Hey, All! Here is a link to the Duo Circus Hoop act that my dear friend Lianne Ratzersdorfer and I cooked up for the Esh Circus Arts Fall Student Showcase entitled “I WASTE IT WITH MY CROSSBOW! A Tale of Teen Angst and D&D”. More thanks than can be expressed must go to Shane Bushey, for agreeing to be our Dungeon Master/Narrator on incredibly short notice and becoming a full-blown third collaborator. And still more thanks must go to our coaches for the act, Elise Sipos and Johnny Blazes for nurturing our nutty ideas, despite our getting a late start on our choreo. A shoutout has to go to Rachael Chapin Longo for accommodating our last-minute point rental requests. But above all, Lianne deserves gratitude for being willing to share this journey, the first step of which was taken when we were trying to think of what we could create for this Showcase that was themed around “True Stories”, and our shared nerdy teen biographies and experiences with Fantasy Role-Playing Games crossed.
Video credit: Beren Jones
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