About us
Jessie, Craig and Tiina met at The Circus Space on the Circus Arts degree programme where Jessie and Craig started to learn hula-hoops from scratch, drawing on Tiina's many years of experience. They soon began to experiment, inventing moves and sequences, and Hoop La La was born
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Jessie Rose |
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After training as a dancer, Jessie ran away to join Zippos travelling circus school, The Academy of Circus Arts, where she learnt to perform static trapeze and Spanish web. After a brief one-month stay at the University of Cambridge, studying music, she left to continue her true love - circus. |
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| Craig Reid | |
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Having done both artistic and display gymnastics for nearly ten years in Scotland, Craig decided to combine these skills with dance and choreography by going into the world of circus. At the last minute he opted out of a computer programming degree and went to study at The Circus Space in London. |
| Tiina Tuomisto | |
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Hailing from Finland, Tiina started circus as a hobby when she was just 14. At 19 she went to study circus in Lahti College of Arts and Crafts's in Finland full-time for two and half years, gaining a general grounding in circus arts, with an emphasis on hula hoops and aerial acrobatics. After graduating, she worked for six months in Lahti City Theatre, then won a place on the degree programme at The Circus Space in London. There, she specialised in hand-balancing, while extending her hula hoop skills. |
| tiina@hooplala.co.uk |