The Dust Palace School

The Dust Palace School The Dust Palace Charitable Trust was set up to further support and develop the circus sector in Aote

Updated timetable! Check it out!
01/02/2026

Updated timetable! Check it out!

30/01/2026

THE CIRCUS IS IN THE HOUSE!
TERM 1 CLASSES ARE ROCKING!
SATURDAY SATELLITES!

INTERMEDIATE TEEN CIRCUS with Chloe Ross
HANDBALANCE with Mel Duff
YOUTH COMPANY - TE MĀWHAIWHAI with Jaine Mieka & Mary Piggin
OPEN ADULT AERIALS with Jodi Russell

BOOK AT thedustpalace.co.nz/book-classes
ELLERSLIE ARTS - HOME OF THE DUST PALACE
www.thedustpalace.co.nz

28/01/2026

THE CIRCUS IS IN THE HOUSE!
TERM 1 CLASSES ON TODAY!
THURSDAY THERAPY!

YOUTH CIRCUS with Chloe Ross
DANCE FITNESS with Geoff Gilson
DUO TRAPEZE (starting out & getting there) with Eve Gordon
TUMBLING with Geoff Gilson

🎪 IT AIN’T BORING IT’S CIRCUS! 🎪

BOOK AT  thedustpalace.co.nz/book-classes
ELLERSLIE ARTS - HOME OF THE DUST PALACE

27/01/2026

THE CIRCUS IS IN THE HOUSE!
TERM 1 CLASSES @ ELLERSLIE ARTS!
WEDNESDAY WONDERS!

OPEN STRAPS with Mary Piggin
MIME & PHYSICAL CHARACTER with Zoe Higgins

BOOK AT  thedustpalace.co.nz/book-classes
ELLERSLIE ARTS - HOME OF THE DUST PALACE

Wednesday Open Straps Next Steps (beginners to advanced)
Wednesdays 5:45pm - 7pm with Mary Piggin
Aerial straps involves strength conditioning, spinning and swinging techniques, skills and creative shapes in the air. Appropriate progressions will be given to you suited to the level of where you are at. Straps is an awesome, popular apparatus and it also provides benefits to compliment your other aerial disciplines. 

Mime & Physical Character
Wednesday 5.45 - 7.00pm with Zoe Higgins
With Zoe Higgins, you’ll learn mime and physical theatre techniques to build core skills of precision, articulation, and rhythm, and develop your understanding of how movement makes meaning. This is a fun, open-level class for anyone who wants to expand their toolbox of performance techniques for circus, theatre, and clown.

www.thedustpalace.co.nz

‼️TERM 1 UP AND BOOKABLE ‼️ with ALL NEW CLASSESPERFORMANCE PLUS TRIPLE PACK!🎩 DRAMA – MIME – JUGGLING!🎩🦐 Increase your...
15/12/2025

‼️TERM 1 UP AND BOOKABLE ‼️ with ALL NEW CLASSES
PERFORMANCE PLUS TRIPLE PACK!
🎩 DRAMA – MIME – JUGGLING!🎩
🦐 Increase your expression, co-ordination and confidence!
🌶️ With forty years of experience between them: Geoff Allen, Zoe Higgins & Mark Williams
Are bringing the razzamatazz to NZ’s premier circus school - The Dust Palace!
At our very own - ELLERSLIE ARTS CENTRE.
Limited spaces. Link in Bio.
🍄 MIME: With Zoe Higgins you’ll learn mime and physical theatre techniques to build core skills of precision, articulation, and rhythm. Developing your understanding of how movement makes meaning. This is a fun, open-level class for anyone who wants to expand their toolbox of performance techniques for circus, theatre, and clown.
🪵 JUGGLING AND OBJECTS: With Mark Williams you’ll learn new patterns, and gain the confidence to push your juggling further in disciplines such as - balls, clubs, rings, flower-sticks, diabolo and unicycling.
🍭 DRAMA: With Geoff Allen. Geoff has taught improv and script with Devonport Drama for 23 years. Classes focus on self-awareness, working with others, storytelling and the physical confidence to stand tall. Geoff’s classes are fast moving and energetic.

🌪️🌶️Sale on Ellerslie Arts Classes for 2026🌶️🌪️New classes:👗 Dance Fitness🎩 Drama🪵 Duo Trapeze 🫎 Juggling and Objects 👜 ...
12/12/2025

🌪️🌶️Sale on Ellerslie Arts Classes for 2026🌶️🌪️

New classes:
👗 Dance Fitness
🎩 Drama
🪵 Duo Trapeze
🫎 Juggling and Objects
👜 Mime and Physical Theatre
🦐Tumbling

🍄SALE ONLY ON 13/12/2025
from 11:30-6pm
IN PERSON AT Ellerslie Arts
134 Main Highway, Ellerslie

🍡🍭🍦come and eat it up!
📸 of by .arten at

‼️New Class Alert‼️Dance fitness / Muscle and Bone Classes Thursdays 13th, 20th, 27th November 7.00pm-8.15pmwith the ini...
12/11/2025

‼️New Class Alert‼️
Dance fitness / Muscle and Bone Classes Thursdays 13th, 20th, 27th November 7.00pm-8.15pm
with the inimitable Geoff Gilson

After a successful start this term on Saturday mornings Dance Fitness has moved to Thursday evenings for November!  Come along, get fit, strong, and coordinated to some banging 80s and 90s music!

📢 Term Two is here!🤸🏽‍♂️ Classes Mon - Wed & Saturdays at our NEW home - 134 Main Highway, Ellerslie📚 Enrolments now op...
08/04/2025

📢 Term Two is here!
🤸🏽‍♂️ Classes Mon - Wed & Saturdays at our NEW home - 134 Main Highway, Ellerslie
📚 Enrolments now open!
Link in bio and via:
www.thedustpalace.co.nz/school-info

🎓 See you in class!

A lot can happen in 1 year... Māwhaiwhai youth circus company flies us through 12 brilliant months of aerials and antic...
01/04/2025

A lot can happen in 1 year... Māwhaiwhai youth circus company flies us through 12 brilliant months of aerials and antics in their latest showcase!

Show made possible thanks to:
WayFynders
The Factory Theatre
The Dust Palace
Our awesome students, kaiako and parents

Poster by Maya Mendis

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134/138 Main Highway, Ellerslie
Auckland
1051

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 10pm
Tuesday 6am - 8:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 10pm
Thursday 10am - 9pm
Friday 10am - 8:30pm
Saturday 11:30am - 5:30pm
Sunday 11:30am - 7pm

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