Be the life of the party by showing off your hula hoop skills. Learn everything you need to know to dazzle your friends, entertain your nieces and nephews, or look great on stage with a HULA HOOP. Miss Saturn and Pinkie Special show you the best way to exercise and learn a skill--by having fun doing it! This fabulous hula hoop exercise class will free your spirit while you fall in love with the hula hoop. We will teach you Miss Saturn Style hooping with large, medium, and small hoops. We'll also play around with a variety of circus tricks, introduce you to more difficult skills, build sequence, and explore group hooping. Wow your friends and feel great by having fun hula hooping and toning your body. This class is intended for all skill levels; you do not need to know how to use a hoop.
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Hoops will be provided although you're welcome to bring your own. Used hoops are $20, custom hoops are $20 with class series or $30 without.
Wear work out gear, preferably shorts because bare legs are a must for beginner leg hooping. Bring a yoga mat or towel for floor work.
For directions, visit hopstop.com and use 107 Suffolk, zip code 10002, as your destination. The building is an old church. You will come up the stairs, enter Teatro la Tea, and come through the theatre to the back where the studios are, and request the hula hoop class.
As with any exercise or movement class, you may check with your doctor before taking this class. With any movement class there is a risk of injury. When you register you agree to accept responsibility for any injuries, waiving any right to hold responsible the teachers, event producers, or venue.
Back in 2000, Pinkie began performing by playing the wash tub bass with a hill billy band in Seattle. A few years later destiny brought Pinkie to NYC where her performing career truly took off. Since then Pinkie has become a burlesque superstar who has dazzled audiences at NY venues such as The Slipper Room, Le Scandal, Coney Island, Galapagos, Starshine Burlesque, Sweet N Nasty, Hulapalooza and Sugarshack Burlesque. She has also performed for audiences at many venues across the United States and Canada including The Pink Door, Seattle, and The Palace of Wonders, DC and Meow Mix, Montreal Canada. Pinkie has performed go-go and burlesque with great bands such as I Love You Airlines, Fisherman's Vibraphonic Orchestra, The Choke, and Matt Muscleman and The Syncopators. Around 2003, Pinkie became obsessed with the Hula Hoop and began hooping for audiences as a street performer as well as on the burlesque stage. Now, Pinkie makes custom hoops and teaches a weekly hoop/exercise class. She also twirls baton, plays guitar, sings, and is full of jokes. She has been coined 'The Monty Python of Burlesque' by Julie Atlas Muz and 'Genius Retard' by Tigger. There are two fabulous movies made by Lux Killmore with Pinkie Special as the star. Recently Pinkie started a special dance troupe, The Animal Crackers Eccentric Dancers, featuring Miss Saturn, Aimee Animal, Darling Just Darling and herself. Eccentric dance evokes old school vaudeville with the clowny, burlap style of movement. All this and Pinkie still works full time as a lab manager in a yeast genetics lab and is the only Beckman elutriator consultant in the United States (it's a scientific instrument on which she's an expert).
Miss Saturn is the quintessential show person. It's hard to believe this glamorous New York personality was raised in Tennessee with goats and an outhouse. Perhaps this earthy upbringing is the reason for her ease with audiences from the Big Apple to small towns across the country. She creates original performance work that combines vaudeville antics, saucy burlesque, audience interaction, impeccable timing, sparkling costumes, wigs, accents, booty shakin' music (from Le Tigre to Zorba the Greek) and up to 40 hula hoops to create of a one of a kind performance. This is why this consummate performer is a mainstay of New York City's top burlesque and vaudeville scene.