Hooper Basics

Display Name

marianabandarra
Current City, State/Province

Porto Alegre/RS
Country

Brazil
What shape is a hula hoop?

circle

Additional Background Info

Occupation(s)

Translator, Consultant, Project Manager
Gender

Female
Age

30
Ethnicity

mutt
Hometown

Porto Alegre, Brazil
Hoopiversary

sometime in the second half of 2005
Your First Time

The night I made the first prototype that actually worked was one of extensive broken figurines and infinite joy.
How Often Do You Hoop?

A Few Times a Week
Groups & Troupes

Movimento BamBamBam!
Favorite Hooping Location

In the city (parks, streets, whatever)
Fire?

Very soon.
Hoop Business

Revolução is a project geared at integrating people within corporations through self-development and awareness exercises using hooping techniques and an interactional approach
Website

http://bambambam.wordpress.com
YouTube / Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/bandarra, http://www.youtube.com/mdbandarra
Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/mariband
Twitter

http://twitter.com/#!/mariband
Instant Message

gtalk bandarra-at-gmail-dot-com
Display Email

bambambambole@gmail.com
Hooping Tunes

Currently hooping to riddim/dancehall and
Non-Hooping Music

Arcade Fire, Noriel Vilela, Spoon, She & Him, Clara Nunes, Coltrane
Orientation

None of Your Business
Religious Views

Jedi
How Seriously?

Hardcore
Politics

Libertarian
Activities

Working as a professional linguist; baking some mean cookies and cupcakes (always from scratch!); cutting up stencils (for T-shirts, walls, the city); making music with my friends; walking around; radio programming
Interests

I am human, nothing human is alien to me. But I dig other mammals a lot too.
Movies

Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson), Happiness (Todd Solondz), Idioterne (Lars Von Trier), Pi (Darren Aronofsky), Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)…
Books

Right now I’m reading Cyclonopedia, but I have recently enjoyed John Davis’ Citrus County very much and practically gone crazy over Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Television

Twin Peaks, Arrested Development, The Office, Family Guy, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy…