Jo, they, also known as Joanna Animal, is a professional circus artist and instructor.

A former professional cyclist, they spent most of their 20s as an endurance athlete racing in the US and Europe before an injury in 2016 caused them to shift their focus to performing arts.

They specialize in Aerial Hoop (aka Lyra), Aerial Silks, Aerial Rope, pole, chair acrobatics and burlesque, and have been described as “one of the Bay Area’s top burlesque performers”.