Our Instructors

Lindsey’s background in gymnastics, cheerleading, and yoga made it so falling in love with aerial as an adult came as no surprise. You’ll find that her aerial classes focus on playful movement, body awareness, and mobility as she encourages you to develop strength and your own creative expression. Lindsey is best known for her love of Slings and handstands, but she can often be found playing on other apparatuses, as well. She has trained on Rope, Silks, Dance Trapeze, Hoop, and Static Trapeze; performed locally in a few shows; and is excited to continue evolving on each apparatus.

If she’s not practicing aerial, you’ll probably find her napping with her beloved cat, Scout.

Photo by Jason Tucker

Alison Headley grew up in Texas, and lived in Houston and Austin before making her way to St. Louis. She’s spent her career as a web and graphic designer and front-end developer, but she’s also worked professionally in writing, editing, photography, social media, blogging, sewing, and jewelry production and design.

Alison found trapeze in her late thirties and discovered a love of exercise, performance and act creation she never knew she had. “Trapeze was hard and painful. But it spoke to my inner weirdo who felt like an awkward loner, marginalized by conventional team sports, and I kept coming back. I want anyone who has felt like they could never be an athlete, anyone who has ever felt body shamed or that they weren’t fit for sport, to know that they’re welcome in the aerial community and that THEY CAN DO THIS.” At Bumbershoot Aerial Arts in St. Louis, Alison produced and performed in 3 successful aerial student showcases. She has received aerial teacher training from Born to Fly™ Aerial Teacher Training, and additional training in trapeze, handstands and acrobatics from École de Cirque de Québec.

Evelyn has been a dancer all her life, earning her BFA at Southeast Missouri State. After graduating, she found herself in an aerial studio and found a new love with dancing in the air. She is an aerial burlesque dancer with The Bon-Bons Burlesque Troupe and performs solo as Evelyn Invert. Known for her moon lyra, she loves exploring different apparatuses and helping others fall in love with new things.

Rainy Moss is an STL native who got their start in aerial in the Pacific Northwest almost a decade ago after they randomly shared a private lesson with a friend and just never looked back. They specialize in momentum, simple but meaningful choreography, and storytelling through movement. With many years of experience and an eye for creative, out-of-the-box ideas, Rainy is thrilled to have the opportunity to share their knowledge and to help others find their ‘voice’ in movement.

Lisa Natoli is a freelance aerial artist specializing in silks, rope, and lyra. She attended the Alvin Ailey certificate program before receiving her degree in dance at the University of Iowa. She trained as an aerialist in NYC with Laura Witwer, Kevin O’Connor, and Terry Beeman. As an aerialist Lisa has performed in private, corporate, and staged events across the nation including Jenny Rocha’s “The Dinner Party: A Whodunnit Cabaret” and “Migrations”, choreographed by Cirque Du Soleil-alum Kristin Young. Lisa has performed at Black Hearts Burlesque (Minneapolis),Burlesque Below The Bridges (Brooklyn) and has performed in the Floating Kabarette at Galapagos Art Space (Brooklyn), The Slipper Room (NYC), and Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret (Denver) . Lisa has been presenting her own evening length and ensemble work as well as curates evenings as Lisa’s Bright Ideas and Bright Ideas Aerial Salon in Brooklyn, NYC since 2008. LBI has collaborated with pedal steel player Bob Hoffnar, German photographer Henryk Spiess, and playwright Carrie Louis Nutt. Lisa has taught on-going classes at Aloft (Chicago), Circus Warehouse (NYC), Aerial Arts (NYC), The Muse (Brooklyn), and House of Yes (Brooklyn), and Frequent Flyers (Boulder). She has also taught many workshops across the nation: Aircat Aerial Arts (Boulder), Aerial Acrobatic Arts (Denver), Miraas Circus Arts (Denver), Bumbershoot (St. Louis), Project in Motion (Las Cruces), Altitude Aerials (Phoenix), Vertical Arts (Phoenix), Tucson Circus Arts (Tucson), Agora (Detroit), Detroit Flyhouse (Detroit), Contemporary Circus Arts Festival of Toronto (Toronto).

Becky was born and raised in Saint Louis, did gymnastics as a kid, was a cheerleader in high school, and all the while dreamed of running away with the circus to ride on an elephant. She discovered aerial arts through a friend in 2009 and jumped at the chance to take a class, only taking a break in 2015 to have a baby & got right back in the air as soon as she was able. Becky has taken classes in static trapeze, single point trapeze, slings, hoop, and rope but silks is her first love and by far her favorite apparatus. She has been teaching others since 2011, completing training at Bumbershoot Aerial Arts, and holds a teaching certification in Aerial Silks from Nimble Arts. Becky has an extensive background and depth of knowledge in aerial silks, and over the years has taken workshops and learned from many well-known instructors including Lisa Natoli, Laura Stokes, Liz Cooper, NECCA instructors Elsie Smith, Molly Graves, Ukoiya Mastin, and Jamie Hodgson, and Rain Anya from Paper Doll Militia.

By day Becky is an Executive Assistant at Saint Louis University Hospital, and when she’s not working or hanging upside down she can usually be found taking a nap on the couch, building LEGO sets with her son Greyson, or watching movies and playing video games with her husband Derek. She would also love to hear about your cats.