Sky Candy Youth & Teen Programs
Sky Candy Aerial and Circus Training Center, 1023 Springdale Rd, Bldg 8A, Austin, TX 78721
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Sky Candy Youth & Teen Programs offers circus arts activities including aerial silks, bungee, flying pole, and lyra (aerial hoop). The program also includes summer day camps, year-round classes, private lessons, birthday parties, in-school workshops, musical theatre summer camps, and performances.
• Price: $100 off a full day or $50 off any half-day enrollment.
Established in June 2010, Sky Candy is described as Austin’s premier aerial and circus training center and operates in a custom built 6,500 square foot space. The program’s mission statement says 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. The organization has a Safe Space Statement and policies that emphasize physical and emotional safety and a zero tolerance policy for harassment, and it acknowledges being located on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island and specific Indigenous peoples.
Adult tumbling classes at Sky Candy are taught by a former Cirque du Soleil performer and gymnastics coach, and the owner is Winnie Hsia. Sky Candy offers a New Student Deal of the first three classes for $60, which expires three months from the purchase date, as well as a Summer Sky Camp early bird discount, membership options with access to regular drop-in classes, free open studios, discounts on series and private lessons, and exclusive deals, and bookings for team building and bachelorette parties. For youth and teens, Sky Candy offers year-round classes, summer day camps, private lessons, and birthday parties.
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). Austin Fit Magazine readers have voted Sky Candy as Austin’s Best Aerial Studio 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, 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 ZACH Theatre in 2017, and the 2017 show Agent Andromeda: The Orion Crusade won five B. Iden Payne Awards.
Over the years, Sky Candy has worked with Austin institutions and artists on projects such as in-school workshops with the Paramount Theatre Field Trips Program, musical theatre summer camps with ZACH Theatre, and performances with The VORTEX Theatre and Ginger Snaps Burlesque. Sky Candy is listed as a featured destination in KAYAK’s Austin Texas Travel Guide and is described as a favorite unique activity for bachelorette parties by Fearless Captivations, A Little Bit of Living, Lone Star Party Boats, Destination I Do, and TripAdvisor. Sky Candy is part of the Springdale General creative hub, which also 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.
Last updated February 11, 2026.
• Price: $100 off a full day or $50 off any half-day enrollment.
Established in June 2010, Sky Candy is described as Austin’s premier aerial and circus training center and operates in a custom built 6,500 square foot space. The program’s mission statement says 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. The organization has a Safe Space Statement and policies that emphasize physical and emotional safety and a zero tolerance policy for harassment, and it acknowledges being located on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island and specific Indigenous peoples.
Adult tumbling classes at Sky Candy are taught by a former Cirque du Soleil performer and gymnastics coach, and the owner is Winnie Hsia. Sky Candy offers a New Student Deal of the first three classes for $60, which expires three months from the purchase date, as well as a Summer Sky Camp early bird discount, membership options with access to regular drop-in classes, free open studios, discounts on series and private lessons, and exclusive deals, and bookings for team building and bachelorette parties. For youth and teens, Sky Candy offers year-round classes, summer day camps, private lessons, and birthday parties.
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). Austin Fit Magazine readers have voted Sky Candy as Austin’s Best Aerial Studio 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, 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 ZACH Theatre in 2017, and the 2017 show Agent Andromeda: The Orion Crusade won five B. Iden Payne Awards.
Over the years, Sky Candy has worked with Austin institutions and artists on projects such as in-school workshops with the Paramount Theatre Field Trips Program, musical theatre summer camps with ZACH Theatre, and performances with The VORTEX Theatre and Ginger Snaps Burlesque. Sky Candy is listed as a featured destination in KAYAK’s Austin Texas Travel Guide and is described as a favorite unique activity for bachelorette parties by Fearless Captivations, A Little Bit of Living, Lone Star Party Boats, Destination I Do, and TripAdvisor. Sky Candy is part of the Springdale General creative hub, which also 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.
Last updated February 11, 2026.
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