First video in the new series; shot on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Ryan Mellors and Daydream will be running a series of contact juggling workshops across Canada this summer. The aim of the workshop is to give students a foundation in contact juggling technique as well as introduce them to many of the concepts that form the basis of modern contact & manipulation. The unique workshop is divided into five parts, and will be structured as follows: Read the rest of this entry »
MoM’s got a review copy, we’ll put together a detailed review soon, in the meantime. They’ve done the decent thing and put 4 clips, and loads of info on their site so you can decide for yourself.
Order it on their site, the tax is £16:99 if you live in UK and £17:99 if you live in International.
Short Version above Longer version: Juggling and a bit of magic // Current
Profile of contact juggling street performer - Nimi Ben Shalom
Produced by Elizabeth Wood.
Yea yea. we know - we’ve been pushing the contact juggling videos a lot recently - normal diverse service will return to MoM shortly
Ok, so he doesn’t do the robot (nor does he dress the part) but Patrick Lemoine fulfills my requirements for an acceptably awesome popping & funkstyles/juggling performance. His act is composed of hat, 3 ball and cigar box tricks; its a repackaging of a standard vegas-styled act (i.e. the cheezy plastered-on grin and the mindless audience cues) but his dancing is pretty tight and if I try really really hard, I could imagine that Patrick actually has some legit street cred.
Mika Quartz seamlessly blends contact juggling with magic. Can’t find words to describe how good this is, Just watch it, and wish that Youtube was high resolution and 3D like real life!
It’s the dream for contact jugglers, to reach the point where the audience no longer know, if you let go of the ball, will it fall to the ground or float to the sky. And it’s rare joy for this jaded old hand of the Ministry to experience that sensation again.
Thank you Franck, One of the best clips we’ve seen this year.
Drew
SWARM is built to explore the aesthetic possibilities and the emergent behavior of artificial systems. As a first step, Orbs are remote-controlled by human operators, but each Orb’s sounds and color illumination is algorithmically generated in response to location and motion. Each Orb has sophisticated navigational sensors including GPS, accelerometers, and solid-state gyroscopes. We are progressing towards sophisticated navigational algorithms, exactly like those used in spacecraft, that allow each Orb to determine its location and trajectory with high accuracy. From this, we can explore emergent and cooperative behavior like flocking as well as new possibilities in machine choreography. SWARM is not a simulation. SWARM is a platform for the art of the 21st century.
Here’s a video of Thierry’s act from Cirque au Bout du Monde last year.
Video plays in reverse. I love the weird sounds, the starting with five balls, finishing with one, and how for a lot of it, you wouldn’t even realise he’s heading backwards…
For videos and a description of the workshop, click HERE
To Register, email: contactworkshops@gmail.com
In our efforts to spread creative contact juggling techniques, The Ministry is sending Ryan Mellors and Daydream across Canada to teach an all-levels contact juggling workshop in 5 parts: History, Butterflies and Curves, Multiball, Isolations and Lines, and a Show and Tell at the end. The workshops will be held in the following Canadian cities:
Victoria, British Columbia (July 9th) Vancouver, British Columbia (July 15th) Nelson, British Columbia (July 19th) Calgary, Alberta (July 21st) Medicine Hat, Alberta (July 23rd) Edmonton, Alberta (July 26th) Regina, Saskatchewan (July 27th) Montreal, Quebec (July 31st) Toronto, Ontario (August 2nd or 3rd, TBC)
All workshops will run for 2-3 hours during the date specified; cost is $20-35 depending on venue/etc. Specific location/pricing info will be made available to everyone who contacts us. The email is: contactworkshops@gmail.com
First video in the new series; shot on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Canada
absolutely fantastic *___* I would like so much to follow your workshops!...