Last week I posted a video of Gaëlle Coppée from Cie Scratch. She did win a video contest of the Convention de jonglerie de Bruxelles with Gilles Dodemont. Gilles first caught my eye in Bruxelles as diabolo player but over the years he did more and more ball juggling. So here are two videos of both of them which I really enjoy:
Comme Un Lundi:
- https://juggling.tv/15444
Comme Un Mardi:
- https://juggling.tv/16000
Um dia equilibrado, a balanced day by Juan Duarte is the circus video for this week. I think the first time I saw Juan Duarte was at a gathering at the Berlin Juggling Convention, where many good contact jugglers played a soccer game with a ball on the head.
Brecken Rivara had such an imense positive influence on me. She uses a totally different prop which has so many more degrees of freedom of movement than my main prop. Watching her training dancing and playing with her hoop is so inspiring. I am glad to have seen her 2013 and 2016 at EJCs. Here are two videos of her which might inspire you as well in your thinking or movement:
Floored:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot83Ucld5jE
Falling into traps:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNwsOVdqfLI
Thibault Mathieu for me is one of the most poetic jugglers in the world. He has a very fluent style in club juggling. Using balances, lazy throws, no beats, rolling, traps and isolations. This juggling took ideas from other fields like Poi and also influenced modern Poi and other circus arts a lot.
When I started out with circus arts I was lucky to see this act on stage:
MrBach - Songe:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l8eoJJ6iVE
Christian Meier did this wonderful piece of diabolo art back in the days. I like the vibe of the video, It has something to it like a training session. The tricks are very enjoyable to me.
Christian Meier - Dirty Art:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iwR5e1IpKs
Todays video has a wonderful vibe. Anni Küpper has so many fluent movements with clubs around her body. She used to give workshops at conventions. Kyle Johnson has been very inpirational to me, when I saw him with his yellow balls at the Berlin Juggling Convention. This video is shot at the Vulcan. The video of Brecken Rivara was also from the Vulcan. There should be more places around the world like the Vulcan.
This one is very dear to me. I got to know Cecilia Stock 8 years ago when she started to frequent the Hamburg circus scene. Ceci was living in my neighbourhood and we passed great times together. Then she decided to attend circus school and needed a dicipline, so she learned soft rope and got accepted at Flic in Torino. I watched her final show at the circus school in Italy. Later she did Fratellini in Paris.
This is Ceci:
Another juggling video. A nice collaboration during the pandemic lock downs. I liked the soundtrack of that video and loved to see circus artists doing a collaboration where each video continues were the one before stopped . I liked the vibe a lot. If you haven't seen it almost 4 years ago, enjoy it, Co-vid 3b:
Seeing Idriss Roca unique style of juggling clubs at "Au bout des doigts 2016" convention in Lyon was very special. I experimented as well with drops that bounce and can be part of the pattern again, but not at this level. I love how Idriss uses these stops in swinging the clubs while throwing others. It makes the pattern look like an organic living creature to me.
This old video connects two of my hobbies music on vinyl and juggling. I even skated in my youth. There is even a cameo from Sylvestre Dewa, a.k.a. Trash, a diabolo player. The music is from aberration chromatique and adds to the vibe of footbagging, juggling and skating vinyl discs. I loved this video back in the days.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNWzbju6k6A
#circusvideo #cirque #circus #juggling #passing #vinyl #skating #frisbee
Tom Lacoste has a very great diabolo act. I love the character and have seen many different developments of this act in Bruxelles, Toulouse and Nancy over the past decade. This was filmed at Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris. Tom graduated from Circus School in Bordeaux and has done a lot of filming circus acts or videos. He is one of the most creative diabolo players.
Łukasz Uczkiewicz makes magic with juggling balls. Okay they are russian balls and easier to catch on feet or arms, but this level was insane when I first saw it. I like the rhythm in his throwing and the music soundtrack from Bonobo. A wonderful ball juggling video that inspired me to go out and do circus.
Aime Morales combines a clownesque character with his cyr wheel act and the funny sounds of "Stimmhorn - Trio Hattalaha".
I really liked the act on stage in Bruxelles when I first saw it. In 2015 at the European Juggling Convention in Brunico he performed it in a circus tent on a round stage which was perfect for this act and I was happy to experience this act again.
I am visiting the Nice convention in St. Florian near Linz again. It is a very relaxed event and great to meet the austrian circus scene.
