As a child, I would watch workout videos and then guide my parents, grandmother, anyone who was interested really, through full 45 minute personalized workout and stretch sessions. Since then I have upped my game, earning both Pole Dance and Flexibility Flow teaching certifications from XPERT and Aerial Hoop instructor certification through SOAR, but much of what I have learned has been through camps, workshops, and private classes with renowned coaches in Pole Dance, Contortion, and Hand Balancing, as well as hours spent actually teaching and performing.  

 

Since 2022, while also working as an academic researcher, I taught over 600 pole dance classes ranging from beginner, intermediate, advanced, heels-choreo, and competition coaching as well as over 500 flexibility and contortion classes and workshops. I created, organized and hosted Pole Weekend Twente in 2023, 2025, 2026. My contortion, aerial pole, pole dance, as well as mermaiding (I am an AIDA II certified free diver) acts have made it to weddings, clubs, festivals, theaters, and a casino! I usually enter one or two pole competitions a year. 

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Personally, I can hardly accomplish anything unless I understand it fully (I am a nerd, I studied computer science and am a doctor of Philosophy of Technology). I use that approach to do my own research and carefully explain technique and make movement accessible and understandable for every body. I am constantly learning and growing and am grateful to be able to assist others in doing the same! 

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Lastly, performance is political! I work to make my classes a welcoming space for people of all ages, bodies, genders, ethnicities and racial backgrounds.