Join us for a weekend of intense staff spinning at the Vulcan Spinagogue!
For more info or to register please e-mail:

Spinagogue@gmail.com

What is Spinagogue?
See our past events:
Nov. '07 staff intensive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s32VKyXfXo
March '08 multi-prop intensive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKHnrBmXBeE

Spinagogue is a weekend intensive designed to radically improve your skills while immersing you in Bay Area fire scenery: 18 workshops, three days of catered vegan food, a special Saturday night performance featuring the Vulcan Crew, Copper Lantern Fire Theater, and Dreamtime Circus among others.

The Vulcan is a hotbed of fire arts located in the heart of "lovely" industrial East Oakland. In addition to hosting the east bay's best and brightest spin jam, the Vulcan is home to over 100 local performers and artisans of all types. Four workshop spaces and two living areas inside the Vulcan will host our festivities. Free Lodging (sorry, just couches) will be available Friday through Sunday for participants from outside the bay area.

A typical day at the Vulcan? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLZVS32TrqM

Please Note: In order to limit class size, registration will be capped at 8 participants per class so register soon! 

Schedule of Events: 

Friday, November 7: 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, November 8: Workshop, workshop, workshop, Show!! 

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, prepare to be dazzled by an amazing ensemble of artists from a variety of bay area performance troupes.

Sunday, November 9: 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. Our long weekend of fun and learning has come to an end.

Class Schedule and workshop descriptions:

Beginning Staff Spinning
The basics of staff spinning, we will cover counting beats, hand transfers, and stalls.

Intermediate/Advanced Staff Spinning

Do you feel like there's not much to learn in spinning a single staff?  This class is designed to help find wholes in your technique and introduce unusual concepts.  We will cover unusual hand transfers, off-center spinning, against the body spinning, and different ways to use gravity.

Intermediate Staff Dance

A single staff is a pretty simple as far as props go, which makes it excellent for dance.  This class will introduce technique where the body and staff interact.  We will use momentum from the staff to move our body and allow our bodies to move in a way that will accommodate the staff's movement.

Beginning Contact Staff

An introduction to contact staff manipulation with an emphasis on further learning. This class will take you through the basics of wraping, rolling and spiraling with a staff. Hand, elbow, shoulder and neck wraps; halos and backside spirals.

Intermediate Contact Staff

We will explore taking fundamental contact moves and begin stringing them together into more complex move sequences including: conveyer belts, SNES, Steves and Matrices.  We will also add a few more difficult individual moves to our contact vocabulary including: angel rolls and The Jesus.

Leg and Groundwork Contact Staff (Adv Contact)

This class will practice basic leg work contact then move to incorporating these techniques on the ground.   Much practice will be spent on controlled turning, which aids to getting to the floor. 

Beginning Double Staves

Learn double staff from the ground up in this class designed for the beginner. After a thorough examination of the many myriad ways to manipulate a staff we begin combining techniques to seamlessly integrate a second staff.

Beginning Double Staff Tosses

Come learn the basic double staff throws in this beginning double staff tossing class. We will learn how to throw and catch one staff while keeping the second staff in motion.

Intermediate Double Staff Tosses

This intermediate tossing class will cover the intermediate tossing tricks, while focusing on keeping both staffs in proper timing and direction. This class will help you understand the basics of staff juggling. Previous double staff experience is required.

Beginning Isolation and Anti-Spin for Doubles

Delve further into the world of doubles by taking a tour of all the many myriad isolation/anti-spin patterns possible with two staffs.  This is your entry into hybrid spinning technology!

Intermediate Isolation and Anti-Spin for Doubles

A trip further into the expansive world of double staff manipulation. This class will focus on anti-spin and isolation technique while also exploring Hybrids.

Hybrids Galore  (Adv Doubles)

Learn many hybrids with only two different elements.  This class will focus on full, half and quarter antispin isolation/hybrids and will give a new perspective to the hybrids you all ready know.

Poly-Stickery 101 (1-4 Staffs)

This class will teach basic single and double staff techniques that can be applied to three and four staff variations and tosses.  This class will focus on techniques that incorporate single and double cross spinning.  Please bring extra staffs!

Registration Info:

Full Weekend Registration
Immerse yourself in the full weekend intensive.  Choose either the beginner track with it's set class progression, or choose your top 6 classes to create your own intermediate/advanced program.  Include this information with your initial registration email. 
See the schedule and workshop description.

The full weekend costs $200, which includes seven (7) hour and a half workshops, three days of food and entrance to the show. An $100 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your spot.

Individual class registration
Individual class registration will open on October 18th, after full weekend students have made their choices. 
See the class schedule and workshop descriptionnear the top of the page.

Once registration opens classes will be $30 for one, if you take more than one each class is $25.  Meals are not included, however they are optional, $10 for lunch and $15 for dinner.  Payment is required before your spot is secured.

Please note: Class size is limited to 8 students per class so sign-up early.

To register send an email with your class preferences, name, phone number and whether or not you require accommodations to:
Spinagogue@gmail.com