Miss
Hoopdidoo

Amanda Lee — known across the global hoop community as Miss Hoopdidoo — is a Southern California-based flow artist, international hoop dance instructor, seasoned performer, and co-founder of Wildfire Arts Entertainment: a full-scale production company specialising in fire dance, aerial acts, and LED choreography for events worldwide. Her journey from competitive dancer to internationally recognised hoop artist is one of the most compelling origin stories in the community — built on heartbreak, a Walmart hoop, and tears of joy at a desert festival.

With a background spanning competitive dance, yoga instruction, ice skating, and now circus performance, Amanda brings a rare depth of movement intelligence to everything she teaches and creates. Her style is contemporary dance-first: shape-focused, escalator-driven, and built around making the hoop feel like a natural extension of the body.

Before hooping, Amanda was a competitive dancer — a Chapman University Dance Major with a nationally recognised high school dance career and dreams of going professional. Then came years of chronic hip pain, two surgeries, and the slow, devastating realisation that her body could no longer move without discomfort.

“I was incredibly depressed because my body was no longer capable of moving without discomfort, even after the surgeries. I had no way of expressing myself and I felt so hopeless... like life suddenly had no meaning. And then hula hoops happened.”

She bought a hoop at a Walmart, innocently, to play with at a festival — not knowing what was coming. She waist hooped for hours. She cried tears of joy. For the first time since the pain had taken hold, she felt completely at home inside her body.

“I felt beautiful. I felt empowered. I felt like myself again.”

That same evening she watched an LED hooper dancing and witnessed what the hoop could truly become. She describes it as the first time she ever saw the magic. From that moment the hoop became her practice, her performance, her teaching, her business, and her life. She never intended to become a hooper. She became one of the best.

Amanda is co-founder of Wildfire Arts Entertainment — a full-scale Los Angeles-based production company that brings circus-style performance to events of every scale. More than a performance booking agency, Wildfire handles the entire production: performers, lighting, staging, sound, costuming, choreography, and creative direction. Based in LA, they perform worldwide — from luxury resorts in the Maldives and Costa Rica to Silicon Valley corporate events, Hollywood galas, and intimate private parties.

Clients & Events

SpaceX • Romantasy BookCon at the Biltmore, Los Angeles • Corporate galas • Luxury resort shows (Maldives • Costa Rica) • Festivals • Weddings • Brand activations • Celebrity events

Amanda has taught hoop dance classes and workshops across the globe — at large international retreats, regional events, and her own self-organised community gatherings. Her aim in every room is consistent: create a safe space for people to be silly, vulnerable, and fully themselves inside the hoop.

“I want to create space for people to connect, collaborate and create with one another — whether that’s during a community flow jam, class or a hoop retreat.”

Taught In

• Israel
• The Netherlands
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• Australia
• Kenya
• Across the United States
• High Altitude Hoop Retreat
• Cheeselandia Hoop Affair
• International retreats (ongoing)

Her online course platform extends her reach further still: hoop tutorials, escalator courses, and her signature wedgie technique series give flow artists worldwide access to the same depth of instruction she delivers in person.

“My hoop has shown me that we are all connected and that each individual on this planet has something special and unique to share. My hoop has ultimately taught me to be unapologetically myself.”

• Southern California sunshine
• A Walmart hoop & a desert festival
• Tears of joy after years of pain
• The first LED hoop she ever saw
• Escalators & clean isolations
• Dance-first flow philosophy
• Fire under the night sky
• The student whose face lights up
• Flow jams & community
• Being unapologetically yourself