This is what you see as you enter Stage Flight Circus Arts Studio. This room is a reception area that leads to the gym itself.

The advanced performing group warms up and reviews choreography for their Jungle themed performance. This group consists of both advanced students and teachers.

Clint Bobzien contemplates how he is going to incorporate various tumbling routines into the Jungle performance. Clint is the the co-owner and head instructor along with his wife Hannah.

Clint Bobzien telling students Sarah Miller and Abby Smith that they are partners for the handstand on shoulders trick. Clint and Hannah opened this Studio three years ago and they have grown from having three students to 87 students.

Clint Bobzien stands on the mat as George Creek does a front tuck over him. Clint performed as an acrobat for 20 years and taught gymnastics for ten years prior to opening this studio.

Clint Bobzien watches as Teddy Barker does a double front tuck after jumping on the mini trampoline. Clint and Hannahs students range from age six to age 60 at the studio.

Hannah Bobzien talks to a group of aerial students about the Jungle routine they will be doing. Hannah has been involved in acrobatics and gymnastics since high school and has performed all over the world in various circus groups with her husband Clint.

Hannah Bobzien writes the different animals that the performers will be portraying in their jungle performance in May. Hannah. This is the second year that their studio has had a group that performs.

Instructor Teal Larsen helps keep the ring steady as Mandy Libs attempts to perform the “hanging bat”. Teal has been an instructor at Stage Flight Circus Arts for two years and has taught trapeze, aerial silks, aerial hoop, and stilt walking at various resorts and studios all over the country.

The advanced aerial silks groups attempts to figure out what they are going to do for the jungle performance. This is one of there groups that both Hannah Bobzien and Teal Larsen oversee.

The aerial silks group tries to look like a group of bugs stuck in a spiders webs as Nick Johnson stalks them on the ground as the “spider”. The jungle themed performance will take place at the Buskirk-Chumley theatre on May 25th.

Upon walking out of the studio there is a sign to remind students to be open and creative because it is worth it. Both Clint and Hannah emphasize how they don’t want their students, no matter what age or skill level to feel as though they need to hold back or that they aren’t good enough.

Have you ever thought about dropping everything and going off to join the circus? Well that might be much more possible than previously thought for Bloomington residents thanks to the presence of Stage Flight Circus Arts.

Stage Flight Circus Arts is a studio in Bloomington Indiana owned by Clint and Hannah Bobzien that specializes in training in a variety of disciplines under the circus arts umbrella. The studio also features a performance group that is currently preparing for a jungle themed performance.

Clint and Hannah  Bobzien have been professional acrobats for nearly twenty years with both of them having an extensive gymnastics and diving background. The pair actually met at Bloomington High School North because they were both on the diving team and eventually began dating. After graduating from college, the pair went on to perform in a variety of places including all over Asia with various American circus groups, and on Broadway multiple times. “While being abroad doing what we loved was fun, Clint and I both knew we needed to return home,” said Hannah Bobzien.

Clint and Hannah Bobzien founded Stage Flight Circus Arts three years ago and started off with three students in a homeschool group but now they have 87 students that they teach on a weekly basis in a large warehouse. “It’s been unreal how fast it’s grown. I would never have imagined that we would have this much interest in the studio so fast but I’m glad it’s happening” said Clint Bobzien.  Due to the rapid growth of students, the studio moved into a large warehouse to accommodate for all the equipment and individuals last January and it has allowed them to teach their student’s more advanced things and expose them to new skills they couldn’t practice in the previous space.

The increase of students has also allowed Clint and Hannah to hire seven more teachers to help them. These teachers come from many different backgrounds and each of them brings something new to the studio. One of these teachers is Teal Larsen who has been with Stage Flight Circus Arts for about two years and she has taught trapeze, aerial silks, aerial hoop, stilt walking and much more at resorts and studios around the country and now she uses her vast experience to teach at Stage Flight. “It’s really become like a second home to me and I’m so glad I was given the chance to join this awesome team of talented individuals,” said Larsen.

The studio has also started a performing group that features some of their best students and teachers and they perform at various venues in Bloomington throughout the year. The group is currently rehearsing for a jungle themed performance at the Buskirk- Chumley Theatre on May 25^th.

While some individuals at the studio have been training for their whole lives the Bobziens want to emphasize that it’s never too late to learn a new skill and encourage anyone on the fence to come to their studio for open gym night on Wednesdays and see what they’re all about. So, if you have or are now contemplating joining the circus now you know that that opportunity is not so far away.