Contact staff has been a part of my life for so long. Contact staff is difficult and ability grows over years but innovation can come quickly to newcomers that aren’t bound by some of the older traditions. I want to bring attention to some modern-day contact staffers that I find innovative that you should check out. The focus of this …
“Cardistry” (Card/Artistry) is the form of card manipulation that has split from the magic community over about the last decade to become its own art form. Much like juggling as a performance art split from magic centuries ago, cardistry has now separated from magic far enough to be recognized as its own discipline. Unlike juggling, at least so far, cardistry …
In the middle of the pandemic, it’s almost a certainty that people are spending more time on social media. Scrolling through the various feeds, you might see an interesting sight: prop dance. It might have been called flow arts, prop manipulation, spinning, dance, or fire arts. Essentially, it’s just when someone is dancing around with or without music, utilizing an …
As artists, one of the hardest things in the world to do is talk about ourselves. And at the same time, it’s one of the best things we can do– not only as a way to present our art practice to others, but as a method to hone our purpose within it. It can be REALLY challenging to try to …
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about life in the performing arts business post pandemic, imagining the possible trends, and whether or not undercutting would become worse. During the 2018-2019 school year, I took a sabbatical from teaching high school English to be a performer full time. It was an incredible year, and I learned a lot of valuable lessons. …
A Colorful state of Flow By Juros Mufasa Hello from the Southern Side My life as a Flow Artist has taken me through some incredible and not so incredible moments. Over the course of learning how to manipulate objects proficiently I’ve met and lost friends along the way and I’ve reached the point where I’ve made peace with this. …
I started my flow arts journey in 2011 at social media’s apex, a pivotal point in human history. We finally had the ability to create, share and perceive each other in a way we hadn’t before. Prior to this technological boom, I spent my days existing in a predominantly white state, where even the liberal city still had some very …
The Spark: There are many roads that lead to the flow arts. Mine was at Georgia’s regional burn, Alchemy. It was fall of 2014, during my last semester of college. I was pursuing a practical but not so exciting degree in accountancy. I am a first-generation college graduate, a reality not uncommon in the African American community. I was …
By Thalia Patrinos (Tippy) I can distinctly remember a specific moment where I “found my flow.” I was performing at Psycho Stompers outside of Cape Town, South Africa — my first psychedelic trance party. It may have been the fact that I had stayed up all night. It may have been the fact that the music was overpowering me. …
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