ABOUT

Anna-Maija Nyman is a Finnish circus and pole dance artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. She is known as a dedicated performer and creator who works hard and lives and breathes for pole and aerial. Her disciplines are pole dance, aerial pole, chinese pole and aerial straps.

Anna-Maija came into pole dance by a happy accident in 2012. With a background of competitive cheerleading she fell immediately in love with the challenging combination of strength, flexibility, acrobatics and grace.

In 2013 Anna-Maija won her first competition and few months later she became the Swedish National Champion. This is when her ordinary life as a law student changed for good and she got carried away with traveling as a freelancer pole instructor and performer. Besides her part time job in finance Anna-Maija has taught or performed in closer to 20 countries and still counting.

The pole journey of Anna-Maija started as fitness-based training but through the years her style has grown into more artistic direction. For Anna-Maija pole is all about expression, creativity and freedom to explore different styles of movement.

After years of competing within pole dance, Anna-Maija discovered the world of circus that opened her eyes for new disciplines. She is currently focusing on her carreer as a professional performer.