Taylor Duffrin, aka Taylor Flows, is an international flow arts instructor specialty performance artist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her flow arts career started back in 2014 when she purchased her first hula hoop. Upon starting, she began to realize that what was intended to be just a hobby had captivated her heart and was turning into something much, much bigger. Only a year after Taylor had started her journey, she was receiving national bookings to perform at festivals and events. Taylor has performed all over the United States at festivals, parades, and private parties ever since.

Performing was not the only passion that catalyzed from her adoration of flow arts. Upon reflecting on the impact that flow arts had on her own life, it lit a fire within her to share that impact with others. Taylor has become a vastly successful international instructor, teaching single hoop, double hoop, multiple hoops, and fan tech. She has taught around the globe from The Hula Hoop Institute’s Hoop Dream Retreat Malaysia and Bali, to Rendez v’Hoop France, to Alpine Hoop Retreat Austria, to Hoop West Canada, to Sinergia Hoop Spain, to SwHoop United Kingdom, to Hoop Away Australia, to Oasis Hoop Retreat Costa Rica, to many retreats around the US and many more international and national retreats on the horizon. With the surge of COVID and wanting to connect with her students and friends around the globe more regularly, Taylor decided to create online classes and tutorials to keep her passion alive during the off season of retreats. Her online courses have been wildly successful to thousands of hoopers around the globe.

Mike has been hooping for over 13 years and in that time has fallen in love with hooping and teaching object manipulation skills. With his unique style and liquid flow he’s taking his over 9 years of teaching experience to the flow community.

His analytical teaching style informs intuitive, hard to explain concepts, through single technique-based breakdowns. With a successful international and domestic workshop portfolio he has taught at over 60 flow and hoop events over the last 8 years.

His time in the flow community has allowed him to grow as a person and learn a lot about himself and how to keep people safe and better the community. He’s excited to bring these lessons about life and flow to you.

Morgan (Miss Mojangles) is a performer and creative director whose passion for authentic movement and storytelling shines in each of her various projects. With an international teaching and performance background spanning over a decade, Morgan is known for her dancey and techy style as well as introducing “Hoopography” to the hoop community. Based in Los Angeles, she has worked with performance groups such as Lumia Dance Company and The Firemingos as a choreographer and director. Her own troupe, the Hooptown Hotties, has been renowned for their innovative creative content. Her award winning videos have pulled in 3.5 million views on youtube and have given her the opportunity to travel and share her love of hooping across the globe. Other notable achievements or Morgan’s include her “Hoop X” intensives, collaborations with fellow hooper Lee Jeffries, co-directing the first virtual reality flow documentary, and her multiple TV and music video appearances. She loves bringing her passions to the stage and hopes to empower all who witness her to embrace their unique flow and dance in a playful and creative way!

Oshiana is a hula hoop performer and instructor based out of Portland, Oregon. She loves to mix hoop tech with dance to create a classy yet sassy hybrid.

Runner up for Fire Entertainer of the Year 2024 in Portland, Oshiana has taught in 3 different countries, provides private lessons locally and online, and is only getting started. She specializes in off body hooping, combo creation and hoop choreography.

Her workshops will have you walking away excited to throw some sass in your circle.

An engineer by day and flow artist by night, Melissa takes a scientific approach to hoop tech to concoct mind-melting manipulations. Her enthusiasm for teaching has led her to instruct at more than 30 flow events across 5 countries.

She has also performed and created choreography for the Hoop Unit the Electric Forest Hoop Troupe, and the Firemingos.

Apart from her hoop journey, Melissa also has a strong passion for sewing, cosplay, and petting her cute kitty!

Abi and Brian are a multifaceted duo who specialize in hoop juggling, circus arts, flow arts, and clothing design/ production. Currently living in Tampa FL, they both hold over 10 years of juggling, teaching, and performance experience. Having travelled to teach and perform all over the world, you’re sure to leave with some new and exciting things to work on in their workshops. When they’re not juggling you can find them designing and creating clothing over at Midnight Reverie.

Revolva has been rocking stages around the globe for more than two decades. She’s served as opening/support entertainment for artists such as Weird Al Yankovic, OK Go, and Los Straitjackets. She’s been featured in Vice and Huffington Post as the founder of BroadMinded: Women over 40 Variety Show, and she also cofounded Circus Artemis: Portland Women’s Circus. Revolva beat artists from around the world to win Burning Man’s 2010 “Fire Idol” competition, served as the 2011 face of Synergy Fire Hoops, won a 2012 Hoopie Award, and earned The Busking Project’s top pick award in the 2011 “How do you contribute to public space?” contest. She’s also taught workshops around the world, at U.S. festivals including Hoop Camp, Hoop Convergence, Fire Drums, and more—and at international gatherings including SWhoop in Bristol, UK, and Germany’s Hoop Die Burg. Originally from the Detroit area, where she performed with Motown’s first-ever fire troupe, Fire Fabulon, in the early 2000s, Revolva spent many years on the west coast—and now finds herself back in the Motor City. She is excited to return to Madison’s amazing circus scene and delicious cheese.

