Riot Hooping & Aerial Dance

Follow the endless spirals of Savannah, Georgia hoop dancer and aerialist, Riot, me! You can find photos, video, and blurbs about my life as an entertainer.

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You can barely see that I’m doing handstands (let alone a scorpion), but it was so pretty yesterday. I have this little balcony on the front of my house. It’s just the perfect amount of space to do handstands and faces the street, but there’s a big, tall tree that has enveloped the balcony like a veil. I can see what everyone on the street is doing, but they can’t see me very well.

It’s my secret, handstand club house. If I were a weaker person, there would be water ballons involved.

Okay, be gentle.  I made this, like, a few hours before the deadline.

I’m not going to get excited, because I just found out that they combined last year’s Northeast and Southeast regional qualifying round in one city, Miami, FL.  There’s no fucking way I can justify spending that much money to get down there for this.  So, if I get accepted to the tryouts, there may be a “Donate” button magically appearing on my Tumblr to hopefully raise some cash to get down there.  Just keep that in mind.

This is the theme song for the Pearl Clutcher (peen cardigan).

Oh jeez, I forgot about this one.  This was not one of my favorite venues, but you can catch me (briefly) at the 1:18 mark.

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Finally!  The YouTube version of Karolina Kozak’s “Embrace it” is available to the US!  You can find lots of Erik and I in it.

OH!  What do you think of this one?

Some atmospheric stuff from the wedding in November (thanks, Jason Avery Films!).

Practicing a simple nuque (noose).

Fantastic wedding I performed at in November.  I’ve never experienced anything like it (and the video is by Jason Avery Films who shot the Justin Bieber wedding dance that went viral a couple of weeks ago).  Amazing cinematographer!  Congrats to Khushbu and Adam!

I made a giant hoop last quarter and we like to do doubles for the lulz during my hoop classes.  Here’s two of my girls in action!