Short Review: Buy it.

Longer Review:
Buy it, it’s brilliant.
Lots of atmosphere, lots of high skills in both juggling and manipulation, lots of fun, lots of shows, lots of ideas, high quality filming, great editing and 4 hours long (2 disks). Totally raised our expectations of how good an event DVD can be, best EJC video ever. If you are into Juggling or Manipulation I recommend this for your Christmas wish list.
Computer game style review: 97.2%
Enjoy watching these 2 online 2 sample clips.
You can buy it online at juggling.tv for £16 + p+p.
Howie and Jen made it Howie Bailey - video PRODUCTION.

Phew, got through the whole post without mentioning PEGS!

Street Juggling YouTube Link

Street Juggling is a cool, funky, playful video thats got skills and a nice attitude, good filming and editing too. Gotta love that fish eye lens in a skateboard video style. It’s from K8 Malabares juggling shop in Argentina.

(Link via juggling store blog)

Note sure about the legitimacy of this (too much good stuff!!!), but here’s a 40Min EJC vid from Metlilimout with clips from many of the shows (Renegade, Open stage and Mainstage) featuring some beautiful manipulation and juggling from… well… just about everybody!

Google Video - To watch Fullscreen

It seems negative space is pretty ”in” these days (thank you Stephan Sing!) as you can see it in use with clubs, balls and cigar boxes.
We’ve been waiting ages for some EJC vids to show up (there were tonnes of cameras there.. so we knew it was inevitable) but for the longest time our EJC video and Colin’s EJC video were the only things out there (both focused on contact.. we assumed all the normal jugglers just gave up) But no! Apparently you’ve just been working hard on these things…

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
Jay Gilligan & Manu (featuring clips from his Duet: Snakewater)
[5:00] [13:55][29:35]

Pascal (Hip-Hop Hats act)
[4:08]

Bruno (contact juggling)
[12:43][20:56]

Matt Hennem (contact and bodypopping)
[9:10]

Stephan Sing [lots of footage from his UNBELIEVABLE Openstage Act]
[15:35] [16:15] [ 17:05] [18:53]
[21:45][22:44][29.03][30:04][36:18]

Volleyclub (a great volley!)
[27:30]

Chris (contact juggling)
[16:30]

The Rizzla trick
[31:30]

And even the bodypopping/silhouette dance routine from the Open Stage, made it in there! I found the silhouette dance wasn’t to my taste, but I’ve seen 2 lots of video footage of it since that both looked fantastic. A rare example of something looking better on screen than IRL. [26.09].

So grab yourself a cup of tea and take 40 minutes off.. this is a good one.

Download Link 175mb Mp4 [Plays with Quicktime, VideoIpod, Sony PSP] [UNTESTED]

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

Thanks to Bousk for this Carvin Convention 2006 video on youtube showing Impressive juggling and manipulation:

YOUTUBE link fullscreen
YOUTUBE link small

Ed writes: Carvin was an amazing convention spent watching amazing skill, and some amazing silliness as well…
Look out for Jeanine, Jonas Althaus (cool three ball Juggler), Marijke Gevers (excellent Clubswinging), Jive Faury and Bruno Labouret of In Isolation.

imperfectcirquel.avi [High Quality 150Mb!]
imperfectcirquelmq.avi [Medium Quality]
Suddenly the future of Juggling and manipulation web videos looks a lot brighter! Just by watching the intro’s you’ll know this is DVD quality in the filming and editing, and very high res file too :). (not low res You-tube clips). And the quality of the skills equally brilliant, Enjoy:

Shay Wapniaz: contact juggling
Lorenzo “SID” Crivellari: balls and clubs
Stefano “DIABLISTA” Mestroni: balls and diablo
Pietro “BUSK” Selva Bonino: diablo
Federico “EXART” Fiordigiglio: unicycle
Alessio “EVVIVA” Dantignana: staff
Daniele “KASETTA” Caselli: balls
Silvia “STREGAI” Pavone: hula hoops
Emanuele “MOON” Marchione: bouncing balls

Looking forward to seeing more of these folk, and more high quality videos like this in future.
Smiles
Drew

Welcome
to the The Hangar,

a circus training studio in East London.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER

Browse the site for more info on our class schedules, one to one circus workshops, rehearsal space hire, performers and more. Our ‘Artists in Residence‘ page will link you to the homepages of other Hangar residents, including Aircraft Performance, Ockams Razor and Ryan Mellors from the Ministry of Manipulation.

Artists - The Hangar offers residence to a small group of full-time circus artists. Space is available to these individuals whenever the Hangar is not booked, and weekly classes are set up to subsidize the cost of living.

Because of the Olympic Developments in East London, The Hangar is set to be closed� and relocated by July 2007.

For fantastic historical reasons Tony Duncan is a legendary name in the world of ball contact. He has teamed up with Jennifer Slaw to create a slightly ambiguously named performance duo: Jentony.com.

Their promo video is here: video html page. It’s quite long, but there are some great moments that make it well worth watching. I found that my browser sits there for ages waiting to download this doing nothing, if you get the same problem, then this direct link to the video will help: Right click and save as: promoweb.mov

Jennifer Slaw seems groovy, and her website jenniferslaw.com says that she has degrees in art & engineering…That sounds very familiar.

Tony Duncan:

Great stuff,

Smiles,Drew

There were many highlights of EJC 2006 for me, I will write about those in future posts, this video shows one of the the on-stage highlights:Filmed at EJC 2006 in Ireland, thanks to Bruno* for this video

Los Repugneros video
A fun, skillful, dancing, juggling and flirting performance with an extra large portion of prince

I’m missing a couple of names (help anyone?): here are 4 of the 6: Audrey (FR), Matiasse (GR), Morgan (FR), Mintam (FR)

Enjoy, Drew.
(*Bruno was another highlight of EJC both on and off stage, it’s amazing to see how much is technique and his movement style with 1 ball contact has improved over the last 2 years. Inspirational.)

The Italian Manipulators and jugglers have a great online community here: http://www.giocoleria.org/Forums,file-index.htm

With active discussion on all areas of manipulation, swinging, juggling and contact, all in one bullitin board.
With not just one, but FOUR different pages od threads with links to videos, a lot of videos of juggling and manipulation. I found a lot of groovy clips I’d never seen in the “italian style” videos section.

I think you’ll have to register on their forum to get the links to work.

Big hello to our Italian friends.
Drew

British Juggling Convention 2003 - by Andy Wilson

A Contact Juggler’s view of the 2003 British Juggling Convention
Featuring: Silver Paul, Steve, Jago, Deniz, John Blanshard, Drew, Malte, Rob Horseman and many more…

30 Minutes of the best festival Hightlights:
- Footage of the UK’s best jugglers and manipulators
- Jago’s 2003 ‘Palm Circles’ act
- Football on stilts (!!!)
- TePooka’s Fire show
- Drews Mirror Scene
- And MORE!

Grab a cup of tea, sit back and enjoy. There’s some good stuff in here…
Watch now for FREE, only on The Ministry of Manipulation

Ryan Mellors - Modern/London (2005)
Ministry of Manipulation video production.

Click me.

Minimalist contact manipulation - isolations and bodypopping with balls and clubs from Ryan. This has been sneaked out in some places, so some of you may have seen this before, but today marks our official release.
Enjoy
Drew