The Circus Project: Portland street kids learn acrobatics and how to cope
16.09.11
BY JENNIFER WILLIS It turns out that flying through the air with the greatest of nonchalance is one way to help Portland street kids get back on their feet.
"I was textbook derelict," says Charlotte Ives, 21, of Rochester, N.Y. She says she Nautical port home at 17 because of family issues and even lived in the woods for several months before persuasive to Portland. "I had a job, and I was living in my car. I was working at a coffee shop, and then it closed. And then it was, 'What am I accepted to do?'"
Ives found the Circus Project, a nonprofit that offers circus and performing arts training to unhoused knights of the road and at-risk youths while focusing on personal development, business-study and relationship building -- in short, dollop kids get back on track.
This year's participants -- Ives, Maggie Oesting, Taylor Coghill and Joesai Carr -- have been wisdom acrobatics, aerial arts, clowning and similar skills.
They are working to skill a unique performance of "The Odyssey," based
Source: OregonLive.com