For people who have always thought of "running away to join the circus" one new school in the Philadelphia area may be able to help them with that dream. This week, the Philadelphia Daily News profiled the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, which trains students in arts like rope climbing, gymnastics and juggling. "For me, circus is about people, not animals. It's about human potential, and discovering what the human body is capable of. Here at the circus school we're achieving the impossible every day, challenging ourselves to do more amazing things all the time," the school's founder, Shana Kennedy, told the newspaper. Kennedy reportedly started building her own circus skills with a unicycle around age 12, and eventually studied circus arts for a year in England and met her husband at a juggling convention in Philadelphia before giving up on the circus life to focus on her family. Other places to learn circus-related arts can be found in places like the New England Center for Circus Arts in Vermont and the Circus School of Arizona.  |