Join the world famous Pontani Sisters, the Maine Attraction, Strange Powers, and more special guests for a romantic holiday evening set to sultry jazz favorites with a beauteous burlesque bent. Hooping like you’ve never seen sexy hooping before: set to live jazz music! At the Birchmere Music Hall. Show details: 7:30 pm on 14 February, [...]

Friends! Hoop-Lovers! Holiday-Lovers! Burlesque-Lovers! Come out to Baltimore’s Ottobar club this coming Saturday for a rare B’more treat: The World Famous Pontani Sisters from NYC will be gracing the stage in all of their foxy adorableness. The italian stallionettes will present their seasonal revue: BURLESQUE-A-PADES, HOLIDAY INN! And, in addition to the reigning queen of [...]

The revolution may or may not be televised, but it will most definitely be social-networkified, and it will ONE HUNDRED PERCENT be hoola hooped! Hooping was, is, and will always will be for me a true act of revolution~ not only of the physical variety (which is so infinitely cool) but also for the [...]

Hooping Powers is actively and joyfully booking out spring & summertime events for all things hooptacular! A sampling of our 2011 schedule includes: performance at an end of year school social, birthday parties for folks of all ages (youth AND adults!), summer camps for special needs groups of all ages (i.e. people with disabilities, folks [...]

If you live in Baltimore City you’ve probably seen this dedicated fella named Spilly (pictured above) who has been unfailingly spreading the hoopLOVE throughout B’more for well over a year, most visibly every Saturday morning at the northern end of the Waverly Farmer’s Market. Super. Impressive. Spilly. Thanks for getting B’more hooped! Sooo… Spilly and [...]

I am pretty much in love with light, mini arm & hand hooping these days. My time in Chile just over a year ago really jump-started this relationship, even though I had done it a bit before the trip~ but without as much intention nor attention regarding the many positive & often subtle impacts it [...]

This month’s World Hoop Day celebrations in DC and Maryland were resoundingly magical. My gratitude goes out to each person who showed up to hoop, take a workshop, join our jams, enjoy the premier DC showing of The Hooping Life, watch the diverse and delectable performances of the first DCHC Flow Showcase, and to [...]

My dear friends are in a folk music band called Coyote Grace. And they are awesome. And last week I gifted them some mini hoops at their Delaware show with the Indigo Girls. Here’s their backstage pre-performance warm-up play-out hoop-around fun. Just goes to show how truly versatile the world of hooping is. It’s worth [...]

Many thanks Erin [Doh!] for sending along this fabulous femme-fantastical hoop shot in my general direction. Love to hoopers all over the world! It’s already been brought’en. : )

Here’s a mildly fuzzy yet still super fun shot from De’Arra’s recent 3rd year of life birthday party in which I facilitated a HoopingPowers Hoopy Birthday jammy-jam-dance session of bliss with HOOPS! This particular moment captured was when we were driving around with hoops as our steering wheels, whirling up a storm of goodness. The [...]

This coming Thursday I will be donning my fishnets and grabbing my hoola hoop for a short performing appearance at Tango Mercurio’s Fishnet Fete party to raise money for this wonderful dance company spreading the beauty and passion of the Tango tradition throughout DC and beyond. Reception begins at 7pm and I will be hooping [...]

Today is a big day. On this eve of 2010, we are experiencing a rare celestial occasion, with the combined forces of not only a new year upon us, but also the powerful energies of both a ‘blue’ full moon, and a partial lunar eclipse (at 2:12pm EST). The *astrological significance of a blue moon [...]

Baltimore residents may recognize this background as the view from Federal Hill over the Inner Harbor, along with three charming and love-filled hoopers enjoying an afternoon of hooping fun in the sun! Federal Hill is a sweet spot to hoop, and it’s so very close to both the Visionary Art Museum and the Trapeze school, [...]

The next installment of Vive La Decadence will be taking place tomorrow, Saturday the 15th of December. It’s no holiday show, folks, but instead a serious battle of Good vs. Evil. The charming Monsieur Paco will once again host this French-infused variety show at DC’s hot spot, the Palace of Wonders.  I, Strange Powers, reside [...]

Join us at the Palace of Wonders a week from tonight for San Fran’s fabulous songbird slash ukulele-slinger Tippy Canoe to kick off her east coast tour. I, Strange Powers, will be hooping it up whilst throwing down all kinds of delectable dance moves, along with the varied talents of Sarah Azzara, Kitty Victorian, and [...]

As part of Performa ‘07, New York’s 20-day biennial of performance art, here’s a shot of 2 out of 20-something synchronized hoopers spinning it up for an hour on Chinatown rooftops. It reminds me of how revolutionary and exciting it felt to me as a kid watching the U2 video where they’re playing a [...]

If you don’t already know about the gloriousness that is Glitterama, see and learn for yourself this Friday and Saturday night at the Load of Fun building located in Baltimore’s burgeoning Station North Arts District. Glitterama is a bedazzled fundraiser show for the awesome Fluid Movement community arts group. Come see 10 fabulous variety acts, including Strange Powers’ first non-hoop-dance performance in the city [...]

Hop on over to DC’s oddly charming Palace of Wonders this Friday night for another installment of Monsieur Paco’s ‘Vive La Decadence’ show, chock-full of faux French accents and fabulous vaudevillian variety. Yours truly, Strange Powers, will be spinning up two wonderful little hoop acts for your viewing pleasure. This $10 show starts at 10pm. [...]

The 2nd annual Virgin Festival which took place at Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Track proved to be a thrilling and jam-packed, albeit swelteringly hot weekend for all. From The Police and the Wu-Tang Clan to Matisyahu and M.I.A., there was no shortage of stellar entertainment, and that includes HOOLA HOOPING! We got hundreds of concert-goers happily [...]

Here’s a goofy shot from the 2007 Fluid Movement Water Ballet that took place just a few weeks ago in Baltimore City. I am hooping amongst my fellow canines, the Flying Basenjis! Check back in the next couple of weeks for info on my fall Baltimore hooping classes sponsored by the Fluid Movement Troop to [...]

Considering what a fan I am of all things that sparkle and glow, it surprises me a bit that it’s taken me this long to hop onto and into the LED (light-emitting diodes) hooping bandwagon. I am thrilled to have this hoop to add to my fancy stock~ A big thanks to sweetheart Jules for [...]

The second annual and truly ginormous Virgin Music Festival is taking place this Saturday and Sunday (August 4 & 5) at the Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore, MD…but not without a wicked-fun & western-themed HOOLA HOOP CORRAL, to getchur spin on between your favorite bands. Look for me and a few other cowgirls and boys, [...]

Come on over to the swimming pool at Patterson Park (in Baltimore, MD) this weekend for Fluid Movement’s final run of this summer’s glittery water ballet hit, ‘War and Fleas,’ where you can catch ME as a hoola hooping canine from the wrong side of the tracks. Rather loosely based on Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace,’ [...]

For those of you who are looking last minute for something special to do tonight, come on down to the freakiest bar in DC, the Palace of Wonders. Tonight marks the kick off of their new monthly French Cabaret, Viva La Decadance~ complete with ze fire performance of Silver Raven, ze very charming Monsieur Paco [...]

Here’s a YouTube link to my whacky-fresh-shimmee-hooping number of the night at the 2007 Fluid Movement Hoopathon in Baltimore, MD for your viewing pleasure. The photo here was captured outside the Load of Fun space earlier in the evening during the hoopathon challenges.