Circus Artist  

Leila Noone is a multidisciplinary circus artist, creator, and director who performs on many different apparatuses. She is a Guinness World Record Holder, a four time competitor on NBC’s American Ninja Warrior, a nationally ranked gymnast, a competitive ballroom dancer, Yoga Asana champion, and has spent many years in musical theater.  As a hair suspension artist she has toured the world on cruise ships performing her acts in South America, Europe and the Caribbean and at Lost Spirits Distillery in Las Vegas, NV. She is a member of the contemporary circus company, Cirque Vida, based in Austin, TX. She has created and toured with two variety shows; The Accidental Acrobats and Unspun Tails Aerial Show. She also frequently collaborates with the Seattle based contemporary circus company Acrobatic Conundrum, the San Francisco based company Vau De Vire Society, and the sideshow company Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow on circus projects. Most recently she toured the nation as a hair hanger, cyr wheel artist, and dance trapeze artist in A Magical Cirque Christmas National Tour for the second year in a row. She has been invited to perform her acts on America’s Got Talent and Arab’s Got Talent.

Leila received her Undergraduate and Master's degrees from Fordham University and New York University where she studied Communications, Performance Art Social Justice.  Leila is interested in movement and how it can be a vessel for change and self-exploration.