Performance
Training in arts has extended to the performing arts. In August 2010 British circus professional Sky Neal (an aerialist) and her husband Mark Perrin (a rigger) began teaching performing skills in a Kathmandu gym.
Acutely aware of the sensitivity of the nature of this (given the universally negative circus experiences of child trafficking survivors) participation by the children was entirely voluntary.
To everyone’s surprise it proved to be very popular with a group of older refuge teenagers – children of prisoners, former street children and circus returnees – and has become the basis of a new circus company entitled “Sapana, Company of Dreams”.
It is Nepal's first such company.
