Vania Noble began her pole journey in 2010, bringing with her a strong foundation in dance, having trained in ballet, jazz, and contemporary dance from the age of 12.
She has been teaching pole since 2013 and opened her own studio in 2014, where she continues to teach and share her passion for movement. Over the years, Vania has taught at pole camps and workshops around the world, as well as training in aerial disciplines, hoop and hammock and completing XPERT Teacher Training back in 2016.
A passionate performer and competitor, Vania has competed internationally and earned numerous titles in the UK. She has also had the privilege of judging several pole competitions, giving her a broad perspective on both performance and technical development within the sport.
Vania particularly loves lyrical and exotic pole, where she enjoys combining musicality, emotion, artistry, and movement. As an instructor, she places safety at the heart of her class planning, creating an environment where students can challenge themselves while developing strong and sustainable technique.
Vania joined the XPERT team in 2025 and is excited to continue supporting the pole community through education, movement, and her love for the art of pole.
Tasha is a seasoned professional pole performer and competitor with an impressive 13 years of pole experience, nine years of teaching, and ten years of competing. Her most recent title EPC 2025 Elite Artistry. She is a fully qualified instructor in pole, aerial, fitness, and yoga. With over five years in the fitness industry, she has refined her expertise through roles at local leisure centres, boutique fitness gyms, and major corporate brands such as Fitness First and DW, where she worked as a personal trainer and fitness consultant.
At the end of 2024, she transitioned from her corporate desk job to full-time teaching and coaching in pole, aerial, and yoga. Currently, she teaches at multiple studios across Kent and South East London. Additionally, to this she is also an Xpert trainer delivering Pole, Aerial and Flexibility courses on behalf of the Xpert brand.
Driven by her passion for creativity. Tasha specializes in crafting quirky and dynamic combinations, exploring innovative movement patterns, and mastering challenging transitions and tricks. Her skillset shines in contemporary flow choreography around the base of the pole, as well as in showcasing elegant flexible shapes at the top.
Jazz M. is a pole educator, performer, and studio owner with 12 years of experience in the pole industry. For the past decade, she has taught in studios throughout New Jersey and participated in pole retreats and events around the world. She is the owner of Aerial Paradise Studio (DBA Dakini Movement Studio) in Princeton, New Jersey, where she is passionate about creating a space for students to explore their strength, sensuality, confidence, and individuality.
As an XPERT trainer, Jazz teaches Levels 1 & 2, Levels 3 & 4, Spin Pole, and Essential Science of Heels (ESOH). Her specialties range from beginner through advanced movement and include tricks, static and spin pole, conditioning, flexibility, heels, low flow, and sensual movement. She has also competed with Pole Sport Organization (PSO) and Dance Filthy.
Jazz holds a Master’s degree in Business Management and Human Resources and has completed extensive continuing education and training throughout her career. A lifelong student herself, she is committed to continually expanding her knowledge and evolving as an educator.
Jazz believes that pole should feel just as good as it looks. Her teaching encourages students to trust their bodies, explore their individuality, and find movement that makes them feel strong, confident, and authentically themselves.
Naomi has been a pole and aerial enthusiast for 14 years and has been teaching and performing for 13 years. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field and loves sharing it with others.
She is the owner of AYC Studios in Birmingham, UK, and is passionate about creating a safe, positive, and uplifting learning environment for students of all body types, sizes, ages, and backgrounds.
As a teacher and trainer, Naomi is constantly refining her methods, obsessed with strong, bendy shapes and impeccable technique. She is dedicated to helping her students unlock their physical potential and develop their unique strengths and flexibility.
Naomi is also an accomplished competitive performer. She competed and won Pole Theatre Drama and Overall 2025, became IPAAT Overall Champion 2025, and BPIC Elite Winner 2025. Her performance career spans internationally, showcasing her artistry, strength, and creativity on stages around the world.
My name is Pia and I started Poledance more than 10 years ago when I lived in Birmingham and was looking for a hobby. What shall I say, I did fell in love with it and ended up with doing Pole, Aerial Hoop, Aerial Silk … Not just because of how diverse it is, also because of the warm welcome and support I got everywhere I went. By now I am teaching myself and running a Studio @AerialLoft in Germany (Stuttgart area).
Charlett has been pole dancing since 2011 and began teaching just a year later. A few years after that, she took on her own studios, Pole-Da-Cise. Known for her creative shapes and dynamic, flippy combos, Charlett’s true passion lies in teaching. In 2022, she joined the Xpert team as a face-to-face trainer and online assessor. She continues to teach at her own studios and travels across the country, leading workshops hosted by other studios.
Betty’s pole and aerial journey began as a spicy side quest to support her musical theatre background, and quickly became her main passion. She has been teaching since 2012 in studios across Canada. She currently works full time at inesS Circus in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Betty has been an active member of the competition scene for over a decade, as a competitor, coach, and judge. She loves performing, and has won several national titles. She is best known for her dynamic skills and twisty transitions.
Her training includes many disciplines such as aerial hoop, pole, aerial hammock, silks, dance trapeze, sway pole, fire dancing, and ballet. Betty believes in continuous education and exploration, and loves deep diving into the anatomical and technical aspects of pole and aerials. Her background in the physiotherapy industry as both a Clinic Manager and Stretch Therapist, as well as years working as a Personal Trainer, have shaped her approach to fitness, pole, and aerials.
Outside of aerials, Betty is passionate about reading, coffee, and cats.
FouFou is a german pole dancer with vietnamese roots. She loves pole, food and was hooked on stripper heels since the very first time she wore them.
She started pole in 2015 with no dancing or sports background and had to work hard for her achievements. But this has turned into her teaching advantage since she knows where the difficulties lay and can help her students understand the technique better.
