Showtime: 2 Day Performance Intensive

Benjamin Berry is traveling to Philadelphia Jan 7 & 8 to teach two brand new workshops! Embrace your authentic and eccentric selves while becoming more confident in the process. Classes are designed to accommodate all skill levels, ranging from first timer to seasoned professional. Everyone will find value in Benjamin Berry's lessons.

About The Instructor

Benjamin Berry is a nomadic hoop dancer, instructor, and performer who has been hosting workshops in dozens of cities across the country since the summer of 2015. That year he connected with the online hooping community by participating in Hooping Idol Season 5 and the Electric Forest Hoop Troupe contest, ultimately earning him Hooping.org's Male Hooper of the Year. His mission is to help others become more confident, empowered, and embodied through intentional movement and creative self-expression.

*Anyone who is under 10 years of age should have an adult taking the workshop with them to make sure they stay on task.

SHOWTIME: 2 Day Performance Intensive

Saturday: Hooping Below the Belt (4:00-6:00 PM)

All Levels & Ages*

Explore a contemporary and underutilized style of hoop dance which brings awareness to the lower half of the body. Learn to rely less on your hands, travel through space, inventively recover from drops, experiment with floor work, and manipulate your hoop in creative ways using legs, feet, and contact with the ground. The result is a more full-body, dynamic hoop dance experience. It is recommended that students bring a hoop with a diameter that comes up to their waist or slightly less.

BY THE END OF THIS CLASS STUDENTS WILL BE LEARN:

• Creative wedgie entrances and transitions
• Fancy pick-ups
• Knee hooping transitions
• Coinflips on the ground/legs
• Floor work exploration

Sunday: Storytelling on Stage (4:00 - 7:00 PM)

All Levels & Ages*, All Props Welcome

Explore theater and improv coaching. Learn to embody a message, emotion, or character through movement- the result being personal catharsis or a deeper, more meaningful connection to your audience.

THIS CLASS WILL COVER:

• Theatrical dance coaching
• Storytelling elements such as dynamic progression and scene setting
• How to create emotion through movement and music, along with intentional dress and theatrical uses of props

Students will have time to work with Benjamin and choreograph a mini story to potentially share and take home to develop further in their personal practice. Students will share takeaways and hear feedback in a “closing circle” type fashion. Performing for the class is completely optional.

The Street Circus Guest Workshops Series is a performance education program with seasons that run annually September through April. Workshops are held among 14 partnering venues in Greater Philadelphia. Learn how easy it is to have fun with a prop and discover all the health benefits that come with it.

Join us as we celebrate movement in spectacular ways! 

About the Studio

When to arrive?

Please arrive 5 minutes before class time in order to get acquainted with the space and ready for class to begin on time.

How to get there?

Stay Fly Muay Thai is located at 5th and Spring Garden, sharing the same building as the Dollar General. Enter the studio through the gated area at the center of the building courtyard, which is on 5th street (behind the Dollar General).

What to wear?

Wear loose, comfortable clothing. No shoes on the rubber mats, so wear dance shoots or gripped socks if you don't want to be barefoot. There is a full changing room and locker room to store your things during class.

What to bring?

Bring a water bottle and your props. Krystal the Great will be vending hoops on site for practice and purchase. 

Parking?

There is a large FREE parking lot located behind the Dollar General building (directly in front of the studio entrance). Enter the parking lot from 5th street or park in the Dollar General on the Spring Garden Side.

Public Transportation?

Stay Fly is only a few blocks walking distance from the Spring Garden stop on the Market Frankfort Line.