Emiliano Alessi Manipulates and dances with a single club on stage at the EJC in Athens last year.

Beautiful movement, and working with shapes and dynamics. Well worth a watch.

I love parkour and the l’art du deplacement. The above video is a French group called ‘Speeders’ who are very very good and clearly they also do tricks, not just parkour.

Also for your viewing pleasure we have, Mister Puma, a man who does in fact look more comfortable on his arms than his feet. He’s French also, and if you get past the four or so handstand press ups he does in the training section at the start, you’ll see him doing very dangerous things that the French transport police (Do they have them?) don’t mind. VIDEO LINK

On the subject of amazing body control, we got a member of the British Tumbling Team - Damien Walters, doing some crazy crazy stuff, including a back tuck with a chair, and a front tuck to immediate double back. Yowsa! VIDEO LINK

Some beautiful parkour training from a young British chap - Phillip Doyle. He’s really powerful, agile and dedicated, but also, he’s barefoot for the entirety of this VIDEO: I love how long the swing of his arms is when he runs, just like a gymnast.

Finally a very very strong and gymnastic Russian - Oleg Vorslav. He’s doing things in this video that I seriously thought weren’t possible for the human body, but he’s making them look easy. Really, I’ve only ever seen gibbons do some of this stuff, and that’s a compliment. This is an art project film, so don’t expect to see much slow motion of the movements but it’s well done and amazing to watch. The amazingness starts at 3 minutes into this ten minute video. VIDEO LINK

The Foire Circus and juggling blog by Le Cimer (Kevin Wall)
A new blog, just a few weeks old, Foire is updated several times a day and has already got a healthy back catalogue of posts about Juggling, Manipulation and circus.

Huge thanks to MCP for being guest blogger for the last couple of weeks. she was too good, so we had to sack her. The next weeks theme will be “Juggling and manipulation blogs” - If you have one, that we don’t know about, please drop a note in the comments.

Too tired for a post European juggling convention report. Suffice to say it rocked. and it seems like 2008 was the year of ball on top of head, you’re basically a nobody, unless you have a ball on your head.

Above random video shows a canine with better head skills than me.

Smiles Drew

The first installment in the Happy Oree Friends series. Ori Roth is joined by Tavo and Edgar Groll; insane balancing and juggling ensues.

Thanks to MCP for her great posts last week
Happy Oree Friends : Ball, Club, Scissors

Here ya go, interwebbers. I directed a show for Inner Ring in Vancouver and couldn’t resist putting in a classic video game reference.

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Incredible skill and tight pants - Camp Hula hoop joy from Tigris. His live performance in Circus Space, London a few years ago was even better live than he appears here - good interaction with the audience playing up the sailor boy character.
Check the youtube user for 100 more pro-circus videos.

David Menes [previously on MoM.] has continued to elaborate on his routine. He is at a circus school in Canada and doing some very good juggling there as well. Lots of interesting contact juggling and body movement combined as well as lots of ‘normal’ juggling. Normal for David Menes I assume, pretty hard for the rest of us.

Dominic Lacasse is a French acrobat, who also does parkour, chinese pole and his specialty, the human flag. He also teaches strength training. In this video he does a beautiful performance with an Orchestra, Demonstrating his incredible strength and ability at the human flag. Watch till the end for when he does an isolated walk in the air.

He also holds or is trying to break the Guinness World Record for human flag endurance.

This video shows some more of his amazing feats of strength.

Two students of the Montreal Circus School perform a beautiful piece of Acrobalance with a story, characters, dance, absolutely stunning ‘tricks’… It’s almost beyond words. I love it.

Also, Phillipe is incredibly at Roue Cyr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8j7J4n5Qi0

I just got pwned. Beautiful dance, and well integrated contact staff in this glorious fire video. It makes me sigh with envy, but I’m glad she’s totally going for the beautiful contact staff dance style.

Performed by Linda Farkas on the 11th of July 2008 as a part of her solo show.

A Russian Juggler in a circus environment doing 2-3-4-5-6 stick juggling. Sticks: like clubs, but larger, and without the helpful weighting. He’s got an insane dance style. I just can’t believe he’s doing 6 stick juggling. Immense.