COVID-19 UPDATES & INFORMATION

Beginning January 4, we are able to resume classes under the guidance of gyms, fitness centers, youth sports, and schools. Some adjustments will be made to our programming to comply with the state’s latest guidelines, including the following:

• Building occupancy will not exceed 100 persons at any time.
  • To accommodate this new mandate, students are no longer be permitted to wait in the building between classes.
  • All students are only allowed in the building if they are enrolled in class or participating in the work-study program for that hour. Please arrange to have your students picked up as needed or wait in a vehicle outside between classes.
• No student-to-student contact
  • Coaches will eliminate all student-to-student contact during training. Coach-to-student contact will be limited.
• Masks must be worn at all times.
  • Students are no longer allowed to remove masks while engaging in extreme physical exercise. Coaches will adjust training to accommodate this requirement.
• Division of Classes
  • A small number of classes whose number of students, nature of the activity, and/or necessary arena space make it impossible to hold class will be divided. Half of the class will attend the first week of the session (A week) and the second half of the class will attend the second week (B week).
  • Classes that will be divided: All Dance classes over 4 students, Team Acro 500, Team Acro 1000.
  • Students in divided classes will receive a separate email informing you of your student’s week assignment.
• CJ Stay Safe Category 4 and some Category 3 classes will be on hiatus through January 16.
  • The nature of some classes makes it impossible for the students to engage in any meaningful training while adhering to the current social distancing requirements.
  • These classes will not be held until further notice. We hope to bring these classes back after January 16.
  • Classes on hiatus: Russian Cradle, Russian Bar, Russian Swing, Duo Trapeze, Hanging Perch, Triangle Trapeze, 3-Man-Hand Balance.
• Staggered warm-up and training
  • Coaches will have students warm up and/or train in shifts of smaller numbers to allow 12 ft. distance. Students who are waiting may be 6 ft. from each other.

The health and safety of our students and staff is our top priority at Circus Juventas. We have worked diligently to adhere to all mandates and recommendations from the Office of the Governor, Minnesota Department of Health, and CDC. We will continue to monitor and update our procedures as necessary throughout the year.

Please review the Winter 2021 COVID-19 Procedures Updates document below for all adjustments and updates being made in accordance with the most recently released MDH guidance.

Thanks to our families and staff for following these procedures. Together, we will stay CJ strong!

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We have assigned each of our classes and acts a CJ Stay Safe Category. CJ will use these categories to help determine which acts and levels can be conducted based on the ability to meet social distancing requirements. When possible, curriculum will be adapted to adhere to social distancing and/or bring the class into a lower category.

• Category 1: Can maintain 6 feet of distance from other students/no shared equipment/minimized coach contact.
• Category 2: Can maintain 6 feet of distance from other students/some shared equipment/minimized coach contact.
• Category 3: Will maintain 6 feet of distance whenever possible from other students, but there will be times that 6 feet of distance cannot be guaranteed/limited student-to-student contact/students will be masked if closer than 6 feet/shared equipment
• Category 4: Will maintain 6 feet of distance whenever possible, but there will be longer periods in which students will be closer than 6 feet during training/students will be masked if closer than 6 feet/high student-to-student contact/shared equipment

CJ Stay Safe Categories are indicated throughout the session guide in the “Prerequisites AND CJ Stay Safe Category” column.

If you have any questions regarding the CJ Stay Safe Categories, please email adminstaff@circusjuventas.org.

Please note that in order to create acts for our Spring Celebration performances, we have adjusted the CJ Stay Safe Categories for certain classes. The current plan is to begin instituting these adjustments no earlier than February. All adjustments will be within MDH and CDC guidelines, and we will continue to monitor mandates throughout the year. Though the changes are still a few months away, we wanted to alert families to the planned adjustment prior to winter registration.

Masks will be worn any time students are closer than 6 feet.

Acrobatics: Increasing to category 3. Students may be closer than 6 feet with limited student-to-student contact during tricks.

Clowning: Increasing to category 3. Students may be closer than 6 feet with limited student-to-student contact during choreography.

Contortion: Increasing to category 3. Students may be closer than 6 feet with limited student-to-student contact during tricks.

Dance: Increasing to category 3. Students may be closer than 6 feet with limited student-to-student contact during choreography.

German Wheel (performing levels): Increasing to category 3. Students may be closer than 6 feet with limited student-to-student contact during tricks.

Globes (performing levels): Increasing to category 3. Students may be closer than 6 feet with limited student-to-student contact during tricks.

Low Casting (performing levels): Increasing to category 3. Catcher will be introduced, and limited student-to-student contact will be made with catcher.

Low Wire: Increasing to category 3. Students may be closer than 6 feet with limited student-to-student contact during tricks.

Multiple Trapeze: Increasing to category 3. Four students per trapeze (two on the lower trapeze and two on the higher trapeze) will be closer than 6 feet with minimal student-to-student contact during tricks.

Rola Bola: Increasing to category 3. Students may be closer than 6 feet with limited student-to-student contact during tricks.

Side by Side: Increasing to category 3. Two students per trapeze, which will bring them closer than 6 feet, with minimal student-to-student contact during tricks.

Triple Trapeze (performing levels): Increasing to category 4. Teams of 3 or 4 students on each trapeze will be closer than 6 feet on the trapeze for extended periods of time with high student-to-student contact. Contact will be limited within assigned teams.

Unicycle (performing levels): Increasing to category 3. Students may be closer than 6 feet with limited student-to-student contact during tricks.

Vault Mini: Increasing to category 3. Students may be closer than 6 feet with limited student-to-student contact during tricks.

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Circus Juventas 2020-2021 cancellation credit policy:

• If Circus Juventas is required to shut down due to state mandates for more than 50% of the session, families will receive a credit on their student account for the cost of the cancelled classes. CJ will only issue account credits, no cash refunds will be offered.
• If Circus Juventas is required to shut down due to state mandates for less than 50% of the session, no credits will be offered for the cost of the cancelled classes.
• CJ will not issue refunds or credits for any classes missed due to short-term closures related to a positive COVID-19 diagnosis of a student or employee within the building.
• CJ will not issue refunds or credits for any classes missed due to mandatory quarantine of individual students resulting from student exhibiting COVID-like symptoms, being potentially exposed or exposed to, or testing positive for COVID-19.

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