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Summary: You can't do that!!
Comment: This video is incredible.
I agree with some others, after you've seen the teaching parts and the cute family life part once, FF on by(I'm kind of insensitive that way), and his students just aren't as talented so after the first viewing I FF on by them as well.
But MM juggling and the other stuff he does is mesmerizing. I've yelled, "You can't do that" more than once while watching this. It's Pact with the Devil kind of optically delusional stuff.
Think "geometry nerd finds acid" and you'll get an idea.
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Summary: Creating Beauty in the world
Comment: Michael Moschen's work displays an amazing combination of physical dexterity, concentration, balance, flow, inspiration, beauty and artistry. This Great Performances video offers him in performance and also provides insights into who he is and how he works and practices. I have watched it many times and shared it with friends because it's such an amazing and wonderful demonstration of what we humans can be capable of doing with our lives, each in our own way, to create beauty in the world. Watch this for entertainment and for the beauty. Watch it for inspiration, and feel your heart rise and expand with your own sense of purpose in life.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Comment: I was eager to see this video due to Michael Mochen's reputation as the best contact juggler in the world. Unfortunately, there was very little contact juggling in the video (at least in the traditional sense). The video led off with an interesting 3 ball routine and a bounce juggling routine inside a large triangle. The triangle routine was interesting, but a bit long. By the end, it felt like a juggling version of Riverdance.
A significant part of the video (approximately 10 minutes) was devoted to a routine involving a large ring and a long steel rod. I found this to be mind numbingly boring. It was then followed by a section on rings rolling down sand dunes, which proved to be even more boring.
Then there were two routines with one and two metal rings (approximately 2-3 feet in diameter). These routines were interesting.
There were two brief routines with crystal balls near the end. The first routine started with 8 balls and worked down to one. The second routine was a single crystal ball. I would have liked to see much more of this.
Since this video was part of a series funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, I probably should have expected it to be dominated by strange "highbrow" art. I was expecting an emphasis on quality technical juggling and contact juggling instead.
This video would probably be quite good if it were pared down to 30 minutes of toss, bounce, and contact juggling. I think next time I watch it, I will keep my remote in hand so I can fast forward through the many disappointing and boring sections.
Victor Kee's juggling performance in Cirque du Soleil's "Dralion" was significantly more interesting and entertaining despite being only 7-8 minutes long.
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Summary: fabulous work, but too much padding on this video
Comment: Michael Moschen does amazing things with simple spheres and circles. His work is part juggling, part dance, and entirely his own. He figures out what properties are in the object he wants to work with, and then he finds ways to make the object do surprising actions. Some of his manipulations of objects are quite subtle and best seen on the screen rather than on stage, as when he rolls 8 glass balls around in his hands so that they look almost liquid.
This video, however, has maybe 15 minutes of Mr. Moschen's beautiful performances, and the rest is padding. We see him walking down the beach, teaching some other people to do the work, testing out tools, etc. Watching this video I felt cheated. I have seen a number of still photos of him in action using other objects than he uses in the video, and I was expecting to see thsese routines also.
His work is gorgeous. It is worth someone's effort to put together a video that shows it to its best advantage. This one is not it.
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Summary: Captivating Performance
Comment: Effortless in appearance, Michael transforms solid objects into a weightless art of line and liquid Moschen that exerts an almost hypnotic power over his audience!