Valerian Kapeller is organizing this convention since 2017. He is one of the finest diabolo players I know and a super nice person to be around.
This video is him playing diabolo in Amsterdam and Linz a decade ago. Such a great piece to watch.
At the European Juggling Convention 2012 in Lublin I asked Namer Golan to show me where my balance point on the head is, as I tried to balance a hard plastic contact ball. During the week he walked by he touched a tiny spot in the middle of my head to show me the spot.
A year later he posted an "instructional" video:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQe_uomkiDM
Amazing to see what some people are able to accomplish with countless hours of work.
#circusvideo #cirque #circus #ball #contactJuggling #balance
In my early days of circus this video gave me always a great mood. Bri & Brian are juggling Prechac patterns with colourful balls. I like how both jugglers interact with each other. The routine seems to be a lot about friendship. It was great to meet Bri at the European Juggling Convention in Munich.
On my first European Juggling Convention in Munich Alexander Koblikov played at the gala show. His act was mesmerizing. At a young age he had such a high level in juggling and expressivness with mimics and gestures.
2019 I saw this act again at the the last Gluhwein convention. I love the character, the juggling and the music. There are videos in better quality, but in my opinion the front perspective is the best.
Carlo Cerato was on the last Open Stage of the past European Juggling Convention. He is experimenting a lot with manipulation of objects. I like his originality and also his ability to create beautiful pictures. This video is called cyan. Enjoy:
Since I often mention European Juggling Conventions here is a video from the 2013 Edition in Toulouse, France.
European Juggling Conventions are one of the best things one can do in summer: 9 days of passing time with other circus people, training, exchanging, giving and attending workshops, watching shows or perform and having the best time.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml8c1MaCrDE
This year you can come to Portugal:
Guillaume Karpowicz is a french diabolo player who is creating unique styles of playing. He mixes dance, performance and diabolo in a creative way. His shows and videos are captivating. So here is a short series of 3 impressive videos he made:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZYkTFVpWyg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cveC44xoVKQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn6S7gviZnA
Guillaume is living in Berlin for some years and is running a store for diabolos:
Summer time is convention time. I never attended the israeli juggling convention but was tempted a lot back then when watching "Toss up and Sides Again". 3 Videos where made in the Gan HaShlosha National Park during 3 years of the convention. I'd like to visit that place sometime in the future.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLbiYQoN3zA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwqjl4DQi5c
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQsjjOumGgI
#circusvideo #cirque #circus #convention #juggling #balls #diabolo #cigarboxes #clubs #rings
The music of this video always set a good mood and motivated me to go to train. Joris de Jong is juggling Mirage clubs; I do the same. His style in juggling has a swinging mood to me because he dances a little and has a nice rhythm to his juggling. When he got my attention, he had an act about traveling whith a suitcase and the club that he dresses like himself. I like this video:
Before the pandemic I met Theo Azoulay & Gustave Guérin at conventions in France. They made me two contact poï, that I unfortunately lost after the EJC in Newark. I liked their way of playing poï. I saw them on stage on a Gluhwein Convention. Here is a video of a show they did in Austria:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsy9GgLLSYU
You can clearly see why they called themselves Symetricks.
Bruno Delgado was teaching every noon a different juggling concept at the EJC 2013 in Toulouse under the trees. Balances, Scissors, Contact, ...
In this video you can see him showing some of his work:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZSH64SIdZU
#circusvideo #cirque #circus #juggling #clubContact #clubBalance #clubs
This week is there to present you Cinthia Buitron, la flaca.
It is unbelievable how she raised the level of head balancing so much. Back then I was mesmerized to see the impossible.
Jorgelina, a friend of mine, introduced her to me in Toulouse 2013, where la flaca received a long standing ovation for her open stage at the EJC.
Enjoy: The room of time
- Part 1: http://juggling.tv/11829
- Part 2: http://juggling.tv/13110
- Part 3: http://juggling.tv/14127
este video muestra el avance de nuestra amiga la flaka ya ha pasado un año de que comenzo hacer malabares agradecemos a los glokos y el 12 puldas crew por dejarnos usar su musica tambien a edson caballero por editar el video y al tinoco loco ya saben por ke jojojojojo - JTV
Yesterday at the Open Stage of the EJC in Ovar almost the whole tent gave standing ovations for Alejandra Parada. What she does with devil sticks is on a level I have not seen before. The dynamic movements of her complex but fluent 2 devil stick play are beautiful to watch. So this is possible when you invest 5 years into your passion.
