


{"id":429,"date":"2014-10-13T00:51:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T00:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2014-10-25T00:05:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T00:05:03","slug":"fall-in-love-with-rope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/fall-in-love-with-rope\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall in Love with Rope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fall-in-love-with-rope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-443\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fall-in-love-with-rope-300x118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fall-in-love-with-rope-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fall-in-love-with-rope.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join us this Fall 2014 for a series of Rope Videos starring Rebekah Leach and Rain Anya of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperdollmilitia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paper Doll Militia<\/a>. We are currently working on compiling moves for a Rope Manual Series. Volume 1 is anticipated to be released by the end of Winter 2015. Videos will be released as they completed (edited and all, etc).<\/p>\n<p>To kick off our journey of the Corde Lisse, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the rope rockstars who inspired my own journey through rope. In no particular order, they are:<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>1. Allie Cooper<\/h2>\n<p>When she posted this video on YouTube in 2009, I was on a place to California on a mission to study rope in a matter of months &#8211; it was that powerful. While I had been on a rope in 2005, it was nothing like what Allie Cooper presented in this video. It made me want to take a fresh look at this apparatus.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d0mRnQNjzYs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2. Kevin O&#8217;Connor<\/h2>\n<p>After Allie posted her rope video, I called her up and was like, &#8220;Dude, this is awesome. Who taught you &#8211; I want to learn from them!&#8221; Her suggestion was Kevin O&#8217;Connor. So, out I went to California to take classes, workshops and privates with Kevin. I jammed in everything I could over a two week span. Kevin&#8217;s methods are very grounded in dance, and they are just grounded period. I LOVE the way Kevin works, the fluidity, the ease of movement, and the methods &amp; theories. It was a very inspirational week.<\/p>\n<p>Rain Anya also happened to be in the same workshops. I liked her technique and how similar it was to the way I worked in my own body &#8211; that sparked a connection that leads us to the present day working together. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ip5KEtw3-DY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>3. Jukka Junkii<\/h2>\n<p>No surprise that Jukka is connected to Kevin as Kevin is connected to Allie &#8211; it&#8217;s a small world, this whole aerial business&#8230; Anyway, while Jukka is in the above video, he is also in the one below. The video below is a video I ran into around 2009 when I was just getting into rope. This whole idea of using momentum to flip and fly around the rope was new to me and opening me to new possibilities. While I knew I would never be one to actually do any sort of flips or release moves, there&#8217;s still a lot of momentum ideas that this group was opening my eyes up to.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0icZBCtwyss?list=UUVmE4Bv2T52qL3RugiCNCNw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>4. Terry Crane<\/h2>\n<p>You can&#8217;t talk about the rope revolution and not mention Terry Crane. It seems like every time I do a background check on a move to try to trace it&#8217;s roots, it goes back to or through Terry. He had been a huge bridge between Europe circus arts and American circus arts. You&#8217;ve probably heard of the Crane Roll? Yeah, it&#8217;s from Terry Crane. Of course.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ogTImwNjyfk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>5. Kendra Greaves<\/h2>\n<p>Yay for another girl rockin&#8217; the rope! I ran into Kendra&#8217;s video early 2009, even before Allie&#8217;s. I used it as inspiration for a lot of what I did on fabric. Back then, I was mostly into fabric and much of the ideas translated well. Now that I work on rope, I have new eyes for this piece, but still love it all the same. I will forever picture Kendra in her overalls on Rope. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RSdODN_by7s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>6. Irena Purschke<\/h2>\n<p>Again, I ran into this video in 2009. It was a huge source of inspiration for me. I loved the relaxed attitude &#8211; and the attitude period &#8211; which Irena performs this winning rope piece. There are a lot of little things about the piece that make it for me: everything from the costume, to the red lips, to the way she swings the rope around with attitude and then lets the rope swing around her. I love it!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OBrKw1ksu_g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>7. Amaury Vanderborght<\/h2>\n<p>I think it was the music that really made this video for me, but whatever it is, I can&#8217;t stop watching. Amaury&#8217;s transitions continue to surprise and inspire me every time I watch this video. You can also view the performance here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Alx7DT7sbeo&amp;list=FLA7BTLw1A3kSc-VSwUiP9ug&amp;index=16\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Alx7DT7sbeo&amp;list=FLA7BTLw1A3kSc-VSwUiP9ug&amp;index=16<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tGgfiMvzL3g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>8. Gabriel Tramullas<\/h2>\n<p>This is a more recent rope video that revived me. When I was training to get back in shape after the birth of my daughter, I was really looking to gain strength on rope. Gabriel&#8217;s grace and control never fails to motivate a workout! I&#8217;m pregnant again so I can&#8217;t imagine doing anything close to this right now, but I know that in about a year, this will be the video I will come back to to pick me up and make me workout!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FcDAasGjG8k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who inspires you on Rope? Feel free to share in the comments below. And thank you to everyone who shares their work on YouTube to inspire the rest of us &#8211; I really appreciate being able to come back to these videos to be freshly inspired! On that note &#8211; steal like an artist. Never copy choreography without explicit permission of the artist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us this Fall 2014 for a series of Rope Videos starring Rebekah Leach and Rain Anya of Paper Doll Militia. We are currently working on compiling moves for a Rope Manual Series. Volume 1 is anticipated to be released by the end of Winter 2015. Videos will be released as they completed (edited and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/fall-in-love-with-rope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fall in Love with Rope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performing","category-training","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerialdancing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}