Tips and suggestions
on Juggling and performing
When you first start to Juggle it's about three things,
throwing Balls, catching balls and keeping up the process
of throwing and catching balls.
After a while juggling
becomes a question of three totally different things, not
totally because one is still keeping up the process of
catching and throwing balls,but the other two have become
keeping up a pratter and doing it with style (hopefuly your
own).
At last you reach a stage where juggling involves
three things and three things only, The juggler, the balls
and the audience. And it is then that you have mastered the
art.
Why is Juggling associated with clowning?
Some people who are very good juglers don't see what the
humour is. But Juggling involves much of the science of
mirth in it's rawest forms. It creates the illussions that
at the same moment it dispells, it creates suspence with a
constant relief from each suspenceful catch. It seems
impossible and yet is real. This is the stuff that clowns
are made of. Looking the part I once was doing a work shop on foolery when someone asked a real stumper about costumes. What was the difference between what I was saying (regarding the importance of dressing the part) and an anal retentive boss insisting on a dress code with a tie. I answered that the answer was in what the tie itself symbolised. Look at a tie, the first guess that comes to mine is that it is some sort of phallic symbol (and in part it is) but it is actually a phallic symbol that is on a collar (in fact it makes a pretty effective lease as well). The collar is a symbol of both service and leadership, Beowulf in the great Gothic Epic did not tae up the crown but the collar of kingship for to lead was to serve. In a society that puts this collar of royal servitude onto the nects of minumum wage serves of french fries and Sodas we can see where some of the repulsion comes in (for now it isn't a grand symbol of kingly service and responcibility but of menial servitude in it's most ugly form.) If you understand the history and symbolism of the fools garb compiling your own becomes a kind of poetry as the costumes accessories become a personal poetic statement. When correctly made (and I do not mean the sewing technique but rather the symbolic complilation) the suit becomes a thing of power that you can see and feel. Just walk out into a crowd with fools garb on someday and you will feel what I mean more than you'll ever understand it.
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