March 2015 - Caroleeena's Circles Of Joy

Adding Jumps and Leaps to Hoopdance

By Caroleeena March 24, 2015hoopdance, Hooping, Tutorial, Uncategorized

Jumps and leaps are dazzling feats of strength and agility that bring energy, surprise, and even a sense of danger to our hoopdances. They are flashy level changes that can be combined with changes in speed, direction, hoop moves, and/or other dance elements to add dynamic and high contrast elements to…

Bringing Energy to Your Hoopdance

By Caroleeena March 16, 2015Dance, hoopdance, Hooping, Performance, UncategorizedBringing energy to your hoopdance, energy hoopdance

Energy has many different definitions and all of them can be applied to hoopdance. - Chi is the active life force that animates every living thing. In Chinese medicine, this energy has two main expressions -- the inward flow of Yin and the outward flow of Yang. Yin is the softer,…

Exploring Levels In Hoopdance

By Caroleeena March 3, 2015Dance, hoopdance, Hoopinghigh level, level changes, levels in hoopdance, low level, mid level, middle level

Levels refer to a dancer's movement up and down the vertical axis as they move in and through space. As hoopdancer, our prop, the hoop, becomes an extension of the hoopdancer that can also explore movement up and down the vertical axis. Low level: Body Movements on the low level include…