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Operation Bike Nation and The Sprockettes Hit Santa Cruz
The Sprockettes, Portland's all female mini-bike dance team, rolled their veggie oil powered bus into Santa Cruz to give two free performances at the Bike Church on July 22nd. Operation Bike Nation 2008, stopping in bike-friendly towns from Santa Cruz to Seattle, features sex-positive club music while The Sprockettes dance in hot pink and black clothing and do tricks on mini-bikes.
The Sprockettes say their mission is to support and interact with the communities around them, advocate bicycle riding, promote positive self-image for all body types, encourage a healthly and physical lifestyle, and to organize and operate their dance troupe in a collective fashion.
The Sprockettes say their mission is to support and interact with the communities around them, advocate bicycle riding, promote positive self-image for all body types, encourage a healthly and physical lifestyle, and to organize and operate their dance troupe in a collective fashion.
From the website of The Sprockettes:
Sprockettes.org » About
http://sprockettes.org/about
Our Mission:
The Sprockettes are an all female synchronized mini-bike dance troupe.
In a basic sense it is our mission to entertain audiences by choreographing dances while using our bikes in our performance.
In a broader sense, it is our mission to:
-Support and interact with the community around us.
-Advocate bicycle riding.
-Empower and inspire people to live out their crazy and wildest dreams, therefore embracing the badassocity of life and living their full potential.
-Promote positive self-image for all body types, offering an alternative to the dangerous mono-culture of what the ideal body type is; and promote female positive perspective that celebrates women’s empowerment.
-Encourage, exercise, movement, health, and pro-physical lifestyle.
-Organize and operate our dance troupe in a collective fashion.
Her-story:
The Sprockettes began in the spring of 2004 when a pioneering group of ladies decided to put together a performance for the Multnomah County Bike Fair. The crowd response was so positive and we had so much fun that we thought it would be rad to stay together and see where it would take us.
Since then, we’ve performed from San Francisco to Vancouver B.C., toured in a veggie oil powered bus, held workshops and skill shares, received national media recognition and inspired international bike dance teams.
The journey of the Sprockettes has been amazing, held together by our passion for dancing, bicycles, DIY ideology, and striving to promote a healthy body image.
Our members are an eclectic group of women: we are teachers, artists, gardeners, social workers, musicians, mothers, bankers, nannies, writers and students.
We work as a collective choreographing, practicing, making merchandise and performing. We are constantly evolving.
http://sprockettes.org
Sprockettes.org » About
http://sprockettes.org/about
Our Mission:
The Sprockettes are an all female synchronized mini-bike dance troupe.
In a basic sense it is our mission to entertain audiences by choreographing dances while using our bikes in our performance.
In a broader sense, it is our mission to:
-Support and interact with the community around us.
-Advocate bicycle riding.
-Empower and inspire people to live out their crazy and wildest dreams, therefore embracing the badassocity of life and living their full potential.
-Promote positive self-image for all body types, offering an alternative to the dangerous mono-culture of what the ideal body type is; and promote female positive perspective that celebrates women’s empowerment.
-Encourage, exercise, movement, health, and pro-physical lifestyle.
-Organize and operate our dance troupe in a collective fashion.
Her-story:
The Sprockettes began in the spring of 2004 when a pioneering group of ladies decided to put together a performance for the Multnomah County Bike Fair. The crowd response was so positive and we had so much fun that we thought it would be rad to stay together and see where it would take us.
Since then, we’ve performed from San Francisco to Vancouver B.C., toured in a veggie oil powered bus, held workshops and skill shares, received national media recognition and inspired international bike dance teams.
The journey of the Sprockettes has been amazing, held together by our passion for dancing, bicycles, DIY ideology, and striving to promote a healthy body image.
Our members are an eclectic group of women: we are teachers, artists, gardeners, social workers, musicians, mothers, bankers, nannies, writers and students.
We work as a collective choreographing, practicing, making merchandise and performing. We are constantly evolving.
http://sprockettes.org
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just lovely!
Hey bikes r cool n all but honestly this has been done before (Cyclecide Bike Rodeo), and very well. It looks like all involved aren't as creative as they all obviously think they are...is this a mission or fun? I can't tell. Recently I've become more aware and concerned with what activist-geared (no pun) events/etc appear as to "normal" folk- and how effective they are really....and honestly how much more cliche is "all female" "sex positive" (lemme guess they are all non-monogamous and practice freeganism, de-gender all their language, and all the really really cool kid stuff like good little portlandites)
It seems that activist projects like this really lack a clear "vision" (even though they have mission statements) and end up appearing crazy and without a cohesive message....this is all bad...a solution? Well I dont have it- I just know that people need to draw a clear line between FUN and MISSION. It may be easy for you and your troupe/collective/etc to do BOTH...in a perfect world it'd be great...but in this one, "normal" folk cant tell the difference....thats why I use the word CLEAR.
Just some ideas that have been stirring around in my head, being an recovering anarchist from Eugene/Portland (1991-2002) and seeing many beautiful attempts at creating TAZ'es and PAZ'es, etc, etc, etc, etc....and seeing them fail due to infighting, patriarchal problems (men AND women), and also a lack of a CLEARLY DEFINED MISSION. Thats all. i know most'll look at this is some insane rant, its just honestly the best I can do to express this undefined/neglected problem in radical movement(s).....up the byke punx!
It seems that activist projects like this really lack a clear "vision" (even though they have mission statements) and end up appearing crazy and without a cohesive message....this is all bad...a solution? Well I dont have it- I just know that people need to draw a clear line between FUN and MISSION. It may be easy for you and your troupe/collective/etc to do BOTH...in a perfect world it'd be great...but in this one, "normal" folk cant tell the difference....thats why I use the word CLEAR.
Just some ideas that have been stirring around in my head, being an recovering anarchist from Eugene/Portland (1991-2002) and seeing many beautiful attempts at creating TAZ'es and PAZ'es, etc, etc, etc, etc....and seeing them fail due to infighting, patriarchal problems (men AND women), and also a lack of a CLEARLY DEFINED MISSION. Thats all. i know most'll look at this is some insane rant, its just honestly the best I can do to express this undefined/neglected problem in radical movement(s).....up the byke punx!
if anything, this world needs more groups like the sprockettes. positive fun with a message.
thank you bike church for having them come to our town!
I know this may be a little late, as the previous comment was posted so long ago, but I feel like a response is necessary. I am an active member of The Sprockettes and reading the above comment was a sharp stinging in my little heart. I understand that opinions differ about the productivity and or relevance of collectives and becoming jaded about them is only natural, making generalizations and assumptions about who we are and what we do on the other hand, I think is a little unfair. First, we do not have some grandiose idea that we are better than we are, we try our best to push ourselves for improvement and want to entertain through that. We believe that what we do(along with our mission statement) has had not only an effect on ourselves, but others as well. Believe it or not, we have ended performances with some people making a conscious decision to begin riding their dusty old bike because we showed the funner side, making it more accessible to people who thought cycling was for an elite group only. Secondly, we do not share the "good little Portlandite" attitude you speak of. That is a rude and demeaning comment. You do not know us. If you're mad at Portland, that's one thing, but don't put that on us. And lastly, who cares if being "all female" is cliche? There still, after all this time, is a lot to be said about a group of women working toward a common goal, and if being active in that makes us cliche, fine, I am ok with that.
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