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Pretty silk fans for a reasonable price
I am teaching Fan Dances at Hoop Convergence. If you don’t have fans, I have found some at my local Asian market. Right now they have the bottom three colors (red, yellow and pink) for $20 a pair. If you’d like a pair, let me know and I’ll pick some up for you before HoopCon. [...]
The History of Pullen Park (Home of Raleigh Hoop Jam)
In 1993 I wrote a history of North Carolina for our Secretary of State, Rufus Edmisten. I got to pour through the state archives and learn a lot about our state and our history, especially the history of our parks, and I thought I’d share the story of beautiful Pullen Park, home to the Raleigh [...]
Using Hoopdance Music Videos to Promote Musicians
I love to watch videos of people hoopdancing in their living rooms to music they love. I love to see people tearing it up to music they really get into. YouTube has both enabled us to do this and made it very challenging for us to do this. We have the technology to just turn [...]
Choreography: Finding Your Hook, Crafting Your Dance
Dance tells a story through movement. When choreographing a dance, we are making decisions about which story-telling devices to include, how to order our story, where to start, and how to end. For this piece we will deal specifically with the first aspect of choreography, deciding which story-telling devices to include. In other words, finding [...]
Happy Humbling Hoop Happenings!
The universe is showering me with so many blessings my knees are trembling under the weight of them! I am honored and humbled and awed. (Which makes it hard to write. Awe takes my words away.) I’ve just learned I’ve been nominated by my peers around the globe for two Hoopies! Hoop Instructor of the [...]
Register for the Winter Hoopdance series by Dec 31 for a Special Surprise!
The winter semester of my Beginning and Intermediate hoopdance series begins next Thursday. Register for the entire semester by December 31st and get a free hula hoop (in addition to a big discount)! – Beginner series: Thursdays 6-7:30 – Intermediate series: Thursdays 7:30-9! For more information or to register, please go to: http://cirquedevol.com/holidayspecials We are [...]
Welcome To The Vegetable Circus (Triangle, NC)
We just started a chapter of the Vegetable Circus in Raleigh, NC. We present in-school, after-school, and kids programs that highlight healthy nutrition, movement, and play. Consider starting a Vegetable Circus in your community.
Directed Gaze – Directing Energy in Dance
Directed Gaze is a dance concept, a way of directing focus, a way of directing energy. We can make people look at things by looking at them. Don’t believe it? Go out on any street, stop and look up in the sky. Watch what happens. By directing the gaze, the dancer directs both energy [...]
Mastery and the Beginner’s Mind
Sometimes I hear a new hooper who is rushing breathlessly to learn the next trick say, “I’ve mastered everything but this…” and I have to smile. Mastery? Really? I’ve been hooping since 2003 and I don’t feel like I’ve come anywhere close to mastering any aspect of it. I just keep learning how much more [...]
Creating Lines in Hoopdance
In hoopdance we don’t often think of creating lines. Hooping is round and we tend to relate to it with a round mindset. There are many ways we can utilize lines in hoopdance though. We can travel in lines, we can create lines with our posture, our arms, our legs, we can even imagine lines [...]