MEET THE TEAM

Lauren is one of the founders of City Cirque and works with our amazing coaches to ensure all of our community achieve their goals.  After always wanting to do gymnastics, she turned to aerial yoga in 2019 during a stressful period at work and trying to find exercise that she enjoyed.  She moved over to aerial arts in 2020 after craving the acrobatics that aerial arts offers.  She took up the challenge of competing and participated in Bend The Air 2022, but was unable to take up her place at the national finals due to being pregnant. Having come from a hammock background, she will always have a soft spot for hammock, but she loves lyra and has a growing affection for cube.  She enjoys the challenge of duo work on many different apparatus.

Lauren loves choreography and composing routines, while enjoying the challenge of finding ways to complement the movement and style that every individual brings.  She holds qualifications in aerial teaching from Aerial Yoga Therapeutics. She also enjoys teaching people who are new to aerials the joy of flying!

Other than aerials, you will usually find Lauren working as an emergency physician or enjoying family time with her patient husband, gorgeous toddler, and cute cats.

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Known for her flexibility and beautiful lines, Jess aims to help our amazing community reach their flexy goals! She is one of the founders and brains behind our amazing studio.  Growing up in the world of gymnastics, she has a foundation in movement, strength and flexibility. After Lauren nagged her for more than half a year to come to aerial as a hobby to help with fitness and relieve stress in 2022, she fell in love with the creativity, beauty and grace that comes from the aerial arts.  She has embraced the challenge of competition and was a national finalist at Bend The Air in Advanced Lyra in 2023 and 2024.  While primarily training and competing on lyra, she dabbles in fabrics and enjoys having a go on our specialty apparatus. She loves cross training with pilates and integrating those principles in how she trains and conditions. 

Jess has qualifications in aerial teaching from Elevate and Spin City in lyra, hammock and kids aerials. She also holds Pilates reformer qualifications.

When she is not flying, Jess works full-time as a paediatric emergency doctor so has a special interest in injury prevention, technique, and movement in young people and in the neurodiverse population. She has a past life as an architect and was the project manager and architect for the City Cirque studio at Hamilton.

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Aerialist, Instructor, Performer and by day; Registered Nurse. 

With a passion for flight and a dedication to her craft, Maddee has been training in aerial arts since 2017. Specializing in Hammock, Lyra, Net, and Moon, she also trains in Silks and Pole occasionally, and is continually pushing her boundaries and eager to expand her skills on any apparatus she can get her hands (or feet) on. 

By day, Maddee works as a Registered Nurse in Operating Theatres, combining her care and compassion with her technical expertise in the air (and on the ground) to provide exceptional attention to technique and skill. Maddee brings a distinct perspective and approach to her aerial practice and embraces her unique teaching style to incorporate strength building for safety and injury prevention. 

As a seasoned performer, Maddee has experience in competitions and holds numerous state titles as well as having performed at 3 national events. In 2024 Maddee started her journey into the creative arts world of aerials, landing her first paid performance in Melbourne. Maddee has also been working with Artistry photography since 2020 and frequently does photoshoots and events as their ambassador. She loves captivating audiences with her poise, strength, and artistry and loves to share her knowledge and expertise with any and everyone! 

You’ll see Maddee around the studio, teaching a variety of Hammock and Lyra classes. Maddee is also available for private lessons in the following areas- Hammock, Lyra, Net, Moon, Choreography, Floorwork, Compeition and Performance Preparation, Photoshoot Poses and Preparations, Strength and Conditioning. Due to her work schedule it is best to contact the studio or Maddee directly to book private lessons as her availability changes weekly. Maddee has experience teaching children 8+, teens and adults. 

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Amelie’s passion for aerial arts began at the age of 8, after watching an unforgettable aerial performance under a circus tent. This spark ignited a love for the craft that has now spanned over 13 years. Amelie trained extensively at a local circus on the Sunshine Coast, where she not only honed her skills in various aerial apparatus and acro but also found her calling as an instructor, teaching for five years at the same circus where she began her journey.

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With a deep passion for blending emotional expression into her performances, Amelie has become known for her ability to weave storytelling and raw emotion into aerial routines. Her preferred apparatus is aerial silks, where she brings both grace and artistry into her movements. Amelie has extensive performance experience, having showcased her skills at the Woodford Folk Festival in both 2022 and 2023. She also performed at the Anywhere Festival in 2021 and has participated in a variety of other gigs throughout her career.

