Interns

Samuel Jabour - arrival 25 June 2012

We are happy to welcome back Samuel Jabour (26) from Canada who will be with us for a year to coordinate, monitor and supervise our programmes coordinators-  a project supported by the Canadian International Development Agency. He started circus in Europe and has been working as a social circus coach for many years. He graduated as a social circus instructor from the National Circus School in Montreal.

Martina Bill

Zip Zap is very happy to welcome Martina Bill (19) from Zurich, Switzerland. She has just graduated from school and spent 4 months in Ghana teaching deaf children at a school.  There she learned sign language and experienced the characteristic rural lifestyle in Africa.

 Martina has advanced skills in sport acrobatics. As a passionate sports acrobat she participated in several national competitions.  She loves working with children and already has experience in teaching kids between the age of 3 and 16 floor acrobatics and practiced with them for competitions and performances. Martina will support the coordinators of the Core Group and the Beginners class. Her specialties are dance, pyramids, hand-to-hand, tumbling, mini-trampoline, horizontal bar and swinging rings. This cultural exchange of skills and experience will be a profit for both sides for sure!

Ruslana Bazaliy

Ruslana Bazaliy (26) joins us from the Ukraine for a month, teaching and sharing her knowledge of the art of trapeze. She has been doing gymnastics since the age of 5 and trained in Canada since the age of 14 with her twin sister, Taisiya with whom she performs the double swinging trapeze act. This act won them the silver medal at the Cirque de Demain in 2012. Previously she also toured with Cirque du Soleil for 8 years.