The main goal of my teaching work has been to create a juggling process that is conscious instead of only being intuitive. That means to question and explore the most fundamental parts of juggling, and to become aware of all the different possibilities that exist. This series is for anyone who wants to learn how to juggle in an intentional way. Equally, it's a series for teachers of juggling, giving an example of how students can learn juggling without focusing on individual skill levels.
I suggest the best way to learn from these videos is to watch them in a space where you have some room to juggle. Follow along by juggling at the same time when you can and pause the video whenever a task is presented. Make your own version of the assignment before continuing the video. For the most part you will only need 3 balls.
It’s a good idea to become very familiar with the YouTube controls and shortcuts for play, pause, rewind, and slow motion. Most importantly, please take the time to figure out how auto-translation works with the English subtitles. Different languages can be chosen! You can easily find tutorials about YouTube settings with a quick internet search. Even though I will of course still be speaking in English, the subtitles can then be read in any available language to help you along.
These videos were recorded in 2016 while I was teaching at the circus school in Stockholm, Sweden. The material presented here is not at all what we would usually work on in class there. Instead, the ideas come from my experience as a guest workshop teacher over the past 20 years at various festivals, programs, and institutions around the world. What you see are many of the building blocks that I used to make the foundation for the more advanced work with the Stockholm circus school jugglers.
I would like to give a huge THANK YOU to the juggling students at the Stockholm circus school for participating in this special project: Arttu Lahtinen, Aleksi Niityvuopio, Jean-Hicham Rahmoun, Saska Särkilahti and Richard Sullivan. They were very helpful both in front of the camera and also behind it. Special thanks to Ivar Heckscher for making a cameo appearance in some of the videos in the background, but perhaps more importantly for asking me to create a juggling program in Sweden in the first place. The final step of sharing this project with the world would not have been possible without the generous hard work of Joe Fisher who built this website. I am deeply grateful to him for all his support and enthusiasm.
If you are interested to hear more about juggling from my point of view, please check out "Object Episodes." This podcast is sponsored by the International Jugglers’ Association and is a long form conversation about juggling with Erik Åberg:
I wrote a book about juggling titled "5 Catches." This collection of essays explores many of the cultural sides of juggling. Print and electronic versions of the book are available:
Websites about my juggling and archived material can be found at:
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