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Additional Background Info
| Occupation(s) | grantmaker for a public sector arts funder |
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| Hoopiversary | February 2006. Don’t remember the exact date. |
| Your First Time | I could keep it going on my waist right away, to my astonishment. It was a heavy hoop — 42″ diameter, 3/4″ tubing 160 psi! I went to trying off-body stuff immediately. |
| How Often Do You Hoop? | |
| Groups & Troupes | the portal group. Not really our name, but it’s the group I did a show called “portal” with. We’re remounting a piece for the 2011 Flow Show. |
| Favorite Hooping Location | Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Second Favorite would be the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab, a dance studio in SF. |
| Fire? | I have fire hooped; don’t like it. I spin fire poi and fire clubs though. But unlike those other toys, the fire version of a hoop is a different shape. You can’t roll it! And rolls are my favorite. |
| Hoop Business | |
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| YouTube / Vimeo | |
| A Favorite Hooping Memory | Hooping to the band Kan’nal at one of their last performances. I had a spot to myself in a grove of oak trees. It was at Lightning in a Bottle, 2008. It was magical. |
| Hooping Tunes | Predictably I love electronic-based music, but on the more chill world-beaty side. Shpongle, David Parsons. Also love hooing to classic rock: the Stones and Zeppelin in particular. Also love hooping to Radiohead. Also love hooping to pop: Madonna, Britney, Justin Timberlake. Also love hooping with no music at all. |
| Non-Hooping Music | The same kinds of music! Exactly the same. |
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| Orientation | |
| Children | |
| Want Kids? | |
| Religious Views | |
| How Seriously? | |
| Politics | |
| Activities | Club spinning & manipulation, poi, contact juggling, buugeng, a bit of double staff. |
| Interests | Settlers of Catan, Mah Jong, visual art, modern/contemporary dance, scifi movies & tv |
| Movies | 12 Monkeys, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kill Bill, Starship Troopers |
| Books | The Sandman comics series; Little, Big by John Crowley; Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts by Jorie Graham; Harry Potter series (from vol. 3 on) |
| Television | Fringe and Doctor Who are my current favorites. Buffy, Six Feet Under are favorites that are no more. |
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