- Title: Jugglers share airborne passion at European convention
- Date: 28th July 2017
- Summary: VARIOUS OF OPENING CEREMONY ON THE CITY'S MAIN SQUARE WITH JUGGLERS JUGGLING TOGETHER NURIT AMIR FROM ISRAEL DEMONSTRATING SKILLS (SOUNDBITE) (English) CONVENTION PARTICIPANT FROM ISRAEL, JUGGLER NURIT AMIR, SAYING: "I love jogging because it's so interesting, it looks simple and it looks very elegant but on the other hand it's very challenging for your brain and for your body together. In the same time you have to try and figure out, figure out how to make a new movement so your brain is trying to teach your body a new movement and it's very, very hard but inside the juggling world everybody are really close friends. You can just get to know everybody in a minute. So whenever you want to learn something it's not a problem. You can learn more and more and more from everybody." LUBLIN, POLAND (JULY 24 2017) (REUTERS) TENT WHERE PERFORMANCES TAKE PLACE LUBLIN, POLAND (JULY 23, 2017) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) CONVENTION PARTICIPANT FROM AUSTRALIA, JUGGLER LISA DALE, SAYING: "The main reason is that it brings me a lot of joy. I have a lot of fun and it's good, good for... good for the heart and the mind and the soul." LUBLIN, POLAND (JULY 24, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF CONVENTION PARTICIPANT JUGGLING WITH CUBE VARIOUS OF CONVENTION PARTICIPANTS TRAINING LUBLIN, POLAND (JULY 23, 2017) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) CONVENTION PARTICIPANT FROM POLAND, JUGGLER ADAM OPARA SAYING "Thanks to juggling I can really annoy people! I have a constant need of playing with something in my hands. Once I had a date with a girl and I couldn't stop playing with the sugar bowl because there is this need of manipulating something manually. And besides it's just good fun, some kind of stress relief. When I get angry, instead of throwing something or destroying it, I juggle." LUBLIN, POLAND (JULY 24, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF CONVENTION'S PARTICIPANTS LEARNING TO WALK ON STILTS MAN JUGGLING WITH CIRCLES LUBLIN, POLAND (JULY 24, 2017) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) MEMBER OF CONVENTION ORGANIZING CREW, JUGGLER MICHAL PYLAK, SAYING "We do not invite people here to conduct workshops. Here you just come and say, 'Hey I can do something and I would like to teach you that thing,' then I write a note about it and if you like it you can come, so everybody learn from each other. You can ask anyone about anything. When we see something we like, we just walk up to the person that is doing it and ask: 'Hey, will you teach me this thing that you just did?' And if that person isn't hungry or needs to pee, we will certainly be taught (something new)." (SOUNDBITE) (English) CONVENTION PARTICIPANT FROM SPAIN, COMEDIAN RAY, SAYING "You can do juggling, acrobatic, aerial, monocycle, clown, all that you want about circus. But also you can learn origami, another language, you will do a lot of friends around the world because the ambient here is very cool." ON STREET OUTSIDE, COMEDIAN RAY FROM SPAIN AT BUS STOP JOKING WITH LOCALS
- Embargoed: 11th August 2017 11:22
- Keywords: juggling European circus convention acrobatics stilts circus parade
- Location: LUBLIN, POLAND
- City: LUBLIN, POLAND
- Country: Poland
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVA0026RMTNW9
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Jugglers, acrobats, circus artists and comedians: from July 22 to July 30, Poland's eastern city of Lublin turns into a giant open-air circus.
About 3,000 amateurs and professional circus artists from 57 countries converged to the town for the 40th European Juggling Convention to demonstrate their skills and learn new ones, but first and foremost to have fun.
The convention kicked off with a colourful parade, where participants occasionally stopped to perform tricks for Lublin residents.
More than 100 performances were set to take place over eight days, from a busy juggling get-together to acrobatics, workshops and competitions.
Some, like Spanish comedian Ray, are regulars, here to teach tricks and techniques to newcomers.
From bowling pins to fire and inflatable palm trees, it seems that one can juggle with everything.
Fire dancer Titos Tsai from Taiwan said it took him years of regular exercise to master his art. Manual abilities and ingenuity were necessary to achieve such dexterity, he also said.
The first European Juggling Convention took place in 1978 with 11 participants. It was the second time it took place in Lublin. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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