Heidi Hilton

Heidi is a former professional dancer with The National Tour of "The Music Man", with Busch Gardens Williamsburg in "Rockin' the Boat", "American Jukebox", "Freedom Song", "Carnivale Francais", and "Fiends in the Festhaus", and on board the ms veendam with Holland America Cruiselines and Stiletto Entertainment. She trained in NYC at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway, in Chicago at Hubbard Street Dance, at many National dance conventions and at her local studio where she is now the Director, Bates Dance Studios.

She began aerials when her hubby, Damian, set up training for her in 2010. Heidi and Damian performed professionally in Art Aid 17 (a not-for-profit that has raised nearly $2 million) with a duo aerial act at Century II in Wichita, KS. She fell in the love with the art and has been training, performing and coaching aerial arts since. She and her husband own their own aerial arts company, Little Apple Aerials in Manhattan, KS. They coach and train from age 6 to adult in silks, hammock, lyra, trapeze, rope, straps, aerial ladder, etc.