We feel this is a good first step in our ongoing collaboration.

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IsoBaton and Ball routine coming soon… www.piryokopi.net

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1. Piryokopi – Isolated baton routine
2. Piryokopi : A collabation in graphic manipulation
3. Hoop Isolation duet – Ryan and Anna

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!

Related posts:

1. Workshop: Ed in ‘Burgh. [/There is no Crew]
2. [/There Is No Crew]
3. Ministry Workshop – Vienna 2007

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.

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1. How is a fushigi ball like an orange?
2. Stippy “Only in Japan”: Orange Ball
3. Pre-Review Mystic Ball the Movie

When: 28th – 29th May 2011

4 x 2hour workshops. 2 workshops per day, in the afternoon.

Workshop 1 = Posture, body/spatial 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: £15
All 8 Hours Workshop cost: £50
With enough interest, Prices will decrease.

Numbers limited to 25

Venue: TBC, Edinburgh, Scotland

Booking Info: Send me an email, and I’ll send you more details.

What will be taught:
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 see what’s really going on! These techniques translate very easily to other areas of manipulation and performance, so even if people aren’t into contact juggling, you’ll still take away a huge amount of invaluable knowledge from the workshops. I’ll install your ‘Warp Drive’, and make sure it’s functioning correctly. You won’t see things the same way again.

Come play, and Join the Crew that isn’t!

Related posts:

1. Workshop: Manc UnitEd – [/There is no Crew]
2. [/There Is No Crew]
3. Philadelphia Free Contact + Breakdance Workshop

I really cannot begin to express the magnitude at which teaching Movement and Contact juggling is enriching My life, and by doing so enriching further the lives of others right now.

It’s amazing. It feels FANTASTIC, and I want more. Watching ripples of inspiration pass from person to person is an amazing process to watch, and it’s exciting me so much to see where Illusion Based Contact is heading right now.

So, I want more. LOTS more. I want to teach the Fractal Method (TM) to as many people as possible, and install warp drives (TM) in people’s minds, show people the wonderful things I see around me all the time, and see what is spawned as my visions are fused with someone else’s. I do have a sinister motive behind this, however, and that motive is that I am bored, and want people to play with. EVERYWHERE. as is the Nature of Fractals, I also learn a huge amount every time I teach this method, so by allowing me to teach you, you will be teaching me.

I call it [/There Is No Crew]. think ‘There is no spoon’. that’s how I see the possibilities of this mission, and f**k am I looking forward to the challenge. A crew is a tight net bunch of people, who know each other. they don’t need to speak to communicate and understand each other perfectly. they just know each other that well. they just know. they bounce off each other. they got each other’s back. they play together. they learn together. they are a pack. They are as a general rule limited to being in the same place, and so limited in size. f**k that, I say. scale doesn’t matter any more, it’s all the same thing, just bigger. and everyone knows bigger is better, right? (I learned one from the americans )

So let’s do it. Let’s bounce. Me and You. Let’s come together and make a global manipulation Crew. Let’s blow up the current scene and make it new, refreshing, and exciting through and through. Let’s end the divides and build bridges anew. But I need your help with this project too. Let’s end this thought that There is no Crew.

I have masterclass workshops to give on Illusion concepts such as Time, Space, Gravity, Energy, Sound, Language/Communication and Mind over Matter, and how they affect Movement and Manipulation as a whole through the mathematical language of Fractals, Chaos, QED, special/general relativity and quantum theory, and just how damn easy it all is, and accessible to the complete beginner. I can teach alone, or I can teach alongside other people, to help make an event similar to the infamous Ministry Workshops we contact jugglers all know and love. I can teach one on one, at conventions, in circus schools, as a guest resident to improve the skillsets, awareness and in turn the learning abilities of your students all in one go. If they will learn, I will teach, simple as.

If you think you and the people in your area can handle a mind explosion of this magnitude (and judging by recent experience, that will happen), and you know of a space that will hold it. Tell me. Let’s Chat. We can make it happen. I will have you seeing the world as I do, as nothing more than a dance of forces, interacting with each other in a way that looks amazing to onlookers, and more importantly, FEELS great too. It’s true, contact jugglers do all eventually go mad.

Have Workshops. Will Travel.

Related posts:

1. Workshop: Manc UnitEd – [/There is no Crew]
2. Workshop: Ed in ‘Burgh. [/There is no Crew]
3. “Fighting Gravity” dance crew – ALL performances from GotTalent2010

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3. Ryan Mellors: In the Park (A few hard tricks)

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HOLY CRAP THIS LOOKED LIKE AN UNBELIEVABLE WORKSHOP! GOOD JOB ED & BISHOP!!!!!!

Elsie on ContactJuggling.Org just posted:

Here it is guys, ten whole minutes of video goodness!

Just a few words to everyone involved with this. Firstly a huge thank you to Ed and Aragorn for sharing your techniques and ideas. Secondly, a huge thank you to everyone else for putting up with me shoving a camera in your face while you are going through the sometimes very vulnerable stages of learning.

It’s been a massive project for me. I got ten hours of footage, and have watched every minute of it over and over, trying to find the best clips that capture the mood, environment, and the people.  [...]

Turn the volume up and enjoy.

Excellent editing, *round of applause* for Elsie.

Previously, on www.MinistryOfManipulation.com

Related posts:

1. MoM/BishoP Workshop, Berlin, 5-9/Oct/2010
2. Ministry Workshop – Contact Juggling in Canada 2009 : Official Release
3. Ministry Workshop – Berlin 2009 – TRAILER

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Woot!

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2. Practice Contact Balls – Review
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It is only $5 to download until October 1st.  Highly recommended for all people interested in hoop manipulation.

Click here for more info.

Home of Poi.com currently have Isolation hoops in stock.

Related posts:

1. Hoop – The Four Basic Isolations [Video Workshop]
2. Isolation Hoop Report – January ’09
3. Furet – Hoop Isolation Solution

Quick update:

19 places have been booked. The space requires 15 people to have paid by Monday 20th October, and we’re at 14. one more confirmation needed!

I’d like to take this opportunity to remind any of those that have booked to please either pay in full or a deposit, or contact the Katakomben and express a confirmation of attendance and payment upon arrival if possible. Many thanks in advance!

If the full capacity of students is not reached in time, Aragorn will still be teaching a workshop in his unique dance style over the week. However, there will be no Illusion contact juggling.

See many of you soon!

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1. Ministry: Canada – Workshop update + Video!
2. Ministry Workshop – Berlin 2008 Update
3. Aragorn Boulanger/Bishop Katakomben workshop