1. Smile.
With regards to repeating a pattern, ask your self what you achieve by repeating a pattern. The answer to that should tell you whether you need to repeat more or less. Sometimes it is worth repeating a complicated pattern to allow an audience time to work out that there is a pattern & you are not just haphazardly making stuff up as you go along. Conversely throwing in a one off trick once so people don't have time to work out what happened are left asking, "what did he just do?" is very powerful too.
Repeating a pattern in a different way is worth considering too. For example in Luke Wilson's 3 club routine he did an extended run of 432 kickups, the pattern is pretty easy for a lay audience to grasp but as the pattern goes on he gets a bit more frantic which helps demonstrate that it is a difficult trick & the audience should appreciate it more (I can't remember if I heard that from Luke Burrage or Luke Wilson himself).
In your specific case repeating a pattern gives you rhythm which you need to accentuate your sliding footwork. I think you should focus more on your steps than the juggling1 because that is what sets you apart from other jugglers. Make sure you are doing some cool slidy stuff on every beat & use all the performance space. Don't just tie one step to one trick, combine them all in every way possible (someone wrote a fantastic combination generator to help with this sort of thing). An audience is there to see you, not your props.
1 Although having said that when you are switching hands with the dummy elevator make sure the carry & the throw peak at the same height on both sides!
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