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.

hundreds of juicy concepts from the crazies in San Francisco.

Word on the street is…
Poki and Brian are working on a hoop isolation DVD.

Super-intense conceptual staff goodness and excellent artistry from the uber-technical staff masterminds Sebastian Berger and David Nolan of Fenfire (Vienna).

From Youtube:

Exploration of staff manipulation techniques & modes of presentation in a cubist
environment.

2 artists – search – experiment -process – shape – image.

A film by sebastiAn berger & David J Nolan
http://www.staffmanipulation.com
http://www.davidnolan.at

Fenfire on MoM:
Lumotek UV3000 promo
Ryan visits Fenfire
Contact Staff Isolations

Original juggling from Morgan Cosquer, performing his act at Mondial du Cirque de demain in 2008. Super-technical use of head and feet.

Probably the best contact staff video in the world!!?! (Audio slightly NSFW).
MCP Meghan – Contact staff rockstar, prolific video maker and occasional MoM Guest blogger, has rolled out a LOT of new staff tutorials free online.
And this video… The skills are super high, but somehow it seems like the audio got a bit muddled in the editing. LOVE IT!
Here’s the original Thanks Meg.
If you love Meg as much as we do, you can now buy the t-shirt!

The new ALLSTAFFS promo video (edited by David Nolan) is super high quality.
If we were assembling a fire staff dream team this quartet would be a pretty good start:
- Valerie Ann Sealey (USA)
- Sebastian Berger (Austria)
- Steve Joshua Dyffort (Germany)
- Antti Suniala (Finland)
Also on Youtube.
More ALLSTAFF Photos.
ALLSTAFFS Facebook group.
Yay. Great stuff, Good luck with the Project guys.

Dom DeLuise performs his ‘trick’ on the Johnny Carson show.

I (Ryan Mellors) edited most of this series in the passenger seat while Dawn drove the car; admiring the scenery in between stops at Tim Hortons (where we would recharge on caffeine and latop power) and late-night diners. We drove 2000 miles through a slowly changing landscape, our car loaded with balls of all sizes, hoops, tetrahedrons, bendy sticks, half-spheres, blocks and a video camera. Our objective: build the community, find others like us and explore what this ‘contact juggling’ thing is all about. Shoot lots of video and get to Montreal without running out of money.

Thanks to all who came to the workshops and to all the supportive musicians who offered music for the project. Today marks the official release of the series; 9 short videos documenting the journey. Click below for the videos (RT: 38min,) descriptions and prop contents, as well as a download link in 720×480 .wmv.

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From Youtube:

The Buugeng is revolutionising the visual arts arena; by blending the unusual shape of the spinning device, martial arts movement and meditation (intuitive by nature), it creates a visual kaleidoscope that is astounding to the eye. This unique device produces an infinite number of amazing geometric patterns and optical illusions.

Vaasco and NoiseAssult brought this up on ContactJuggling.Org. Michael Moschen performed a Buugeng peice in his PBS Special.

Contact staff by Shion. From the same yoyogi park ‘Japanese Contact Juggling Conventinon (JCJC)’ that brought us the Okotanpe clip.

Silly faux-beatboxing video that has had far too many views on youtube.

Cover of the Lasse Gjertsen beatboxing video; this time with juggling by peter åberg

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Montage of skills from the 2008 Contact Juggling Convention in France.