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Ball and Club Juggling





Picture of Stefan Sing Stefan Sing
Germany

Title: Movements with 1 Object
Level: beginners-advanced
Description: exercises and movementes with one object

Title: Basic Body Throws and Movements with 1-3 Objects
Level: intermediate-advanced
Description: movements and body-throws with 1-3 balls

Title: Liberty in Juggling
Level: advanced
Description: movements and juggling technique with 1-5 objects

Title: Choreography in Juggling
Level: advanced
Description: ways of constructing a sequence



Picture of Will Will Flanagan
Ireland

Title: Introduction to Passing
Level: beginners
Description: Introduction to the basic passing from 3-9 clubs



Staff



Picture of Megan Pike Megan Pike
Scotland

Title: Advanced Contact (Single Staff)
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Description: All the difficult contact you never thought you'd be able to learn, broken down and taught to you in the easiest way I have yet managed. Does the words spoon feeding mean anything to you? Also, you'll get some tough disciple taught to you, so that it doesn't all seem too easy. Teaching Angel roll variations, matrix variations, steve variations, luceros and the like


Title: Chuu Chuu Snakes and Other R-Type Hybrids (Double Staff)
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
Description: Teaching chuu chuu's like you've never been taught chuu chuu's before! Well, teaching chuu chuu's from the ground up, till your arms get confused, then teaching you more chuu chuu's till your brain gets confused, then teaching you some r-type flowers till your brain goes into meltdown and your shoulders hurt more than doing handstand pushups. Sweet!


Title: Contact Doubles
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Description: Staff on Staff Contact style doubles. Teaching the fundamentals of this style, plus various other contact doubles patterns most of them very old school, some of them very difficult. An emphasis on symmetry of movement and learning everything both ways for a balanced style.



Picture of Imakokode Imakokode
France

Title: Staff: Isolations and antispins
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Description: Single and double staff, front and lateral isolations and antispins. Theory and practice from basic to advanced moves.


Title: First steps of Staff
Level: Beginners
Description: Spinning movements, transfers exercises, basic contact moves and basic throws, a complete introduction of staff manipulation.



Picture of Olivier Masson Olivier Masson
France

Title: Staff: Multi-Staff manipulation (doubles, triples, & quad staff)
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Description:
- How to handle & transfer cross
- Triple staff & double-cross manipulation: How to shape 2D/3D geometry with more than 2 staffs
- Application to dual-plane isolation (having two staffs isolated like with doubles and the two others spinning a standard doubles pattern), transfer & crossers



Poi



Picture of Ronopotamus Ronan McLoughlin
'Ronopotamus'
Ireland

Title: Thinking Outside the Circle
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Description: Looking at poi from an object manipulation perspective, looking away from limiting preconceptions about how poi can be used. Includes moves such as stalls, floats, right angles, contact


Title: Throws to and from everywhere – just letting go.
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Description: Throws and catches in different positions, creating your own throw combos. Different moves that involve letting go of the handle


Title: Advanced Flowers
Level: Intermediate - Advanced (requires basic foundation of flowers)
Description: Looking at new directions you can go with flowers. Learn to play with number and position of petals, turns, creating your own flower combos, etc



Picture of Olivier Masson Olivier Masson
France

Title: Poi (part I) Body move for spinning 2D & 3D, and ground displacement
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Description:
- Basic body move for 2D flower spinning (how to circle arms) as well as, how to associate them with ground displacement
- Application to 2.5 D flowers, or how to make 3D patterns when only knowing how to spin 2D
- 3D body move & application to 3D flowers


Title: Poi (part II) body move application to hybrid flowers
Level: Advanced
Description:
- Basic driving-style (ways to spin a poi: pendulum, extension, spin, isolation ...) & how to transition them
- Driving-style hybrid theory and combination : Being able to do something totally different with right & left hand, and its application to Nick Woolsey's "circling circles"
- What’s next to play with hybrid flowers
- Participant should have done WS part 1 or be proficient with antispin & flowers



Hula Hoop



Picture of Amelie Amelie
France

Title: Hula Hoop Girating
Level: Beginners
Description: Discovery of body's girating points, dance, attitude, FUN


Title: You knowm for kids!
Level: Intermediate
Description: Explore the transitions between girating places, in and out of body, FUN



Picture of Cian Cian Kinsella
Ireland

Title: Breaking the chains of traditional Devil Sticks/What's clubs got to do with it?
Level:
Description: The first part of the workshop will concentrate on grabs, stalls and control techniques to allow for more ease of movement and transition into tricks. The second part of the workshop will concentrate on using control sticks as the show object. If there is time we can go into contact with elbows, feet, knees, shoulders, neck, and head.



Contact Ball



Picture of Dzielny Kamil 'Dzielny' Dzilinski
Poland

Title: Contact Juggling Fundaments
Level: Beginners/Intermediate
Description: Introduction to contact juggling, basic moves, theory of practice, choosing props, overall look at contact juggling


Title: Body is the key
Level: Intermediate/advanced
Description: Workshop is concentrated about body rolls in different variations, improving visual look of the same moves by different body movement, mixing contact juggling with contemporary dance.


Title: Acrylic shape shifters
Level: Intermediate/advanced
Multiball work from 4 to 8 acrylics, focusing on even numbers. Palm spinning techniques and multiball formations.


Title: Isolations
Level: all
Workshops introducing to acrylic isolations, exploring different ideas and techniques.





CIRCUS FESTIVAL IRELAND
15 - 17 FEBRUARY 2008
HOSTED BY UCC, CORK CITY, IRELAND