If you’ve been feeling like a clown lately, know that you’re honouring an almost-5,000 year old Egyptian tradition.

The first dance session focus on practising and performing circus skills. These include juggling, walking on stilts, walking on stilts while juggling, tightrope walking and jumping on a trampoline.

Clown circus skills: Juggling on a unicycle and walking the tightrope done as comedy clowns. Final performance: Custard Pie Splat and the clown circus skills in one sequence.

They perform a series of perfectly choreographed routines involving juggling clubs and a saucepan, their exaggerated moves and facial expressions hallmarks of generations of clowns. There is ...