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>> ^Sagemind:
... babe with the power!

What power?

If you ever get a chance, he did an episode of Great Performances on PBS back in the early 1990's (In Motion with Michael Moschen), which not only showed his contact juggling skills but some of his other performance art. He does this dance with a steel ring where after a while, his movements have become so fluid and isolated, he looks like he's playing with a giant soap bubble. Killer stuff, along with his normal juggling skills. Sadly, it was only ever available on VHS through WGBH's storefront, and I don't think it's ever been released on DVD.

Awesome. Some more clips of this technique here:


http://www.videosift.com/video/Michael-Moshen-The-Hands-behind-David-Bowie-in-Labyrinth
http://www.videosift.com/video/Michael-Moschen-Juggling-Rhythm-and-Motion
http://www.videosift.com/video/Inside-The-Labyrinth-contact-juggling

http://www.videosift.com/video/More-Contact-Juggling
http://www.videosift.com/video/Contact-juggling-and-Yoga
http://www.videosift.com/video/Contact-juggling
http://www.videosift.com/video/Contact-juggling-to-Strict-Machine

He does a lot of isolation...I prefer more butterflies and windshield wipers myself. More info: www.contactjuggling.org

-Michael Moschen is the man!

For the record, in Labyrinth, a guy named Michael Moschen stuck his arms under David Bowie's armpits and did all the juggling. Who's Michael Moschen? He's the guy that gave birth to contact juggling.

There's one video of Moschen doing some bounce juggling in a large triangle with 3 and 5 balls on youtube. It's a pity there aren't any videos of him contact juggling there... I would have uploaded those instead of the contact juggling with fire, http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=9961