Jody Sperling is an NYC based choreographer. Her company is called Time Lapse Dance. She creates these amazing hula hoop dances:
This past weekend, I saw Christian Jankowski’s hula hoop performance in Chinatown. It was part of Performa07, which is again defining performance, art, and performance art. The work featured 30 performers hula hooping on the rooftops of buildings in Chinatown.
The work was inspired by one hula hooping mother, who hula hoops for exercise. Christian saw this woman from his apartment and decided to create this piece. The New Yorker tells this story very nicely.
I really enjoyed the light-hearted approach this work had. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of viewing a piece like this involved the parameters of performance. People were asking, “When does this begin?” Clearly, it begins when one person begins hula hooping on a rooftop. But the entire experience was so unique, that it in fact began when people were waiting to get into the viewing space. And it ended long after the last person stopped hula-hooping.
For more info, follow the links:
Jankowski’s Hula Hoop Performance
You can also read The New Yorker’s Piece about the performance.
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Thank you Jaki for writing about this piece. Have we met?