Emma Foster is a dancer turned aerial performer and teacher. In 2013, they found their passion for teaching after an aerial silks teacher training course in Houston, Tx. Since then they have dedicated their weeks to teaching and providing unabashed encouragement to all of her students.

As an instructor, Emma excels at creative problem solving. She applies this to all things from sequence creation to human body specifics in relation to obtaining skills. Providing accessible learning methods to participants of all levels and movement backgrounds in order to achieve their desired skills, sequences, and performance goals is their passion.

Angela’s love of all things Circus began with a random college job working as a birthday clown, juggler and singing telegramist for children’s and adult parties. Adulting and life put the kibosh on her dreams of joining the circus until eight years ago with her first aerial fabric lesson. From that point on Angela has had the opportunity to learn from many amazing aerial artists all over the United States and internationally.

She has focused on skills-based techniques for breaking down and teaching aerial fabric and rope sequences, and is beyond thrilled to share that knowledge with her students at Future Stars of Houston!“

Edward began training in gymnastics in his home country of Venezuela at the age of 16. He attended El Parque Miranda Gymnastics School and also began dance training with the prestigious Musa School of Dance. In 2015, his love for movement eventually brought him to the circus, where he began studying circus arts at the Zirkus Zone Circus School. Upon moving to Houston in 2016, he began attending classes and performing with Cirque La Vie. Edward has performed at Memorial City Mall, Champion Forest Baptist Church, Texas Renaissance Festival and many more.

Nicole is a Houston based aerialist and circus performer with 8 years of training and experience in aerial arts such as silks, aerial chains, aerial cube, aerial net, and her favorite aerial hoop aka Lyra. She began her journey in Houston studios such as Vault working her way up to becoming an aerial instructor there as well. She then taught at Revolve Pole studio and The Artz as well as workshops for Long Island Flow Fest and Austin's Flowstorm.

Nicole regularly performs for her company Knockout Entertainment as well as her Circus production, Cirque Olympus, at The Texas Renaissance Festival. A multi faceted performer Nicole is also a skilled juggler, stilt walker, and fire performer.

Kayla Mason is a Houston native who received her bachelor degree in Performance and Production from the University of Texas (San Marcos). During her high school and early college years, she found a deep love for movement art and participated in dance recitals at Westfield High School. Her love for circus arts was sparked by her first Aerial jungle themed production of Jungle book at Lone Star Community College.

Since then, Kayla has spent the past 4 years of her life training Aerial Silks, Lyra and Contortion at Axis Aerial Pole. She has taught at Cirque La Vie, and has been perfecting her skills with Cai Circus. Kayla is looking forward to creating a fun collaborative space with Cai Circus and Future Stars of Houston.

Diana is a native Russian who moved to the USA in 2009 and has been living in Houston since 2015. She holds MS degree in Applied Math and is currently teaching Upper Elementary aged kids in one of the Houston’s public school.

Diana started her journey in Circus Arts more than 5 years ago by first taking Introductory level Contortion classes, than moving to Advanced level classes in various Aerial disciplines such as Trapeze, Silks, Lyra, and finally performing on stage. In order to enhance her experience in Aerials, she took private classes from Cirque Du Soleil artist/instructor.

Diana is a mother of two daughters age 6 and 9. She enjoys travelling and learning new languages.