The ability to turn a disadvantage into an advantage is what she aims to show her students because she truly believes that everybody can pole dance no matter what size, gender or ethnic background.
Last year she won her category during Exotic Generation Switzerland and was a finalist at Pole Theatre UK.
Next to pole she has a muggle job as a Brand- and Product Manager and is excited to become a dog mom soon.
Jess is XPert’s Mental Health Master Trainer, and is super proud to be leading the way in positively changing mental health culture in the pole and aerial fitness industry. She is a lecturer in Health and Social Care specialising in mental health and psychology and has pulled together her own, and the research of the world’s leading academics, to create the worlds first bespoke mental health training for Pole and Aerial Fitness.
She has cumulatively gained 18 years of frontline experience in NHS, Education, and Child Protection working as a therapist, and supervisor in trauma, listening, and behavioural services and she has supervised many Undergraduate and Post Graduate Dissertations in Eating Disorders, Neuro sequential therapeutics, and challenging behaviour. Her PhD research focusses on the psychotherapeutic benefits of Pole and Aerial, having seen the difference that upside down life has made to her own daughter.
A certified Yoga, and Dance Fitness instructor, Jess comes from a strong performance arts and dance background, adores the creative process, and the holistic outcomes that come from connecting the mind, body and creative spirit.
Alicia has been instructing and performing in the industry since 2013 and specialises in pole, hoop and silks. She has also trained in acro, hand balance and contortion.
Alicia is a performance coach and choreographer and has contributed to her students winning national titles in pole, hoop, silks and sexy style dance. She is an experienced judge and has judged numerous competitions across the UK.
Vakiesha Wimberly is a professional pole athlete with over a decade of experience coaching, competing, and performing.
In 2007 her athletic career began in Atlanta, GA where became a certified personal trainer and taught a variety of fitness classes to include cardio kickboxing, strength and conditioning, boot camp, Pilates fusion, and more.
While working as a fitness professional she was introduced to competitive pole dance fitness. She competed and placed in several national Pole Fitness competitions and had been invited as a guest judge to several others. In addition to her competitive achievements; she traveled teaching pole workshops and instructor training for a variety of studios in the United States.
Vakiesha is a United States Pole Dance Federation (USPDF) Professional Pole Athlete (2018), aerial enthusiast, and holds several pole instructor & fitness certifications.
She currently teaches Specialty Pole Classes & Workshops in Colorado that combine the worlds of Aerial & Pole to give students a new and exciting experience!!
As a teenager, Jazzy danced in a hip hop crew and attended the Swiss Championship twice, dancing was always Jazzys passion and gave her the opportunity to express herself through music and movement.
In 2009, she saw the German Pole Dance Championships and decided, to start with this sensual and artistic dance. The strength, elegance and femininity kept Jazzy on the pole ever since. Jazzy did her first trainer education in 2010 and started to teach beginners. Through teaching Pole Dancing Jazzy found her love for strength training and to help people getting healthy through nutrition and fitness. After making receiving her diplomas she now works as a personal- and lifestyle coach at D&R Performance in Lucerne, Switzerland next to teaching Pole Dancing at Gravity Arts and Pole Dance Luzern.
Working for XPERT enables her to combine her love for pole and health through making better instructors that teach pole safe and efficiently. Jazzy also enjoys performing and is a regular competitor, judge and guest performer at many events.
Clare has been dancing for 19 years, has studied dance, exercise to music and has been teaching Pole Fitness for 8 years. With a degree in Business Management, in 2009 she decided to merge her love for dance with her business skills and began building her own dance school. Clare now runs her Aerial Fitness Studio where she teaches Pole Fitness, Aerial Hoop, Aerial Silks and Anti Gravity Yoga.
Clare loves to dance and gets the great satisfaction from teaching people and watching them perform! Her aim is to ensure everyone can learn and progress in a safe and comfortable environment. Claire has recently entered her first competitions and won Exotic Generation UK New Face in 2019.
Lea is from Germany and discovered her passion for dancing when she was a child. She started with ballet and rhythmic gymnastics and continued with different styles such as Jazz- and Modern Dance, HipHop and Cheer. After high school Lea passed an integrated degree program as a Fitness Coach and completed a dance education in different styles as well. After working in the Fitness Scene for a couple of years, Lea decided to compete in Bodybuilding competitions in 2014.
In 2011 Lea started to teach herself how to pole-dance. Since 2013 she has been teaching pole-dance in a Pole-dance school in Mannheim. Her first pole-dance competition was in 2015 and by 2019 she had won multiple of competitions. In 2019 Lea was invited to perform at the German TV Show „Das Supertalent“ to represent Pole Dance as a sport and art style on TV. Since 2019 Lea has been part of the XPERT Team, Lea loves to teach pole and also loves to perform because Pole-Dance is her first passion in life. Pole-dance is a perfect mix of strength, flexibility, dancing and elegance – that´s why she loves it so much.
Anna is an experienced pole dance instructor with a master’s degree in Physical Education and Geography Science. She has taught physical education in schools for few years. It helped her refine her teaching methods and adopt to different skills and learning styles.
As the owner of pole dance studio Footloose in the Czech Republic, she has been teaching pole dance for many years. Before opening her studio, she spent three years in Amsterdam as a freelance instructor, gaining valuable experience by working with a wide range of students.
She specializes in creating unique choreographies and preparing dancers for performances and competitions. Passionate about both spinning and static pole, she loves exploring movement, whether in high heels or barefoot, always focusing on flow, technique, and expression.
With a mix of academic knowledge and hands-on experience, Anna’s approach to teaching is both technical and creative. She loves guiding students through their dance journey, making sure they not only improve but also feel confident and inspired.
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