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Handstand experts as well as first-timers young and old are invited to come to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn to log seconds and minutes with their feet off the floor. Handstanders can use the wall, a spotter, or several spotters. Their handstand times will be added to a collective handstand pool. The goal for the total time of people with their feet raised is 3 hours.
Handstanders are encouraged to download pledge sheet and enlist sponsors for each second they stand on their hands. Or donors can offer contributions based on special challenges such as $1 for every "first-timer" or $100 for 25 people in a simultaneous 30-second handstand. The event will be enlived by performances by students from the LAVA Studio's current roster of classes. Local vendors including a taco truck, Italian ices, beer, wine, and Fizzy Lizzy soft drinks, will be on hand throughout the event.
LAVA's community programs include 2 days a week of Open Workout, offered free to kids ages 5 to 15 throughout the LAVA Studio's 3 10-week sessions. The studio also hosts free community performance nights called Night of Renegades, which has included trapeze, poetry, theater, dance, acrobatics, and clowning performed by kids, adults, students and professionals in a festive, supportive, and extremely diverse atmosphere. In addition, LAVA's community programs include a partnership with Public School 9 through which dozens of students from P.S. 9 learn acrobatics from LAVA company members.
LAVA is a performance troupe based in Brooklyn dedicated to creating original, empowering, boundary-breaking performances based in dance and acrobatics. The LAVA Studio is their home base where they rehearse, train, offer classes to kids and adults, and host several community programs. For more info including photos and video footage of the company as well as last year's HANDSTAND-A-THON, click here or call 718-399-3161.
