Jasmine Leong
When self-proclaimed treadmill hater, Jasmine Leong, started hula hooping it was purely a way to get fit. “My partner and I don’t do a lot of activities,” she
told Canberra City News, adding, “I asked him to do a dance class with me. He suggested a circus class.” So they joined
Warehouse Circus and while he gave up after a term, Jasmine had discovered the hoop. “Hula hooping always came naturally to me,” she says. “But I could never find anywhere to learn.” Two years later she found herself in Hooping.org’s Hooping Idol. “For Hooping Idol I had to write a script, choose locations and costumes,” she explained. She also rallied together some friends to help her shoot, who she says found it “very entertaining”. Jasmine is no stranger to performing; a cellist, she has also performed as part of amateur theatre. However, currently, hula hooping is appealing to her inner performer. “It’s a fun thing to do in my spare time,” she says. “I want to keep doing it.” Her first live public hooping performance is coming in July as part of a short cabaret piece for a fundraiser in Sydney. She lives in Canberra, Australia.
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