Stilt walking
You'll stand up in the first hour. You'll walk within a month. The rest is the costume, which changes everything.
Courses and training
Our own artists run the sessions — the same ones you see at festivals. You learn the craft from people who practise it.
Ask for a spot- 100+
- students so far
- 2
- sessions a week
- 18
- years on stage
Why we teach
Because the joy of performing is meant to be passed on
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We don't run courses to fill a timetable. We run them to give people with an eye for art and for beauty a way in — to grow, and to lift their own spirit through arts that work together.
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To us this craft isn't “a job”. It's the responsibility to enjoy what we do and to share that joy with the audience in front of us. What you don't pass on, you lose.
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And if you're going to learn it, learn it properly: from one of the oldest stilt-walking troupes in Romania. Here you don't just learn how to walk on stilts — you learn how to express yourself on them, until they become a natural extension of you.
When we meet
Two fixed sessions a week, in Bucharest. Everything else is scheduled on request.
- Wednesday Stilts Balance, walking, getting up and down. From first steps to walking in full costume.
- Friday Juggling and fire Balls, clubs, then torches. Fire comes after your hands know what they're doing.
- On request Acrobatics, acting, dance Scheduled once a group forms. Tell us what you want to learn.
Sessions run at our Bucharest headquarters. We provide the gear; you come in something you can move in.
What you'll learn
Three disciplines we run consistently. They're also the ones we use most at events.
Juggling
Three balls, then clubs. It comes faster than you'd think and it shows immediately.
Fire juggling
Juggling continued, with torches. Fire comes only once the trick lands cleanly without it.
What it costs
No registration fee and no year-long contract.
Single session
150 lei 45 minutes
- One discipline, your pick
- The gear is ours
- The simplest way to find out whether you like it
Monthly pass
500 lei 4 sessions
- Pick one: stilts, juggling, or an intro to fire juggling
- Four sessions a month
- You can switch discipline from one month to the next
Full stilt-walking course
1,000 lei 500 of it comes back
The full course really costs 500 lei: half of it comes back the moment you start working events with us. From then on the training stays free for as long as we work together. Not generosity — self-interest. We want good artists.
- The whole programme, until you walk on stage in costume
- 500 lei come back to you once you start working events with us
- From then on you train free of charge, for as long as we work together
What a training session looks like
Twenty-three seconds from the yard where people learn to walk on stilts. First steps, first falls, and the moment someone finally lets go of the railing.
Why us
We are the largest stilt-walking troupe in Romania. We only teach what we ourselves perform, every weekend.
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Romania's largest stilt troupe
Over 100 artists on call and a site just for it: picioroange.ro, also ours.
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The instructors are working artists
The same people you see at festivals. They teach exactly what they perform at the weekend.
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The gear is ours
Stilts, clubs, torches, costumes. We build them in our own workshop, so you don't pay for them.
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Get good and you join the team
Students who get good go out to events alongside us, paid like the rest of the team.