The Glow of Vivian Lumo
February 9, 2012 in Europe, Photos, The Hooping Life
A beautiful shot of Vivian Lumo glowing at the European premiere of The Hooping Life in Tampere, Finland. Photo by Mikko Huotari. A Hooping.org Photo of the Day.
February 9, 2012 in Europe, Photos, The Hooping Life
A beautiful shot of Vivian Lumo glowing at the European premiere of The Hooping Life in Tampere, Finland. Photo by Mikko Huotari. A Hooping.org Photo of the Day.
February 9, 2012 in The Hooping Life
The Hooping Life, the documentary film about the roots of the modern hoop dance movement, is spinning things up all month long in cities across North America. We told you awhile back about how to bring the film to where you live and throughout the month of February hoopers are doing just that. Is the film playing near you this month?
February 11th: Alexandria, Virginia, USA
February 11th: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
February 16th: Austin, Texas, USA
February 18th: Medford/Boston, Massachusetts, USA
February 23rd: Asheville, North Carolina, USA
February 24th: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
February 29th: Toronto, Canada, USA
Want to bring the movie to you? You can find out how to do that here. The film is currently available for screenings world-wide, having had it’s European premiere earlier this month in Tampere, Finland. Now is the time to get to see this incredible film on the big screen. Don’t miss out.
February 6, 2012 in Photos, The Hooping Life
Lacey Coop (rear) and Sirkka Aho (front) spin it up during their performance at The Hooping Life screening at Marks Garage in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The screening was hosted by Revolve Hawaii and raised funds for Girl Fest Hawaii. From this amazing photo set by Mark Kwiatkowski Photography. More photos from the night here and here. A Hooping.org Photo of the Day.
January 20, 2012 in The Hooping Life
Remember when we told you Basement Jaxx would be doing the film soundtrack for The Hooping Life movie? Yeah, we’re still rally excited about that too. While we’ve yet to here the finalized single “Hoop High”, a stripped-down beats-only version has turned up online. Why? Malcolm Stuart and Rebecca Halls have created hoop choreography for the unreleased track’s music video, inviting you to get in on it. There’s 3 versions of choreography below. Learn one, film it, film some freestyle hooping too, post it and send the link to thehoopinglifebasementjaxx@gmail.com. They’ll let you know. They’ll be filming in Venice, California (Los Angeles) on February 10th-16th, and again on February 27th-March 1st for those who can’t make the main dates. So check out the choreography below, as well as the new trailer for The Hooping Life with the actual Basement Jaxx soundtrack. Read the rest of this entry →
January 6, 2012 in The Hooping Life
[Hooping.org columnist Lara Eastburn shares why you need and what you need to get on board.]
It’s a movie. It’s a movement. Six years in the works, the one-and-only film documentary about our lives in the hoop begins community-organized screenings this month in cities large and small across the globe. What does that mean, exactly? It means that the biggest vehicle yet for growing our community is coming to every town where there’s a hooper willing and motivated to host it. That’s right, it’s time! Time to rally, to organize, to motivate and to get behind this film’s incredible potential to bring what we love to every corner of the world.
This is Huge, Y’all. Our hoops and the people that move them change themselves, change lives, create communities and make dance happen where dance wasn’t happening before. And I know you agree that inspiring movement and creativity in any form is an enormously big deal. But despite what our Facebook feeds would have us believe, we haven’t even begun to tap the possibilities of what hooping can do, be, and mean on a large scale. Bringing hooping to the world stage is exactly what The Hooping Life aims to do – with our help. Read the rest of this entry →
November 16, 2011 in Entertainment, Europe, Features, Male, The Hooping Life, Videos, World Hoop Day
The time has come everybody and we are racing to the final finish line of The Amazing Hoop Race, Hooping.org’s revolutionary new contest that sent teams of two on a virtual hula hoop race around the world! Before we tell you about the cinematically inspired final leg of the race in Los Angeles, California, USA, here’s what has happened so far for those who are just tuning in.
We started off with meeting our 14 amazing teams who hooped to the starting line from places all over the world. The race was explained and our teams were off to the airport (where they got people hooping) on their way to Porto Alegre, Brazil, where they participated in a Samba Hoop Dance Challenge. The following day three teams were eliminated and the rest were spinning their way to Johannesburg, South Africa. There they hit a Detour, and while some teams were hooping with wild animals on safari, others were cooking up pampoenkoekies before our Kwaito Hoop Bliss Challenge. In Johannesburg three more teams were eliminated and the rest were off to spend Halloween hooping in Paris, France. Once there, on a Roadblock, one member of each team descended beneath the city streets to hoop in the Catacombs – one of the scariest places on earth! Once they returned to the rand of the living, our teams presented Parisian Gothic Hoop Dance Music Videos on Halloween itself. There was, of course, another elimination before sending the remaining six teams on a hooping journey to Tokyo, Japan. Once there our Tokyo Matsuri Flow Challenge was inspired both by Shichi-go-san and the beauty and grace of the cherry blossom itself. In the tightest race elimination ever, three more teams were sent to the sidelines, leaving Team London, Team Seattle and Team Wisconsin hoop racing their way into the finale with a shot at winning The Amazing Hoop Race Grand Finale Prize Package. What exactly is in that prize package? Allow us to tell you all about it. Read the rest of this entry →
October 27, 2011 in The Hooping Life
We asked Director Amy Goldstein, “Why Basement Jaxx?” She explained, “They were our ultimate hoop soundtrack choice as their beats are great for hooping, and their music is as buoyant as hooping is. They have also just gotten into scoring movies and we had a pal in the music world who loved the film and was willing to represent.” What they armed that pal with, however, was no ordinary copy of The Hooping Life to show to Felix and Simon. Leaving nothing to chance, they did something rather mind boggling. The Hooping Life team put together a version of the movie using every existing version, remix, and mash-up of the Basement Jaxx single, Do Your Thing and sent it their way. This ultimate tribute to the duo’s infectious beats worked its intended magic too. Amy exclaimed, “We couldn’t be more juiced to have Basement Jaxx creating a hooping anthem!” Read the rest of this entry →