Dancing with poi

Belly dance is the only dance form (other than the free form style known hereabouts as flailing mania) I've done since I left school, so I can't recommend another form in particular: I only know that IMO poi doesn't combine particularly well with belly dance.

Mostly when I'm attempting poi dancing myself it's home brew, but then I do it mainly for my own pleasure.

Any form of dance / movement training would be better than none but I'd lean towards something more dynamic and with more arm movement

(On the other hand, maybe I don't need much in the way of dance lessons; last night was the third spin jam in a row I got told I was fun to watch. What up with that?)

i do a lot of stuff in nightclubs with my flowtoys so I've taken up the 'tutting' dance style cos it's quite effective for freehand work, as for general dance i dunno, never been much good with my feet

Hey liquid trance guy or girl!

Hey i put a post up, im doing a melbourne gig NYE and lookin for flowtoy specialists, 2 x preferably.

can u contact me please if interested or direct me through to anyone/people would be interested.

Pur:)
0419870767
neo_cortex@iprimus.com.au

I live in scotland UK I'm afraid
otherwise I would love to!!
plenty of people on HOP live in that area though so check out the 'meet others' section, you should find someone

the lady who gave me my poi told me that its not about the way you move your poi as such but the way you move with the poi, i liked that, the poi should (in my opinion) should be an extension of yourself when dancing, you need to feel the tension of the poi's and use it to your advantage when moving with them.

Very true indeed, since your arms are pulling on the poi all the time the poi are also pulling on you. You need to treat your whole body as another prop to manipulate and in unison with the poi create interesting patterns.

To master poi it must become as a master is to a sword. It must become an extension of your body. Something as similar To you as you hand.

Hm. I just realized one can move one's shoulders and hips in different timings and directions (except together-opposite doesn't really work), and the same with other joint pairs. I wonder if there's an appealing way to work this into body motions to play against one's hybrids or simpler spinning motions.

Have you looked into Bollywood style? I could see that combining with tech quite well. I'm still pretty simplistic in my movement, but am finding that modern, lyrical, and older hip-hop moves are very compatible with poi (locks and new jack swing, mainly as far as hip-hop goes).

I've looked hardly into anything because I don't dance and don't know names or have examples at hand I'll try and look for some of these on YouTube.

I think parts of this could be made poi friendly, some of these dancers look like they have imaginary poi at parts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXFLBr-iia4

Hm, yeah, a few of those stances look like they could be made to accomodate unit circles pretty easily...

been mucking around with getting the melbourne shuffle incorporated into my poi routines. not sure if anyone has done this before would be interested to see if any of you melbournites have had success in being able to do this

So I dont know if this has been mentioned in here yet or not, but my friend gave me an idea. Figure skating with fire dancing. Seems interesting to me.

Sounds great if you're an excellent skater, but I think I'll pass on that one! I've been toying with some Latin ballroom footwork lately and it seem promising...

My girlfriend keeps telling me to combine my spinning with these dance moves:



She's lucky I like her...

^^^

Oh lawdy! I saw this same video but dubbed differently with dubstep and captions only and was like...

"Wow.........." *blank stare, jaw dropped*

I LOVE THAT VIDEO!!!!!!
Do the Turbonoba Child.
Gather the Mushrooms, Pick the Apples
ahahahahahahaha me and my friends actually did some of those at raves. Especially lost in the woods with a bewildered stare

Also Epitome, The idea is definitely something that would require amazing ice skating skill, but when I imagined someone really good at both ice skating and poi, it opened up a few ideas that would only be possible on ice. Just a fun thought that I figured would be appropriate here.

If this manages to come together I want to see a video! I love watching the funky figure skating routines and would love to see it with such an element added Staff and skating would be pretty awesome too!