As an instructor, Amelie is passionate about helping her students reach their goals, guiding them in creating captivating aerial routines that highlight both their creativity and technical ability. She continues to share her love for aerial arts through teaching and performing, inspiring others to explore the beauty and artistry of aerial movement.

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Kiara (aka The Noodle) is an aerialist and prosthetics/makeup artist known for blending high-flying physicality with the surreal and cinematic. With over 7 years of aerial training—most passionately on the trapeze—Kiara brings a unique, bendy, and unconventional movement style to the air, shaped by a body that seems to defy logic ("hips are on backwards" is not just a metaphor).

Her performances are a fusion of physical storytelling and special effects, drawing from her background in prosthetics and makeup to create otherworldly characters and striking visual narratives. Whether she's twisting through the air or transforming her face and body, Kiara lives to blur the lines between circus and creature.

Over the last 5 years, she’s competed and placed in multiple national competitions.

If you’re into dreamlike movement, haunting visuals, and aerial performances that feel like they crawled out of a dark fairytale—you’re in the right place.

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Sami embarked on her aerial journey at the age of 8 and has dedicated over 15 years to developing her skills as a student, performer, and coach. With extensive expertise in aerial silks, hammock, lyra, and trapeze, she also excels in ground-based disciplines such as acro and tumbling.

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As a seasoned performer and competitor, Sami has showcased her talents at national shows and events including the Australian Circus Festival, The Sydney Family Easter Show, Miss Lyra, Le Carnivale, Bend the Air, and La Folie. 

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Her competitive achievements include:

• 1st place in State Elite Silks

• 1st place in State Open Apparatus

• 2nd place in State Duo Silks and Lyra

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Sami is dedicated to helping students of all ages reach their performance and competition goals. She offers private sessions designed to help build strength, enhance dynamic skills, and to create personalised routines that align with each student's unique style and aspirations.

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In addition to her aerial expertise, Sami is a full-time primary school teacher, demonstrating her passion for both the arts and education.

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Tami Dawson is a professional aerialist from Brisbane, performing professionally since 2002 and coaching beginners to professional performers for 20+ years. Her performing accolades include representing Australia at the Wuqiao International Circus Festival for Duo Lyra, multiple international contracts, and the productions The Sparkly Taboo, Delicious and UP LATE. In 2010 she founded Aerialicious, a successful entertainment and production company. Its offshoot, Aerialicious Studios, offers private tuition and workshops for aerialists of all levels.

Diana found aerial during her "quarter life crisis" back in 2017 and has never looked back. As someone who came to aerials later in life and without any sports or dance background she is passionate about helping other adult learners discover the joy of being upside down and realise that there is so much they are capable of. She started training in aerials and then undertook instructor training with the UK/US based company Paper Doll Militia whilst living in Scotland, and since relocating to sunny Australia now brings her own unique style of aerials to the scene.

Diana specialises in flowy run-on sequences and whilst she loves silks and lyra the most has been known to branch out into other apparatus including static trapeze, cloud, hammock and rope. Performance credits include the CXCampbell Aerial Christmas Cabaret in Edinburgh in 2021, first place in instructor silks at the UK Aerial Performance Championships Scotland regional event 2022, and second place in adult advanced silks at Bend the Air's Newcastle regional event in 2025.

When she's not in the air she works full time as a hospital doctor which spills over into some slightly nerdy anatomy and physiology-related segues. She's also big on diversity and representation in the creative arts, niche outdoor pursuits like horse trekking and swimming with various sea creatures, and cats.

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Florencia discovered aerial silks in 2012, and from the very beginning they gave her a deep sense of happiness and freedom—so she immediately fell in love with them. What started as curiosity quickly became a lifelong passion, leading Flor to open her own aerial studio in Argentina, where she taught silks, hammock, and hoop.

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Flor has also worked with one of the most well-known aerial studios in her city, Escuela de Circo, where she trained as a trapeze instructor, deepened her flexibility practice, and gained experience working with students of different ages.

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With over 10 years of teaching experience and a background in pole, Flor has performed at major public events across South America. Now based in Australia, she continues to train, teach, and share her passion for aerial arts.

Performance Highlights:

• Azul Fest – 1st place, Professional category

• 5 Naciones – 2nd place, Elite division

• Salta Government Events – aerial silks from a crane