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Katy Doppler
Location: Vienna, Austria
The first time I stumbled across the concept of 'flow' was related to Yoga. Yoga showed me that 'sport’, or better put 'movement’ can be something one loves to do and doesn’t necessarily require lots of effort. Looking for another amusing sport – I had dancing in mind - I stumbled across a course called 'Hoop Dance' on my universities sports classes and thought to myself: hah, this sounds like fun. I’ll try that.
Little did I know how that little dancing 'tool’ would change my life. After visiting my hooping class once a week for several months I participated at the hoop convention in Vienna, which already gave me a glimpse into the amazing international hoop community.
Right afterwards I moved to Paris, where I had the chance to dive into a fascinating, magical world. The circus and flow arts world. A world where the hoop was considered an art, where movement, flow and object manipulation showed me a way of expressing myself, of connecting to people, a world of sharing knowledge and fun, a world of mutual support, creativity and art.
The french Flow Arts Community is amazing and I wish to take this beautiful energy back home to Austria.
Katy Doppler
Location: Vienna, Austria
The first time I stumbled across the concept of 'flow' was related to Yoga. Yoga showed me that 'sport’, or better put 'movement’ can be something one loves to do and doesn’t necessarily require lots of effort. Looking for another amusing sport – I had dancing in mind - I stumbled across a course called 'Hoop Dance' on my universities sports classes and thought to myself: hah, this sounds like fun. I’ll try that.
Little did I know how that little dancing 'tool’ would change my life. After visiting my hooping class once a week for several months I participated at the hoop convention in Vienna, which already gave me a glimpse into the amazing international hoop community.
Right afterwards I moved to Paris, where I had the chance to dive into a fascinating, magical world. The circus and flow arts world. A world where the hoop was considered an art, where movement, flow and object manipulation showed me a way of expressing myself, of connecting to people, a world of sharing knowledge and fun, a world of mutual support, creativity and art.
The french Flow Arts Community is amazing and I wish to take this beautiful energy back home to Austria.
