Jessica “Super Jes” L Schultz has been an athlete all her life and has over 2 decades of teaching experience. Jes holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in Dance, a master of science degree in Sport Pedagogy, two CO. K-12 teaching licenses and a yoga teaching certificate. Dance performance was her first love and acroyoga and aerial dance were logical means of taking movement puzzling to the next level!

“Lindy Spindy”, Duchess of Circus Center Fort Collins, is an accomplished flow artist and circus enthusiast. Hula hoops are her specialty whether it be with multiple hoops, LED or fire! She also spins poi, fans, and juggles. Lindy teaches hula hooping and performs with circus troupes in northern Colorado.

Angel Shuey is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200) and a Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT) with Yoga Alliance. Her yoga journey started over 20 years ago after being a competitive gymnast and dancer. She has always loved movement and exercise along with mediation and relaxation. She has been teaching kids movement and gymnastics since the year 2000.

Julie Young has been training in the aerial arts since 2014, with a focus on aerial silks, but also enjoys trapeze, lyra, and aerial cube. She has been teaching aerial silks and dance/acting improv since 2019 starting in Indiana, then on the Big Island of Hawaii, and most recently relocated to Colorado to work with Fort Collins Circus Center. In addition to aerial apparatuses, Julie loves to perform and flow with LED and fire poi, flower sticks, acro yoga, and palm torches.

Outside of the circus and flow arts, Julie offers face painting and balloon twisting at fairs and birthday parties, creates original paintings on wood and canvas, and makes murals and custom artwork for clients across the country.

Krista is a life long dancer. With a background in ballet, jazz, belly dance, and childhood gymnastics, she discovered aerial arts in adulthood. Aerial silks are her favorite, but she also enjoys lyra, rope, loops, and creating aerial duet choreography. Krista first discovered the world of circus when she picked up a hula hoop in 2011 and never looked back. On the ground, she also plays with other fire and flow props such as fire fans, rope dart, and double staves. She began performing publicly in 2015 and has continued on to perform on international stages. When not coaching or performing, you can find Krista spending time with and training her dogs.

Coming from an extensive dance background, Kelly took her first silks class in 2016 and has been hooked since. What started with silks quickly grew into a deep love for all things aerial, including corde lisse (rope), sling, and most recently, multicorde. For Kelly, circus is more than movement—it's a creative outlet, a confidence-builder, and a way to celebrate strength in every form. She completed the Super Aerialist Teacher Training in January 2025 and is now thrilled to be coaching and inspiring others to explore the magic of aerial arts. When she’s not upside down in the studio, Kelly works as a veterinarian and spends her free time hiking with her dog and soaking up the outdoors.

Amelie has been an aerialist since late 2020, starting on silks and hammock, later adding lyra, and teaching herself in her garage. With a background in cheer, color guard, and being a self taught dancer she started choreographing for her friends and herself for fun. Then in 2023 she started performing across Northern Colorado with her friend. Around this time is also when she first started at FC3 helping with summer camp and performing at open mic nights. In 2024 she moved to Wyoming and drove down every week to be a part of Evolution Circus. During which she was also teaching her circus passions to the kids she worked with at the boys and girls club. Now Amelie is back in Colorado to chase her circus dreams and also to earn a degree in early childhood education.

Ariel is passionate about aerial sling and lyra and loves sharing her passion with others. Her approach to teaching aerial arts is to create lessons that develop necessary muscle groups while creating a solid foundation of aerial skills to expand on. She has a dance background and uses that experience to incorporate balance and flexibility into her classes. She is a certified aerial arts instructor by XPERT fitness.

Shae Nance is a Colorado-based dancer, circus artist, and movement educator with a lifelong dedication to dance and embodied movement. Trained in ballet, jazz, modern, contemporary, pointe, and circus arts, she studied dance at the University of Colorado Boulder and now teaches and performs throughout the Front Range.

Shae loves exploring the connection between the ground and the air in her aerial dance practice. She draws especially from modern dance technique, with a particular interest in Bartenieff Fundamentals, using these principles to explore fluidity, spatial awareness, and full-body connection on aerial apparatus.

Shae believes that both dance and circus can be powerful healing art forms, creating opportunities for self-expression, connection, play, and deeper awareness of the body.

Lauren has been at FC3 since August 2021. She started with silks and added lyra a year in. In 2023 Lauren became part of our professional teen performance troupe, Evolution, and was a member until she turned 18. She volunteered at FC3 summer camps for three years before becoming a staff member. Lauren enjoys art and reading in addition to circus and is attending UNC.