CIRCUS SCHOOL--CANADA

Circus career began at Steveston playground
Mom recalls her daughter’s love of climbing, spinning and performing


Angela McIlroy Wagar, a Grade 10 student at McMath secondary, has been accepted into the National Circus School in Montreal.
Photograph by: JOHN CORREA, SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
from: richmond-news.com
By Philip Raphael, Richmond News
June 6, 2013
Curled up and around a large hoop suspended from the ceiling, Richmond’s Angela McIlroy Wagar is an elegant, tangled mass of legs and arms.

As she gently starts to rotate in her perch, her sleek limbs gracefully unfurl to their natural length. And when they reach the limit of her lean, five-foot-nine inch frame she undergoes a complex, choreographed movement, arching her back in a reverse with such ease and control it would make a chiropractor sob.

 

Seeing Angela’s performance, it’s not a surprise where the 16-year-old, Grade 10 student from McMath secondary is performing — the Vancouver Circus School (VCS). Located on the upper floor of the New Westminster Public Market building, it is a playground for the dabblers as well as the serious who have aspirations ranging from a simple bounce on the trampoline to the contortions Angela undertakes without the slightest expression of effort creasing her face.

Three days a week, she’s at the school, twisting, climbing and bending, all in pursuit of her dream to one day become a professional circus performer with a famous company such as Cirque du Soleil. It’s an aspiration that began at an early age, says her mother, Valerie Wager, and is well on the road to being realized. Angela was accepted by the National Circus School in Montreal where, starting in August, she will begin completing her high school studies, which will include intensive circus training.
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