06/29/2026
Great Lakes Circus Center | Grand Rapids
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Most kids in West Michigan spend their summers at camps learning the same things kids have always learned. Katherine Rodge and Jennifer Young had a different idea.
Great Lakes Circus Center in Grand Rapids is a full circus arts studio offering classes and performing arts training in aerial arts, acrobatics, juggling, and everything in between. It is the kind of place that takes a kid who felt like they did not fit into the usual sports and activities and suddenly lights them up completely.
But it is not just for kids. Adults who have always wanted to try aerial silks, learn to tumble, or simply find a form of movement that does not feel like exercise have found their home here too.
Grand Rapids has a circus center and it is extraordinary. Visit greatlakescircuscenter.com to see the class schedule, and share this with someone whose kid has been looking for something different.