Celeste Cielo (Christine Janak) is a yoga instructor and performance artist specializing in hoop dance, fan veils, fire hoop, fire fans, and fire eating. She has performed and taught at private events and festivals and danced on stage with the band Sun Stereo throughout the Midwest and beyond for 12+ years. She offers an LED light show or fire show to light up the night at your event, or she can bring along her enormous pile of hula hoops for an interactive circus party great for kids and adults alike! You can join her for weekly yoga classes at Hatha Yoga & Fitness in Champaign, as well as hoop dance, inversions, and arm balances workshops at Defy Gravity Pole Fitness & Aerial Arts Studio in Urbana.

Jeto Gingersnaps was born of a conspiracy of birds. Arriving on this plane fully formed, they stumbled onto the stage and have since spent over a decade performing with several local troupes. 

Neonium began her circus journey in 2017 at Defy Gravity Pole Fitness & Aerial Arts Studio. Neonium believes that everyone should have the chance to fall into the flow and now teaches aerial silks and hammock at Defy Gravity, along with the occasional flow arts workshop. Although leviwand is her first love, she has since expanded her performance repertoire into silk fans, tech fans, hoops, and continues to explore any prop she can get her hands on. You can also find her whirling and twirling—sometimes with fire!—with the troupe Carnivale Debauche.