How to dance with glowsticks

How to Dance With Glow Sticks at a Rave

A colourful and characteristic part of the rave music scene and culture, glow-stick dancing can be a great way to get into the spirit of a rave party. The dance can be as simple as waving your arms about while holding the glow-sticks, or as difficult as creating complicated designs and patterns with the glow-sticks. There is no set method to it, as it is mostly interpretive and freehand, and depends on whatever is most fun for the dancer.

Things Required:

– A pair of glow-sticks
– String
– Music to dance t0

Instructions

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Before you begin dancing with glow-sticks, make sure the lights are off, the music is on, and the party is in full swing. Take a minute to get into the zone, and familiarise yourself with the beat of the song that is currently playing.
2

Then proceed to bend your glow-sticks, to get the chemicals flowing, and wait until they begin to glow. Hold a glow-stick in each hand. To start, begin waving your arms with the beat of the music.
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3

As you get into it, start waving your arms in a figure eight pattern, and watch as the light from the glow-sticks forms the patterns you make. To make a circle, hold your arms outstretched, and spin around in a circle.
4

Another fun way to dance with glow sticks is to hold them as if you were directing traffic. Hold one up straight like a torch, and wave the other one about, or spin one in circles over your head, and wave the other in front of your face, like a windshield wiper.
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Once you start getting more comfortable with it, you can take it to a new level by tying a string to the end of the glow-stick – most come with a small hole for a string at the bottom, but if yours doesn’t, don’t try to tie a string around the entire glow-stick – it will slip right out and most probably hit someone. Make sure the knot is tight and secure.
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After the string has been tied on, you can start spinning the glow-stick in circles while holding the end of the string – do this in time to the beat of the music. Switch from one hand to another as you keep the glow-stick spinning. You can do the same steps with two glow-sticks at a time for added impact. Another great step is to wrap the string around the length of your forearm, and reel the stick in as you would a yo-yo.
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Glow-stick dancing can be even more fun if you do it with a partner or as a group. Grab a friend with glow-sticks, and you can both spin your glow-sticks in unison, and even stand with your backs to each other as you spin them. In addition, you can also gather lots of people, and make a glow-stick train.

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What Is Glowsticking? - Glowtopia

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Glowsticking is a form of dance where the performer uses glow sticks, or LED sticks to enhance their performance. Think of fire eating, ribbon dancing or poi but with glow sticks.

There are two different types of glowsticking, stringed or non-stringed.

Stringed Glowsticking

Stringed glowsticking is where the performer dances with a glow stick or glow sticks attached to strings, allowing a wider range of movement and expression. The wide range of movements, styles and concepts have a lot in common with other arts that involve stringing, such as yo-yoing, martial arts and rope darts which are all performed with an instrument at the end of a string. Some people use handles to greater increase the range of movement available.

One of the trickiest things to learn if you get into stringed glowsticking is how to tie your strings. This video tutorial goes into more depth about how to get it right.

Freehand Glowsticking

Freehand glowsticking can often be confused with things like juggling. But if someone chose to juggle with glow sticks you may be tempted to call it glowsticking – but that wouldn’t be correct. Only when glow sticks relate to dancing, is the act considered to be glow sticking. Freehand glowsticking doesn’t involve strings and there are lots of movements and concepts involved in the art. Terms you might come across in relation to freehand glowsticking are:

Tracing (where the person runs the glow sticks along their body)
Taps
Tossing
Stalls
Threading
Figure-Eight

Check out these incredible examples of glowsticking:

The History of Glowsticking

Glowsticking is said to have started out in the 80’s in New York and in the UK. In the 90’s it became more widespread and popular in the rave scene, although glow sticks were also used for glow wars many years before. Since then, it has become most common at festivals and in the electronic dance scene.

Some claim that glowsticking is the ancient cultural art of poi but with added glow sticks, suggest that glowsticking actually has roots going hundreds of years back into New Zealand history.

The truth is that glow sticking did originate from the poi art form, because those practising poi performed at raves using glow sticks and many poi moves are used. But, glow sticking purists will say there are specific movements that only come from the art form. Whilst a performer might integrate some poi techniques, glowsticking is an art form stands in its own right, with its own set of moves and rules.

The art of glow sticking continues to grow and be enjoyed by many people in many different settings and cultures. If you’re interested in learning the art yourself, you can find a lot of tips at www. glowsticking.com. Or simply checkout the many glowsticking videos available on Youtube, which are super fun to watch, even if you don’t fancy having a go yourself.

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