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Kosta's experience performing with the Cirque du Soleil inspired him to co-found Zacada Circus School with Christine Cadeau, to share their knowledge and love of the circus arts.
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Christine and Kosta founded Zacada Circus School in 2007 in order to realize their vision of combining elements of fitness and artistic impression to teach the circus arts.
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Debra Brown is Zacada’s Artistic Advisor / Director and most valued Choreographer. Debra has been the principal choreographer for Cirque du Soleil since 1987. Zacada’s Co-founders Kosta and Christine had the opportunity to meet and work with Debra Brown back in 1996-2001 with Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam and are honoured and so grateful to be able to have Debra as an Artistic Direc...
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As a Zacada Circus School performer and coach, Kayley Pettit draws from her extensive and varied dance career.
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Jessie has had several years of dance and gymnastics experience before finding her passion in circus and trained and performed in the aerial program at Zacada for 3 years before she was invited to join Zacada's elite performance te...
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Alexa Compare- is a dance Pageant title holder, has performed on a project with Cirque du Soleil and a technical dancer- began her journey into her arts at the age of 3 years-old. She is a professionally trained dancer in ballet, tap, acro, jazz, and contemporary. She competed international...
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Cana has been a performer with Zacada Circus School since 2013 becoming one of the youngest performers to join Zacada’s Show Team at 8 years old. Before transferring to the circus, Cana was a competitive gymnast in Hamilton and loved competing all over Ontario. At Zacada, Cana specializes in German Wheel and Silks, but training at Zacada for over half of her life she has require...
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Coach Richard, started with Ninja as a cheering parent when his oldest son showed flair on the obstacles, he was quickly swallowed up by the sport and fell in love with the excitement of new obstacles, longer laches and bigger climbs. Richard is a natural handy man that can build anything and happily crafts new obstacles for the gym at every opportunity. Coach Richard has two ni...
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Selah has been a performer with Zacada Circus School since 2012 and has been coaching since 2015. Before circus, Selah spent 8 years training as a competitive gymnast in Hamilton and competed all across Ontario. Currently at Zacada, Selah specializes in Cyr wheel, which she has been trainin...
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Jessie has been a member of Zacada since 2015. After enrolling in dance and gymnastics from the ages of 3-7, she attended a birthday party at Zacada and instantly fell in love with circus. Jessie spent the next eight years building her strength and flexibility in the recreational class, acro class, aerial team and eventually worked her way to a spot on the show team. Jessie has ...
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Jasmine started dance classes at 4 years old and from there moved to train in gymnastics. She continued to build her strength and flexibility before joining Zacada’s Aerial Team. She worked hard and was soon invited to join the Show Team to further improve her skills. Jasmine specializes in the Spanish Web and Hula Hoops, but also has experience performing on many apparatuses....
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Lily first joined Zacada in 2019 where she trained on the Aerials team for 2 years before joining Zacadas Showteam where she currently trains and performs. Lily specializes in duo trapeze, aerial silks, hoop and partner acrobatics but enjoys exploring all apparatus’. Her passion to preform can also be seen through her dance career. Lily has been dancing competitively since age ...
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Katherine has been involved in many different sports since she was 3 years old. She started ninja when she was about 6 and has been doing it ever since! About a year and a half ago, she joined the competitive team. Ninja is her favourite sport, so she loves teaching others about it! Seeing kids complete an obstacle that they have been working on makes her smile! Katherine believes it is impor...
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Layla Nussey has been involved with Zacada Circus School for many years now. From the ages 6 to 11, she attended the summer camps. At age 12 Layla was asked to join Aerials. It was then that she realized that circus was forever going to be a big part of her life. She worked very hard to earn a spot on the Zacada Show team. And after two years of focused training and dedication i...
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Melanie Fletcher is a former gymnast, training in Grimsby, Ontario for several years. She uses her experiences to contribute to her technique and skills at Zacada, attributing her initial success to her base knowledge gained as a gymnast. Melanie first joined Zacada in 2018 through the aerial program, moving up to the show team in 2022. She has been a coach at Zacada since 2023 ...
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