The Hoopurbia Project (2012 + Beyond!)
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<strong>HOOPURBIA: where urban hooping meets music, video & dance</strong></p>
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(Image: Hoopurbia Founders, 2012)</p>
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The most important part of the HOOPURBIA story is Beka Hoop aka Rebecca Halls' vision of HOOPURBIA as a replicable, sustainable event model that will blast the beloved art form of hooping into the future. </p>
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How? First off, by intentionally connecting to other renowned artists in dance, music, fashion & video.</p>
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Secondly, by paying teachers and performers to participate. Hooping and hoop dancing won't be fully recognized if we keep giving away our talents.</p>
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THAT MEANS: by supporting HOOPURBIA you are not only supporting cutting edge interdisciplinary dance-music-film, but also the professionalization of the art of hoop dance and the future of hoop dance.</p>
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In 2012, HOOPURBIA happened in BERLIN. In 2013, it could happen anywhere, from Tokyo or Helsinki to Melbourne or Chicago. Help us grow it. </p>
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<strong>BERLIN 2012</strong></p>
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<strong>WHAT:</strong> The first edition of HOOPURBIA was a three-day event in July 2012 that brought many of the world's top hooping talents to Berlin, to create and film a site specific structured improvisation inspired by the wild spirit of this city. Workshops, hooping flash mobs, site specific performance, dance parties, a high caliber, performance showcase and a screening of <i>The Hooping Life</i> to round out the weekend. </p>
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Short dance for camera pieces of HOOPURBIA 2012 video will be shared with millions of viewers through our network of musicians, video and filmmakers, and hoopers around the globe.</p>
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Below, are several locations from the Berlin Hoopurbia 2012 hooping flashmob, site specific performance and video shoots:</p>
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Potsdamer Platz, Brandenburger Gate, Schlesiches Tor, Arawe Temple.</p>
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<strong>WHO: </strong> Internationally reknowned performers and teachers include: Beka Hoop (CAN), Gail O'Brien (UK), Geoffrey Szuzkiewicz (CAN), Henna Matahoops (FIN), Lena Schmidt (DE), Malcolm Stuart (USA), Michele Clark (USA), & Spiral Hoop Dance (USA).</p>
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<a href="http://youtu.be/VKORThXT344" target="_blank">Here's Malcom talking about Hoopurbia 2012</a>.</p>
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<a href="http://youtu.be/cfV6gbznroI" target="_blank">Here's Malcolm at work/play</a>.</p>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz75zUjMtv8" target="_blank">Here is Spiral talking about Hoopurbia & her creative process.</a></p>
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<a href="http://youtu.be/o5WGk-DTe88" target="_blank">Here's Spiral at work/play</a>.</p>
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<a href="http://youtu.be/947VgttnHRs" target="_blank">Here's Geoffrey talking about Hoopurbia 2012..& hooping.</a></p>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe6p44lc6wY" target="_blank">Gail at work/play</a></p>
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<a href="http://youtu.be/rOStNymaUN8" target="_blank">Here's Beka at work/play</a>.</p>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/38366387" target="_blank">Here's Michele at work/play</a>.</p>
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In 2012, Hoopurbia will lead a group of 34 hoopers in a a hooping flashmob on the opening day of the Olympics at the Sony Centre, in Potsdamer Platz and a two day site specific structured improvisation and video shoot in various locations around Berlin with internationally acclaimed director Einar Snorri.</p>
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Music producers involved in Hoopurbia 2012 include Gentle People (DE), GusGus (ICE), HRDVISION (CAN), Human Woman (ICE), Johann Fanger (DE), Peter Bounce (DE), The Drifter (IRE), & Unnur Andrea (ICE).</p>
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WHERE: 2012 workshops and creative development happened at the Wye, a creative hub in Berlin that provides residency opportunities, and quality cultural programming supporting artists contributing to the greater art world.</p>
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The performance showcase and club night took place at Arena campus (famous for its pool, the Badeschiff, which floats in Berlin's Spree River).</p>
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Both venues are located smack dab in the center of Berlin's coolest neighborhood, Kreuzberg. The video shoots feature the most thrilling backdrops of Berlin, including: the Spree River/Arena, Brandenburger Tor, Reichstag dome, Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz, the RAW Compound in Friedrichshain.</p>
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AGAIN, Hoopurbia 2012 in Berlin is the first year of what we plan as an annual event that travels to a different city of the world each year, creating and continuing to develop site-specific choreography by collaborating with local music, video, and design artists.</p>
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The new movement of movement art starts here and now!</p>
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In order to make the festival accessible to all we held a video contest to auction off one free ticket to Hoopurbia: </p>
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We were ecstatic to award the winning ticket to Sini Orvokki from Finland! </p>
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Hosting the 2012 conference means renting our awesome location as well as flying in the talented teachers and collaborating artists and paying them stipends, which amounts to 20,000€.</p>
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It's true we can off set part of those costs through participant fees, there's still 5000€ we need to raise from wonderful you. We've set the goal a little lower (3000€) to ensure reaching it this year (and we dearly hope the funds raised will exceed the goal and reach the 5000€ mark!)</p>
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Please support hoopurbia, and tell your friends!</p>
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