Archive for the ‘Stick + Staff’ Category

Staff / Fei-Cha – Robert James Webber

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
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Yowsa! This was the first guy I ever saw do Fei-Cha in an old Internet Video called “Janitors”. In the interim he appears to have gone to Circus School in Montreal and has gotten some pretty sweet tricks nailed in his act. He also does slick combined hat manipulation and has a cute goofy ending. Win.

i found this video via Lewie Wests’ favourates. Why isn’t he a blogger yet anyway?

The Vulcan Tech Blog #7!

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
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Around the time of the Firedrums Festival in Santa Cruz, California, The Vulcan in Oakland, California was flooded with visitors from all around the world. There were even more people at the Vulcan than seen in this video.  So you should watch for the next one —> here

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Pich – Manipulation de Buguens

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd5upa
It’s Pich, isolating 2 curved sticks with amazing skill. Wow.

Linda Farkas: Contact Staff at INJUCO 2010 Gala Show

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

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Beautiful contact Staff routine by Linda Farkas of www.magmafiretheater.com.
It’s lovely to see how routines evolve: previously on MoM
Linda Farkas / Magma Fire theatre: Double Staff – Fire
In training
Thanks to Laszlo Banhidai for the link, I can’t believe that MCP hasn’t posted this already.

Moon – Moogeng training

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
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Hi everybody :)
after acrylic party in bruxelles, I’ve studied a little these “Moogeng”. They are acrylic made S sticks, quite similar to Buugeng.
this is a little vid of me training with them. Sorry if I’m not so clean, but they very hard to use in my opinion and I haven’t studied them so much.
hope you like it :)

hugs from italy

New Stuff from our amazing contributors

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

The people we’ve taken on as guest contributors over the years are awesome people.
When Kyle, Wes Peden, Moon, or MCP make a new video, you know it’s going to be good.

So this is a thank you, from me (Ryan) to the rest of the M.o.M crew. You guys rock, seriously. Thanks for stopping in and adding your favorite stuff here on M.o.M and thanks for your commitment to your disciplines. You are all phenomenal artists and we want to see more of you here!

Click below for 4 videos (never posted here before) reminding you why our contributors are awesome.
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“Intrinsic Self”- A Short Documentary

Monday, January 18th, 2010
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This is a nicely put together small documentary that I would like to see as a large one on object manipulation in general. It features interviews with a few spinners and jugglers from the San Francisco Bay Area of California,  on their favorite subject of fire and object manipulation.

I especially like Jordan’s realization about his life. : )

Buugeng – Dai @ Flow Temple (&Moschen)

Monday, January 11th, 2010

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The recent commercial availability of Buugeng (curved staffs) has lead to an explosion of new performances and styles with this unique prop. (above performer: Dai)
The first time I had seen this kind of manipulation was in “Michael Moshen, In Motion” (video of his act below) but a google seach on “buugeng” reveals almost no history? No wikipedia page? I’m curious about the roots of this discipline, anyone who knows anything more should respond in the comments.
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It’s a Merry Vulcan Christmas!

Friday, December 25th, 2009
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Everyone at the Vulcan wishing you a merry Christmas from “scenic” East Oakland, California. Featuring Brian Thompson and Matt McCorkle of Code RED: Circus Conspiracy, who you may know from a previous post on MoM for their Isolation Hoop Report of January 2009. This is the third video of the series to say happy holidays, made by Noel Yee featured in his Christmas Partner poi video. (more…)

Contact Staff and Dance

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
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Yeah so it’s Christmas again. I made a video. I asked Ryan and Drew if I could post it, and Ryan said I could so I did. It’s me, dancing about like a loon, with a staff. Done. It’s okay. I liked the club one better but Ryan said I should post this one. So here it is, an early Christmas present. Yup.

I can’t really go on about how awesome it is but it’s better than not bad.

Shennmu – Pendulum Juggling (& rings)

Monday, September 21st, 2009

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Interesting adaption of Michael Karas’s tinkertoy juggling prop, by a Japanese lad Hidenori Yukawa, youtube user: SHENNMU. I like that he does it so cleanly and that clearly it’s stick manipulation, as well as he gets up to five going in some interesting patterns. Good job.

[Ryan edit] More Shennmu (ring manipulation) after the click
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Das Model – Elena Shapoval

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

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Quality 3 stick routine, with quality filming and editing. Performed by Elena Shapoval. Directed by Taras Pozdnyakov. Enjoy!
Can anyone remind me who pioneered this kind of stick manipulation?

Check out Taras’s youtube channel for some really top notch contemporary Russian circus including:
Dirty mary Balls and plait?![you'll see] manipulation/juggling/dance, performed by Masha Toryanik. Directed by Taras Pozdnyakov. Every one of them are worthy of a blog post on their own!
Thanks to Kyle for the link.