Here is an old video of her which is already impressive, but she advanced a lot.
"Were is Petter" is a video that I liked a lot when it came out. The intro with a camera mounted to a crane going up and filming a ball juggler from above, the sound of the balls catching, the starting soundtrack and the location of a skate park, seeing Alexander Koblikov walking over the funbox juggling 5 balls mills mess: A nice video all around. Have fun with the this gem from the past:
David Lindström made a beautiful diabolo video that I loved to watch a lot. I like the viewpoint of the camera and the colours of the green plants with the black background and the white windows and fences. David is doing slack whip tricks with the diabolo string to music from Bob Dylan.
Mounâ Nemri is a dancer and a hoop dancer. Seeing her at conventions in France and Bruxelles she always caught my eye; whether it was on stage or during training. Mounâ has a lot knowledge about body movement.
There are two videos I would like to recommend to see. The second one nowadays needs an vimeo account unfortunately.
Tiger Balm:
- https://vimeo.com/224125098
Just another Mover:
- https://vimeo.com/228450055
Adrienn Banhegyi is a professional rope skipper. Norbi Whitney filmed this video in Hannover. It is very uplifting and was always a motivating watch for me. It is great to listen to the music and seeing the high energy of Adrienn having a fun time jumping. Some of the tricks were unbelievable for me when I fist saw the video.
Kirche mit dem Seil:
Being at the Freiburg Convention I am meeting Piet van Steen again. He did a lovely video of a convention in Laer, which I showed people outside the circus scene to explain what a convention is about. Circus conventions are a gathering of positive people training, sharing, learning, teaching and having a great time together.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqXr--iw0-w
#circusvideo #cirque #circus #juggling #acrobatics #convention #workshops
First I saw this act at the french national juggling convention in Toulouse 2012. I knew Bogdan Illouz from conventions so I asked him to perform this beautiful act at the gala show 2015 in Hamburg and was so happy when he agreed.
So enjoy contact diabolo by Bogdan Illouz:
Vermillon:
- https://vimeo.com/78867746
Another diabolo player is the artist of this week. I first saw him with diabolo, but soon after Bow revolutionized the poi world with juggling. Influenced by Théo Azoulay, Keith Marshall and Armin Taeschner (I think also Joseph Viatte), he took poi juggling to another level. Bow did build his own poi which eventually let him modify the prop which you see in this video.
So here is Bow:
One of my favorite circus events has been the Gluhwein Convention in France. It developped from a tiny meeting to a lovely convention, that I visited several times. The atmosphere was magical. Musicians, creative people and a high level of circus art came together to train, party, watch shows, to dine and have a weekend full of pleasure.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBSu64GPO9Q
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giLGkrGyI_4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL_G1Kihtlw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVa3OwjzvgI
Tiana Zoumer did a video together with Brecken Rivara (who I covered before), that I liked a lot. It is a hoop video combined with graphical animation. I like the pastel colours which are a good fit for the location:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=couhcndh030
Tiana made also a video in Sidney that I liked back then:
When I want to train diabolo I often listen to Moderat or Apparat. When this video from Emmanuel Ribereau came out I was immediately captured because these are two of my favorite songs to train. It is nice to see him play diabolo in the vineyards and the heathlands between the boulders. I met him at the EJC 2013 in Toulouse. He is a very humble person.
Enjoy Emmanuels Perspectives on diabolo:
A technical juggler who left me stunning everytime a video popped up on the web is Andreas Anastasis. When you are into technical club juggling sequences there is no way you do not know him. The videos are training videos, no routine, no script, but the level is so high:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm8DJMs_Dsc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlyu8ENLjdU
His whole channel is a collection of training sequences that are an inspiration for technical jugglers.
The video for this week is Ariane Öchsner. She is a feminist circus artist that specialized in dancing, foot and contact juggling.
Ariane also organizes the wonderful circus training space TRAP [0] in Vienna.
We booked her for the gala show of the Hamburg convention in 2015. Here is an impression of her work:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBWcSy9KKX4
I will watch a show of her today in Vienna:
- https://arianeoechsner.com/stammtisch/
[0] https://circus-trap.org/
#circusvideo #cirque #circus #footjuggling #juggling
A day early, for a reason.
