Cirque Essentials
Veronica Waite in a deep backbend on stage under violet light

Made in Melbourne · by a performer, for performers

Confidence starts
with your grip.

High-performance liquid chalk for pole, aerial and gym — in a bottle that clips to your rig, your pole, your kit bag. Fast-drying, long-holding, subtly sweet.

Two Cirque Essentials liquid chalk bottles, one clipped by its carabiner to a gold aerial carabiner

The clip is the point

Chalk that hangs
where you train.

Every bottle has a moulded eyelet and its own carabiner. Clip it to the rig, the stage, your bag strap — it's there mid-training when your hands start to slip, not buried somewhere in your bag. A precise blend of magnesium and rosin that responds to sweat, body heat and movement.


  • Liquid Chalk

    $25

    per bottle

    One clip-on bottle. Lives on your rig, your pole, your kit bag.

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  • Liquid Chalk — 3 Pack

    $50

    $16.65 per bottle

    One for your bag, one for the studio, one for a friend who keeps borrowing yours.

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  • Studio Pack — 10 Bottles

    $175

    $17.50 per bottle · wholesale

    Stock your studio. A 10-unit minimum — not the 50 most brands demand.

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Gold art nouveau illustration of an aerialist on silks under an ornate arch

Melbourne & surrounds · from $300

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Made by a performer, for performers

A “sweaty betty” who
got tired of slipping.

Veronica Waite has spent more than a decade performing pole, aerial and contortion across Australia and internationally — and most of it wiping her hands. After years of testing every grip product she could find, she blended her own: the liquid chalk she actually wanted on stage. That bottle became Cirque Essentials.

Meet Veronica
Portrait of Veronica Waite

Feel unstoppable.

Clip it on, chalk up, and stop thinking about your hands.