Beginner Poi WorkshopOctober 16, 2008
Thursday 8:00-9:00 PM with Ben Drexler
Ages: Teen (12+) and Adult
Fire Dancing Safety Workshop
October 23, 2008
Thursday 8:00-9:00 PM with Lou Valentine
Ages: Teen and Adult
Intermediate Poi Class
Take your poi spinning to the next level! This underground dance art is becoming an international phenomenon—learn the tools you’ll need to spin like the pros. Students will go beyond the basic geometry of poi to learn in-depth techniques for performance and practice that will allow them to explore true freedom of motion with their poi. Practice poi will be available, but students are asked to wear movement attire.
6 week class: 11/6-12/18
Thursdays 8:00-9:00 PM with Ben Drexler
Ages: Teen (12 +) and Adult
Who's Who:
Ben Drexler is a native of Boulder, Colorado and has only lived in Washington, DC for a few months. He began his performance career as a touring musician before moving out east to find fame and fortune in human rights activism with the Genocide Intervention Network. He thought he was uncoordinated most of his life until he picked up poi and hasn’t been able to put them down since. He is completely self-taught in poi, rope dart, hoop, and meteor hammer, but that hasn’t stopped him from performing in fire shows all over the country and sharing a stage with some of the modern greats of object manipulation and juggling. When he isn’t working or devouring books on physics, he performs regularly with the Playa Del Fuego Fire Conclave, Dance Afire, and New York Sparkworks. He doesn’t sleep much.
In 1975 Lou Valentine was born into the loving arms of the US Marine Corps and spent the next 24 years breaking free of its grasp. While abroad he was introduced to an amazing variety of movement and object manipulation arts that to this day inform and drive his passion. Nothing prepared him for the absolute fascination and obsession he would experience when introduced to the fire dance arts at a small music festival in the heart of Kansas in 1999. Over the years he has become adept at the spectrum of common fire tools, breathing, eating and flame contact. Though the tools were fascinating it is the fire dance that fuels his passion for the practice. When he moved to the DC area in 2004 Lou took the stage name Loup-de-Lou and began performing with the River City Burners out of Richmond Va, The Philadelphia Experiment in PA and Playa Del Feugo Conclave at home here in the District. Recognizing that there was a need for dance in the local fire performance scene he kick started a collaborative effort that has come to known as Dance Afire in Takoma Park Md. Together with this fine crew of fire professionals Lou hopes to spread the safe practice of fire dance and eventually take over the world.
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