[Sw-l] Sutton HoopWriting

Thu Aug 29 20:47:46 UTC 2019

Hi Valerie and other SW list readers,

Thanks for your kind reply, Valerie!

Strange the PDF wasn't visible, I've added it again, so hopefully it will
work this time! Also I've just uploaded my first ever YouTube video :) You
can find it here: https://youtu.be/GRwFrUeiTnM

A bit more about hoop dance: it's basically dancing with a hoop. You'll
probably know waist hooping, but you can also spin the hoop around your
chest, shoulders, knees, spin it on your hand, pass it around your body,
throw it in the air, doing isolations (where it seems the hoop stays in the
same space, like you'll see in the video), etc. To make it easier to not
drop the hoop all the time, adults use adult hoops, which are bigger and
heavier than the ones for children.
By combining different moves, you can create a sequence. You can do moves
on different planes, like on the front vertical plane (e.g. spinning it on
your hand in a vertical position in front of you body) or the horizontal
plane (e.g. spinning it on your hand horizontally above your head). To be
able to do the moves, it's important to use the right handshapes for that
move (e.g. holding the hoop with palms facing out or spinning the hoop on
your hand with four fingers stretched together and thumb sticking out). To
be able to transition from one move to the next, handshapes and hand
positions are also important, for example with some transitions you should
let the hoop spin on your thumb for one spin and then on four fingers.
Lines of movement are also very important, for example in transitions from
above the head to waist height, but also in moves where you throw the hoop
in the air or where you roll the hoop on your body (for example from your
shoulder diagonally over your back). I hope it's a bit clearer now what
hoop dance is and also why it reminded me of sign language and SignWriting
:)

My SignWriting didn't get a lot of practise lately, but hopefully it's a
bit readable :) Like I said in my first email I've stolen some punctuation
symbols to represent the hoop and the movement arrows that symbolise the
movement of the hoop have a little circle added at the tail. The pdf and
the video show a full sequence (the numbers in the pdf represent the 8-beat
count). Hopefully later I'll write down some individual moves, like some of
the ones I mentioned above.

Have a nice day!

Kind regards,
Suzanne Pach

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:17 PM Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
wrote:

> SignWriting List
> August 27, 2019
>
> Hello Suzanne and everyone on the SignWriting List!
>
> It is great to hear from you again, Suzanne. Thank you for your message
> below, and for your work with SignWriting a decade ago. Thanks to you, for
> the first time, signs and phrases and songs were written in British Sign
> Language (BSL) in SignPuddle Online, and Dutch Sign Language too, and I
> remember you taught workshops in the UK and also had a SignWriting blog ...
> that was a significant contribution for many people who have been
> downloading and using your writing and also your SignWriting games - thank
> you!
>
> So now you are writing Hoop Dancing with DanceWriting and SignWriting, and
> you call it Sutton HoopWriting? Wow... ;-)
>
> Thank you that you are a pioneer once again - I know nothing about Hoop
> Dancing so you will need to tell us more about it.
>
> Meanwhile, the PDF document, and the video, that you mention in your email
> were not attached to your message.
>
> There should be no problem to send us a PDF to the SignWriting List, so
> please send it again. However, posting a video might be too big for the
> SignWriting List Listserve software so usually people post the video they
> want to share on YouTube or another server, and then post a link to the
> video for our SignWriting List readers to follow.
>
> If you have no place to post your video, you and I can email privately to
> find a way for me to access the video and post it on our YouTube channel
> for you and then create a link for the SignWriting Lisst.
>
> I look forward to seeing what HoopWriting looks like!
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------
>
> Message from Suzanne posted on the SignWriting List, August 27, 2019:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I tried to post this on the Facebook group yesterday, but it wasn't really
> working, so I'll try it again this way :)
>
> I hope you're all well, it has been quite a while! About ten years ago I
> used to do quite a bit of SignWriting for Dutch and British sign language.
> The last few years I haven't really been focussed on using sign language /
> SignWriting. However I am doing hoop dance (hula hoop) quite a bit and this
> made me realise how similar the two are: hand shapes, hand positions,
> movement paths, planes of movement... These are all very important in both
> sign language and hoop dance. So I thought I'd give Sutton HoopWriting a
> go!
>
> I've attached a pdf of a hoop sequence I wrote down using Signmaker. What
> do you think about it? Can you read it? (I've stolen some punctuation
> symbols to represent the hoop! And the movement arrows that symbolise the
> movement of the hoop have a little circle added at the tail.)
>
> I've also attached a video of me performing the sequence twice.
>
> I actually found it quite hard to write the sequence down, but I think it
> can be very useful. And it will hopefully get easier if I try a bit more!
> Also I actually created the sequence by writing it down first, then
> checking if it would work with the hoop.
>
> I know SignWriting started as dance writing, but are there still people
> today who use SignWriting to write down sports/dance movement?
>
> Kind regards,
> Suzanne Pach (from the Netherlands)
>
>
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