Noel Yee- Juggler, Performer, Student and Teacher.

Noel Yee, a member of fire performance troupe Vulcan Crew, has been involved in object manipulation for the past five years, focusing on poi, staff, contact staff, double staff, contact juggling and most recently hoop and meteor. He values his experience training and collaborating with many talented individuals and groups including MCP from Scotland, Wildfire, Temple of Poi and juggler Michael Glenn from Sphereplay. For the past three years, at the renowned Burning Man event, Noel has performed in the Great Circle with the Fire Conclave.

Noel is a founding member of the Spinagogue that hosts workshops around the bay and the whole country. Additionally he has taught staff/poi classes in the SF Bay Area, SF South Bay, New York City, Philadelphia, Austin, Phoenix, Boston and Los Angeles. In the summers of 2006 2007 and 2008, Noel worked at Camp Winnarainbow teaching children of all ages’ circus skills and performance techniques.

As an instructor devoted to passing along his talents, Noel created and organized the schedule for FireDrums workshops. As well, he volunteered his time to instruct contact staff class for FireDrums in the fall of 2006, spring of 2007 and 2008. Currently Noel was a full time high school teacher in downtown SF for four years. Now he has taken time off to pursue his love of juggling. Noel has a talent for concise instruction and loves to keeps his students engaged. Keep your eyes out for both his poi and double staff instructional DVD to be released in the spring of 2009.