By Colleen Flanagan, Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows News
A world-renowned circus performer returned to Maple Ridge Secondary to teach the students the skills that have propelled him around the world.
Circus art master Benoît Ranger, founder of Les Transporteurs De Rêves, or The Dream Circus, and circus coach Pascale Schram, were at the school from Monday, April 7, to Friday, April 11, showing students how to balance on the tightrope, juggle, walk on stilts, use a stable trapeze, aerial silks, roller balancing, and more.
The pair head the B.C. chapter of Cirque Jeunesse.
New this year were unicycles, which Grade 10 student Avery MacDonald took a shining to.
Although MacDonald admitted that she learned to ride well before circus school. In fact she received a unicycle for her ninth birthday.
“I saw someone doing it in my neighbourhood and I thought I want to do that,” she said.