New Class Session Starting June 30!

Starting Tuesday, June 30 6:30-7:30pm I will be offering the Hoopgirl Beginner Workout at Contradiction Dance. This class is suitable for all ages! The class will be 8 weeks long and will cost $104. You can register here: http://summeradult.eventbrite.com/

WHAT IS THE HOOPGIRL® WORKOUT?
The HoopGirl® Workout is feel-good fitness! Learn to hoop on your torso, arms, legs, and off body in elaborate arcs, spins and jumps. Hoopdance can help you feel full of confidence, inner radiance, power and poise. Explore pleasure as your primary motivation for movement. You learn how to navigate using feeling instead of sight or thought -- becoming responsive, breathing deeply, and creating fluid transitions. Special attention is given to micromovements of the body, working with the downbeat, freeing the head, unleashing your own style. Guidance for performance given throughout class. Free yourself in ecstatic undulation, experiment with vocal release, and express attitude and spunk! Team-building activities build a sense of community and create laughter. Performance opportunities allow us each to shine and feel appreciation and joy. A variety of music -- from electronic house music, R&B to classical and world music will provide a rich tapestry of sound for your dance.

What is covered in the HoopGirl® Workout for Beginners?
No experience neccessary! The extended class time in this series allows for lots of one-on-one attention and detailed instruction. You will explore dancing while hooping, with ample time to master moves. Each day is devoted to increasing awareness in a different part of the body while working with a specific principle of hoopdance.

Bring your Hoop Day at Artomatic!

I just received some bad news about our planned fire performance at Artomatic. . . the powers that be have deemed that there will be no fire at Artomatic tonight. While this is disappointing, it does not derail our plans for an awesome performance, especially since the cornerstone of the act tonight involved a 10-person hoop routine featuring many awesome people from our community (including a few that may surprise you). We had also planned to pepper the fire performances with LED and regular hoop performance anyway. To fill the other time in our two hour performance slot, I am declaring tonight BRING your HOOP to Artomatic day. After our planned performances we can have a good ol' fashioned hoop jam in front of Artomatic.

We will be hooping from 9-11. Hope to see you there!

PS If you are dying for fire dance, I would go to the Tilted Torch at the Palace of Wonders tonight. Awesome performers lined up!
PPS I will post tomorrow an update about fire for tomorrow. But you shouldn't miss Artomatic tomorrow. . . Flush Gordon vs. The Criminal Union of Nefarious Treachery at 10:30 and more hoops and hopefully fire from 8-10.
PPS Final hoop classes at Contradiction Dance until June 29 Sunday at 3:30pm and a special class on Tuesday at 6:30pm