This was my first time hooping since the op two weeks ago ... so, essentially, it's Fireheart's "maiden voyage". I haven't had the opportunity to learn & practise any 'tricks' and 'moves yet ... so this is a simple performance. I'm at that awkward "learning to walk stage", sometimes not quite sure what to do with my hands/arms, trying not to knock over anything (as I'm in a contained space)...
This feels somewhat like letting you see me sing in the shower or dance in front of a mirror. But if I only showed videos of myself doing it when I get really good, that wouldn't be a true visual documentation of my hooping evolution. I want to share with you the journey that takes me from where I am now in the beginning ... to what I end up becoming.
I called the video Hooping Dervish because a friend of mine saw it and said it reminded her of the Sufi whirling dervishes (just in a 'me' style). Interestingly, I had thought the same thing when I first looked back at it ... mainly because I have on all white and I'm spinning. Take a look at the artful and simple Whirling Dervish video below. I've always been fascinated by them. I find them beautiful and transcendent.
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*think pure thoughts*
*think pure thoughts*
*think pure thoughts*
*think pure thoughts*
I'd say you are pretty darn good at twirling that hoop already. What tricks I wonder will you develop to do more? I can't even imagine. Not up on hoop twirling myself. You look quite graceful doing it...as much or more than the man in the skirt down below!
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Aaah! The Dancing Dervishes de Elspeth a la Jean Denver! :)
dude, that's awesome!!!
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Beautiful song. The Dervish theme runs deep in the hooping community. Jewels and Spiral have actually taught classes that they call "Dervish Style" hooping.
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