Juggling through the Prism of Stop Motion

Date de publication :
28 November 2022
Dernière modification :
01 March 2023

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In order to continue the archaeology of juggling gestures opened by Olivier Burlaud through his study of stop motion, Julien Ladenburger is invited to put into perspective this contemporary juggling technique based on interruptions.

The following interview and improvisation session contribution were made at a particular moment in the career of Julien Ladenburger: the creation of a short-format work as part of the “Échappées” at the end of his studies at the National Center for Circus Arts (Cnac) in Châlons-en-Champagne. These two videos were produced with the generous support of the Audiovisual Production Unit of the Cnac, both within its resource center and its historical circus.

In the first video, stop motion is a prism from which Julien Ladenburger talks about contemporary juggling, and more particularly about his technical and artistic progress on juggling. His experiences imply other practices that have been important to him for several years, such as acrobatics. Also, Julien Ladenburger considers hobbyist and professional jugglers with whom he has evolved, whom he has followed, or even who have influenced him. Finally, he shares in this interview some personal reflections on his artistic work in progress.

The second video shows an improvisation session by Julien Ladenburger. It exposes several aspects of his practice that is partly rooted in stop motion in recent years. As Olivier Burlaud points out in his article, stopping an object and more broadly the flow of movement in juggling does not necessarily mean that its effect of continuity no longer exists. Julien Ladenburger displays the continuity of movement in a different way, making his juggling “derailed” or “stuttered” somehow. His movement is at the same time punctuated by falls and appears “destructured” regarding some gestural impulses that are often fast and precise. His juggling thus seems “nervous and expressive”.

Any term marked with an asterisk* in the videos has a definition in the glossary.