Emilie Gleisberg is director
of the Great Y Circus in
Redlands, California. This was
her first experience coming
to an EdCon; following are
some of her impressions:
1 / W H AT WA S Y O U R
FAV O R I T E PA R T O F
THE CONFERENCE?
• Taking the workshops that were
offered!
• I was very excited to learn and be
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able to take home new knowledge
to the Great Y Circus.
I also very much enjoyed the
center they held the conference
at—it was a beautiful building with
a lot of additions that I want to
pitch to the YMCA that our Circus
is held in.
Decatur was also a very lovely city
to walk around in—there was art
all over the place and it was fun to
explore and see it all.
2 / W H AT S U R P R I S E D
YOU MOST ABOUT YOUR
CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE?
3. WHICH OF THE
S E S S I O N S Y O U AT T E N D E D
W E R E Y O U R FAV O R I T E S
A N D W H AT M A D E T H E M
Y O U R FAV O R I T E S ?
• I really enjoyed Carrie Heller’s
• The diversity of the people who
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attended! Each person was from
a different state, country, and
circus/studio, and they all had a
unique talent they were proud of.
I was also surprised by how
friendly and welcoming everyone
was! As a newbie, I thought it
would take a day or so to start
mingling. But the first day, I was
sitting by myself at lunch and a
group I did not know invited me to
eat with them, and that is the kind
of caring and friendship that was
extended throughout my whole
experience.
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Adaptive Spanish Web workshop
because it inspired me to want to
provide something like that for the
younger kids in my circus program.
It made an ‘intermediate-
advanced’ act a beginning level act
for kids to start on.
The other workshop I enjoyed was
the ‘Everything about Flexibility’
one. Kinesiology is my background
so the information was something
that interested me from the
start, but the info I received
blew my mind! Jim Donak had
so much knowledge and did a
great job explaining the ‘hard-to-
understand’ concepts our group
wanted to cover.
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