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!

An intricate and complex animation duet from Mr Steen and Josephine of Denmark.

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]

Ejc2007 the European Juggling Convention - 30th July to 5th August 2007 Athens,Greece.
Are you coming?

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.

A convention video from EJC Ptuj last year: Ptuj “Special Contact” Thanks to Bafien56 for producing and sharing this.
It’s difficult for me to make out all the players in this video, but as with every EJC theres clearly a huge amount of talent:

Opening shot, I don’t know for sure, but the style looks like a brit I met at bristol. The Guy Trayspinning at 2:00 is Matt from London. Legend of multiball and body rolling, the awesome Mr Om, doing an 8 ball torpedo at 2:50 then 1 ball at 3:30.

Who’s the performer playing contact to a BIG street crowd at 5:00, looks a lot like one ball Paul to me. and as a finalie, 3 of europes contact finest: Dafne (6:00), Bruno (6:10) and Kelvin (the machine - You know he can still do that move with 2 balls swapping from his elbows whilst drunk at 3am, he’s incredible).

Via Jongle.net.
Enjoy, Drew

Welcome
to the The Hangar,

a circus training studio in East London.

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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.

The new OCCJD video “The Padded Room;” a 3 minute short which builds on the ”obsessive compulsive contact juggling” theme. Shot in Vancouver, the original story behind the video appeared HERE on the Ministry last March.

“Vancouver police took action to halt the wave of confusion and terror associated with recent outbreak of OCCJD (”Obsessive Compulsive Contact Juggling Disorder”) that has been infecting this city. Several members of the “contact juggling” community, including Ryan (noted global contact juggling ringmaster and FMP affilliate) and Dawn (street-name: Daydream) were apprehended early sunday morning and are currently being held at the Riverview Correctional Facility on the ouskirts of the city.” READ MORE…

The pre-release of the High Quality 720×480 download has exceeded its bandwidth. You can now watch the video on youtube:
YouTube link.

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.)

Musicality workshop picture
Musicality workshop picture 2
A few people have e-mailed me to ask what music was played during Drews Musicality Workshop at EJC 2006
Also at Play Festival, and at Ueberpoi 2005 and Nottingham 2005

Here’s the track listing:
Quannum - “I Changed My Mind”
The warm up spin was too this lovely track which Ryan and I used as the soundtrack for the Bodyrolling Montage

The Turtles - Happy Together
For the Beat and bigger changes in the music

Yann Tiersen - Amelie Soundtrack Tracks 2 and 3 A great album for movers manipulatiors and Jugglers.

Zeida - Track 1 French hip hop that I got from the Berlin Circus crowd, I don’t even know if I spell it right or what the album is called!

Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood
for the wicked Bass line

Serge Gainsbourg - Angoisse
Feeling and mood - Sadness

Shimon and Andy C - Body Rock
Feelig and mood - Bounce bounce

Unknown Artist - Zorba the Greek
A wicked progessive tempo version which starts too slow to do anything useful, and finishes too fast. I didn’t play this at EJC this time but normally do in the workshop.

Paul Mauriat - Etude in the Form of Rythm and Blues and
Walther Murphy - 1/5th of Beathoven - from the Saturday night Fever Soundtrack
Fun stuff at the end - I’ve soo got to make routines to these 2.

A huge thank you to the super dude peg master Burning Dan for once again rescuing me in the Music Department. That’s 3 times now, this is starting to become a habit. Thanks dude.
And big thanks to everyone who came and wiggled and made it soo much fun for me to run.
Any other questions just post them below in coments
Smiles
Drew

First batch up on Flickr