Alex Frith

CEO

Course Tuition: Bungee, Wall Running, Acrobatics, Dance and Performance Skills

Originally from Australia, Alex Frith trained as a professional dancer at The Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and performed throughout the country for five years before putting down his ballet shoes and moving to London in 1998.  Joining The Central School of Speech and Drama and The Circus Space he expanded his skills to include acting, acrobatics, aerial, stilt walking and clowning. This gained him a place at The Millennium Dome as an ensemble performer for the coveted Central Show where his main skill was bungee stilts at 40 metres!!

In 2001 he set up “AirCraft Circus”, his aerial acrobatic theatre company at The Hangar in Stratford which he built and ran with Nik Litton. Relocated in 2008, (after being bulldozed for the 2012 Olympics), the phoenix rose from the ashes as “The Hangar Arts Trust”, a circus and theatre training space in Greenwich, South East London. He is Creative Director of AirCraft Circus and Chairman of The Hangar Arts Trust.

Alex has experience in stilt and conventional puppet-building and is constantly working on a myriad of projects from eclectic creations to corporate events. Alex has consulted, choreographed and directed widely on many large projects including the Lord of the Rings in the West End and Canada, City of Dreams with Dragone, The Shakespeare Globe, Motion House, Punch Drunk,The Royal Opera House and Madame Pains Boudoir Circus. He is a specialist in flying performers for adverts, big scale theatre and circus.

 

Moira Campbell

Marketing Director

Course Tuition: Static Trapeze, Doubles Trapeze, Rope, Aerial Hoop and Yoga

Moira Campbell’s ethos is that any student with enough passion, discipline and determination can become a circus artist.

Moira started out relatively late with aerial training at the age of 24. After studying at The Circus Space in London, she left her job in independent film as a producer and screenwriter to follow her dream. Fired up with the idea of bringing circus to all, she started teaching her classes in an old church in Highgate but soon continued her business at the original ‘Hangar’ in East London and The Synergy Centre in Oval.

Her love for teaching, performing and running cabarets developed and soon she moved in with 8 other circus maniacs at The Hangar warehouse and married Alex Frith. With circus now her life she made the big jump to the new bigger and better Hangar Arts Trust in Greenwich and became an equal partner in AirCraft Circus, taking on the role of Marketing Director and Programme Manager. She currently runs and coordinates the Full Time Course, the AirCraft Adult Programme and the AirCraft Youth Circus.

Alongside her passion for circus, Moira travelled to India to train as a traditional yoga teacher and came back so enthralled she named her first child after the country – who at the tender age of three has performed no less then 12 times already!

 

Lucy Francis-Litton

Financial Director

Course Tuition: Flying Trapeze, Swinging Trapeze, Silks And Flexibility

Before circus, Lucy trained as a gymnast and dancer in Norfolk, before becoming a national competitor for sports acrobatics and tumbling in the 1990’s. Aged 18 she moved to Leeds to study for a degree in Sports and Exercise Science at Beckett Park Campus (Leeds Metropolitan University). She became the British Masters Diving Champion for both 1m and 3m spring board in 1998 and completed the set with a gold for platform in 1999.

From Leeds she moved to London to train Theatre Practice focusing on aerial circus skills and acrobatics in preparation for the Millennium Dome Central Show 2000. Since then Lucy has trained and performed many different circus aerial and acrobatic acts around the world including Flying Trapeze and Cradle (Double Trouble, The Flying Dudes 2002), Swinging Trapeze (Manumission, Ibiza), Acrobalance (Acrobats 2Xtreme) and hand balancing (Royal Opera House, Royal Albert Hall)

Alongside her performing Lucy is also a circus trainer and choreographer with over 10 years experience across a wide range of ages and disciplines. Before joining AirCraft Circus Lucy worked as one of the Aerial and Acrobatic Trainers for the Degree Students at The Circus Space and was also the Head Trainer and Choreographer for London Youth Circus.

 

Nik Litton

Technical Director

Course Tuition: Equilibristics, Acrobatics, Acrobalance and Rigging

Born and raised in Manchester, Nik spent most of his youth studying squash. In his late 20’s Nik decided it was time to take life a little more seriously and actually get himself a degree… in Circus!

Nik moved to London in 1999 to attend the first ever ‘Circus Degree’ at The Circus Space in Hoxton. It was here where he met his now wife Lucy Francis, and they formed a cradle and acrobalance duo. During the summer season of 2002 they performed with The Flying Dudes as part of their flying trapeze spectacle.

Nik continued to perform over the next few years, also adding a Kids Clown Show to his repertoire, alongside teaching and rigging. He has performed for Prince Charles, in the Royal Opera House, P&O’s Arcadia launch show, taught many celebrities how to fly.

He was a teacher for the London Youth Circus and Corporate programme at The Circus Space 2002 – 2009 and he has been rigging Circus since 2001.