Are you ready to take your hooping to the stage? Performing can be intimidating and nerve racking for even the most experienced hooper but with the right tools and preparation you can walk on stage comfortably and confidently for every performance. As we grow as hoopers and are presented with the opportunity to display and perform this beautiful art form to the general public we want to share with the audience just how incredible this movement really is. This workshop will introduce you to a number of different elements of performance. We'll talk about performing for kids, choreographing a set, becoming vocal on stage, audience participation, roving/go-go style shows vs. stage shows. Best of all I'll show you a basic outline of how to create a full HALF HOUR solo stage show that can be performed at festivals, staff parties and other corporate events. This class will be an investment for yourself and your career as a hoop dance performer!
In this hoop journey we will amplify our sensual awareness including sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste and extra-sensory perception. Individual and group exercises with props will cultivate presence and accelerate responsiveness. Tap into divine feminine qualities such as softening, opening, chaos, desire, trust, and reception with guided activities. You will leave with a big smile... and greater agility, precision and flow.
Isolation I
Come play and explore the art of off-body hoop manipulation! Learn from Matt and Brian of Circus Conspiracy how to integrate concepts of isolation, antispin, to create compelling illusions of floating and gliding. Impress your friends, confuse your cat, be the talk of any circus-jam--you'll get it all with this workshop! This class contains beginning and intermediate isolation concepts suitable for any size hoop and any style hooper.
Isolation I
A continuation of Isolation I, this workshop jumps right in with advanced one-hoop isolation moves and sequences. Then, we add a second hoop and learn some two hoop isolation concepts and patterns. This class contains intermediate and advanced isolations and is meant for hoopers with two small hoops interested in isolations and comfortable with the basics.
In this workshop we will explore ways of moving throughout the hoop, in the space in between our more dynamic movements. We will start building combinations and will learn to add style and stage presence in moves that would otherwise seem less exciting. We will combine tricks, transitions and attitude, bringing out the performer that exists within each of us. Express yourself with confidence, and watch that spill over onto your audience!
ROUE CYR
In this class we will be introducing participants to the basic techniques of the Roue Cyr, or Cyr Wheel. The wheel, essentially a 6-foot tall metal hoop, is a new circus prop that has exploded onto the circus scene in recent years. Portable, fun, and a great workout, the wheel allows for infinite possibilities in terms of dance, manipulation, and acrobatics. Sam Tribble and David Poznanter of "Spinnovation" will demonstrate and teach basic movements and manipulation as we explore this exciting new prop together.
MINI ROUE CYR ("FLOORING")
The Mini Roue Cyr is a 3-foot tall, extremely strong metal hoop designed for "flooring:" spinning within and upon the wheel, and a variety of sorts of manipulation. A completely new and innovative circus prop, the Mini Roue Cyr is currently only performed professionally by a few artists around the world. In this workshop we will teach basic techniques, as well as introduce exercises for movement research, manipulation, and improvisation.
MOVEMENT FOR MANIPULATORS
Focusing on the relationship between the body and object(s), we will explore ways to develop new movement material, as well as ways to spark more creative and expressive improvisation. Based largely on my work integrating juggling and dance with choreographers at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and around Europe, this class encourages breaking away from traditional "trick" based thinking and moving toward a richer, deeper range of expression and virtuosic movement.
Tammy Firefly - Suspended Hoops or Elevated Hoops (Lyra)
Taking hooping to another dimension! Lets test our physical ability when we suspend a Hoop in the air and see what we can come up with!
Tammy FireFly will guide us through endless possibilities when working with a Lyra.
We will go over over technical skills, body awareness, flexibility, strength training, physical endurance, and confidence. As we wind our bodies in and out of an Aerial Hoop, also know as Lyra!
If you never hung around one, that is quite all right as we will go over basics, and work at you own desired pace!
This will be a great introduction into Aerials!!! Lets take our feet off the ground! But still be immersed within the hoop!!
KiT - In the eye of the performer: How to captivate your audience?
