Athina Vahla is a UK based interdisciplinary performance maker, researcher and teacher specializing in choreography and with thirty years international experience in her field. Through her work she is looking for connections, while also exploring notions of conflict across sports, society, arts and philosophy. She perceives loops, hoops, DNA helix, orbits, etc, as symbolic manifestations of energy and time; continuous forces propelling us to keep going and holding together. 

Maipelo Gabang is an artistic researcher, performer, and educator. Her educational background includes a BA in Drama and Organisational Psychology and an MA in Choreography and Movement Research from Rhodes University (South Africa). Maipelo is currently on her Doctoral studies at the Stockholm University of the Arts, splitting her research time between Botswana/South Africa and Sweden. Her research focuses on Black women in the African diaspora situated in Scandinavia. Her work asks questions, through site-responsive, social choreography, about their experiences of social and political orientation, the conditions and structures and how generative shifts can be made by sequencing and re-organising the latter.
Mapz has been hula-hooping since the age of four.

Tamarisk Glogauer is a writer and creative based in the Garden Route, South Africa. She holds a master’s degree in writing for performance from Rhodes University and is a research associate at the University of Johannesburg. Tamarisk encountered the hula hoop through a performance with Athina Vahla and the First Physical Theatre Company in 2018 and has not stopped hooping since.