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WHD Dance 2011
It’s done! It was a collaborative effort in 11 countries with 41 groups and 317 dancers performing for World Hoop Day on November 11. Such a thrill to see the project grow so big. 2010 saw 17 groups dancing. For 2012, I’d better pick a song that allows me to extend it easily. Organising the…
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Accidentally Topless
I brought tape but I forgot scissors so I couldn’t cover my nipples with makeshift pasties as I put on my costume for Sadistic Circus last night. It didn’t seem like a big issue; in rehearsals the snaps had been secure and I wasn’t worried about a wardrobe malfunction but we learn to be careful…
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The Epic Saturday
August 13th was definitely my biggest day of 2011. In the morning, I led a hoop workshop, Finding Flow, for seven delightful hoopers at the Ephrata Performing Arts Center. I loved teaching my first hoop workshop in the US. Before the hoopers turned up, my cousin Chris and his family appeared at the theatre. They…
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Solstice Sketching
This morning was sunny for the first time in what feels like a month. And today is the solstice. What a precious gift of a day. I celebrated by going to the park to hoop (and skip rope and juggle). I intended to be gentle to my recovering shoulder, but I’m not sure how one…
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Hooping on an Unknown Beach
Not an unknown beach at all, but one of my favorites – Habushiura near the campsite on Niijima. Rainy season began yesterday, the earliest since records began in 1951, and for the next six weeks or more, my hooping activities are going to be limited to classrooms, the carport, and rare sunny days. I am…
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Rainy Robots
Yesterday I had the honor and joy of helping out with the video shoot for Jesse and Will’s song, Hooked on Robots. The day dawned warm and sunny. There was forecast rain in the late afternoon but it didn’t seem likely. I was out and about early in the day and I was already sweating.…
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Merry, merry month of May
There are two months in Tokyo that make me gloriously happy because they have the absolute best weather – May and October. I’ve been enjoying this year’s May very much. It’s combined a lot of outdoor time with hooping and some new skills, too. First, I hosted a Guru-guru Camp during Golden Week. 15 people…
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Circus Style Hoop Drills – the chimes
Lots of people have checked out the Circus Style Hoop Drills videos; thank you all. I plan to make more of these this summer with some new moves and multiple hoops, too. Once you’ve done the drills a few times and gotten the sequences down, you really don’t need the video except to know when…
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Spring Hoop Mania
Today’s weather was gorgeous and no amount of disaster-anything was going to keep me inside. I put on a gorgeous long twirly skirt given to me by my hooping friend, Sarah, walked up to my local park where the stone paving is always warm, slipped off my shoes, turned up my iPod and completely ignored…
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Circus Style Hoop Drill for Hoop Dancers: hands to knees (30 second version)
This hoop drill may surprise you with its effective simplicity.
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