Contact Juggling (also known as Dynamic Manipulation, Sphereplay, Orb Rolling, Spherical balancing, etc) is a form of object manipulation in which the ball or balls are kept in contact with the body. The different manipulations can give the appearance that the balls may be floating even though they are in fact always in contact with the body. Contact Juggling can be performed with any number of balls. The fundamental ideas of contact juggling were formulated in the early 1980s by physical artist Michael Moschen, although different forms of CJ Contact Juggling have been around for quite some time.
Contact Juggling can be broken down into 3 major categories, these categories can be blended together and integrated into many different manipulations. But for simplicities sake we categorize types of moves into Body Rolling, Multiball, and Isolations.
Body Rolling tricks involve the rolling of spheres on the body.
Isolations are tricks involving the illusion of a floating ball.
And Palmspinning tricks involve the manipulation of multiple balls in the hands.
Contact Juggling is relaxing; It is also fun, and improves hand eye coordination, and improves kinesthetic awareness. Its a great hobby and performance art that some pick up casually, and others dedicate their lives to working on and performing.
Thank you for admitting that it doesn't actually float, and that it's actually something called contact juggling. You still ought to be ashamed of yourselves though.
ReplyDeleteWe respect the people who have devoted hours, day, weeks, or even years of their lives to this art. We did not mean to try and rebrand the art. It will always be contact juggling to us.
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