Étienne Chauzy is the best diabolo player for me.
He is very creative and has so much control over the diabolos. It is always a pleasure to meet him over the years.
I want to share only one video because he deserves more than one post in this series:
Holy diabss...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T59b4Bw_zTk
The song is "Elias Rahbani - Dance of Maria".
This holy video has been filmed with my holy samsung galaxie in the Holy Land...
At one of my first Berlin juggling conventions I met Daniel Sanchez, who was then living in Berlin. He was sitting at a table in the gym table juggling with people passing by. So I passed by and learned some prechac juggling patterns [0] from him. Some of them were very hard for me.
This video of Daniel was always fun for me to watch, as it is fun to juggle prechac.
Prechac with my friends:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_fLpkLye8
@TheVoidTLMB coined the saying "vertax is rubbish" and the term vertax for playing with the axle of the diabolo being vertical.
Alexis Levillon redefined what is called vertax diabolo more than 12 years ago. His answer was:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l72lbLbcXyM
Then he did 1 2 3 diabolos vertax:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgtvYG8nRVY
Later he advanced diabolo in more than one dimension. The community decided to call that technique after him: Galaxy:
André Hidalgo, also known as Pilolip. is a great contact juggler. I met him first year at Convention de Jonglerie de Bruxelles in 2009. He already was really good back then but he improved very fast and is a class of his own.
André has been doing solo acts and performing with Cie Defracto and PiRyOkoPi.
It is best to see him live. Here is a short impression:
Henri Kangas is a diabolo player that amazed me especially with the last trick in this video. It looks so easy but doing it so clean requires some training. Have not followed what videos he did after this jut at least thia and the first are a gem:
This video was a huge inspiration for me when I started out with diabolo. Years later I met Raphael van Hoest at the Convention de Jonglerie de Bruxelles.
The first minute of the video has a disturbing sound, but after that the music starts.
L.C.A.B. is a real classic and every diabolo player I know from the scene has fond memories of long combos are boring. Raphael has a point but otoh this has so much nice flow in it.
Enjoy:
This is the 52nd episode of the series and will be the last.
As I my main prob is diabolo I could have made this entire series only about diabolo videos. But I have been inspired also by other probs. That is why this series showed a variety of circus probs.
I want to end this with a series of diabolo videos.
Norbi Whitney from Canada did one show I wish I had seen live:
In the 2000s the dutch scene was very active. Here are two videos of that timeframe:
Ceri Anne Van de Geer - Triangles:
- https://juggling.tv/4629
Martijn Halekor & Arjan Groenendijk - Lal-a-land:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3HxazGiJI
The french diabolo scene has been my main influence:
William Gilbert - 2222:
- https://juggling.tv/4166
William Gilbert - Du Diabolo:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arTll7e6GZw
Collaboration - WET:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikip0y5LVDE
Étienne Chauzy - One Year Of Trouble:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYTdFzinSpY
Clément Lulé - Teardrop:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb-eEMdEHhk
Collaboration: Lourdeur:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ9mQJRMzJw
Collaboration - Diabolo Rennes 2010:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h66Fgeq3554
1/2
2/2 French diabolo videos
Robin Spinelli - The Black Sheep:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMxjOKDJGCQ
Théo Scarito - A guy in red:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wmA75_Mzc8
Eric Longequel - Diabolo Show:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6f8fGkyReo
Eric Longequel, Antonin Hartz- Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Ws3X0VDbg
And the last part:
Jacob and Nate Sharpe - Sharpe Attack:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YO__pIVRxg
Jacob and Nate Sharpe - Sharpe as a Tack:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kHrwHZb7Qs
Marko Akkanen - Timothy likes POP!corn:
- https://juggling.tv/7110
Jesse Gehlen - Mr. November:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZH4eVNViKg
Diabolo Ensemble Austria - Connection:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOoAs2e9Nxc
Hathaway, Looby: Summer:
- https://juggling.tv/5656
Diabolotri - Waiting:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZmebYcnd2Y
So this was the series of circus videos that inspired me. 52 episodes, a year of videos and some honourable mentions. Hope you enjoyed it.
I am missing the times before social media where people where sharing long videos in the open.
Go out and do circus, train and have a good time with likeminded people.
The whole list of all videos will be accessible from this site:
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