Charles Keidel
Charles Keidel
Acro Coach
All Sessions
Charles Keidel is a circus artist who just cannot seem to stand still, in the last year alone he has bounced from performing, creating, and tour booking an East Coast and Montreal reaching tour of Coated (2019), to performing in San Diego for a holiday season as a teeterboarding elf at SeaWorld, to Las Vegas where he trained and developed acts to compete in Viva Fest and debuted his first solo unicycle endeavor at Sanctuary in Chicago. Needless to say, a summer in the most magical corner of the world, coaching at Smirkus Camp is a much appreciated break from the life of a contract hopping acrobat. This is Charles’ second summer coaching at Smirkus and he’s excited to get to experience coaching in the Acro, Balance, and Aerial tents.
Before the life of contract hopping, Charles attended the Aloft Circus Arts Full Time Training Program class of 2018 in Chicago, Illinois where he specialized in tightwire, and continued to pursue training in any discipline he could. Even while fully immersed in 40 hours of circus training a week, he still found opportunities to put his work on stage as one of a select few artists to partake and perform in The 48 Hour Project (2017) part of the A Moment of Circus festival and in shows such as Rough Draft (2017), Sanctuary (2017)
This wire walking, unicycle riding, teeterboard hopping, acrobatic generalist is ready to share his 19 years of circus experience in order to make this summer at Smirkus the highlight of any camper’s year!