Bungee Hoop

Elle Walton is a multidisciplinary performing artist and researcher who strives to combine her intellectual and physical curiosity. She has performed internationally through varieté shows, festivals, and cruise ships. She has also taught worldwide including in Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, Germany and France. In 2018, she founded the Boise Circus Guild, where she served as artistic director, and in 2025, she co-founded SPEC Circus in Massachusetts. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy at UMass Amherst, untangling the weird and wonderful overlap of metaphysics and performance art.

During the pandemic, Elle experimented with ways to add a vertical dynamic to lyra without the use of a winch or a pulley. Enter: bungee hoop! This springy apparatus of her own creation has enabled her to bounce and fly in all new ways!

Participants in this workshop MUST have lyra experience, and demonstrate the following:

• solid beat pathways

• pull-over to hips from…