ABOUT THE CIRCUS

Cai Circus is a premier circus company and training facility located in the heart of Houston, Texas, offering a unique blend of performance artistry and cutting-edge training. Known for its exceptional aerial acts, acrobatics, and daring performances.

Cai Circus is also a proud partner with Future Stars of Houston, an organization dedicated to nurturing, developing and empowering young talent in the Houston area. Together, we are working to create a pipeline for aspiring young artists, providing them with the skills, resources, and mentorship they need to thrive both in the circus world and beyond.

A State-of-the-Art Training Facility

At the core of Cai Circus is our training facility, located inside of Future Stars of Houston, a spacious and dynamic space designed to foster growth, skill development, and artistic expression. The facility boasts an impressive 28-foot ceiling, allowing for the full range of aerial disciplines—from silks and trapeze to hoops and aerial lyra—to be performed and perfected. With such a high ceiling, the training area accommodates acrobats and aerialists of all levels, from beginners to seasoned professionals, giving them the room they need to push boundaries and explore new heights.

The facility is designed to be a safe yet challenging space where students can practice aerial and acrobatic techniques, tumbling, juggling, clowning, and much more.

Whether you’re an aspiring aerialist, a child with a passion for circus arts, or a professional performer seeking to hone your skills, Cai Circus provides a supportive, encouraging environment. Our experienced trainers—many of whom are former or current circus performers—offer personalized instruction to help students achieve their full potential.
Want to know how to take a class or get involved? Contact us at caicircus@gmail.com

the FOUNDER

Caiya Velasco-Teters is a 26 y/o, seasoned choreographer, performer and producer. She holds over 100+ performances under her belt as a dancer & circus artist and has created and produced 6 full length productions featuring dance and traditional and contemporary circus arts disciplines. Caiya’s training dates back to age 3 when she began training Classical Ballet. She then went on to train in many other dance disciplines along with circus arts. With an emphasis on dance her whole life, she decided she wanted to pursue circus at the age of 16 hoping to create original productions that incorporated both dance and circus arts. After gaining knowledge and training in circus, it was time for her to set her dream of creating productions in motion; so she started Cai Circus. She did this not only help build the circus community in Houston, but to also bring both the Dance Industry and Circus Industry together, being an example of mixing performing arts disciplines to create something new and creative here in Houston.

During her early teen years she was involved in musical theatre and has performed for companies such as, TUTS (Theater Under The Stars), Applause Theater, CCT, The Players Theater company and many more. Coming from a dance background she has also performed with ReFine Arts and Haven Arts Theatre. Caiya’s circus training began with Contortion which led into Aerial. She took her Circus training very seriously which then brought her to Boston MA, New York City NY, and Brattleboro Vermont. She has trained under coaches such as Bayarma Parry, Danielle Artis, Emily McFarlane and many more. Caiya has performed Circus Arts for various different festivals and events, just a few being: The Texas Renaissance Festival After Dark, Dickens on The Strand Galveston, Lights All Night (Dallas), Tall Ships Galveston, A-Kon Dallas, George R. Brown Convention Center, Discovery Green and Houston Fringe Festival Mind the Gap Houston.

Cai Circus is a circus school partnered with Future Stars of Houston. Offering contemporary and traditional circus techniques for Aerial Arts and Ground Acrobatics. Along with professional performers providing spectacular performances for festivals, events & venues of all kinds!

She has been coaching dance since age 15 and circus arts since age 18. She continues to hone her teaching techniques to this day.

the Cai Circus team

Kayla Mason is a Houston native who received her bachelor degree in Performance and Production from the University of Texas (San Marcos). During her high school and early college years, she found a deep love for movement art and participated in dance recitals at Westfield High School. Her love for circus arts was sparked by her first Aerial jungle themed production of Jungle book at Lone Star Community College.

Since then, Kayla has spent the past 4 years of her life training Aerial Silks, Lyra and Contortion at Axis Aerial Pole. She has taught at Cirque La Vie, and has been perfecting her skills with Cai Circus. Kayla is looking forward to creating a fun collaborative space with Cai Circus and Future Stars of Houston.

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Angela’s love of all things Circus began with a random college job working as a birthday clown, juggler and singing telegramist for children’s and adult parties. Adulting and life put the kibosh on her dreams of joining the circus until eight years ago with her first aerial fabric lesson. From that point on Angela has had the opportunity to learn from many amazing aerial artists all over the United States and internationally.

She has focused on skills-based techniques for breaking down and teaching aerial fabric and rope sequences, and is beyond thrilled to share that knowledge with her students at Future Stars of Houston!“

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Kailie (@poisonivycirque) is a dynamic and captivating circus artist with over four years of experience in the aerial and contortion worlds. Known for her exceptional flexibility, strength, and stage presence, Kailie specializes in contortion—her primary discipline—and continues to refine her craft under the guidance of renowned contortionists including Caiya Velasco, Jordan Remar, and MP Letourneau.

Beyond contortion, Kailie is a powerhouse aerialist with extensive training in lyra, trapeze, silks, and a variety of specialty apparatuses. Her versatility and deep body awareness allow her to transition effortlessly between ground and air, weaving grace and power into every movement.

A seasoned performer & instructor, Kailie brings boldness, elegance, and emotional depth to her work. Her performances blend technical precision with an expressive edge, drawing audiences into her world with every pose and transition. As an ever-evolving artist, Kailie continues to train, explore, and push her boundaries—driven by a deep passion to grow and inspire through her movement.

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Nicole is a Houston based aerialist and circus performer with 8 years of training and experience in aerial arts such as silks, aerial chains, aerial cube, aerial net, and her favorite aerial hoop aka Lyra. She began her journey in Houston studios such as Vault working her way up to becoming an aerial instructor there as well. She then taught at Revolve Pole studio and The Artz as well as workshops for Long Island Flow Fest and Austin's Flowstorm.

Nicole regularly performs for her company Knockout Entertainment as well as her Circus production, Cirque Olympus, at The Texas Renaissance Festival. A multi faceted performer Nicole is also a skilled juggler, stilt walker, and fire performer.

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Carol is an experienced aerialist who started her aerial journey doing hammock. Since then, she has trained extensively on several apparatuses at Texas Circus and Aerial and teaches there as well. Her main apparatus is hammock, but she also cross-trains on several apparatuses including silks, trapeze, lyra, rope, and straps. She enjoys traveling and training with aerialists from all around the world.

Their Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/aerialist.carol/

Mars is a multidisciplinary aerial artist with over seven years of on-and-off experience navigating the air through flying trapeze, lyra, silks, and contortion. Rooted in expressive movement and storytelling, Mars has found their true aerial home in silks—a discipline they’ve passionately trained at an intermediate to advanced level for the past five years.

Their journey in the circus arts began in the mountains of Lake Tahoe at Tahoe Flow Arts Studio, where the foundations of dance and flight first took shape. From there, Mars soared coast to coast, training in New York City at esteemed institutions like Aerial Arts NYC, Body & Pole, Circus Warehouse, Broadway Dance Center, and the Trapeze School in both NYC and Santa Monica. In 2020, they brought their aerial path to Austin, refining their craft with instructors at The Artz, HGA, Hunter, SkyCandy, BodyLab, and Cai Circus. They also completed a summer intensive at NECCA in August 2022.

Mars brings intention, curiosity, and resilience to their practice, forever chasing new ways to blend strength, grace, and narrative in the vertical realm.

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