The Ministry of Manipulation

Circomedia students Ben Smith and Dan Liddiard’s professional/action showreel for 2010. Big up the Bristol Crew! via suggest a link.

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What contempory circus would be if you had a dream of it and your dreams were extremely creative.

But wait, there’s going to be more: “James Thiérrée’s fourth full-length creation, Raoul (a theatre piece blending contemporary circus, movement, music and poetry) was co-commissioned by the Barbican Centre and will make its debut in London in October 2009.”

Damn you londoners.

Lovely, peaceful video of Moon, made by Sigalit Productions.

Lovely editing, camera work, manipulations… You really feel as if you can get to know Moon in this video as he shows how calm and methodical he is. Nice to have such a well made manipulation video with a personality.

Stunning work. More videos like this please!

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Oh yeah, I have to not make jokes about big balls. Ok, so this is a girl doing three of those large gym balls, the squishy ones, that you supposedly use to build up your core strength, but you actually just roll around on. This I assume Russian Ukrainian, has made a whole act out of rolling around on them, in a graceful way. There’s also some ball spinning, behind the head rolls, antipodism, and acrobatics with the big balls.

It’s always nice to see new props being used with innovative manipulation.

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Friday Fun, Contact juggling snail does flawless eyestalk to eyestalk roll, head balance with 3.
Thanks to Valerie for the link.

I’m clearing out my e-mails (for the last 2 years!):
Kentaro Kobayashi Paddle and video – Genius. Thanks to Pich for the link.
Kim Buchler Posted photos of the MoM workshop last April in the Katakomben. Yay. Jeanine, Kelvin, Ed, MCP and maybe you!
I was reminded how much I like the 2nd half of Woutraub Raum after 3:19.
All that Music – Christof Buch Club Juggling, thanks to Tommy.
Loads of other great videos over on Suggest a link: Thanks to You lot!

i was chatting on facebook with one of my friends and we were trying to figure out if this finnish girl liked me or not. i happened to go to youtube while we were talking and saw this pop up in my subscriptions!!! boom! one of the few things prioritizes over my interest in finnish trapeze girls is japanese juggling boys!

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Incredibly graceful, incredibly strong, actually really beautiful Aerial Straps from the ‘World Champion’ Straps artist, Igor Zaripov. I love watching this… you see something you’ve seen done before on straps, and then you blink and realise he is doing it the hard way, slowly and gracefully. Beautiful. Well done that man.

The people we’ve taken on as guest contributors over the years are awesome people.
When Kyle, Wes Peden, Moon, or MCP make a new video, you know it’s going to be good.

So this is a thank you, from me (Ryan) to the rest of the M.o.M crew. You guys rock, seriously. Thanks for stopping in and adding your favorite stuff here on M.o.M and thanks for your commitment to your disciplines. You are all phenomenal artists and we want to see more of you here!

Click below for 4 videos (never posted here before) reminding you why our contributors are awesome.
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This is mad new style hooping, of yes, awesome. Not quite sure of the name of the girl yet, apart from Jane, been trying to find out if she was supposed to be at the Sydney Juggling Convention.

Anyway, she does mad awesome hooping on a pole, so that you get the low space underneath you, she uses that to great effect, makes the pole do hoop, does pancakes and beautiful juggling transitions and owns some of the old style Bob Branson hoop rolling… Epic, watch it.

Fellow Bristolians, the super fun Pantalooneys have won a well earned Hoopie, the “Performance of the Year Hoopie Award 2010″. Dang, the hooping community is so organised. You can see the rest of the 2010 winners here.

Clip from Trigger Happy TV, a hidden camera TV series from the UK.

I wanna know who Dom Joly gives that cash to…