Valerie Ann Sealey (aka Valerie Solstix) is a highly skilled circus performer focusing on object manipulation, such as staff manipulation, fire spinning, and contact juggling. The first women to ever juggle three burning staffs in 2006, she is at the forefront of contemporary staff technique combining skills from classical contact juggling, baton twirling and feicha.
Until 2019, Valerie Sealey and Josh Dyffort worked as duo Solstix after studying together at the “Beijing International Art School” in China. There she studied traditional Chinese feicha (traditional chinese contact staff), antipodism (foot juggling), shooting star (also known as meteor) and contortion.
She is based in Berlin, Germany, and performs internationally.