Posts Tagged ‘GlitterGirl’
Monday, March 21st, 2011
This was an exercise in playing with arms that move differently than the poi. In this case, while the arms and poi both are in split time (actually, it is also polyrhythmic because the hand doing the antispin is doing multiple revolutions while the extension hand is only doing one), the poi are in same direction and the arms move in opposite direction. This was the first time I tried it so it’s really rough around the edges, though I did get a basic grasp of the move … and it’s no where near ready for prime time! 
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Tags: flower, GlitterGirl, hybrid, poi, practice
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
This is short clip of some antispin practice I was doing in the context of both hybrids and CAPs and especially “split plane CAPs” by which I mean one is on the front plane and one on the back plane rather than a wall plane CAP. I particularly enjoy the giant swivel into the split plane CAP — it felt fun to do (this was the first time, actually) and also looks pretty hot visually.
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
One cool aspect of using these “poi chuck” double ended poi with crystal cases is they are like mini meteor. Of course, I am fairly clueless about meteor use so it’s a new tool all over again. This clip is me attempting to work on spinning the poi like meteor around my hand on the horizontal plane which for some reason feels easier to me than the vertical plane.
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Tags: dance, double crystal poi, GlitterGirl, meteor, poi, poi chucks
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
For these new poi, one of the cool tricks to using them is to be able to switch which color is on the outside and which is in the hand. This is a clip of me making some progress with flipping the crystal cases out and back into the hand using partial spirals. Although these are not executed as precisely as I’d like (the crystal cases being flat and parallel to the ground while in the hand and on the stall itself), this is the first time I was able to actually flip both of them at once which is a huge leap forward in my competence with this tool.
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Tags: double crystal poi, GlitterGirl, poi, poi chucks, practice, stalls
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
Cary recently made a set of double headed crystal case poi. The only thing different about each end is the light in the case. Because I’m actually holding a crystal case s on each end of the poi, the grip, and subsequently many of the moves (especially spirals) feel different. I took several hours to get familiar with these new poi and the next series of clips show some of the things I was working on. This clip focuses on a wrist roll where the poi rolls over or under the wrist of the opposite arm. This move does not include a change of color of the poi head as you grab the same head you released when you do the roll over the wrist.
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Tags: double crystal poi, GlitterGirl, poi, poi chucks, practice, rolls, wrist
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Sunday, March 13th, 2011
I did 4 run throughs with the first 2.5 minutes of this Jenkee’s track. I really liked some of the moves in this one. I was trying out new things and especially appreciated some of the sharpness of the movements after the song picks up and the fans are “lit” — in the opening I’m imagining the person spinning before me at a gig (this was planned for) is lighting my fans. At the point when I look over my left shoulder to the stage, I felt this first short bit really worked well with both the tools, my style and the music. Definitely a breakthrough for me in terms of precise expression with the fans. Later in the section where I’m balanced on one leg I found myself also really appreciative of my progress as a dancer because I really felt that show up in this section. Generally I’m just pleased with this all around!
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