Been having a ton of fun touring the school holiday programs around Melbourne teaching kids how to make and decorate professional hula hoops. They have been crafting the most dazzling rings to use for their own hoop practice.
The best part is when they get to show off their fabulous hoop moves.
Had the special pleasure of meeting up with some super hoop stars from Tokyo, you may remember them from the Hoop Stars in Tokyo video, while they were holidaying in Melbourne. We couldn’t resist a seaside hoop up…
Thanks Emma and Jamie for a ton of fun at St Kilda!
Feeling the need to dive further into your experience of the hoop? This two day intensive invites you to discover the essence of your hoop journey. HOOP JOURNEY – A TWO DAY IMMERSION IN THE HOOP launches in Sydney in March. This two day hoop extravaganza is for those wanting to dedicate an extended period of time to develop personal practice, performance skills, business strategies and/or teacher training. We are essentially creating an all encompassing hoop lab to maximise your creative potential in the hoop with a structured mentor program to guide you through and take your vision across the line.
Addressing intention, practice, performance, teaching, hoop crafting and business development the Hoop Journey aims to identify and amplify exactly what it is that you most want in and from the hoop. Whether it’s developing a class, crafting a performance, starting a hoop business, making super bling hoops OR just maybe dedicating yourself to two full days of intense practice with the guidance of two of Australia’s best then this course is for you.
BunnyHoopStar and Deanne Love invite you to join them on an ever-expanding journey as they share their top secrets and skills in finding the self in the hoop with a focus on realising maximum potential.
Where: Sydney /
When: March 17 +18, 2012 /
Who: BunnyHoopStar and Deanne Love /
Cost: $350 or $300 early bird special until 31 Jan 2012
Things have been increasingly colourful and laughter filled around here recently with the relaunch of Kids Hoop Dance (check out the new look woohoo) Expanding the fun that we offer in the community to include more school incursions, workshops and teacher training has meant oodles more circles and a million more smiles. Watching the dream unfold as we connect with more and more children in Australia is pure joy.
With greater adventures to come as we team up with industry leaders in theatre and circus arts for kids, 2012 is already shaping up to be outrageously fun!
Sometimes all the excitement can be exhausting, a hoop nap is always the perfect medicine…
All hooped out after a day of hoop funa nd games with the kiddies and adults at Melbourne Zoo
Been waiting for the Melbourne sun to really start us sweating, things are finally getting really steamy!
So without further ado we present you with the “OMFG I’m so hot right now” Summer Hoop SALE
That means FREE SHIPPING on all HOOPLOVERS hoop orders until December 31, 2011
Stuck for gift ideas this holiday season? Unstick yourself and grab some hoops!
To receive your free shipping this holiday season please make sure that you select the pick up price option from the drop down boxes when ordering your HOOPLOVERS hoops for you and your friends/family.
Hoops will be shipped within 3 days of purchase. Please allow another 1-3 working days for shipping depending on your location in Australia. So give yourself plenty of time if your are ordering Christmeas gifts (ooooh your friends and family are going to LOVE you!)
This year has been full of huge changes. Through them all I have felt grateful for the gift of movement and the hoops, keeping my hooping practice alive has helped me through many of the shifts and growth. Out of it all came this more serious hoop piece, it signifies an evolution in my practice and maturity in my skills. No longer shying away from some moves that I felt a lack of confidence with. A choreographed piece took me away from the freestyle element I often use in performance and put my focus on the musicality, expansion and balance of a piece. I have enjoyed creating Into the Light, a movement story about stepping out of the darkness and into the light.
So you want to rock twin hoops with style, grace, strength and precision? Left hand just doesn’t want to come to the party? Think two hoops looks like a whole lot of trouble? Don’t know if you are quite ready? Or perhaps you feel like know it all but craving a little more? Got the tricks but lost on the transitions?
Well you are more than ready and by the end of this 4 week twin playshop adventure you will be whipping two hoops into space and time with flow.
Join Deanne Love for a 4 week journey Monday nights 7:30-9pm
Take your hooping to the next level or kick start your playtime with twin hoops. Suitable for beginners and beyond. Beginners prepare to surprise and challenge yourself, experienced hoopers prepare to add new moves and flare to your bag of tricks.
Two hoop tricks on and off the body, twin transitions, double the flow.
These 4 weeks are specially crafted for you. Deanne will be sharing many of the skills and tips she has built up through years of personal practice, performance training and learning from other masters of the hoop.
Deanne will share her personal twin hoop performance piece for you to learn, modify and enjoy as well as foundations skills, transitions and NEW playful twin moves!
Monday Nov 28, Dec 5, 12, 19
4 x $25 ($100) if paid in full or $30 for drop ins
Irene Warehouse
5 Pitt St
Brunswick East
limited to semi-private small group only
reserve a space hooplovers@gmail.com
Just back from the much anticipated Exotica starring and crafted by the one and only Marawa the Amazing. We have been popping into as many shows as we can during the Melbourne Fringe Festival and Melbourne Circus Festival but I have to say this was the one I was not-so-secretly most excited about. Having watched so much of Marawa’s spinning on my small laptop screen, seemed too good to be true that I would be in the seeing her do her stuff in the flesh.
Being on NICA turf even felt special. Walking through the campus I think I mentioned something like, “some hard core biatches train here.” So walking in to a front row seat provoked a giddy giggle.
The stage was set with a small dressing table and brightly coloured chair. The tunes started pumping and the visuals rolling and right from the beginning we were entertained. I expected a hoopalicious spin up but what we got was so much more. Dazzling entertainment from beginning to end. A journey through Marawa’s inspiration stream of female energy and a delicious smorgasbord of her powerfully seductive skills. Dizzying heights, dangerous sharpness, costumes to drool over, the most divine roller skates on the planet and the most superbly outrageous locks. Giggle worthy, glam fun! Worth watching again and again.
I take a little something from each show I go to. Marawa’s Exotica was a reminder to keep in touch with the fabulous, feminine, quirky and rock star qualities that create powerfully unique shows and character.
Fabulous sums it up!
The Melbourne Fringe Festival is taking over in the most delightful way. The city is in a whirl and it is near on impossible to miss anything.
Booked in so far…
A depressed and jaded artist overwhelmed by the forces of the modern world is battling addictions; he goes to ‘Rehab’. He survives this experience with a fantasy-illusion that Lady Gaga is too, in ‘Rehab.’ A jaw dropping twisted tale of the processes of an unsettled mind and GAGA Cabaret Comedy.
Created by Bianca Gonos
Music Performed and Composed by Jorge Leiva
A story told in three parts, by three intriguing characters…
I Heart Jack is a surreal escapade through the events of one night – the night they all met. Retold, re-enacted and intricately woven together in a narrative combining circus feats, physical theatre, comedy, text and film.
Direct from the cabaret stages of Paris and London and following her critically acclaimed audience hit Big Shoes to Fill, Anna Lumb brings you a brand new solo work inspired by rock idols, Broadway legends and cult figures reimagined and reinterpreted.
Created and Performed by Anna Lumb
Directed by Maude and Anni Davey
Freefall is an exciting exploration of bizarre and everyday fears, human quirks and truths.
‘Time and time again we were enthralled…Impressive, clever and very entertaining’ – Arts Hub
The artists combine traditional circus disciplines including hula hoop, juggling, adagio, hoop diving and acrobatic pitching with contemporary movement and physical theatre to develop a dynamic and innovative performance style.
Through spoken word and the unique physicality of each character, Freefall transcends the conventional concept of fear to show the deeper complexities and resulting everyday habits that fear evokes in us all defining how we act and who we are.
Winner of the 2010 Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Circus and the 2011 Adelaide Fringe Tour Ready Award as supported by Melbourne Fringe.
gravityandothermyths.com.au
Created and Performed by Gravity & Other Myths
A night of shorts, which blur the boundaries between dance, aerial, theatre and art.
There will be no sequins and no sawdust. Candy floss is off the menu!
Instead masks are removed, makeup is discarded and we get to peek inside.
Premiering works such as Dorothy’s Shoes a harness duet and Coming Up For Air a solo rope work.
Seeking a meeting ground between body and soul, Shifting Light explore what dances in the shadows.
By Shifting Light Collective
Choreographed and Performed by Tarn and Eleanor
Tink has been at it again in Tokyo and this year she has teamed up with Tomomi Ara to bring you the 2011 World Hoop Day Choreography. Grab a friend, in fact grab a whole bunch of them and their hoops and get to work on this groovy little piece.