Performing is all about attitude and creating style with your hoop. We all have our "hoop idol" that we adore, but why not create your own hoop style and make a name for your self. KiT~ is 2008's Fire Hooper of the Year and well known in the TV/Movie world. She has worked with such names as Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, TPain, Ludacris, Jessica Biel, and appeared on CSI NY, Budweiser Superbowl commercial, & the Jimmy Kimmel show. KiT~ will show you how to work your original style, and focus on moves that enhances YOUR hoop dance, look and grace. How to interact and connect with your audience and fun music mishaps and wardrobe malfunctions. She'll EVEN show you how to make love to the camera. Please bring a notepad and a pen, small mirror and a personal flair that defines your hoopersonality.
Symbol, natural movement, pattern, pathway, pulse of flow….
Hooping is about the pulsation of relationship with the Circle, and presence to that conversation. If we come to it with intelligence, intention, and awareness, we can turn our hoopdance into a holistic practice that engages body, mind, heart, and spirit. .
In this session, we will take somatic circularity inside, to enjoy playful and effective hoop cross-training with drills and warm-ups you can use in your own practice, inspired by other movement modalities that follow circular patterns. The aim is to cultivate stability, strength, flexibility, and balanced action in all the right places, cultivate somatic awareness, creativity, and intelligence of initiation, gravity, momentum, and flow. (Specific influences include modern floorwork, pulsation yoga, bellydance, and capoeira.)
As we enter into our dance with the hoop, we will explore pathways and patterns of the Circle in space with off-body tracing, the play of initiation, allowing, and axis through plane-changing transitions between on- & off- body movements, and find at the heart of our sadhana a devotion to refinement of our relationship to ‘flow,’ seamless union of sustained motion of hoop and dancer.
You will come away with a template for a well-rounded personal practice, technical tips & drills that will open doors of creative potential, and a greater connection to the power, meaning, and unity of the Circle. Please bring a comfortable on-body hoop, and a lighter off-body hoop if you have them!
Miss Rosie - Dance Drills & Thrills! Creating Fluid Dance Technique for Hoopers
This workshop will build on Miss Rosie's Hoop Camp '09 class with new material and drills focusing on feet, arms, and core movements for specific stylization. Learn simple classical, hip hop, and bellydance-inspired patterns, combos, and sequences that will have you doing more than "just tricks". Hoop requirement: 1 easy on-body hoop. NO DANCE EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.
Shakti will lead you through an off-body exploration in expansion and contraction; a playful embodiment of the 'spanda' or creative pulse of the universe as it manifests into the dynamism of living form. Working with startling contrasts in both speed and size, we'll give ourselves permission to intimately explore and best utilize the space around us. Walk away with an in depth explanation of varieties of body rolls (controlled tosses close to or touching the body), spins and 'wobbles', that will open us up – heart first - to infinite creativity in off body flow. Please bring your *lightest* hoop!
Multi-taking at it's best...Hoop Burlesque! Tap into your seductive side! Burlesque is a beautiful, sexy art form that builds confidence and develops performance personality. When paired with hooping, burlesque takes on a whole new level of entertainment. This workshop will focus on 1920's-40's classic burlesque inspired hoop technique. Special tips will be shared about successfully and seamlessly creating a burlesque hoop routine, covering: costuming, removal logistics, facial expression, choreography and music. This workshop will be a fun way to feel empowered by embracing and loving your body!
A choreography of chaos
in a paranormal performance of process
How can we use our hoopdance to paint and sculpt together…..
unfolding through the geometry of connection,
To awaken in the lattice of interconnecting energies
With this LED dis-play of de-light,
Merlin will provide a plethora of psyche-delic psi-hoops for this purpose.
Enlightenment guaranteed!
Note: according to wikipedia –
"Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation"
"A psychedelic experience is characterized by the perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters."
