Buket Rin is a performance artist and hula hoop instructor based in Stockholm, Sweden — a deeply curious, multi-disciplinary flow artist who refuses to be defined by a single skill. Born and raised in Turkey, she moved to Sweden at 28 after earning a PhD scholarship, and what followed was a complete transformation of her artistic life.

Today she performs and tours Europe with an extraordinary range of acts: hula hoop, Sufi whirling, poi, fire skirt, fire eating, hat juggling, acrobatics, and belly dance. Her style is stylistic, personal, and constantly evolving — a blend of Eastern and Nordic sensibilities that is entirely her own.

Buket spent her first 28 years in Turkey, where she discovered hooping and built early roots in her local spinner community. She was spinning poi, practising Sufi whirling, and performing for tourists — but life’s intensity and her academic studies kept the practice light. Then she stopped completely for two full years.

The turning point came through an unexpected door: a PhD offer in Sweden. Buket applied knowing almost nothing about Nordic life, got accepted, and moved directly — to a country she had never visited.

“I made the best decision I could do for me. Since then, everything has just gotten better and better.”

She arrived at the end of 2014 with two hoops in her bags, neither of which she touched for months. But the quiet of her new Swedish surroundings would soon change everything.

In May 2015 — while planning a visit home to Turkey — Buket noticed a hoop intensive being held at her friends’ venue, TADAH. The timing was perfect. The teachers were Emma Kenna, Lisa Lottie, and Satya Bella: three of the most respected names in the international hoop world.

It was full-power hooping for days. Buket met flow artists from across the globe, saw possibilities she had never imagined, and left more captivated by the hoop than she had ever been.

“I saw so many possibilities and I was more struck to hooping than ever. I went back to Sweden and suddenly leveled up so much — I just could not stop learning and creating.”

Back in Stockholm, with time and calm space around her, she began practising daily in her living room. Her hoop collection grew. Her technique evolved rapidly. A new chapter had begun.

Hula hooping alone was never going to be enough for Buket. She approaches the flow arts the way a true artist approaches a medium: by continually expanding what’s possible. Her practice weaves together disciplines from across the world — each one enriching the others.

She performs LED light shows, fire shows, Sufi dance acts, circus and cabaret acts — and brings all of it to stages across Europe with a quietly magnetic stage presence that is distinctly her own.

In a remarkably short time after her artistic rebirth, Buket began performing at top fire festivals across Europe — events that attract the most skilled flow and fire artists on the continent. She tours whenever she can, sharing her passion for flow and fire with audiences and artists from vastly different cultures.

Based in Stockholm, she teaches locally and travels internationally to meet new hoopers and flow artists, teaching the material she continually builds and refines. Her biggest goal is to become a full-time performer and teacher — and eventually to open a studio, a space where she can build a movement family from the ground up.

“Difficult and stressful situations — such as shows — can also be so much fun. It is not worth being nervous for the small things.”

For Buket, the lessons of the hoop extend far beyond movement. Her practice has shown her what her body is truly capable of, opened her eyes to the good people found everywhere in the world, and taught her that intention and focus can unlock almost anything.

“I can express myself in so many ways other than talking. I can be so many different characters. Good and fun people are everywhere.”

The hoop has also transformed her relationship with performance itself — teaching her that high-stakes moments can be joyful, that nerves are smaller than they feel, and that the circle always leads back to something true.

• Born & raised in Turkey, based in Stockholm
• Performance artist & hula hoop instructor
• Hoop, poi, Sufi whirling, acrobatics
• Fire skirt, fire eating & fire festivals
• Hat juggling & belly dance
• LED & fire show specialist
• Trained at 2015 TADAH intensive (Emma Kenna, Lisa Lottie, Satya Bella)
• Performer at top European fire festivals
• Teacher & touring workshop facilitator
• Future goal: full-time performer & studio founder