Seems like nowadays all my inspiration comes from dance and acrobatic videos… and whatever Wes Peden posts…

Lewie West made a new video:

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Seems like everytime he posts a new video, I’ll have to blog it. Sweet.

Ronan showed me a very old video of an amazing dancer and he just popped back onto the internet with a new collaboration video:

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And the video that Ronan showed me which is still amazing: YouTube Link And thou the above video may contain some weirdness, this one contains pretty much just awesomeness and a lot of titles.

Finally, a man blogged on this blog before, Olivier Mathieu and his friend:Thierno Thioune. Doing some dance that even Ryan will think is amazing:

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Going off to dance now…

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I think I understand why this guy is called Rubberlegz, thou it seems to have infected all of his limbs…

B-Boys doing solo dance numbers? Not in a battle? Yes it’s true! SWEEEEEET.

You’ll not believe where this guy can put his legs. In a good way.

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.

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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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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.

I just watched this DVD a 2 days ago and there is still a party in my head from it! there is super sick juggling in it with Erik doing a ring routine with a new technique that no one else in the work is using and genius/badass routines from Jay including the manipulation routine using 3 clubs with giant holes cut out through the centers!!!!…!!! think about how awesome that manipulation can be… it’s ever better than you’re thinking!!

i would like to write out every beautiful thing in the DVD but i want to leave some surprise. but uhhh… drills and spinning balls… ??? think about it think about it….

anyway i thought it was awesome and it has what i consider some really great ground breaking manipulation in it so i thought i would let you guys know about it.

here is what it says in the youtube info next to the trailers.

Shoebox Tour Iceland 2009 Limited Edition 3 Disc Set-

On sale soon- ordering details to follow…
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Not so many kids kickin the blocks around these days but Eric has some fun new stuff and an ending trick that made me scream so loud Patrik stopped cutting potatoes to come see what happened.

check out his channel for his earlier videos which are also dope like a ski slope made out of cantaloupe.

http://www.youtube.com/user/EricBMcgill

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While doddering around on youtube, I came across this. A perfectly formed marvel. If all circus acts could be this innovative and expressive… wow, the world would be too awesome for me.

Really you should check the youtube page for all the informations. It’s in french, but don’t let that stop you.

Alessandro Maida

I know this video is long but if you just hang in there and be patient it will pay off with some very interesting  contemporary movements on and around a walking globe, as well as on the ground involving three balls.
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Lewie West, and I hope he used his real name there, contains a nugget of purest awesome. He tours with CIRCA and is part of the CIRCA ensemble and here in this video, he is training in the CIRCA space in Brisbane.

In this and his other videos, which you should also definately check out because they all contain extremely high levels of awesome and epic combined, he is doing a mixture of gymnastics, tricking, breakdance and floorwork which is both graceful and (at least to me) extremely creative.

Another video of heaps awesomeness: YouTube again.

I hope to get to meet him at the CIRCA space soon. I’m going to totally be unable to talk to him.

Thanks to Mark P for the link…

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Well… aerial dance, physical theater…. whatever you will call it. It’s got big objects and they are manipulated in amazing ways and that’s why we at www.ministryofmanipulation.com love them to bits. (well.. there are other reasons too… read below to find out)

More videos ( and a personal note from Ryan, Jea9, Drew, Ed and Colin) after the jump

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