Bachelor of Circus Arts course to restart thanks to new NICA and Collarts partnership

The three-year Bachelor of Circus Arts program at the National Institute of Circus Arts is reopening its student intake for 2025.
A young circus artist spreads their arms and smiles as they dive through a vertical ring. Other young people watch on in the circus training session.

Australia’s only Bachelor of Circus Arts degree will recommence in 2025 thanks to a new partnership between the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) and Collarts, the Australian College of the Arts.

The Bachelor course has been an important stepping stone for many Australian circus artists, who would often enrol at NICA after earlier training at one of many youth circus schools around the country – or after a parallel career in gymnastics, dance and similar fields – before going on to have professional circus careers.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts