Play Immersion CT 2011 Video
A bunch of us playful folks came together for a weekend of games, music, skill sharing, and silliness in beautiful Oxford Connecticut. We even had mid river tea party picnic!! =)
Music: Supercalifragilistic Remix By The Amazing Baz
Edited by: Thom Thumb
100% Solar Spinning
Did you know that Play Immersion CT is going to be 100% solar powered?
Thanks to the awesome folks at Solar Jam Productions, we’ll be playing to the kinetic sounds of The Amazing Baz, who mixes it up with flow and play in mind!
Look out for a set on Friday night and Saturday afternoon.
Until then, give a listen…
Sennyo’s Play Immersion TX Experience
Thanks to Sennyo of Aether Arts for bringing her awesomeness to Play Immersion TX 2011!
Play Immersion TX 2011 Video by Riel Green
Many thanks to Riel Green of Aether Arts for bringing his fun and talented self to Play Immersion TX and for making this video about it all!
Silliness at Play Immersion Texas 2011
There was an abundance of silliness and laughter at Thom Thumb’s The Relationship between Consciousness & Emotion playshop.
Kyle, Noel & Richard Partner Contact Juggling
Sage Fire Poi Dance – Play Immersion TX 2011
Nick Pryde & Wesley Bellanca Fire Poi
Nick Pryde & Wesley Bellanca spin fire to the musical wanderings of Interstellar Transmissions at Play Immersion Texas 2011
Play Immersion Texas 2011 Highlights Video
The Schedule is here!
Open Mic/Spoken Word
Open Mic/Spoken Word
Sunday 12:45 – 3:30
Hosted by King Fish, everyone welcomed! We’ll have instruments ready for you to play!
Moving & Spinning with Music – KingFish
KingFish
Moving & Spinning with Music
Music to spin to and exploring the relationship between movement and music.
Drum Kit Exploration for Beginners
Drum Kit Exploration for Beginners
Learn some basics! We’ll have 2 or 3 kits to play (which is more than enough)!
Pyramid Painting to Interstellar Transmissions
Pyramid Painting to Interstellar Transmissions
Pyramid Painting during Interstellar Transmissions on Friday night where we will paint a bamboo & canvas Pyramid during the band’s set that will also be a cool chill space and stage decorations for the weekend.
Pyramid Painting to Loose Leaf
Pyramid Painting to Loose Leaf
Pyramid Painting during Loose Leaf on Friday night where we will paint a bamboo & canvas Pyramid during the band’s set that will also be a cool chill space and stage decorations for the weekend.
Painting to Music – King Fish
Painting to Music
Explore combining your senses while you paint to the music of Kingfish. This will help form the foundation for Pyramid Painting during Loose Leaf on Friday night and Interstellar Transmissions on Saturday night where we will paint a Pyramid during each band’s set that will also be a cool chill space and stage decorations.
Hoop Construction Immersion – Christopher Massey
Hoop Construction Immersion
In this class we will go over a variety of ways to make hoops that either fold, snap, or change out.(full size and minis or isolation) If you would like just to learn, feel free to join in and learn. If you would like to take the connections or a hoop home with you please bring 15 dollars for the class. These are the same styles you see all over the internet and events. These hoops are normally 40 dollars and up. Hoops are a great way for people to get together and have fun. Join the new hoop wave with a little knowledge!
Hoop-Isolations / MagHoops – Miss Laura Scarborough
Hoop-Isolations / MagHoops
Miss Laura will present a workshop focused on isolation hoop techniques. Topics to be addressed include outside & inside two handed isolations, 1 handed isolations, isopops, body movement / partner activities within isolation styles, & point of contact awareness. Laura will also introduce how these techniques can be used with unique fire hoop toys and with “MagHoops.” These are magnetic hoops that Laura has been developing to further enhance and create new isolation style technique & multiple hoop play. A limited number of Laura’s “MagHoops” and Isolation “Sliver Slickiees” will be available for play and experimentation. Small / lightweight / mini hoops are recommended for this workshop!
Beginner Hoop On and Off Body Basics
Hoopcircle.com founder Miss Laura Scarborough will be teaching a beginner Hoopdance workshop that will cover basic hoopdance skills and vocabulary to include waist hooping, turns, stalls, upper and lower body positioning, floating on/off body, slinky, tracing, wild west, prayer, passing, revolving door, foot catch, kicks, and will discuss intention setting and hoop paths to change and transformation within the hoop. Students will learn 2 song based sequences developed from the skills taught in the workshop. Bring your Core HooP!
Miss Laura Scarborough
Miss Laura Scarborough
A certified HOOPGiRL teacher and AFAA group fitness instructor, Laura has been in the hoop since 2004. For the past 3 years she has hosted Hoopmaking workshops, public “Hoop-out” events, and Hoopdance classes with a curriculum that provides solid groundwork for hooping fundamentals.
She promotes and teaches hooping because of the transformational effects it has had on her body and spirit (which included losing 30 lbs!). Currently Laura teaches / sells hoops via her biz: Hoopcircle.com and is developing a new product called “MagHoops” – magnetic hoops that create new, exciting isolation and multi-hoop flow possibilities – that will debut at Play Immersion!
CLASSES
Hoop-Isolations / MagHoops
Beginning Hoop On and Off Body Basics
Flow Arts as Meditation – Teafaerie
Flow Arts as Meditation
The Teafaerie will be teaching Flow Arts as Meditation. This class will help you turn your daily spin routine into a energizing and focalising self transformation practice that improves patience, balance, confidence, dexterity, co-ordination and self esteem. Bring more flow into your daily life. This playshop will improve your practice at any level. Bring your favorite tool, an open mind and a big smile!
Teafaerie
Teafaerie
The Teafaerie co-founded Flow Temple, a flow arts and fire dancing school in Los Angeles, where she is active both as a teacher and an artist. She writes stories, poems, movies, plays and essays, makes videos, organizes flash mobs, and is one of the founders of Prometheatrics, a big cool Esplanade camp at Burning Man. At various times she has been a writer, nanny, actress, childbirth doula, homeless person, live-action storyteller, toy inventor, street performer, and party promoter. Some people say they serve God or their country; the Teafaerie just serves the Tea. She loves her beautiful life and her amazing friends.
CLASSES
Sage
Sage
Enchanted by fire and light spinning for more than ten years, Sage has traveled the world to inspire people, while releasing the burning embers of her spirit through unique dance and performance.
She is a one of the founders, directors, producers and choreographers of the long standing fire performance troop Sangre Del Sol from Austin, Texas. She is focused mainly on how to bring as much creativity, community, soul and theatrics to the art of flow spinning. She spins many different flow tools and dabbles in many different styles of dance. She won the Home of Poi COL 2001 world wide spinning completion and has paved the way for many fire dancers since then. She has also been teaching these art forms for more that 10 years and has enjoyed hosting workshops at different fire festivals such as – Firedrums, Burning Man, Santouka, Japan Fire Festival, and Pacific Fire. She has also been featured on several videos such as Sage Behind The Flame (Home of Poi), COL 2001, COL 2008 (Home of Poi) , Encyclo-Poi-dia Volume 2, and Fire All-stars volume 1. She also released her own Poi instructional video call Journey Into Poi.
CLASSES
Tribal Fusion Belly Dance With Fans – Sage
Tribal Fusion Belly Dance With Fans
Come and learn how to dance from your heart with your fans. We will be talking about what a heart-form dance is and how to connect with the music to transform all involved. You will learn basic Tribal Fusion Belly Dance moves while incorporating your fans. Be ready to move those hips and do lots of spins and ground work! Also you will learn how to position your body and fans so that it appease the eye of your audience.
Body Movement with Poi – Sage
Body Movement with Poi
Come and expand your poi spinning! This workshop entails learning how to bring more of your full body into your spinning by utilizing turns, level changes, moving the feet with rhythmic steps, jumps, under the leg moves, behind the back moves, extended arms, clever transitions and going to the ground with it. Learn how to take the moves you already know and make them into many more moves just by moving in a different way. You must have some experience with the Poi to take this class. Will be helpful to know forward and backward 3 beat weaves, corkscrews and butterflies.
