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I liked Heptad when it came out, and still after four years, this is probably my favorite juggling video by Wes Peden. Here’s seven reasons why:

Heptad has a all going through theme and is one piece of juggling film.

Heptad has a sweet mix between technic and the expression of the technic.

Heptad has very few unnecessary “object-is-out-of-shoot” moments.

Heptad is filmed clean, juggled clean, space clean and lighted clean.

Heptad is a summing up of where juggling currently is, in terms of style, technics, objects and numbers.

Heptad contain signs of Wes being Wes. From unaware hands, to jumps and spins, from concentration face to juggling style.

It doesn't have a name yet but here's what I got.

I have 3 different techniques with ball that should make a section each, some dope 3 club patterns that all kind of fit together, and some a few different size ring patterns that I want to expand and add clubs to.

There's a few other little ideas of more concept based fun stuff that's less around technique research that I have planned out but I'm not sure which ones are really going to work. 

For a while i have been considering wether or not I'm going to use the juggling I've made for my solo shows Volcano vs. Palm Tree and Zebra in the video. I have a lot cool arm spiral ring stuff in zebra that would be fun to show as well as some flower juggling and yoga ball stuff that would look great in a video trailer! : P Just yesterday I decided to not use anything from my shows and make completely new stuff. I'll be much more excited to post the video knowing no one has see the work before and much more excited to perform knowing that people having see a video of the same stuff. 

This also makes it more fun to post trailers for my show and not worry about giving away surprises that I would want for the video.  

I've learned a lot of little things from shooting Tony for his last video Fake Sports that I'm stoked to apply to this project! 

Tony figured out the title for the video after we had shot all the section and it was like GAAAAAA! If we had know the title beforehand we could have made that idea and theme work with all the costumes and the way we framed everything! The same with shooting promo photos after the video. Damn this is a cool shot! Why didn't we do something like that for the actual video? 

I'm working now to prepare tricks and ideas for what I want to express about juggling now and then find a title and concept for the whole thing so I can make it one over all vibe instead of shooting a bunch of sections then trying to find a way to squish them together in a way that makes sense after the fact. Which is what I did for Plaid, Synthetic, and Throw Joy. 

Malabarismo: da etimologia e conceito à expressão artística.

Richard Santos diz que entre tantas possíveis origens etimológicas da palavra malabarismo, uma tem ligação com o francês joglar, que se tornou jogral, um perfil de bobo da corte com habilidades malabarísticas. Evolui-se para jougleur como malabarista e jongleur como malabarismo. Influenciou o termo em outros idiomas, juggler, em inglês, jongleur, em alemão que também já teve spiel malabarische [jogos malabarísticos]. 

Para o autor, malabarismo é o ato de manipular, arremessar e equilibrar objetos habilidosamente. Diz ele, que todos os que fazem isto são malabaristas, independentemente do preconceito ou dos estereótipos aceitos como “bons malabaristas”. 

Concordo. Acima, Wes Peden, um monstro do malabarismo. Nascido em New York esteve na Suécia na Dance and Circus University of Stockholm onde vive atualmente, pesquisa malabarismo e de onde parte para o mundo se apresentando, dando cursos e gravando vídeos. 

Free stacks! 

check out the videos on our sites if you're DTF

http://www.wespeden.com/