Sky Candy Youth & Teen Programs
Sky Candy Aerial and Circus Training Center, 1023 Springdale Rd, Bldg 8A, Austin, TX 78721
About
Sky Candy Youth & Teen Programs include aerial and circus arts education with activities such as aerial silks, bungee, flying pole, and lyra (aerial hoop). Sky Camp offers a week of aerial and circus arts education as part of these youth and teen offerings. The broader Sky Candy program also includes adult tumbling classes in the same training environment.
• Ages: 7–18 years old
• Schedule: Sky Camp offers a week of aerial and circus arts education.
• Price: New Student Deal: first three classes for $60, expires 3 months from purchase date.
Sky Candy was founded in June 2010, and the owner is Winnie Hsia. Adult tumbling classes are taught by a former Cirque du Soleil performer and gymnastics coach. The organization states that circus is for Every Body and that its mission is to make circus arts accessible and empowering for everyone, with classes, camps, and performances that emphasize safety, cultivate creativity, and celebrate diversity for students of all ages and abilities.
Sky Candy has worked with Austin institutions and emerging artists on projects including in-school workshops with the Paramount Theatre Field Trips Program, musical theatre summer camps with the ZACH Theatre, and performances with The VORTEX Theatre and Ginger Snaps Burlesque. The organization is supported in part by a Creative Space Assistance Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, & Entertainment and is located within a creative hub that includes Queer Audacity, Creative Action, Latinitas, No Good Tattoo, The Front Page, Medici Roasting, Julie Myrtille Bakery, UROKO, Zhi Tea, Paper + Craft Pantry, and other small businesses and artists.
Sky Candy describes itself as Austin’s premier aerial and circus training center and offers a Plus Size Program with a supportive learning environment for fat folks, along with a firm no spectators policy for all classes. It offers year-round classes, summer day camps, private lessons, and birthday parties for youth and teens, and Sky Camp provides half-day (morning or afternoon) and full-day options for students ages 7–14. Sky Candy is a featured destination in KAYAK’s Austin Texas Travel Guide and is listed as a favorite unique activity for bachelorette parties on multiple platforms, and it includes a specific land acknowledgement noting that it is located on Indigenous lands of Turtle Island.
Sky Candy has received multiple Austin Chronicle Best of Austin awards, including Best Circus Arts Revivalists (2011), Best Big Top Getting Bigger (2018), Best Alternative Sport (2019), and Best Exercise Class for Bungee Fit (2022). It was voted Austin’s Best Aerial Studio by Austin Fit Magazine readers in 2022, 2023, and 2024, and 2nd Best Gymnastics Studio in 2024. Its 2012 show “Land Without Evil” was featured in a Lone Star Emmy–nominated PBS: Arts in Context documentary, and the 2014 show “Cosmicomics” won a B. Iden Payne Award for best dance choreography. Owner Winnie Hsia was nominated for a B. Iden Payne Award for aerial choreography in “Charlotte’s Web” at the ZACH Theatre in 2017, and the 2017 show “Agent Andromeda: The Orion Crusade” won five B. Iden Payne Awards for Julie Moore’s performance, Monica Kurtz’s stage management, Tyler Mabry’s original score, and Joanna Wright’s dance and fight choreography.
Last updated July 25, 2026.
• Ages: 7–18 years old
• Schedule: Sky Camp offers a week of aerial and circus arts education.
• Price: New Student Deal: first three classes for $60, expires 3 months from purchase date.
Sky Candy was founded in June 2010, and the owner is Winnie Hsia. Adult tumbling classes are taught by a former Cirque du Soleil performer and gymnastics coach. The organization states that circus is for Every Body and that its mission is to make circus arts accessible and empowering for everyone, with classes, camps, and performances that emphasize safety, cultivate creativity, and celebrate diversity for students of all ages and abilities.
Sky Candy has worked with Austin institutions and emerging artists on projects including in-school workshops with the Paramount Theatre Field Trips Program, musical theatre summer camps with the ZACH Theatre, and performances with The VORTEX Theatre and Ginger Snaps Burlesque. The organization is supported in part by a Creative Space Assistance Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, & Entertainment and is located within a creative hub that includes Queer Audacity, Creative Action, Latinitas, No Good Tattoo, The Front Page, Medici Roasting, Julie Myrtille Bakery, UROKO, Zhi Tea, Paper + Craft Pantry, and other small businesses and artists.
Sky Candy describes itself as Austin’s premier aerial and circus training center and offers a Plus Size Program with a supportive learning environment for fat folks, along with a firm no spectators policy for all classes. It offers year-round classes, summer day camps, private lessons, and birthday parties for youth and teens, and Sky Camp provides half-day (morning or afternoon) and full-day options for students ages 7–14. Sky Candy is a featured destination in KAYAK’s Austin Texas Travel Guide and is listed as a favorite unique activity for bachelorette parties on multiple platforms, and it includes a specific land acknowledgement noting that it is located on Indigenous lands of Turtle Island.
Sky Candy has received multiple Austin Chronicle Best of Austin awards, including Best Circus Arts Revivalists (2011), Best Big Top Getting Bigger (2018), Best Alternative Sport (2019), and Best Exercise Class for Bungee Fit (2022). It was voted Austin’s Best Aerial Studio by Austin Fit Magazine readers in 2022, 2023, and 2024, and 2nd Best Gymnastics Studio in 2024. Its 2012 show “Land Without Evil” was featured in a Lone Star Emmy–nominated PBS: Arts in Context documentary, and the 2014 show “Cosmicomics” won a B. Iden Payne Award for best dance choreography. Owner Winnie Hsia was nominated for a B. Iden Payne Award for aerial choreography in “Charlotte’s Web” at the ZACH Theatre in 2017, and the 2017 show “Agent Andromeda: The Orion Crusade” won five B. Iden Payne Awards for Julie Moore’s performance, Monica Kurtz’s stage management, Tyler Mabry’s original score, and Joanna Wright’s dance and fight choreography.
Last updated July 25, 2026.
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