FLOW is right around the corner. If you’re planning on coming GET YOUR TICKET NOW! The button above will send you to Mollie, “HoopDazzle’s”, purchase page. For information on all the presenters, look here.
Schedule of Events:
FRIDAY, APRIL 10TH
· Arrive by 5pm at Summit High school. Check in until 5:30pm
· 5:30-6pm Introductions
· 6pm-8:30pm The Hoop Path Workshop with Baxter and Ann
In the first half of this extended inaugural workshop, Baxter will guide us towards Opening ourselves to the Way of Flow, exploring techniques that will clear a path in us so that we can experience this potentially transcendent force. Using his expertise as a group facilitator, Baxter will walk you closer to that quiet place within that is ready to both receive experience as well as listen to your own unique internal muse.
In the second half of the shop, Ann will lead us in the delightful play of Vertical Rolling, an off-body technique in which the hoop remains for the most part perpendicular (as opposed to horizontal). Off-body hooping can be a welcome break from the rigors and habits of core hooping, and it is also, incidentally, loads of fun. We will begin with a single hoop and slowly work our way up to two! Even if you’ve never hooped twins, you can enjoy some fun two-hoop play off-body in this workshop. Fear not, Yes You Can hoop with twins!
SATURDAY, APRIL 11TH
· 10:00-11am arrival/vending
· 11am-1pm SPIRAL
The Fabric of Flow:
Effort, intention, shape, weight, space, time, Flow. Using ideas of movement theory combined with hoop-specific exercises, we’ll explore beyond the idea of Flow as simply continuous movement and seamless transitions and look at different facets of initiating movement that imbue hoop Flow with emotional depth and stylistic range
· 1-1:30pm Break There will be lunch available for sale there or bring your own.
· 1:30-2:15pm FLOW PANEL DISCUSSION
· 2:30-4pm RICH
Diagrammatic Hooping: This class will explore moves through looking at the hoop’s relationship to space rather than the hoop’s relationship to the body. We will focus on the geometric patterns created by isolations and anti-spin. You will learn basic anti-spin, anti-spin quadrants, isolation variations, isolation transitions (isopops & isobreaks), and working with different isolated points. We”ll build off these elements to introduce concepts in creating high-contrast motions and explore the visual patterns created by the hoop. Once we learn these different geometries, they can be combined to create new interesting flow patterns.
· 4 to 5:15pm CANDICE
What Moves You Matters! Join Candice Schutter, Nia Black Belt & Life Coach, for a massive group coaching circle! Candice will lead us on a somatically-guided visualization journey to dialogue with the Radiance Within. We will spend time intimately connecting with what moves us, activating our most brilliant potential. The workshop will include journaling, hooping, and community interaction. Dive deep, connect to the truth, and send your life soaring.
· 5:30-7pm CHRISTABEL
Amplify Your Creativity with Floorplay and Zoom Hoops:
The seminar with has two parts: floorplay and ecstatic dance with micro twins. During the first hour, you will learn how to comfortably floordance while hooping (with a regular sized hoop). Explore how to maneuver expressively on muscle and soft tissue while pivoting, sliding, rolling and whirling. Surrender to the floor as a supportive dance partner. Achieve flow by allowing a rigid surface to relax tension. Part two of this seminar is an ecstatic dance experience with twin micro hoops! The purpose of Zooms is to create sacred geometries and other shapes for contemplation. They are tools for movement meditation as opposed to tools for fancy, athletic or high impact tricks. Zooms invite introspection and prayerful dance. Play with a variety of handholds and shapes. The goal is to use the smallness of the hoops to spark creativity in your dance. Bring: kneepads, your regular hoop and your own pair of 21-25 inch micro hoops or pre-order both to pick up at the retreat by emailing admin-AT-hoopgirl-DOT-com by April 5. There will also be a limited number of pairs on site for sale.
· 9pm-1am GHET DOWN DANCE PARTY. Enjoy getting to know everyone and groove the night away with a few of our f favorite local DeeJays who put the whomp in whomp whomp. This is a NO HOOP event, yeppers, that’s right. Show off your dance skills instead! Feel free to come as you are in the most outlandish attire or simply come in what feels good on your body. No host bar.
SUNDAY, APRIL 12TH
· 11-12:15 KHAN
This workshop presents a philosophical categorization of different hoop techniques. As such, the focus will not be on how to do specific moves, but will instead concentrate on theory and concepts of movement and how the conscious application of these can open up our flow. The goal is to help the hooper more easily click into flow, and to break out of ruts and plateaus. Participants should bring a small notebook or pad and something to write with in addition to their hoops.
· 12:30PM-2:00 PHILO
In the world of flow and hoop dance our legs are often forgotten, relegated to the steadfast and quiet role of simply keeping us standing or turning, possibly breaking out on rare occasions for a special trick and then being left behind. In this workshop we’ll be focusing on the wonder that is our legs and maximizing the contact of our hoop with them, in various ways, bringing our legs more fully into our hoop dance and hooping experience and creating greater balance within ourselves.
· 2PM-4PM ANAH
There are so many different ways that people enjoy the hoop. Meditation, yoga, performance art, dance, exercise, sensual awakener, business and probably many more that I don’t even now about! The hoop is like a blank canvas in which you can express and create whatever you wish! This workshop will help you expore your own personal skills and take them to the next level. Put THE DANCE IN YOUR HOOPDANCE!!! OH, YEAH!
4pm-5PM Massive Jam and closure of the weekend of FLOW.
Inquire about individual workshops or pay-by-the-workshop offerings in case a whole weekend of hooping isn’t in your time frame.
Contact mollie@hoopdazzle.com before April 8th.
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