CHICAGO (WLS) -- What happens when you combine circus acts and childhood development? CircEsteem, that's what. "Our name comes from circus and self-esteem," 13-year-old Taylor Fost said. "We want to ...

At a Tuesday night practice at the Phoenix Academy, after the gymnasts had warmed up with forward and backward rolls and practiced their floor routines, their instructor, Finda Reichert, called them ...

The Cal Elite Kids center hosted a week-long Circus Arts Camp for kids at their facility in Rancho from Monday through Friday. Camp instructor Robin Stevens and instructional assistant Tina Braun ...

LADERA RANCH – More than a dozen kids participated in Coach Randy Garcia’s Sportsfest Camp at the Stoneybrooke Christian School campus in Ladera Ranch on June 27. The participants learned circus acts, ...

The circus is in town every weekday at Lincoln Junior High School in Skokie even though you might not know it. The Skokie Park District’s popular circus camp, which runs in two four-week sessions at ...

Toddlers are natural tumblers, as I witnessed on a recent excursion to the toddler and preschooler open gym at Gleason’s Gymnastic School. A dozen kids in stocking feet ran around the large, ...

NORAH WYLDE, aka Toad, has gotten used to twisting herself into a pretzel. She doesn’t, however, always remember to breathe. “That is the hardest part of contortion,” said the highly flexible ...

This weekend we went to a birthday party for one of Apollonia’s friends at International Gold Gymnastics. It was the coolest place to have a party! We had the entire gym to ourselves, and it was ...