Meet The 2026 Teachers

Silks, Hoop & Creativity

Robbie Hebert

Robbie teaches at Flying Fantastic in London and will be teaching silks, hoop and aerial creativity. You will envy his silky liquid beats!

Straps

Jared Shanks

Pictured here not doing straps because all his straps photos are blurry AF because FAST

Hoop

Amy Capper

Amy and I play chicken every year where I invite her back and she comes even though we hate each other

Trapeze

Charles Philpot

Charles has a different outfit for every class, enjoys coffee and plants. Will teach you weird trapeze things

Silks, Hoop & Rope

Tyrone Herlihy

Tyrone is currently on holiday in Manchester (ha), so he'll be at MAAC all weekend teaching crazy stuff in silks, rope and hoop

Rope and Sling

Jess Allen

Gorgeous soul Jess Allen will be teaching rope and sling including her amazing way of breaking down technical theory 

Static Trapeze and Silks

Grace Fromknecht

Grace is an instructor at Inverted Circus in Aberdeen and will be teaching trapeze and silks workshops

Hoop and Neuro Theory

Kaiya Latham

Kaiya with the famous photoshopped legs that aren't actually photoshopped will be teaching hoop and a new workshop in neurodiverse theory of teaching

Rope and Silks

Ashley Meadows

Often cited as MAAC participants' favourite teacher, he will make hard moves easy and will give you life energy on Sunday

Static Trapeze and Silks

Lily Rubin

Lily is an incredible instructor who is taking time off from teaching at Sweet Retreats in Mexico to come to equally sunny and exotic Manchester!

Hoop

Chrissie Ardill

Chrissie loves a good vomit-inducing spin and you too can test the limits of your stomach lining in her spinny hoop workshops

Hoop, Handstands and Acro

Kit Eckersley

Testimony for Kit's classes: "I hate handstands and I still go every week, that's how good he is"

Straps and Silks

Audrey Thomson

Tiny Scottish woman yells at you until you do it right and you'll love her for it because you're sick like that

Hoop and Maybe Pole

Emily Hawthorne

VIRAL INSTAGRAM SENSATION (she hates when I do this) Emily does really hard shiz on pole and hoop and then makes it accessible so you can do really hard shiz on pole and hoop

Cyr Wheel

Kris Madden

Pictured here not in a cyr wheel. If you didn't know, in Cyr Wheel hoop fling you instead of you fling hoop.

Rope and Trapeze

Becca Solomon

Taking a very short break from her TOURING ALL OVER THE UK, Becca will show you some gorgeous rope things