Going on her 12th year of practicing aerial arts, Denise Lloyd is grateful to have developed her aerial skills and she’s worked in many different jobs utilizing them. When she took her first aerial yoga class in her 20s, it bored her, but she decided to give aerial another try by taking a silks class and quickly “fell in love with it.” Soon, she was taking three to four classes a week.
Denise says that a career in aerial arts “just sort of fell in my lap.” Back in 2012 she had a general part time job at Universal Studios when an aerial job opened up for the parade. She took the job hoping it would become a full-time position, which it did, and her career took off from there. “I started auditioning for other jobs. I worked at Pirates Dinner Adventure, a dinner show off I-drive for two years, but my dream job was to work at Blue Horizons at Seaworld,” she says. Denise got the job at Seaworld her second time auditioning for it….
