Unique piece of performance; a technical study of rope manipulations and improvised acrobatics from Sergi Pares. All the rope tricks were done with his eyes closed.

Youtube link: Youtube
Interesting adaption of Michael Karas’s tinkertoy juggling prop, by a Japanese lad Hidenori Yukawa, youtube user: SHENNMU. I like that he does it so cleanly and that clearly it’s stick manipulation, as well as he gets up to five going in some interesting patterns. Good job.

[Ryan edit] More Shennmu (ring manipulation) after the click
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Go here and watch the video…
Oodles of good ideas, new props, technical techniques, and juggling pron. Pick any two of the jugglers and they their combined juggling experience is probably older than me. Words can’t describe… Just go and watch it.

Link to: Youtube
A young man who has graduated from NICA, the Australian circus school in Melbourne. I would like to see what he is up to now. A mix of styles with slightly Victor Kee esque moments sometimes. Don’t miss the beautiful entrance into five ball bounce juggling toward the end.

Quality 3 stick routine, with quality filming and editing. Performed by Elena Shapoval. Directed by Taras Pozdnyakov. Enjoy!
Can anyone remind me who pioneered this kind of stick manipulation?

Check out Taras’s youtube channel for some really top notch contemporary Russian circus including:
Dirty mary Balls and plait?![you'll see] manipulation/juggling/dance, performed by Masha Toryanik. Directed by Taras Pozdnyakov. Every one of them are worthy of a blog post on their own!
Thanks to Kyle for the link.

Hi di hi campers…
We know we’ve been silent for awhile now, sorry about that, too busy with other proejcts to post at the moment.
We’re looking for some guest bloggers, (and some ideas as to what to do next with the ministry project).
If you think you’ve got what it takes, to find and post videos or articles of high quality skills with movement, dance, juggling or manipulation, five posts in a week for 1 or 2 weeks, send a copy of what would be your first post to: drew @ this domain . com .

More funky club goodness from the hard-working Wes Peden.

From Youtube:

PROCESS: I do some painting and most of the time i have no idea what i am going to paint till i see a color i like and just work from that. This video felt quite much like that.I knew for a while i wanted to make a video with these trapping and tipping patterns but i didn’t know what it was going to look like or what style it would be or anything like that. When the clubs came i saw how beautiful they were and some images came into my head for what i wanted to do. The day before Jay told me about the band mum and i had been listening to their music a lot and thinking what visuals would look nice with it.
The day i went to shoot the video i walked into studio 10 and there was this beautiful beam of light shooting down out of a high window into the room (you can see it at the beginning of the movie) i immediately tried to shoot some juggling with it but after a minute a cloud went over it and made my soul cry salty tears. I went to the janitor and asked if i could barrow some floor lights for the day and he was super cool and let me do it. So i tried to take all the half formed images from painting, the clubs, the music, the sun and make it into one piece.

Youtube link
European Junior Championships Indoor cycling 2009.
Carla and Henriette Hochdorfer Artistic Cycling Juniors Women Pair, European Champions 2009, 2008.
2:43sec on, Two girls, one bike, on one wheel. OMG that’s insane!!1!

YouTube – Yesterday didn’t happen
Gorgeous 1 and 2 club manipulation from France by Maelle = club-super-geek
We’re digging the quality filming, editing and the 70′s colour effects too. Previously on MoM

Kyle - Interview and Video at ww.MinistryofManipulation.com

New video from the inhumanly talented Kyle Johnson, entitled “Smile, I know you want to…”

Interview with Kyle:

> Where do you live?

I live in Rocklin, California

> Is there a community of contact jugglers where you are?

Not really, maybe one or two others in my area but they dont focus on it. But I do sometimes go down to The Vulcan in Oakland which has a plethora of new juggling tricks that are contact based with all kinds of props, done by the very talented jugglers that live there.

> How would you describe contact juggling?

oh man… I like in In Isolation when nobody knows how to answer this question, because I don’t either. : )
It is constantly being added onto and evolving so it makes it hard to describe. Like a non juggler trying to count how many balls while they are being juggled.

> Why do you contact juggle?

Well the reason has changed many times, but basically its to learn, and I’ve learned a lot! Not just about juggling but in life, that so much more is possible than you think, if you can focus.

> What is the best piece of contact juggling that you’ve ever seen?

Well, the body rolls done by Enrico Rastelli, Francis Brunn, and Jeanine Ebnöther for a start, palmspinning of Drew Batchelor and Moon, and for isolation type contact its got to be Ryan, Ed and Colin have the best stuff I’ve seen, pretty much all of MOM : ). Best “piece” would have to be Jeanine’s BJC routine that was posted not too long ago or Kelvin Kalvus’ Das Supertalent performance… and Manne Hanke. The best piece changes all the time, sometimes back to older videos… I watch a lot of them.

> What do you think about when you are contact juggling?

Doing the trick correctly, then if I stray I drop… and I’m easily distracted.

> What is the future of contact juggling?

I hope jugglers will start doing more full body rolls and/or using their legs more. I know that there are way more flexible people then me out there, with a lot more possible tricks.

> Anything else you’d like to say to our MoM audience?

Thank you for watching, and now go juggle!

Kyle previously on MoM:
Barefoot Contact Juggling