Another performer seemingly inspired by Michael Moschen, Greg Kennedy has been adapting the bouncing techniques from MM’s ”Triangle” using different shapes such as cones, circles and right angles. This performance of Orthogonal [YOUTUBE link] at the 1997 IJA Cascade of Stars features some beautiful and surprising patterns, but personally i would have enjoyed more if he did the robot and played old-school hip-hop instead of Filter:”Hey Man Nice Shot.” But maybe thats just me…

A nicely produced contact vid from Kamil Dzilinski of Poland.

Looks like Kamil has a lot of interesting things going on.
Expect a few more clips from him soon…

Drew from The Ministry has been working full time producing a book on Multiball Contact. It’s being proof read at the moment and very nearly ready for publication. We though you might like to see some sample pages and a now updated press release.
Contents Page
Free Sample Lesson 9 - Snakes
(These are unproofed and untested: A cookie for anyone who tries them out and finds new typo’s or suggests good ammendments. We know of 2 already in that pdf.)
When can you get a copy? Somewhere between Christmas and the end of January. Price: TBC.
Nearly there now.
Smiles, Drew

Ejc2007 the European Juggling Convention - 30th July to 5th August 2007 Athens,Greece.
Are you coming?

My pumpkin this year… one of Banksy’s rats.

Nowhere near as detailed as some of the pumkins at pumpkingutter.com, but I’m still pretty happy with how it turned out.

Ryan [Ministry]

I remember Ryan bringing this piece to my attention on www.contactjuggling.org a while ago, but unfortunately he could only find half the routine…

I managed to find the full routine on youtube. This piece is performed by The China Disabled People’s Arts Troupe. All the dancers in this routine, as well has having amazing body control, are all Deaf, blind, or handicapped in some way. That means they either can’t hear or see their cues…

This video is truly inspirational, showing some of the really cool effects that can be created by multiple persons… Anyone else see the tuts and waves in there? not to mention the personal difficulties experienced by the performers.

ED aka “LTC”
[Ministry]

http://www.jochenschell.de

Ring isolation video Very good technique and presentation, very much inspired by Moschen it seems. And damn it, I want a spinning top on a Samurai Sword (video link) :).

Brilliant skills from this German performer who has been in the business nearly 2 decades. I remember feeling, when watching him on stage at EJC Carvin, that there was something slightly sinister about his stage character, I hope its only the stage makeup! For me, it all added to the performance.
Enjoy, Drew.

A 2nd promotion video by Masaki Hirano (produced by Juggler Senjyu)

I remember a drunken pub conversation with London’s Matt Brown which went like this:

Ryan: “Is juggling cool?”

Matt: “No. Magic is cool. Breakdancing is cool. Juggling though… at least to the rest of the world, isn’t cool. Its geeky”

Ryan: “But what about Matt Hennem? He’s cool”

Matt: “Thats because Matt Hennem is disguising his juggling as breakdancing”




YouTube link

Masaki Hirano is cool. With his blend of 3 ball juggling and tutting, he makes us forget that we are watching something innately geeky. I mean, just look at those shades, baggy jeans and that ‘I’m bored” expression. Awsome.

Ryan [Ministry]

118-118 do the honda choir advert
This shouldn’t be here. (lobster manipulation?)

Beautiful music video featuring a floating chair made out of acrylic balls. (CGI) Thanks to Zoc for the link.
(for work: features naked people who don’t have any nipples or rude bits.)

Stretching the definition of ”object manipulation”, here is a skateboarding vid that even you jugglers gotta respect. Rodney Mullen has been doing it with style and innovation for decades… If I were a skateboarder, he’d be my hero.



YOUTUBE link

A skateboarding video in a circus blog… what’s next, eh?

Much Credit to 411 Video Mag for producing the clip.
Credits are important… we are only helping to bring you guys some of the best new circus content on the net. To get these clips from a real life event to the internet, we rely on good production companies out there like 411
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Ryan

The French Manipulators and jugglers have a great online community at jongle.net With discussion on all areas of manipulation, swinging, juggling and contact, all in one bullitin board.

There’s A whole area of videos and check the rest of the forum, as it seems that videos often crop up in other places. eg If you are into ball contact, this is a great archive of Balle Contact Videos

If you don’t read French, theres an excellent Firefox extension called Foxlingo which will translate the site in browser and keep the page layout, the translations are sometimes a bit funny, but they’re enough to let you work it out. To get you started “massues”=clubs.
Big hello to all our French friends.
Drew