Post by Orinoco
Welcome to the Edge Vern. Good luck with the new meet up, I hope it works out. Was yesterday your first meeting (if so how did it go?) or do you start this coming Monday?Post replyby Orinoco, in...
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Thanks for the insight Ian. I guess it's a product of the internet age - websites and email make it a lot easier for bookers to make direct contact with artists than it used to be - I guess the agents...
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Wow, that agency is indeed a 'shopping list'. It makes me wonder whether in years to come we will see increasing numbers of generic and/or ripoff acts, as individuality becomes less recognized - I...
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I reckon agencies of all kinds are going to be killed off, in the long term, by better search tools on the internet. (See: Rightmove).The internet has the ability to provide much more useful...
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Rochester has an amazing juggling scene, you should try to make it over there at some point. The RIT JuggleIn is one of the biggest festivals of the year in the spring. Cornell/Ithaca has a sort of...
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I doubt that.I've never felt the need of having a website, because friends of mine (I won't call them 'agencies') are booking me as much as I need. Besides, they really know what I can do, something...
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Besides, reading 10 reviews for jugglers is not much fun, and in the end it says more about the reviewer than the juggler himself. Agents, unlike individuals, are much more stable and reliable. Of...
View ArticlePost by haffnium72
Hey Vern!John here a SU Juggling and ESF alumnus. I don't know of any meeting in Syracuse but I don't think it would be TOO hard to get a space again for the winter next semester. Back in 2005 we were...
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Are you a full time or part time performer? Do you do any self promotion?Post replyby Orinoco, in response to this post 2015-09-01 17:09:57
View ArticlePost by Ian Marchant
Hei Paul, I found the suitcase section of Kremo's act……its from the 1990 IJA highlights video. He performed it in the "Cascade of Stars show"https://youtube.com/v/sQWYJti2WUw?t=1h32m5s(if the time...
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should have really rechecked the thread before posting the same video…….Post replyby Ian Marchant, in response to this post 2015-09-01 18:42:25
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By normal standards it would count as part time, but it is also my only real job.No self promotion so far. It is somewhere on the planning, but never high on the priority list.Post replyby Daniel Simu,...
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However, though I am not so much "full time", I am sure it is possible with very little self promotion! Every time I come across a website of the 90s from an active professional entertainer, it is a...
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Unusual variation of ball-transfer-between-two-sticks-balanced-on-the-face thingy [vid]https://youtube.com/v/fCk2g8SBu4U?t=4m41sTrick starts at 4:41, in case the jump doesn't embed.First attempt is a...
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Great find!Post replyby Daniel Simu, in response to this post 2015-09-02 13:26:14
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club length/style influence on spin rateHi All,After seeing a video of a unicyclist juggling double spins and other moves, I was inspired to do more. After 3 weeks of hard work, I'm almost there and my...
View ArticlePost by Little Paul
Spin speed is related to: - the length of the club - the weight distribution (if the weight is mostly central it'll spin faster, if it's towards one end it'll be more loopy) - where along the length of...
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Also the weight of the club - a long time ago when I switched from Spotlights to Henry's Pirouettes I overspun everything for a while just because the same amount of work from the wrist yielded a much...
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Not so much "transfer", as "bifurcation"? Nice one.Post replyby The Void, in response to this post 2015-09-02 16:30:26
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4 jugglers from Cirque de Demain 1980 [vids]First, the great Sergei Ignatov:https://youtube.com/v/ozYERdiSw0UGenerally considered to be one of the greatest jugglers of the modern age, in his time he...
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