Fire Groove just posted some epic footage of their recent trip to Texas with a few of the “Fire All-Stars”. These kids know their stuff! They’ve brought together some extremely talented spinners, choreographed a serious piece capable of holding down an audience for 30+ minutes, then they wrap it all up in a glossy marketable package. You add in the hotness factor of Kamala and Hannah and hell, this show is ready for the road. In my eyes this is nearly an ideal formula for bringing spinning to a bigger audience, which they are doing.
The first video is fun, but the second showcases the actual performance.
This is my favorite installation of NoelTech yet and it’s a mind bender for sure. The kinesthetic intelligence demonstrated by G in this video is hard for me to wrap my head around. All that I can say is damn…
Plane breaking can happen with a hoop. There was a time, say last Burning Man and before, when I didn’t appreciate the aesthetic of plane breaking with a hoop. I even talked at length one night about it with Bax, who firmly disagreed despite his own propensity to stay in plane. Because I held firm beliefs that plane breaking was a no-no, I didn’t do it.
Then I saw Brecken hoop and she went and wrecked all my rules. She popped my bubble. She breaks planes like it’s the way to hoop and she makes it look damn good… Brecken the plane wrecka… Seeing the plane structure I had imposed melt before my eyes opened up a ton of new moves. As opposed to the 2d planar style hooping that I predominantly do, plane wrecking opens up 3d shapes. In addition to Brecken, Michelle and Kuhunahula are two of my favorite hoopers who break plane a lot.
One thing I feel compelled to say about plane wrecking is that it can easily look like slop if you don’t have precision. I’m working hard to break planes quickly then stop the hoop precisely into another plane. I think that’s what G demonstrates so elegantly in the video here.
This video was shot in Sean and Prisna’s beautiful space for FlowToys. You can find more of G’s videos here. The video was produced by Noel Yee. His blog can be found here.
In this video Noel and other Vulcan folks demonstrate Together Time Same Direction with multiple props. I’ll write more about timing and direction soon. The concepts around timing and direction are critical for off-body double hooping.