Revolva - Totally Vaudeville: Hooping as a Variety Art
What’s the difference between "flow" and "punctuation" in a hoop routine? Is it possible to incorporate other props (like top hats and toy guns) while hooping? If you’re laughing and giggling during your own joyful practice, why not harness all that fun and convey it to onlookers? This workshop may help experienced performers approach their acts in a new way – and will offer non-performers a chance to play and create. Let’s get ridiculous!
Sacred Sound Hoop Flow is a moving hoop meditation accompanied by planetary gongs and crystal singing bowls. We will dance our intentions and allow the sounds to guide us on a spiraling journey within where transformation and healing begins. Use a hoop you feel at one with for this adventure.
Jamie has been playing gongs and teaching hoop since 2005. The combination of the two is a very magical experience.
Jamie Bechtold Bringing you ecstatic JOY with Sacred Sounds and Hooping! www.dancingspiral.com
Annie Weinert of Annieland, LLC - Costuming the Hoop Circus
The first portion of this playshop will be a discussion group. We will address the aspects of a successful hoop performance costume. Topics of discussion will be lead by Annie with an open forum for questions and suggestions. Discussion topics will include:
Color Theory: What do the color choices in your costume say about you? How to create mood and theme through color, and how to use color to your advantage.
Pattern and Contrast: What patterns work well in stage performances and photographs? How to use color, shape, pattern and texture in contrast with each other.
Texture: Which fabric textures make hooping easier or more difficult? How to use contrasting textures in an outfit to create interest.
Movement and Technique: How to take advantage of the way fabrics move to enhance your stage presence. How to use your costume to its fullest capacity while dancing.
Functionality: What works and what doesn’t work logistically while hooping? How to avoid costume malfunctions.
Performance Prep Kit: What to bring with to every gig to ensure your look will be dynamite
The second portion of this playshop will be a demonstration. I will choose one hooper as a volunteer to do a mock preparation for a performance. This demo will include a “How To” on stage make-up application, eyelash application, and wig techniques. This will also include a question and answer session during the demo.
Luna Breeze will lead all abilities levels though a basic understanding of the fundamentals of multiple hoops on the body. Beginning with one and building to four, Luna will show you how to piece together a routine that will build in interest and momentum. This will include an exploration of shapes, patterns and dynamic transitions with multiple hoops. Geometric shapes inspired by Native American hoop dance will also be a focal point of the class. Get ready for an intensive work-out that will make your heart rate rise and your hoops multiply. Embrace the challenge and take your hoop dance to the next level! Please bring 4 matching hoops. If you do not have 4 bring at least 2 or 3 matching hoops. If you only have one hoop, come to the class and Luna will share hers with you! :-)
The hoop is FUN. In this class, you will develop your own expression of that fun. Stefan's is a graduate of The Goof's clown college. We will be using techniques developed in that training to bring out your inner clown and deepen your version of theatrical comedy.
Meghan the Kat - The hoop dance: Intention put into form....body in alignment with expression...freedom at the tip of your hands - (literally! )
There is nothing like a powerful "goddess" or "god" with a hoop: hearing music and flowing freely with each conscious movement, listening as the tempo twirls her/his world into new realms, tapping into a zone that heightens and liberates oneself!! ::::: Grace is channeled and the beauty-full,divine energy building from this unique "kreation-ship" of body,mind, and spirit blossoms into a bliss-full dance!
After being an elementary teacher for ten years, MegHan tHe kAT believes the hoop dance is similar to handwriting. Everybody can start from the basics and learn from scratch, but each person will express those movements with their very own style,funk, and flair!
Join Meghan tHe kAt in a series of classes that will take your hooping skills to the next level! Her classes will explore the art of the hoop dance, including moves infuenced by yoga postures, aerobics, juggling and acrobatics! Hoops are provided. Beginners welcome!
An education for Hoopers on safe body mechanics, and ergonomics. You'll be lead through exercises, encouraging Hoopers to pay attention to their body movements in a new way. What's repetitive in flow, what leg is the forward push, which arm/hand is more dominate. The goal is to be creating more awareness which could be very beneficial for all Hooping athletes and dancers. Strength training and flexibility routines will also be discussed.
Hoopnotica - Isolate the Rib Cage and Expand your Hoop Practice - A Journey into Chest and Shoulder Hooping
New and Experienced Hoopers eventually face the challenge of learning and refining Chest and Shoulder Hooping. Hooping on the upper body opens you to a dynamic and liberating expression of movement and joy. It opens the heart, relieves discomfort in the upper back and increases mobility of the spine. However, many hoopers feel stuck and experience obstacles when learning how to isolate this motion segment - the ribcage and upper torso. They also discover "cheats" which give the illusion of isolation but encourage repetitive use injuries and misalignment. Jocelyn Gordon, Hoopnotica Teacher Trainer, Yoga Therapist and Movement Educator, will lead you through an interactive warm-up, hands-on practice and Hoopnotica skill building session that will improve your range of motion expand your hoop practice.
Khan Wong - Composition & Space in Group Choreography
This workshop will explore use of space, stage composition, and complexity of patterns in group choreography. We'll also look at how these physical elements can be used in the service of narrative or the theme of a performance. The ideas presented will be most effective for routines involving three or more dancers, but can be adapted for solo or duo work as well.
Rebecca - Get Grounded: Play with Elevation Changes and Floor Work
Roll, bounce, slide, lunge and then throw your head back and giggle! Diversify your hooping style through the integration of level changes and floor work into your repertoire. Floor work is exciting and dynamic! It increases balance, strength, co-ordination and flexibility. In this workshop we will explore level changes, transitions from standing into the floor, entry level acrobatics, and the importance of weight transfer.
Explore the cross-over between poi and hand hooping or just learn another flow tool for the fun of it! Poi flow inspires new styles of hoop movement and will expand your doubles and double minis repertoire. This is a great introduction to poi concepts such as turns, weaves and flowers for those who struggled with new hand hooping techniques last year. In addition to fun tricks we will look at our spiral planes - some poi and hoop tricks are lost on an audience if you are standing on the wrong angle. Let's explore this and improve your performance technique.
Wanting to expand your hoop performance or double your meditative spinning bliss? Strengthen, deepen and balance your hoop practice by using two hoops simultaneously. In this workshop, we will explore both on & off-body techniques, transitions and sequences for two hoops that will delight audiences. Julia will also guide specific exercises to double one's creative emergence.
Please bring two hoops that are comfortable for your core and for off-body techniques. (It is OK if these aren't the same pair:-)
Malcolm Stuart - Discovering, Isolating, and Playing with Hoop Movement
In my class I will do my best to impart my methods of discovering, isolating, and playing with hoop movement. This will involve working with your existing vocabulary, while exploring the benefits of relinquishing control of it. We will toy with the edge of the comfortable known, and cross into the scary realm of (god forbid!) maybe looking stupid. He, he, he.
There is immense knowledge in our bodies that doesn’t require our conscious help to exist. I am referring to that magical wellspring of information that is within us all. Its how we don’t have to think about dividing our cells, or beating our heart. Often when we let our rational mind step out of the way, access to this inner knowing can be greatly enhanced. The rational intellect is great for many things, like practicing and developing a skill, but there are times where we need to let the activity fall from us effortlessly with the intellect uninvolved. For instance when we are thinking about how things could go wrong, or what others will think, we are blocking ourselves from ourselves! So in my class we will cultivate our inner flailing child. I will offer this license to flail precisely in order to remove this inner dialogue.
We all know what its like to be learning a new hoop move or anything at all for that matter. At first we have to think it every step of the way. We are stilted and it’s frustrating. Then that wonderful moment arrives when the thinking can stop and the learned task flows from us naturally. I’ve heard it said that learning is manufacturing instinct. It’s taking an activity that feels unnatural and making it natural. In my class we will explore the benefits of both sides of this equation, the rational thinking side, and the letting go side, in relation to developing our own individual hoop movement vocabularies.
