Hollie Neilson - 2001
OMG she’s super good.

lumen_trailer_07
Nico from Compagnie Lumen (Switzerland) mailed MoM to tell us of their new show.
Juggling, Manipulation, Swinging, Diabolo, Contact, Multiball, Balls Clubs, Movement, Glow and cool music too!

The skill level is high, including the club juggling of Mariano a phenomenally smooth freestyle club juggler.

More Videos and photos on their site, including this cool, Contact Show which is my current candidate for a best online video to answer the question “What is Contact Juggling?”

Antti Suniala, Contact Staff on stage at EJC 2006.

YouTube - EJC 2006 - Antti Suniala, Contact Staff
Skills!
Antti’s new Website - Another 6 videos can be be found on the site.

It’s FRRRREEEEEEZing here in London, so here’s some fire to warm things up:

YouTube - FlameOz Promo Video

Flame Oz Website
One of the slickest and most professional troupe of fire performers on the planet, with Staff, Poi, fire fingers and a healthy dose of cheese and fun too they also featuring crystal ball contact from Dimitri
Thanks to Dave Knox for the link.

Before MoM I had another video blog! well thats a bit of a grand term, its really just a thread on home of poi.
It now has links to over 400 (mostly juggling and manipulation) videos.
The original aim of that listing was to post the highest quality manipulation with an emphasis on staff and poi - well it is HOP.
But soon, it became, any high quality online manipulation videos.
Then it became any high quality online videos that I liked.
Now its decayed into a free for all, so now it seems everyone posts anything that slightly amused them.
and then they have mock arguments about it… Ahh bless, love them all to pieces.
If you want to kill some time, a lot of time and see some great videos, head over to HOP.
(Tip: for a long time I used 3 angel smilies so that it was easy to find my posts with video links while scrolling the thread.)

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!

Michael ‘Boogaloo Shrimp’ Chambers is one of the coolest poppers ever, aka Turbo from the movie ‘Breakdance’. This movie was recently re-released under the better name ‘Breakin’.

Boogaloo Shrimp was one of Michael Jackson’s dance teachers. It was with Michael Jackson that Shrimp developed the moonwalk, before being awarded his leading role in ‘Breakin’. Chambers has also appeared in Various Music videos as a dancer and has had numerous television appearances.

More information On Michael Chambers Along with more videos of his performances.

ED aka “LTC”
[Ministry]

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

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

Here’s a lovely video of some very good friends of ours at the ministry.

Paul ‘Durbs’ Durbin is the reason I got into Contact 2 years ago, and pretty much all types of manipulation in the first place. (It’s his fault, blame him!!!) Paul organises a Guildford based performance group called Burnt Toast.
Clare Palmer set up the highly respected Irish Fire Performance group ‘FirePoise’ and has been really busy teaching people how to spin poi properly as well as performing hard.
Paul has just recently returned to the UK after a trip around the world, and as such, has been cut off from much of the manipulation world. This video is the perfect way to say: Hey, I’m back!!

The video includes many different skills, including modern contact, Staff manipulation, and poi spinning. Enjoy!! (15 minutes long, lots more staff and poi, just to warn you hardcore contact types…;) )
Video Hosted on www.burnttoast.co.uk

ED aka “LTC”
[Ministry]

A student of dance, mime and manipulation at the Lido school in France, Jive is one of the artists featured on the In Isolation DVD. Patchwork is a collection of his material, featuring new manipulation with clubs, a stick, a broom and a book.

View the promo here

From Jive’s notes on juggling, translated by Babelfish:

The singularity of my juggling rests on a whole of components such as traditional juggling, atypical juggling, choreographic work and the work of actor. My research is based on the juggling of yesterday and today. …

The technique developed with these objects rises directly from the techniques of traditional jugglings, but, the singularity of the object itself brings to create new images and propels the juggler in various universes “the skilful diversion of the object to the service of a new poetic language…” …

My report/ratio with juggling is very graphic. The inspiration comes from Michael MOSCHEN, American juggler, who in the Eighties revolutionized juggling by his geometrical work around the fixed point and of the graphic insulation. This work is close to the illusion by some with dimensions. It gives a life specific to the object, personifies it. The whole of these research orientations is related to my own history of juggler and my universe of creator. In this creation, I want to propose a language located between the art of the juggler, the dancer and the MIME.