Brecken at the Prop Box in the Vulcan. I’m looking forward to start choreographing the b-boy style hoop battle she and I will be doing for The Flow Show. We’ve been joking about doing it to Run DMC. Gotta get me some white adidas.
The Flow Show
Ann at the Flow Show
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Ann at The Flow Show.
I watched Ann perform this piece sitting above the stage on a ledge. I teared up like the first time I saw her sustained stall video. Whenever I see her do this it totally send me into awe and I get all emotional.
Bay Area National Dance Week – Union Square Firedancing Expo
Tonight is the Flow Show & tomorrow the Bay Area National Dance Week Fire Dancing Expo in Union Square. I’m busily preparing for both of these events.
The Flow Show
Date: April 24, 2009
Time: doors 7:30 p.m. / 8 p.m. show
Venue: CounterPULSE / 1310 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Cost: Free!
Temple of Poi Firedancing Expo
Where: Union Square (Geary and Post)
Date: April 25, 2009 at
Time: 7:50 pm
Location: Free!!
You can find the song that Josh and I will be firedancing to here:
Cockney Violin – Caspa
Download: iTunes
Temple of Poi Fire Expo & The Flow Show
Last night Khan, Shadjua and I had our final rehearsal for the Flow Show. The Flow Show will be taking place this Friday 7:00 PM at CounterPulse in San Francisco:
What happens when object manipulation is taken out of the circus, out of the dance club? This showcase will take the flow arts out of their typical settings and nobody really knows what will happen. Featuring flow artists on hoop, poi, staff, fans, balls and maybe some other stuff too.
I think we have our piece pretty well polished. All three of us are happy with the outcome. I snapped this shot of us at Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab on Saturday. I think I might be even more excited for this show if I could just sit back and watch all the amazing artists from around the world that will be performing. The list of performers is very impressive. Khan has done an amazing job creating this event.
In other news, I just received my second set of mini fire hoops from Cosmic Fire. The first pair were a prototype using HDPE plastic. The new design is a significant improvement and I can’t discern anything that I would change. The new mini firehoops are sweet! I love these little guys. The size allows them to be manipulated in ways very different from full size hoops. You can do staff like linear isolations, firefan moves translate well, they spin a lot like poi and move similar to knujmchucks. I’ve been having a lot of fun working them out for the Temple of Poi Fire Expo.
The Temple of Poi Fire Expo is almost here! The Fire Expo is the largest gathering of internationally renown fire dancing artists assembled in the western hemisphere for a free, legal public show! The show takes place in Union Square on Saturday night from 7:50 PM- 10:00 PM.
More info: here
Saturday morning Chris, Audree, Isa and I will be doing a fire demo on the KRON morning news. We’ll be doing this as promotion for the Saturday night Temple of Poi Fire Expo. I’m not looking forward to driving to the East Bay at 7 am on a Saturday but it should be fun and I’ll be doing it with close friends.