Big Top Adventure Camp is currently full. Please call or email Erin Kaufman at ekaufman@svac.org or 802-367-1306 if you would like to be put on the waiting list. 

Wunderle’s Big Top Camp is full of fun, safe interactive circus adventures appropriate for a wide range of skill levels and ages. Participants will be taught by Troy Wunderle. Equipment may include, but is not limited to: juggling scarves, balls, rings, clubs, spinning plates, devil sticks, diabolos, feathers, hula hoops, jump ropes, lassos, unicycles, rolling globes, rola bolas, and stilts. Games, human stunts, acrobatics, human pyramids and clowning will be taught in addition to this equipment. Limited scholarships available.

Troy Wunderle is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. He is a former international performer with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. For the past twenty-four years, he has toured throughout the United States as a freelance performer and employee of Vermont’s own Circus Smirkus. His antics have been featured on the Disney channel, The Today Show, Martha Stewart, Chronicle, Fetch, Fox and Friends and Americas Funniest Home Videos. Troy is the founder of Wunderle’s Big Top Adventures and the Artistic Director of Circus Smirkus. He spent 6 years as Director of Clowning for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and is a juried artist through the Vermont State Arts Council.