Josh Philippi, aka Techswan, is a hoop instructor based out of St. Petersburg, Florida.

He discovered flow arts in 2015 through friends in college. What started out as a fun and casual challenge quickly turned into an obsession, and after being gifted his first hula hoop, he hasn’t put it down since. Intrigued by the hoop’s creative possibilities, he quickly realized his desire to share concepts and teach others, venturing off to teach at events like The Jamboree, Spinsanity Flowdown, Florida Flow Fest, and more. As his flow continued to progress and evolve, he began to teach more advanced tech-based classes that focus on specific concepts like duck-outs, coinflips, and jawbreakers. Since then, he has gone on to teach internationally at events like Alpine Hoop Retreat, Get the Ring, Naples Hula Hoop Gathering, and Oasis Hoop Retreat. Josh is known for his stimulating tech-filled flow infused with fluid movement, and for pushing the boundaries in hoop-tech both with single and double-hoops. He hopes to inspire others to play with possibilities, realize their creative potential, and to help this community flourish and continue to grow.

Rachel, aka Hoop Rambler, is a hula-hoop dancer and flow artist currently based out of Georgia, USA. She bought her first hoop in 2017 post-divorce as a tool for rediscovering joy and self-empowerment and it was love at first sight. In 2021, she started a Hoop 365 Daily challenge to hoop every day for an entire year with the goal to be more consistent with hooping and learn more tricks, and her daily hooping continues to this day.

Her first few years of hooping have been focused on her own personal growth and now she has turned that focus outward to share everything that she has learned, and continues to learn, with others.

Rachel describes her hooping style as Emotional, Authentic and Unique. She loves to incorporate creativity and play into her flow, even bringing to life hoop personas such a Dolly Rambler (mainly seen during the spooky Halloween season). Her goal is to share creative ideas and inspiration, to introduce new ways to hoop and flow, and to embrace all the joy that is hula-hooping.

Christina Hicks, also known as Tall Tina Twirls, is a passionate hoop artist based in Philadelphia. After being introduced to flow arts at a festival, she bought her first hoop in 2015 and has never looked back. With a background in dance, hooping has been a way for her to stay connected to movement and technique throughout the years. She loves to share her art and in recent years has taught at events such as The Hoop Jawn, Toronto Hoop Collective, and SWhoop. She is excited to be teaching for the second year at Cheeselandia Hoop Affair. Her favorite part about hooping is getting to connect with the community and she cannot wait to meet those attending this year.

Danielle Lee hails from Madison, Wisconsin and is the creator of Cheeselandia Hoop Affair! She began hooping in 2004 and teaching hoop dance in 2008. Since then, she has taught and performed regularly in Madison as well as regionally and internationally. Her charisma and positivity have been the keystone for today’s thriving Madison hoop community. She is a founding member of the Madison Circus Space, a 24/7 circus arts facility and nonprofit, where she serves on their board of directors. Danielle is a professional hooper and certified teacher who lives to teach classes, lead events, perform, and do everything possible to share the transformational joy of hooping.

Alex Brendemihl, known as Miss Mindflow, is a full-time movement artist specializing in Hula Hoop and Dragon Staff.

She travels across the country to teach at retreats and festivals, sharing her passion and expertise with diverse audiences. As a prominent online Patreon instructor, Alex has created over 400 tutorials, inspiring and educating a global community.

A lover of ground work and full body flow, she is excited to share her skills and ignite creativity in others!

Anna, also known as FanofHoop is a performer and hula hoop enthusiast based out of Madison, Wisconsin.

Hooping since 2014, Anna's style includes smooth doubles technique, hoop manipulation juggling, and dance fusion.

As an instructor, Anna aims for her classes to be accessible to everyone, confidence building, and a place where people learn hard tricks.

Patricia Laufer tells her story like this: “After 25 years of working at a desk under fluorescent lights, I left the corporate world in New York City behind and became a yoga teacher in the Catskill mountains. My journey of exploration of energy began there. After ten years of study and training, I was called to facilitate group and one-on-one Intuitive Guidance sessions where I access ancestors, spirit guides, as well as our deepest knowing or intuition, to help gain a broader perspective on the situations at hand.

In 2020, as a response to quarantine I picked up my first hula hoop and spent three years learning to hoop with Deanne Love in my living room! Moving with this magical plastic circle has become a passion.

Once I learned some moves, I started dropping words (such as Belonging, Trust, Power, Ease) into my energy field as I was hooping. I saw incredible shifts in my perspective and in what was coming into my life - simply by dancing with the word EASE I began to feel more at ease and my life got easier! Hoop Dance Activation was born and I started teaching it to all my friends. Now it has expanded and I’m honored to be teaching at dance studios, hoop retreats and in private groups. There is even a Hoop Dance Activation Oracle Deck that helps me share this exciting tool with the world.”