All right hoopers, start hoopin! Announcing Fluid Movement’s 4th Annual Hoola Hoop-a-thon! Saturday May 23rd at 2640 St. Paul St. in beautiful Charles Village! What’s in store? Hot hooping, def tracks, popcorn & sweet treats, wild visionary costuming and the HOOPING COMPETITION to determine who receives the title MASTER OF HOOPS 2009! And that person could be you! It’s $10 to compete and $5 to watch. Hoop rentals are $2 or feel free to bring your own! Want to buy one? They’re for sale, too. Register by 12:30; Competition begins at 1:00pm sharp! All skills tested: ENDURANCE, CHALLENGE ROUNDS, TRAVEL, FREESTYLE! Music spin by the inimitable DJ DWIGGINS and MC’d by GREGGY GLITTERATI, as well as performances by your Host, STRANGE POWERS, the MASTER OF HOOPS 2008 Ms. SPINCYCLE and MELISSA ULTRASHARLAT! Questions? Email noelle@hoopingpowers.com Rain or shine! You gotta spin it to win it!
DanceAFire and Contradiction Dance are excited to present a special workshop with local Hoopdance legend Michele Clark next Sunday, March 8. The class will be during the normal open level Hoop Class time, but will be extended to a two-hour block from 3:30 – 5:00 to give more time to absorb the new and fun techniques. Creative Movement Play and Hoop Dance Expand your movement vocabulary and learn how to integrate tricks and dance into your hoop flow. We will explore a variety of techniques to help you develop your own signature tricks and free up your body giving you more room for expression and increase your musicality. About Michele: Michele has been in love with hooping for 7 years. She mixes dance, acrobatic elements and her love for all things improv into her understanding of hoopdance. Her classes are informed by a love of play, her yoga studies and her experience of discovering body awareness as a self taught hoopdancer.
Check out her incredible hooping skills:
When: Sunday, March 8 3:30-5:30pm
Where: Contradiction Dance 7014 Westmoreland Ave, Ste A Takoma Park, MD 20912
Cost: $25 Drop-in fee (but no extra charge for those already registered in the ongoing class, you may still register for the class!)
Please RSVP to preregister ASAP. Due to space limitations we are capping registration at 10 hoopers. This class will sell out. Register at www.contradictiondance.com
Putting my money where my mouth is. I just created a Google map of local hoop activity. You can also get to this site by going to http://maps.google.com/ and searching on “Hula Hooping in DC” If all goes well, you should have a voila experience.
Hey, I’m teaching a hula hoop class today – Feb 1, and next Sunday, Feb 8th, at Contradiction Dance in Takoma Park. Not sure how much the class is: probably in the $12-$15 range. Love to see you there!
Hoop Dance
Sundays
Teen & Adult
3:30-5pm – Open Level
Materials: Your own hoop, Hoops are for sale at class!
Hoop dance is a fun and transformative way to move your body and get in touch with your inner child. Intended for hoopers of all abilities, each session will combine instruction, drills, and exercises designed to improve your hoop technique and help you to discover your own unique hoop dance. These days, hoopers come in all ages, shapes, sizes and genders (I seriously can’t think of anything hotter than a boy hooper!) The class will also help students develop performance skills and may focus on specific techniques needed to fire hoop depending on interest.
Well, I’ve been working on a public Google calendar to post local hooping events, classes, jams and parties in the DC-MD-VA area. I’m hoping this will catch on with the other regional hoopers. Sure would be nice. Personally, I find the “Agenda” view the easiest way to scan the calendar options. It’s one of the tabs in the upper right corner of the page once the calendar is open.
If you offer regional hoop classes/jams/workshops and want to add your events to this calendar, I’d be delighted to help you do just that. Email me to take it to the next step.
Not familiar with Google calendars and how to share them? Watch this short video:
At Contradiction Dance in Takoma Park, Md. Surprise! is the teacher, and she’s a great — and enthusiastic — hooper.
Hoop Dance Classes
Teen & Adult
Sundays 3:30-5pm, and/or
Mondays, 6:30-7:30 pm
Materials: Your own hoop, Hoops are for sale at class!
Hoop dance is a fun and transformative way to move your body and get in touch with your inner child. Intended for hoopers of all abilities, each session will combine instruction, drills, and exercises designed to improve your hoop technique and help you to discover your own unique hoop dance. These days, hoopers come in all ages, shapes, sizes and genders (I seriously can’t think of anything hotter than a boy hooper!) The class will also help students develop performance skills and may focus on specific techniques needed to fire hoop depending on interest.
Below are two fun-filled events coming up this week/end in B’more not to be missed:
~Saturday 12.22.08, Noon to 5pm: Last Minute Stockin Stuffa Sale at the Whole Gallery. 3rd floor of H&H Building, 405 W.Franklin Street, B’more.
All local artisans, including yours truly, with some extra fun, limited run, decorative hoola hoops for sale! Other fabulous hand-made wares include jewelry, ragdolls, candles, knittables, screen-printed tees, and much more. See attached flyer & support your local artists~
~Monday 12.22.08, 8:30 to 10pm: Holiday HoopJam! at 2640 St. Paul Street, B’more.
Join us at the incredible “2640″ space for a good ol’ fashioned Hoop Jam this coming Monday night. Bring a hoop or use one provided. Bring your friends, fam, and self! Hoop jams differ from structured hoop classes, as the focus not on instruction, but more on your own enjoyment of movement/practice in the company & community of other friendly hooper folk~
AND…
~Hoopgirl Teacher Training March 2009~ Discounted Registration by Sun. Dec. 21!
As a reminder, if you’re interested in learning how to TEACH HOOPING from a pioneer in the modern hooping movement, sign up by Sunday, Dec. 21st for a $100 discount off Hoopgirl’s first ever east coast teacher training happening March 6-8, 2009. Visit http://hoopgirl.com/index.php?pt=info&id=10&hdr=training to learn more & sign up!
Hope to see you SaturDAY at the Whole and Monday night at 2640!
NEXT MT. RAINIER CLASS SERIES RUNS TUESDAYS, 11.11- 12.15 …6-week series on HoopDancing Fundamentals. Register in person at Joe’s Movement Emporium. www.joesmovement.org or www.hoopingpowers.com/about.php for more info.
NEXT B’MORE CLASS SERIES STARTS 10.20! …Beginning on Monday 10.20, a 10-week HoopDance class series geared for adult-beginners will take place from 8:30 to 9:30pm at 2640 St. Paul Street, Charles Village, Baltimore. In this class we will explore hooping all over our bodies, but particularly around the waist, arms, chest, neck, and hips, and cover fundamentals of traveling, stalls, transitions, levels, and introduction to angles. Creating & fine-tuning your own unique style of HoopDance using common hooping techniques will be the goal of this series. Please email noelle@hoopingpowers.com with questions, or to reserve a spot in advance of the start date.
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Check out the LATEST Hooping Powers’ PRESS in this month’s Urbanite magazine! Here’s the link:
