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Story-Crafting With Your Body:
Weave A Tale With Your Hoop
Weave A Tale With Your Hoop
There are couple areas in hooping that I believe will prove to be the sites of the grandest expansions we have
seen to-date within our art. As far as I'm concerned, we haven't even begun to scratch their surfaces, just
dipping and circling our tiny pinky toes into the deep, deep reservoir of what they have to offer our bodies and our
dance. These are Partner Hooping and Storytelling.
Because I suspect Partner Hooping will inevitably find itself as a subcategory of Storytelling, I will reserve it for
another entry (but the video posted below is a superb and early example of BOTH) in order to take on how the
most ancient art form known to us humans might express itself anew inside our hoops.
And since the history of storytelling in every single culture on this planet is rich beyond our measure, I will leave
that to your diligent study. Suffice it to say that after breathing, eating, and procreating, storytelling has since our
making, held a primal position amongst our human activities. We tell stories -- it's one of the things we
humans do. We tell stories - fiction, or non-, every time we gather together. Whether we know it or not. And
though your hooping already tells some kind of story - of your progress, or your mood -- it is quite another
endeavor to purposefully and physically weave a tale.
So before we continue (and while your creative minds thumb through the litany of fabulous ideas now arising),
allow me to introduce this video example. It is entitled "Remembering Recess," performed by Ian Smith and
Brecken Rivara at this years FlowShow 2010.
seen to-date within our art. As far as I'm concerned, we haven't even begun to scratch their surfaces, just
dipping and circling our tiny pinky toes into the deep, deep reservoir of what they have to offer our bodies and our
dance. These are Partner Hooping and Storytelling.
Because I suspect Partner Hooping will inevitably find itself as a subcategory of Storytelling, I will reserve it for
another entry (but the video posted below is a superb and early example of BOTH) in order to take on how the
most ancient art form known to us humans might express itself anew inside our hoops.
And since the history of storytelling in every single culture on this planet is rich beyond our measure, I will leave
that to your diligent study. Suffice it to say that after breathing, eating, and procreating, storytelling has since our
making, held a primal position amongst our human activities. We tell stories -- it's one of the things we
humans do. We tell stories - fiction, or non-, every time we gather together. Whether we know it or not. And
though your hooping already tells some kind of story - of your progress, or your mood -- it is quite another
endeavor to purposefully and physically weave a tale.
So before we continue (and while your creative minds thumb through the litany of fabulous ideas now arising),
allow me to introduce this video example. It is entitled "Remembering Recess," performed by Ian Smith and
Brecken Rivara at this years FlowShow 2010.
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It's your story. Let your body tell it. It has
more to say than your vocabulary can
pretend to.
Allow yourself be vulnerable. In the
end, there are only a few human stories
and our infinite versions of them. When
you allow your body to tell the truth, it will
speak a language we all forcibly
understand and empathize with. Your
story will move us, because it moves you,
in the deepest and most visceral of ways.
Costume and Scenery are not, by any
means, necessary, but may well add to,
and aid in the scripting of, the sensory
experience of the realm you are creating.
Employ a bubble machine. Flash images
(or words) on a background screen.
Create a world in which your body is
happy in the role of supreme narrator.
more to say than your vocabulary can
pretend to.
Allow yourself be vulnerable. In the
end, there are only a few human stories
and our infinite versions of them. When
you allow your body to tell the truth, it will
speak a language we all forcibly
understand and empathize with. Your
story will move us, because it moves you,
in the deepest and most visceral of ways.
Costume and Scenery are not, by any
means, necessary, but may well add to,
and aid in the scripting of, the sensory
experience of the realm you are creating.
Employ a bubble machine. Flash images
(or words) on a background screen.
Create a world in which your body is
happy in the role of supreme narrator.
Join me in a Story-Crafting Challenge. I am so very eager to see the stories we and our hoops have to tell, that
I am committing myself to this emerging genre of hooping, and enthusiastically invite you to join me. I'm going to
venture outside my private hooping island to make my own (very first, after 8 years!) hooping video in the coming
weeks, with the intention of telling a story. Should you feel so inclined, I hope you'll post a link to your own here.
Which of your stories is just dying to dance itself to life?
Join the discussion about this Hooposophy blog on our Hooping.org Forum here, join our Facebook page, and
post your thoughts below!
I am committing myself to this emerging genre of hooping, and enthusiastically invite you to join me. I'm going to
venture outside my private hooping island to make my own (very first, after 8 years!) hooping video in the coming
weeks, with the intention of telling a story. Should you feel so inclined, I hope you'll post a link to your own here.
Which of your stories is just dying to dance itself to life?
Join the discussion about this Hooposophy blog on our Hooping.org Forum here, join our Facebook page, and
post your thoughts below!