This is one of the closest things I've seen to what I want to be able to do one day, specifically the breakdancing + contact jugging scenes.

At about 5min in, he does a 3-2-1 multiball contact juggling routine...with PVC cylinders. It's awesome.

Michael Moschen: performance lecture excerpts

BTW, there is now a multiball CJ book. I've bought it, but it may be quite awhile before I have time to try out the moves.

Nice contact juggling, mostly isolations.

With S pregnant and me very hungover, we spent today sharing the world of nausea and dizziness. We got in-room massages, and then went to see Cirque Du Soleil's latest two shows, Ka and Zumanity.

Ka was a bit disappointing. The central feature was the stage, which was mounted on hydraulics and could lift, turn, spin, practically dance in front of you. It was amazing. But the acts seemed generally short and uninspired. They'd bring out some cool new setup or gadget, and then play on it a little bit, and be done long before they'd really explored it. As an example, at one point a main character is inside a rolling cylindrical cage, and they just rocked it around a little and did things related to the story - no acrobatics. This seemed to happen quite a bit.

Towards the end, it got a lot better, I liked the last few acts, starting with baton contact juggling. So I kinda changed my mind and thought maybe it wasn't so bad. Then we went straight to Zumanity, and I re-revised my opinion of Ka, because Zumanity was awesome. Not only was it unadulterated, unashamed, polysexual smut from start to finish, but the acrobatics and choreography were much more of what I think of as classic Cirque Du Soleil.

They'd set up a scene, and people would start doing crazy things on a standard dramatic arc, starting out kinda easy, getting hard, then (sometimes) getting ridiculous. ie a barely-dressed girl does wonderful things with a hula hoop. Woah. Then she does them while hanging in the air. Double Woah. Then she does 4 hula hoops while hanging in the air. Then she does like 20 of them. There were some scenes that weren't very acrobatic, more so than a standard show, but not too many.

For stupid human trick fans, there was one great male-female duo Pilobolus-type scene. The choreography was amazing, they just flowed from position to position. Wonder if there is a video?

My show preference is now: great - Mystere, Allegria, Varekai, Zumanity, not so great: Dralion, Ka, O (but it might just have been the bad seats).