 JULY11th-13th SPINAGOGUE POI INTENSIVE!
Cost: $180 for the whole weekend including 7 classes, 3 meals a day, and a place to stay
An additional $50 for the Fire Arts Festival ticket if you plan on going
In celebration of the 1 year anniversary of Spinagogue we will be hosting another weekend poi intensive. If you liked poi back then, you probably like poi even more now! Just like the first Spinagogue this one will be totally dedicated to poi.
What is Spinagogue? Check out our past events:
The first Poi Spinagogue: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fYZP_K575rI
The Spinagogue staff weekend: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7s32VKyXfXo
Spinagogue is a weekend intensive designed to radically improve your skills while immersing you in the Bay Area fire scene: 21 workshops, three days of food, and it’s all happening during the Crucible Fire Arts Festival (featuring the Vulcan Crew).
This time around we are trying something new. We have designed the schedule to fit the needs of spinners at all levels. There are 3 tracks you can sign up for: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced, each designed to improve many aspects of your spinning including dance and movement, tricks and techniques appropriate to that level, and even working on choreography with groups and partner moves.
The Vulcan is a hotbed of fire arts located in the hear of “lovely” industrial East Oakland. In addition to hosting the east bay’s beast and brightest spin jam, the Vulcan is home to over 100 local performers and artisans of all types. Three workshop spaces and living are inside the Vulcan will host our festivities. Free lodging (sorry, couches only) will be available Friday though Sunday for participants from outside the Bay Area. Additionally, hotels are available locally starting at about $50 a night.
A typical day at the Vulcan:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HpjnvqKeoHs
Schedule of Events:
Friday, July 11: Meet, greet, and eat
We begin the weekend with a welcome dinner at the Vulcan. Dinner will begin promptly at 7. Feel free to stay after and spin with us. The Spinagogue instructors will be on hand to asses your spinning progress and help you set goals for the weekend.
Saturday, July 12: Workshop, workshop, workshop, Fire Arts Festival!!
3 workshops, an hour and a half long, begin at 10AM and run until 4:30PM. Breakfast and stretching start at 9AM. Lunch is at 11:30 and dinner at 5. After dinner, many Spinagogue instructors are performing in the Crucible Fire Arts Festival (www.thecrucible.org/fireartsfestival). You are all encouraged to come and enjoy the festivities.
Sunday, July 12: Workshops, dinner, collapse!
4 workshops begin at 11AM and run until 8PM including a viewing of some of the best object manipulation videos the internet has to offer. Breakfast and stretching start at 10. Lunch is at 12:30. Stay for dinner at 7 and relax. You’ve had a long, hard weekend.
Class Schedule:
Beginner Track:
10-11:30 Timing and Direction w/ Greg
1-2:30 Poi Basics w/ Noel
3-4:30 Dance Dance Information w/ KT
11-12:30 Antispin and Isolation w/ Noel
2-3:30 Poi Fundamentals w/ Krissy
4- 6:30 Beginning Strange Planes w/ Ian
7-9 Video
Intermediate Track
10-11:30 Intermediate antispin and isolation w/ Noel
1-2:30 Intermediate timing and direction w/ Greg
3-4:30 Intermediate partner poi w/ Silence
11-12:30 Intermediate Dance Dance Information w/ KT
2-3:30 Intermediate Strange Planes w/ Ian
4- 6:30 Intermediate tricks and transitions w/ Krissy
7-9 Video
Advanced Track
10-11:30 Poi dance technique and improvisation w/ Ian
1-2:30 Advanced strange planes w/ Ian
3-4:30 Advanced timing and direction w/ Greg
11-12:30 Advanced partner poi w/ Silence
2-3:30 Advanced antispin and isolation w/ Noel
4- 6:30 Insides Polyrhythm and Atomics w/ Greg
7-9 Video
Class Descriptions
Poi Dance Technique and Improvisation w/ Ian
This class will explore how the body and poi can interact and learn some drills to help improvisation skills.
Strange Planes (beg/int) w/ Ian
This class will present some basic plane bends along with an introduction to atomics and the answer the question, why does a butterfly work?
Strange Planes (adv) w/ Ian
This workshop will be an examination of the limitations 2-D thinking and then a more advanced introduction of 3-D/atomic/plane bending theory.
Dance Dance information (beg) w/ KT
KT will take you through a series of exercises exploring different elements of dance and choreographic tools to help close the gap between movement and spinning. This class is mostly guided improvisation with some dance/spin tricks to learn.
Dance Dance Information (int) w/ KT
Using choreographic dance tools like space, speed, quality, and time explore and expand your artistic process. Through guided problem solving assignments you will develop your own movement phrases and get to discuss and readdress your solutions.
Poi fundamentals w/ Krissy
In this beginning class we will learn all the basic fundamental poi tricks including 3beat weave, butterfly, and chase the sun. We will cover moves in all 4 timings and directions.
Intermediate tricks and transitions w/ Krissy
In this class we will learn flowers, anti-spin flowers, stalls, and many more exciting moves. We will also learn how tricks are connected and how to create flow and connection in your spinning.
Poi Basics w/ Noel
Get down with the basic moves in all timings and directions. This poi class will cover the fundamentals of weaves, extensions, turning, buzzsaws, butterflies, lock-outs and separations.
Beg Antispin and Isolation w/ Noel
This class will cover the fundamentals of isolation and antispin. By using the horizontal plane as a starting point for drills, we will uncover how to integrate antispin and isolation into all of your preexisting and future technique.
Int Antispin and Isolation w/ Noel
Take your understanding of isolation and antispin to the next level. Learn the basics and beyond of antispin flowers, isolated buzzsaws, antispin/isolated weaves and more!
Adv Antispin and Isolation w/ Noel
In this class you will learn basic unit circle theory and its relation to antispin and isolation. All the while learning impressive tricks such as linear isolations, extensions and cateyes.
Beginning T&D: The Essentials /w Greg
Timing and Direction are the two most important elements in the modern system of poi instruction. Learn the two basic timings and combine them with the two directions to create the four combinations of timing and direction that are used to understand almost all contemporary spinning technique. Then get started on transitioning fluidly from one to the next.
Intermediate T&D: Stalls and Transitions /w Greg
Strengthening your fundamentals is the easiest way to improve your spinning. This class is designed to find the "holes" in your technique by comprehensively reviewing the essentials of timing and direction, then exploring the nearly infinite number of connections between them. Learn a variety of stalls
Advanced T&D: Atomics, Insides and Super Stalling /w Greg
Take your understanding of spinning fundamentals to the next level in this class designed to broaden your understanding of spinning. We will explore the relationships between combinations of timing and direction with a variety of stalls and stall combinations. Next we challenge our mastery of T&D by taking it to the inside planes. Last, we explore the frontier where T&D breaks down as we leave behind the two dimensional conception of spinning.
Insides Polyrhythm and Atomics /w Greg
Explore three topics in advanced poi. Insides open up a world of tricks that mirrors the one you know
but exists inside the space that you create. Polyrhythm gives a whole new look to old technique by switching up the speed of your circles. Atomics opens up the world of clashing planes and breaks down the system of timing and direction that informs most modern spinning.
Intermediate and Advanced Partner Poi w/ Silence
This class covers technique and choreography in relation to poi duets. Technical emphasis will be on two-person interactive moves, rather than simultaneous moves. How to choreograph a routine from scratch will also be discussed. Bring a partner or find one in class.
Dance Dance Information w/ KT
A set of poi can make a great dance partner. Explore poi manipulation from a dance based perspective with an emphasis on integrating body and prop.
Video
We’ll show you all the best object manipulation videos the internet has to offer.
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