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.

Alexis Collier, also known as Dizzy Dynamic, is a hoop dance instructor based out of Chicago, IL. With over 10 years of hoop dance magic under her belt, and over 7 years of experience teaching, Dizzy has been near and far sharing her passion of hooping. Awarded Female Hooper of the Year 2016, and Instructor of the Year 2017 by hooping.org, Dizzy loves to create unique tricks and combinations, that she can share with her community in hopes to keep the inspiration flowing.

Kylee, also known as Comet Dancerr, is a dedicated hoop performer and teacher based in Detroit, Michigan. With 6 years of performing and teaching experience, she loves sharing the joy of hoop dance with others and helping other hoopers reach their goals.

Kylee’s inspiration is drawn from many types of hula hooping, and her hooping style is a mixture of circus, tech, and dance.

In 2022 Kylee won the World Hula Hoop Championships by GlobeFit, in the 16+ advanced single hoop category as well as with a troop in the group category.

Amanda Lee - aka Miss Hoopdidoo - is a Southern California based flow artist with a passion for teaching and performing. She discovered the magic of hula hoops after two hip surgeries ended her dance career…in a lot of ways, hula hoop saved her life and gave her the confidence to move her body again. Since that magical discovery, Amanda has created numerous online hoop tutorials that have inspired hoopers internationally, been invited to teach at hoop retreats all around the world and also toured throughout the United States. Amanda’s teaching style is warm, inspiring, upbeat and accessible. She always highlights the importance of dance and body movements along with hoop technique. There is nothing that Amanda loves more than when a student’s face lights up after nailing a new trick.

On top of teaching, Amanda is a seasoned performer and a co-owner of Wildfire Arts Collective, a performance troupe specializing in choreography and LED/fire shows. She’s performed on some of the biggest stages in the world in countries like Mexico, China, South Korea and more. Performing with flow arts has been a beautiful way for Amanda to actualize her dreams of becoming a professional dancer, while it wasn’t what she thought would happen in her dance career, it’s better than what she could have ever imagined.

The Hustletown Hoopers consists of Madison McBurney and Amy Neel. They have been manifesting their dreams into reality together since 2014 and have even performed for Super Bowl Live in Houston, Texas in 2017. Together, they co-own the nation’s largest hula hoop after-school program, Mad About Hoops. Through this program, they are able to inspire the next generation of flow artists and enrich the lives of thousands of children, and counting! They also co-created the High Altitude Hoop Retreat, which is a hula hoop retreat located in the Rocky Mountains that aims to elevate a hooper's flow and transform their soul.

Oshiana , also known as Blu Hoopz 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. 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.

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. To keep herself accountable, she posted her daily hooping journey on Instagram. 365 days later, she achieved her initial goals, and so much more, and her daily hooping continues to this day.

Rachel describes her hooping style as Flowy, Funky 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, aka Tall Tina Twirls, is a passionate and creative hoop dancer based in Philadelphia, PA. Having grown up dancing, she found it hard to incorporate dance into her adult life until she came across flow arts and hooping. She bought her first hoop in 2015 where she quickly fell in love with the art. Her hoop style focuses on tech while incorporating some of her background in dance. Some of her favorite moves are ones that are simple yet very effective.

Christina loves taking every chance she can to collaborate, teach, and learn from the greater hoop community at meetups, workshops, and flow jams. When she is not in Philadelphia, she is traveling the world, spreading her love for hooping wherever she can.

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 be in close proximity to Madison’s amazing circus scene and delicious cheese.

Anna, also known as FanofHoop is a performer and hula hoop enthusiast based out of Madison, Wisconsin. She stumbled into flow arts after seeing a fire hooper at a backyard party and it changed her life by reigniting her love for dance, performance, and art. 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 and nail really hard tricks. If she could give advice to her past self it would be: don't be afraid to try something new and fail forward.

Nora is a passionate hula hoop and circus artist based in Madison, WI. She first picked up a hoop at the age of 6 for her elementary school talent show, and it was love at first sight! Since then, she has continued to learn, perform, and share her passion through teaching.

While her focus is hoops, Nora is also an experienced stilt walker and juggler! She spent the summer as a clownselor, hoop instructor, and performer with Wild Rumpus Circus, as well as teaching at events like Michigan Hoop Dance Retreat.

Circulating Sparkles has been teaching and performing for well over a decade. Since picking up a hoop in 2009 and finding flow art to be be a powerful form of expression, Sparkles has been committed to learning and sharing as much of this movement as possible. She has a degree in education and uses her background to share techniques and methods of motion in ways all learning styles can understand. Sparkles loves creative collaboration and has taught and performed and co-created with a wide variety of flowmies over the years. She's delighted to be sharing her expertise in body hooping with you this year at Cheeselandia!

Danielle Lee, creator of the Cheeselandia Hoop Affair, hails from Madison, Wisconsin and 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 as treasurer. Danielle is a professional hooper and certified instructor who lives to teach classes, lead events, perform, and do everything possible to share the transformational joy of hooping.