Workshops
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Sling Workshops with Luna Finn
KISS - Keep It Simple, Silly! (Beg/Int)
Saturday, May 17, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
In this workshop we will be working through familiar fundamentals to find new pathways and poses on the sling.
Prerequisites: Understanding of crochets
Please note our cancellation policy:
If you cancel 48hrs prior to the workshop series, The Hive SF will issue 75% of your refund. If you cancel 24hrs prior to the workshop, The Hive SF will issue 0% refund, and 0% refund on same day cancellations.
Cost: $70
Saturday, May 17, 5:45 - 7:00pm
We’ll explore the possibilities of using the floor while manipulating the apparatus in interesting ways.
Prerequisites: Solid pullovers, ability to not take yourself too seriously.
Please note our cancellation policy:
If you cancel 48hrs prior to the workshop series, The Hive SF will issue 75% of your refund. If you cancel 24hrs prior to the workshop, The Hive SF will issue 0% refund, and 0% refund on same day cancellations.
Cost: $70
Sunday, May 18, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Learn a completely original sequence created by Luna.
Prerequisites: Aerial inversions, 30-second dead hang
Please note our cancellation policy:
If you cancel 48hrs prior to the workshop series, The Hive SF will issue 75% of your refund. If you cancel 24hrs prior to the workshop, The Hive SF will issue 0% refund, and 0% refund on same day cancellations.
Cost: $70
Sunday, May 18, 5:45 - 7:00 pm
This workshop will focus on slack loop exploration – using the extra slack to create teardrop poses and transitions.
Prerequisites: Inverting in the air, up to 2 min endurance on the apparatus
Please note our cancellation policy:
If you cancel 48hrs prior to the workshop series, The Hive SF will issue 75% of your refund. If you cancel 24hrs prior to the workshop, The Hive SF will issue 0% refund, and 0% refund on same day cancellations.
Cost: $70
About Luna
Luna Finn is a Bay Area-based circus performer, producer, visual artist, and union makeup artist. She specializes in aerial hammock/sling with an emphasis on act creation, character development, and movement quality. As the founder and director of DAM Circus, Luna focuses on group choreography and building strong creative communities. She is the visionary behind immersive productions like Salooniverse and Cosmic Expedition! and has coordinated performers for major festivals including Coachella and Envision Festival in Costa Rica.
Luna has been practicing circus for 15 years and has been teaching for the last 8 years.
Come Get Flexi with Gunnar Field
Flexibility for All Movers - Splits focus
Sunday, May 11, 4:00-6:00pm
Have you been working on your splits but want to take it to the next level or just looking for new drills or sequences to work on? Well look no further. In this workshop, we will work on how to get deeper into our hips, hamstrings, quads and adductors safely – putting an emphasis on engagement and elongation of the limbs and muscles.
Using active flexibility drills and strengthening exercises, Gunnar will show you how to make that split line even better. Focus will be on muscle isolation and activation, quad and glute engagement, hip flexor openers & stabilizers.
Prerequisites:
Forward pike touching toes or further
No existing injury that would impact stretching your legs
Please note our cancellation policy:
If you cancel 48hrs prior to the workshop series, The Hive SF will issue 75% of your refund. If you cancel 24hrs prior to the workshop, The Hive SF will issue 0% refund, and 0% refund on same day cancellations.
Cost: $80
Sunday, May 11, 6:15-8:15pm
Lyra is a beautiful apparatus, and flexibility lends itself to it very nicely.
Flowing from one pose to the next effortlessly is what we all want, and interesting transitions make the trick all the more stunning.
Focus will be on splits poses in many different variations, how to use your flexibility to your advantage as well as transitions through poses. We will learn how to spin and control your spin as well.
Prerequisites:
Experience with Lyra or other aerial apparatus
Comfortable doing straddle up
Comfortable back bending
Flat split or close to flat
Please note our cancellation policy:
If you cancel 48hrs prior to the workshop series, The Hive SF will issue 75% of your refund. If you cancel 24hrs prior to the workshop, The Hive SF will issue 0% refund, and 0% refund on same day cancellations.
Cost: $80
About Gunnar
Infusing Mongolian contortion techniques with his own flair, Gunnar Field is a contortion and hand-balancing coach with 30 years experience in body movmenet and mechanics. Gunnar has developed a unique approach to teaching the art of contortion, influenced by his past training in gymnastics and ballet. He has studied and trained contortion in Mongolia and China and has performed around the United States, Thailand & China.