Kristina Sutcliffe is the founder O Dance and has been teaching Hoop and Latin dance in and around Boulder, Colorado for over 7 years. Kristina integrates her many years of dance experience and education (including a degree in Modern Dance from University of Colorado) into each of her dance classes, offering effective teachings to every level of student, empowering all to dance fully and find their own bliss and sensuality through movement. Within the last 4 years she has been cultivating the fusion of her two passions; Hoop and Latin Dance, diving deep into the essence of the poly rhythms that exist in each form finding a multitude of connections and layers that lead to a full circuit for the mind, body and soul. Kristina offers weekly classes, evening series, workshops, private classes and you will also find her teaching at dance retreats and congresses nationally and internationally.
SalsaHOOP workshop:
Caterina Suttin and Kristina Sutcliffe have been working together, combining their unique approaches to movement and hooping to develop SalsaHOOP and Twin Rhythms. SalsaHOOP is the fusion of Latin Dance and Rhythms with Hoop Technique. Caterina and Kristina have discovered that by using the body fully and adding footwork can facilitate learning of simple and complex hoop techniques. The teaching technique that has evolved is accessible for the beginner to advanced hooper and can be done with one to four hoops.
Caterina shares her mastery of highly technical hoop tricks, drills and breakdown of these techniques while Kristina shares her vast knowledge of body movement, complex rhythms and choreography and together they create a fusion of saturated, intentional movement with the inherent poly rhythms of dance and hoop techniques and mix it into a hot, fiery and fully embodied dance that is SalsaHOOP and Twin Rhythms.