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Double Staff Dance

Shewolf Shakti

Sunday, 3pm @ The Hillside

Learn the basic theory and moves of double staff, then turn it into a flow-driven dance journey.

We will be covering the basics of double staff theory with an emphasis on finding your own creative flow right from the start. We will start with one and two beat reels and stalls in all possible timing and direction combinations. For each move, we will explore all the different parts of the body we can use to create that pattern and how to allow the staves maximum freedom, momentum and flow. We will play with the distinction between "staff-centric" movement and "body-centric" movement. At the end of the class, we will begin applying the same principles to antispin/isolation combos.

Biography

Shewolf Shakti has been spinning double staff for eight years and teaching for three. Exploring yoga, contact improv and ecstatic dance, she has traveled and performed fire across six continents. She has taught classes at Rainbow Serpent Festival in Australia, Shiva Squad Festival in India, Flow Market, PEX, Fahrenheit, Wildfire and Burning Man in the US. She has taught private clients ranging in age from 6 to 60. She is currently creating a series of web tutorials on double staff on her website where she blogs, inspires and snarks about all things flow.