monday silks, and dessert party

[frobzwiththingz]

dilletante was off doing anniversary stuff with moominmolly, so i'll take over his traditional reporting.

Low key night, with just me, sensesurfer, doze_e_fish, Sean (no lj) and Kathy from fireflydance. klingonlandlady stayed home to fight off the community Ick.

I mostly worked on the half barrel roll sequence, and a sequence ganked from benn mendoza: climb, straddle, knee hook to candlestick, adjust grip hand, cross fabrics behind back, pike, flip to upright cross, symmetric single en dedens foot wraps, flip back over to buttterfly. This works with a single en dedens wrap because the fip back adds another wrap as you go over. from here, grab tails, apply tension, flip forward to back balance, then all the way over into a standing back arch with hands behind, keeping fabric under tension but unfurled.

Sean was just getting back into things, having been away for a while, and was working on getting strength back. Mostly i saw him working on the 3/4 drop. Kathy got some tips from me on the knee drop sequence, and started to learn the half barrel roll. doze_e_fish played with a few sequences. sensesurfer was either working on the anton drop, or BJ rollups whenever i looked.

There were also occasional trick-or-treaters ringing the doorbell. So it goes.

After silks, i headed over to Corwin & Ctans house to join a dinner party, which by now was on dessert. I had a wonderful white chocolate soup, some good tea, and other things. n0ire, claudia_, rmd, scliff were also there. Also there was this person, Etienne, who Ctan met because he had been working King Richards Faire. I found out who he was/what he did after he heard that i did aerial silk; much circus instruction talk ensued. It turns out that he is working with a group of folk called the "Boston Arts Consortium", who are trying to form a circus arts school in the Boston area. He seemed to be interested in the fact that i built my own rig and gear, they'll be wanting folk who can do metalwork, etc. We swapped contact info. I'd really like to see a real circus school in this area...

Comments

[dilletante.livejournal.com]

yeah for circus school!

climb, straddle, knee hook to candlestick

when i was reading this i guessed that "candlestick" meant the foot-hook-on-top-of-knee-hook thing you've been into lately, but:

[...]adjust grip hand, cross fabrics behind back,

suddenly you're in split silks? or is all this up to the cross-fabrics-behind-back the standard split-silks-invert setup we so often do?

[theevilgosling.livejournal.com]

My brother used to juggle a lot at MIT, and he got a lot, lot, lot of helpful pointers and things from Etienne. A circus school here would be so nifty =D

[dilletante.livejournal.com]

oh! i think i met him with the mit jugglers also. if it's the person i'm thinking of, he looked a lot more... goth, than in the photos on that website. :) but he was friendly and helpful.

[clara-girl.livejournal.com]

::pounce::

and boston got smaller ONE MORE TIME. etienne rocks. apparently so does LJ.