Would you like to get people connecting through hooping? Get in touch with Hoop Elation! As a certified instructor, Danielle specializes in sharing hoop dance with people of all ages and experience levels. Workshops can be held at the Madison Circus Space or Danielle can come to you. All hoops are provided, and absolutely no experience is necessary. For offerings geared to youth, check out the Programs for Children page.

Danielle is available to teach adults how to hoop at:

  • Festivals

  • Retreats

  • Company Team Building Events

  • Parties and Celebrations

  • Special Events

Danielle teaches workshops for both complete beginners and experienced hoop dancers. She can also design a custom workshop made for your group. All workshops are adaptable to your facility, organization or event!

Workshops

  • Hooping 101
    Class Level: all levels
    Prerequisites: none

    This class is perfect for people just starting to learn how to hoop. Absolutely no experience necessary. You'll learn foundational movements that open up a world of possibility and confidence within the hoop!

  • Jump Through Breakthroughs (for experienced hoop dancers)

    Class Level: all levels
    Prerequisites: none

    One of the best things about jumping through the hoop is the feeling of floating, if only for a moment. But then there's also the immediate sense grounding that happens as you reconnect with the earth. We will joyfully explore jumping and grounding, as well as learn a load of dynamic moves: the cheerleader jump through, the swing back jump through, the under-the-leg jump through, and more!

  • Break It Until You Make It (for experienced hoop dancers)

    Class Level: intermediate
    Prerequisites: waist hooping is a must, and having experience in shoulder hooping is helpful

    Breaks are an excellent way to add rhythm and punctuation to your hoop movement. Whether you are just beginning to find break points and want a solid foundation, or are a break collector like Danielle, this workshop will tighten up your technique and leave you with new ways to send the hoop in the opposite direction.

  • Sustained, Explained: Adventures in Sustained Spinning Hooping (for experienced hoop dancers)

    Class Level: all levels
    Prerequisites: none

    Hooping with a sustained spin is not only a way to add grace and beauty to your flow, it's also a conceptualization of movement to creates shapes in space by rotation. We'll learn several spinning techniques, ways to work through dizziness, and ideas for shape creation with one to four hoops. When fully done with spinning, we'll finish with a grounding exercise.

  • Do More With Your Four: Four Hoop Arm Splits (for experienced hoop dancers)

    Class Level: intermediate to advanced
    Prerequisites: vertical plane hooping in the hand, on both sides

    Join the quad squad! Hooping with 4 hoops on your arms in splits is not only a crowd pleaser during performances, but it’s also a template for creative movement. We’ll start from the beginning and learn how launch and sustain 4 hoop arm movement, and then explore reversals, z-spins, and folds. When our arms are completely tired, we’ll conclude with some additional four hoop shapes.

  • Shoulder Hooping (for experienced hoop dancers)

    Class Level: all levels
    Prerequisites: waist hooping

    When Danielle first started hooping in 2004, giant irrigation tubing hoops ruled the world, so shoulder hooping came naturally. Now that we live in a hoop world dominated by smaller and lighter hoops, on body shoulder hooping is sometimes forgotten. No more! Learn or refine how to bring the hoop from your waist to your shoulders and back again, how to sustain shoulder hooping with powerful body positioning, and take home some interesting variations.