Caroleeena, Author at Caroleeena's Circles Of Joy

Playing with Beat Punctuation (and Pah!)

By Caroleeena November 25, 2011hoopdance, Poibeat punctuation, caroleeena, dance, hoopdance, poi dance2 Comments

When I dance with my hoop, I emphasize different places in the music with my hoop or my body. If the tempo of the music moves from fast to slow, my movement moves from fast to slow. Where the melody rises and falls, I also tend to rise and fall. And…

Vaudevillian Hoop Rolling

By Caroleeena November 24, 2011Hoopingboomerang roll, hoop rolling, hula hoop, rhythmic gymnastics, vaudeville, vaudevillian hoop rolling4 Comments

When I was in Japan, I got to briefly study Hoop Rolling with Naomi, director of Japan's Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation and a rhythmic gymnast since she was nine. Naomi could make a hoop roll and return to her in many unusual and inventive ways. Most of us are familiar with rolling…

How to Make Sock Poi (with stuff you have in the house right now!)

By Caroleeena November 23, 2011Poicaroleeena, craft, create, diy, make, poi, sock poi1 Comment

Poi come from the people of the Maori tribe of New Zealand. Poi translates to "ball on string" and that's literally what they are. The Maori make them by taking a small square of cloth and pouring flax seed into the center, then tying the corners of the cloth together with…

Putting the Dance in Hoopdance

By Caroleeena November 17, 2011Hoopingcaroleeeena, dance, fingerwork, footwork, handwork, hoopdance, hooping1 Comment

I enjoy studying many different kinds of dance. I find that every kind of dance informs and adds elements to my hoopdance. I take classes in everything I can, rent and buy videos, take workshops at festivals, ask my friends who take classes to show me things, watch videos and So…

Hoop Bliss

By Caroleeena April 30, 2006Hoopdance, Hooping, Poetry, Uncategorizedcaroleeena, Hoop Bliss, Hoop Poetry, Poetry, Sass

stepping into the circle I exchange hopelessness for hoop blissness center myself in a symbol without beginning without end both limitless embrace and halo. We are an atom, I the nucleus, centered, the axis creating balance O holistic and all encompassing O including every possibility and ineffable Oneness O her very aspect…