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Workshops, Festivals and Performances 2010

November 2010

UKHG ‘Progression Training’ workshop - Manchester, London, Malvern
UKHG ‘How to Create a Hoop Act’ workshop - Manchester and London
Fire Performance and workshops - Circulation Festival - New Zealand
Street Performance - Auckland, Wellington - New Zealand
Fire shows and workshops - Jugglers Rest - Picton, New Zealand
Guest performance at Sin Bar event - Worcester
SWhoop performance - Bristol
Private hen party - Tewkesbury

October 2010

Electric Circus, CirCairo Festival (Al Azhar Park / El Genaina / Balloon Theatre - Cairo, Egypt
Malvern Girl Guides centenary event - Malvern
Hallowe’en Witches’ Walk - Salford
Commercial Hotel Hallowe’en event - Chester
San Francisco Decompression Festival - California, USA
Glo Festival - Santa Monica, USA

September 2010

Ramshackle Circus - Broughton
Hi’s and Low’s residential - Wolverhampton
Surdevan Creative hip-hop video shoot - Northern Quarter, Manchester
Herbal Sessions - Manchester
‘Feed The Circus’ event - Manchester
Manchester Fresher’s Bal - Manchester
Fire Conclave Show - Burning Man - Nevada Desert, USA
Harbin Hoop Jam - Harbin, USA
Venice Beach Street Performance - California, USA
LA Decompression Festival - California, USA

August 2010

Big Chill festival - Malvern
UKHG 3rd Time Lucky - Shropshire
Street Performance - Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland
Boom! Festival - Portugal
Ramshackle Circus - Buile Hill
Walsall Leather Museum - Walsall

July 2010

Secret Garden Party - Cambridgeshire
'Famiil Fusion' - Blackburn Council - Blackburn
Ramshackle Circus - Various events around Salford
'Push It Forwards' - UK Hoop Gathering - Wildways, Shropshire
'Get It Started' - UK Hoop Gathering - Wildways, Shropshire
Virgin TV Appearance - Leeds
London Temporary Automous Arts
The ‘Palace Party’ - Gullspang, Sweden
Private wedding, The Elms Hotel - Worcestershire
Ramshackle Circus - Salford

June 2010

Glastonbury Festival - Picton, Glastonbury
The 3 Wishes Faery Festival - Bodmin Moor, Cornwall
The Newcastle Green Festival
Itzama warehouse party - London

May 2010

'Move It' - The Dancehouse - Manchester
Cirque Du Manc - Antwerp Mansion - Manchester

April 2010

The British Juggling Convention - Huddersfield
Rock The Barn - Durham
Cirque Du Manc - The Deaf Institute - Manchester

March 2010

Monster Monster - Cumbria
Chorlton Big Green Festival - Chorlton, Manchester

February 2010

Strangedaze - Music Box - Manchester
Manchester Hoop Congress - Manchester

January 2010

Strangedaze - Music Box - Manchester
Private Party - Newcastle Upon Tyne

Workshops, Festivals and Performances 2009

December 2009

Gorton 100 Celebration with Walk The Plank - Gorton
Monster Monster club night with Utah Saints - Cumbria
Private party - Cheshire

November 2009

Forbidden Arts Manchester - Temporary Autonomous Arts event - Workshops, fire performance and cabaret performance
Sahara Beach Hotel - Tunisia

October 2009

Avalon Faerie Ball - Glastonbury
Oxjam Festival - Newcastle Upon Tyne
Strangedaze - Satans Hollow - Manchester
Hyrid (Paranormal Sub 61) - Manchester
Freaks, Ghouls and Graves (charity fundraiser) - Manchester
Male Vs Female (Club Byou) - Manchester

September 2009

Thimbleberry Festival - County Durham
Rainbows centenary celebration - Cumbria
AGENDER women's business network meeting & talk - Worcestershire
Day of dance hoop taster at Club Dance UK studios - Malvern
Private party (LED and fire-hoop) - Worcester

Summer 2009 (July/August)

Gems and Frenchy performed, ran workshops and did interactive walkabout characters and stilt walking characters at the following festivals in summer 2009 -

Glade
Nozstock
The Big Chill
Solfest
Waveform

July

11th July - Cirque De City - Not Part Of - Manchester Fringe Festival, Manchester
3rd - 5th July - UK Hoop Gathering 2009 - Wildways, Shropshire

June

27th June - Jacksonbury Festival - Jacksons Boat, Manchester
21st June - Summer Solstice - Stonehenge, Glastonbury
12th - 15th June - Southern lights Festival, Devon
Madferrit Festival, Manchester
5th - 7th June - Thimbleberry Festival, Durham

May

30th May - Whitworth Art Gallery - Manchester
24th May - Private Wedding Reception - Cheshire
9th May - Private Party - Liverpool

April

Chorlton's Big Green Festival  and Oldham Young Carers project
Young people with learning disabilities in Worcester

March

'Hips and Handbags' charity conference - (Cumbria)
Illuminaughty 'The Experiment' club night - (Manchester)

February

Monster Monster club night - (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria) on 20th February
Seismic Rhythms club night - (Manchester) on 21st February

Workshops, Performances and Festivals 2008

7th - 8th June - Mooch with the Fairies Festival, Kent
The Green Festival, Newcastle
14th - 15th June - Winterwell Festival, Gloucestershire
5th - 6th July - Beatherder Festival, Lancashire
19th - 20th July - Nozstock Festival, Worcestershire
26th - 27th July - Global Gathering, Stratford
2nd - 3rd August - Shamania Festival, Lancashire
11th - 18th August - Boom Festival, Portugal
22nd - 25th August - Solfest, Cumbria
30th – 31st August - Mind, Body and Boogie, Bollington
6th – 7th September - Madfest, Conniston, Lake District
13th – 15th September - Waveform Festival, Wiltshire

Frenchy has hoopdanced at Cybernetics (Newcastle) & Concious Monkeys (Newcastle), while Gems has wiggled her stuff at club nights such as Monster Monster (Manchester) & Fabric and Heaven in London.

They both performed fire-hooping and LED stage-hooping at Illuminaughty's 'Inferno' club extravaganza in Manchester on October 17th 2008 and hoop danced with psy-trance legend Talamasca at the Illuminaughty party in December 8th 2008.

 They have spun L.E.D hoops at Luminopolis, formerly the Synergy Project, on 22 November 2008, at the SeOne club in London.

Gems fire-danced at the Worcester Xmas Fayre 27-30 November 08 as part of the festivities!

 Both girls danced at a private event on the Winter Solstice in Macclesfield and hooped it up at the Monster Monster club night in Cumbria on 27th December 08.