of aerial circus and other related skills from our home here in Liverpool. We have recently emerged as a new organisation after ten years of development, performance and teaching activities as black& blue.

We are currently based at The Florrie in Toxteth where we run adult aerial classes as well as a youth circus group. We specialise in teaching static trapeze, silks, hoop and corde lisse as well as a variety of other circus skills. We are happy to arrange private classes, workshops and parties and we also perform and run workshops on a regular basis for various festivals and other outdoor and indoor events in the Liverpool area.

Freefall have been running adult aerial and youth circus classes at The Florrie since 2014 when they launched as a not-for-profit community interest company run by Barry Welsh and Nick Hunt, both experienced teachers and practitioners who have been delivering high quality circus education in Liverpool for the last 10 years.

Barry has a background in teaching dance and drama in further education as well as having run his own physical theatre company. He is a qualified circus instructor having studied at the highly regarded Circomedia school in Bristol.

Nick has a background in visual arts and also taught in further and adult education after studying at post graduate level at MMU. He has worked in partnership with Barry since joining black& blue and training and teaching aerial circus since they were invited to be the resident company at Liverpool's Novas CUC in 2008.