By: Virginia Johnson, Entertainment Reporter, Bay News 9

As the young acrobats of the Sailor Circus Academy prepare for their annual holiday show, one longtime student is set to dazzle in what will be one of her final performances before she leaves the Circus Arts Conservatory program next summer.  More

By: Anna Brugmann, The Observer Media Group

On any given afternoon, the Circus Arts Conservatory Arena swarms with activity.

The doors of the familiar blue and white dome are propped open as students practice their craft. But the students aren’t the only ones hard at work. Industrial fans speckle the 20,000 square foot home to Sailor Circus and Circus Sarasota, one marked with a cheeky sticker. More

HERALD-TRIBUNE PHOTO GALLERY — BY THOMAS BENDER: The Circus Arts Conservatory’s Sailor Circus students performed for donors and supporters during a recent dress rehearsal for its up-coming appearance in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Click to view more photos of Sailor Circus student performances including acrobatic adagio, silks, juggling, clowning, slack-wire, stilt-walking, roller-skating and  many more circus arts…  MORE

The Sailor Circus Arena is a one-of-a-kind structure, centrally located in Sarasota and just minutes from the beautiful Bayfront and Southwest Florida beaches