Rather than teaching any particular style, trick or set of tricks, my intention for this class is to leave you with a greater sense of your own ability to invent hoop movement, and to isolate it enough to add it to your repertoire.
In this class, we will open to the deepest channels to discover new space and freedom in our core hooping. When we hoop on the core, we connect to our most fundamental and irreducible rhythm--the prime mover of energy and flow. The touch of the hoop on the core has the potential to take us deeply Within, while the hoop's motion around the core reaches beyond the confines of the body into the potent energetic space that surrounds us. Often, after we get through our first agonizing hours of flight time, the complexity and richness of simple waist hooping is breezed past in the hurry to acquire moves. But the very soul of our dance is delivered through the core.
Please bring a blindfold and a hoop that is very comfortable for core hooping.
Rainbow Michael - Explore the world of isolation, linear isolation, linear extension with mini hoops
In this class Rainbow Michael helps you explore the world of isolation, linear isolation, linear extension with the mini hoops and a variety of movements that build a comprehensive knowledge base as well as make you feel like a geometric super hero. We will learn how to link movements together and weave a tapestry of time and space into your auric field. Make your hoop feel like it is floating, gliding and flying right where you want it to, A great class for learning a off body hoop language and having fun doing it. We will then apply the movements to the Mini hoops to merge the left and right brain.
Hoop Technique is a theory-based system for approaching hoop dance that is intended to promote creative new ways of moving with, and thinking about, your hoop expression. A fundamental principle underlying Hoop Technique springs from a shared passion to further legitimize modern hoop dance as a respected form of artistic expression. Developed and co-taught by Rich Porter and Spiral, this workshop is a comprehensive introduction to the 4 primary concepts of Hoop Technique: Space, Effort, Time and Flow. Exercises, skill instruction, theoretical discussion, and points of creative consideration relating to these four guiding concepts will provide a framework for personal expression and add depth and dimension to your movement. Hoop Technique also utilizes a literal, descriptive language when communicating about hoop dance to more easily facilitate teaching, choreography and general discussion throughout the hoop community.
Hoop Bliss! Learn the essentials! Fundamentals and principles of hoodance. The ideal class for someone new to Hoopdance, but certainly doesn't exclude anyone wanting to refresh their skills or practice in their non-dominant direction or practice with smaller hoops. Gain confidence moving in your hoop, learn dazzling tricks and moves, and even more...learn to flow in your own expressive way building your own signature style!
Ever have the feeling you are running in circles? I have been running in all kinds of circles in all kinds of ways, but believe me, the best way is running on a trail, with a sparkly hula-hoop gyro-elyptically hugging your waist. Can't run? Walk. can't walk? I ll carry you on my shoulders. Maybe we will make a new world hooping record together. Join me, dizzy hips for a trail walk/ run/nature stroll every morning. (Dizzy holds 6 world records including 5 for hooping, among them running the fastest mile , the fastest 10k and doing the most hoops-136)
This class will combine the elements of fitness while integrating the
hoop. It will be a dynamic workout that will engage all parts of the
body using athletic moves that will combine flexibility, strength and
endurance designed to make you sweat and have fun at the same time.
This class will be like nothing that you’ve experienced. Prepare to be
transformed.
Brecken - Spinning and Settling- Gettin' Wavy
In this class we’ll explore the nuance of off-body transitional space via the natural momentum and balance of our bodies and the hoop. Rather than rushing from one plane to the next, I want to delve headlong into what’s occurring within that space, taking into account the natural swing found in our arms, legs and entire bodies, allowing that momentum to locate the transitional path as it unfolds and allowing that path to dictate even further momentum –overall a nice cycle for off-body flow. I think hooping is at the point that we can utilize that subtlety toward taking it further: applying swing and watching the hoop's (and our own) natural inclination as that momentum settles.
I've found this "wave current" and I have a good number of techniques for initiating this momentum. Be prepared to spin and rock out in this workshop.
