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Bavo is very good with the basketballs. Also seems all round keen on CJ, ball spinning, juggling and bounce juggling.

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A promo for a circus full of lumberjacks, er sorry, Canadians. All the guys have at least a level 4 beard and in general it’s awesome. It features much silliness and quite a few hardcore circus skills.

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Has this been on Ministry before? Well if not, this is my favourate lightbulb manipulation video. I didn’t think you could do ballet with lightbulbs. I was wrong.

Annetta Lucero, is there a better baton twirler? I don’t think so.

New Dimensional Movement and Manipulation.

Same plans as Edinburgh, really, just a bit more central/south.

Preliminary Infos, Subject to change:

When: 23-24 July 2011

4 x 2hour workshops.

Workshop 1 = Posture, body awareness, efficiency in movement, analysing movement, Balance.
Workshop 2 = Speed Control
Workshop 3 = Waves
Workshop 4 = Illusion disguised as Contact Juggling. Warp Drive Installation session.

Individual Workshop cost: £12
All 8 Hours Workshop cost: £40

Numbers limited to 20? Subject to change.

Venue: Antwerp Mansion, Manchester, UK

Booking Info: Email, Face, carrier pigeon, make it be known

What I will be teaching:

1 = The base code. Re-introducing people to themselves, how they move, and how to use it to our advantage. Your body is a prop too.
2 = How to stop, move slow, and move faster.
3 = Waves are more than just a dance. They go pretty deep too. I’ll help you understand them better.
4 = Illusion style Contact juggling. How to hold any prop, and make it look interesting. How to keep things still, move around things, and move things. Mind over matter.

Time to wake up and see what’s really going on! These techniques translate very easily to other areas of manipulation and performance. It’s no longer about what the ball is doing, it’s about what you are doing. no matter what prop you use, you’re there… I’ll install your Warp Drive, and make sure it’s functioning correctly. You won’t see things the same way again.

There is no Crew, and the UK is UnitEd!

Finger-tutting from JayFunk (Los Angeles). Filmed in Paris (promo for Samsung)

Breathless performance by Tommaso Panagrosso.
Amazing control. I’ve seen him live (and performed with him too)..truly stunning skills.

enjoy!

I have no words, I just feel waves. Thank you for sharing your movement with the world, AragoRn.
*inhales*
*exhales*
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From the always incredible Gandini Juggling Project

White space juggling extracts from forthcoming Media Circus Release. Jugglers: Bibi, Bichu, Florian Marienfeld, Doreen Großmann, Jochen Pfeiffer, Sean Gandini, Owen Reynolds, Iñaki Fernández Sastre, Kati Ylä-Hokkala. Cameras by Mark Morreau and Graham Pettit Editing by Sean Gandini

A while ago, A nice Brazilian man gave me an orange ball, and in return I promised a video of me using said ball.

I was slack, and took ages. Sorry about that… ANyway, this video also gives a taste of what is coming up in the workshops I’m organising around the UK at the moment.

Nik makes awesome videos. you should get him to make yours too. SRSLY. Such a good eye, and really able to express through his editing. Love it.

Once you get past the pure level of ‘abstraction’ in Davids dancing, you begin to notice that some tiny moments stand out as visually beautiful illusions or effects. In the 2nd part of this clip (starting around 3min)  the focus changes to his ‘battle’ tricks, and we can see a more clear demonstration of skill and ability.  With a wild range of his movement, everything is locked together by this super-controlled internal flow, the speed of all his arms and legs are moving together to create a sustained tempo and he is showing us crazy variations on a lot of old-school waving, tutting, botting,  strobing, liquid, popping, boogaloo techniques.

For me, no-one has influenced my own sense of dance and movement more than David Bernal. In the early days of the Ministry of Manipulation, we would sit around in the Hangar and Jea9, Colin, Ed, Drew and I would watch his videos and be blown away, then we would run off to juggle with  a billion new ideas about movement and the way things can connect together.

Detours isn’t retail anymore (only exists on the pirate bay) and lots of other clips from the two-Dvd box set are available. Check out : The Floor is my Canvas #2 (I prefer #1, but it isn’t on youtube….)

It has been too long since he has been seen around here.

The UK’s got style!

LCD rocking the stage at Lestival. Had me screaming at the screen. YUM.