Hooper Basics

Display Name

hoopjoy

Current City, State/Province

Bristol

Country

UK

What shape is a hula hoop?

round

Additional Background Info

Occupation(s)

Hooping, making, designing

Gender

Female

Hometown

Well, that’s complicated.

Your First Time

1st time was as a kid, but re-found myself in the hoop at Emma Kerr’s classes after being inspired by the terrifyingly wonderful Grace Jones.

How Often Do You Hoop?

Whenever I Feel Like It

Groups & Troupes

Hooping Mad Community Hoop Troupe

Favorite Hooping Location

On grass.

Fire?

I love the sound and the smell… I don’t play with fire enough.

Hoop Business

The Joy of Hooping

Website

http://www.thejoyofhooping.com

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/thejoyofhooping or http://www.facebook.com/thejoyofemilie

Twitter

http://twitter.com/thejoyofhooping

Hooping Tunes

Lots. I love dancing to hiphop, disco and house music. Will dance to anything, I love putting the tunes on shuffle and seeing what comes out.

Non-Hooping Music

Glitchcore, Musique concrète, Rockabilly etc.

Relationship Status

In a Relationship

Children

I Have One Kid

Religious Views

Spiritual, Not Religious

Politics

Other

Interests

Colours, sounds, the sky.

Movies

Slow Glass, Annie Hall, Pretty In Pink, Labyrinth, Warhol, Lynch, Stan Brakhage, Adaptation, A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Books

From A to B and Back Again, The God of Small Things, The Moomins.