EJC Lublin 2023 Review

Saturday

EJC was a short walk from the train station and in the early afternoon when I got there, registration was super quick and organized.

I love the venue with tons of grass and trees surrounding the main hall. So I quickly set up my tent and got out my props and headed to the hall. I quickly recognized lots of cool people and also did some juggling, but then went back and volunteered, helping lock on the convention badges.

Opening night was the Polish Open stage, emceed by Jakub Szwed (FB: #jakubszwed88) from the core team. He kept things moving while interspersing important announcements. I will also say that the venue in a nearby hall was closer to the EJC site and much more comfortable than the circus tent used in 2017 (and yay for chair seating).

Polish Stage photos by Hugo Villanueva and Radek Bułtowicz:

[Apologies in advance for name misspellings. I couldn’t get official details for this show.]

Polish Got Talent finalists “the Multivisual” were three men with light poles (pun not intended). Well-choreographed routine with fast-paced movement and slide passing the poles. They showed nice synchronized movements and good timing with the music and the colors of the strobe lights changing.

EJA president, Jonas came on and praised the Polish team for putting together the event in only 100 days (compared to 2 years for a normal EJC). They received lots of appreciation from many happy jugglers.

“Chris Loves Flowersticks” has been juggling for 18 years. He did a lot of cool manipulations with few traditional moves (like tapping between handsticks). He incorporated wrist, elbow, and shoulder rolls and many surprising blind wrist traps. It was a very relaxed and smooth act.

Anya from Lublin has been training since age 4. Performing to dramatic spoken-word music, she performed contortion and handstands in a very floaty and flexible style.

Next were a few words from the Irish team.

Timon started his 3 ball routine to hip-hop music with high energy and wacky body throws, specializing in behind the head throws. He worked his way up to 4 and 5 balls in similar style, before ending with a ball jam.

Marsha and Yuhan combined harmony and trust with Icaraian games (risley), acro, and dance. They did numerous poses and impressive hand-to-handstands in their sensual dance. Most popular was certainly their risley flips (him on his back with her on his raised feet, and him flipping her up and catching her with his legs).

Tomash juggled white rings to create lovely forms and illusions. Popular tricks included ring-on-ring spins and behind the neck rolls. He ended with a long 5 ring run.

Emilia worked with hoops “exploring impulses and shaking.” She did great isolations and a handstand with a hoop spinning on her ankle. she had great effects with 2 hoops and moved up to 3 with her trademark vibrating/shaking hoops punctuating the musical rhythms.

Luis and Fernando are honorary Poles (immigrants who are very active in the Polish circus community). They are a guitarist and diaboloist. He incorporated a lot of impossible-looking moves that should have tangled with string around his arms and body. My favorite trick was a sort of force bounce move.

Circus Dance Company was 4 men dong German wheel inside, outside, and upside-down on their contraption. Fast-paced and very visual.

After show, the audience was asked to turned around the seating for a later aerial show. Yes, there are 2 different stages in the hall.

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Sunday

Joggling photos by Radek_Bułtowicz:

In the morning I went for an early morning run in the nearby park along the river. Probably a mistake since I spent most of the afternoon at the joggling event. There was an excellent turnout in 100m (including forwards, backwards, and 5 balls), 400m, 1600m, and 5k. It was nice to see quite a few women competing as well. The results can be found on www.joggling.pl.

The Opening Show was held in a bandshell in a nearby park. It started with some speeches and a long standing ovation for the core team.

Opening show photos by Monika Wozniak and Wiktor Sawicki:

“Super Organism” is a show by “Critical-Mess” which was directed by and starring Stefan Sing. Featuring 6 artists in coveralls, they had dramatic hand movements and exchanges of balls, but rarely more than 1 or 2 objects per person. But that didn’t detract from the enjoyment. Minimal balls, but maximal stage movement as they filled the stage, often feeling like anarchy, but then combining into precise synchronization. Each artist had their unique and playful interpretive juggle dance that had the industrial feel of factory machinery parts all working separately but with a common goal. I particularly liked when they stood in a single-file line and swooped their arms and bodies to create some wonderful visuals. Of course they got a standing ovation.

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Monday

I volunteered to usher the open stage. Not only is it good to volunteer, but it’s a great way to save yourself a front row seat to the show.

Open stage photos by Monika Wozniak:

Emcees, Juul & Jeroen, were like cheerleaders with great energy.

Yoav (IG: #jundia_cirque) from Australia did ball juggling with mechanical movements in rhythm to the music. Instead of throwing from hand to hand, he mostly lifted his arms high and did drops. He incorporated a lot of arm flourishes and did Mills Mess with 3 and 4 balls before doing tricks with 5 and a flash of 7.

Alon and Nadav from Israel were up next. Alon is 10 years old and started with a bunch of diabolo tricks including suicides and vertax. The father beamed with obvious pride. Together they passed 6 clubs and then did acro moves such as a flagpole while juggling and a feet on feet stand while juggling. Alon stood on his father’s shoulders while both juggled and then Alon did 5 balls. They performed with high energy and huge smiles throughout.

Maggie Rusak (IG: #maggierusak) recently graduated from Toulouse Ésacto’Lido. Her main prop was the skirt of her dress which she kicked up as if it were a ball, but she also did foot catches and kickups with balls. She would pull up corners of her skirt and pass the balls through the gaps created. The moves got more complicated and more tangling, but she always persisted. She did 2 balls on one foot and ended with a beautiful 2 ball and pulled up corner of dress Mills Mess. This was my favorite act of the night.

Dmitrijs performed buugang in a tribal and other-worldly manner. Great effects, particularly when he move up to 2 in each hand to create fascinating shapes and forms. Definitely the best buegang act I’ve seen.

JUNDIA (IG: #jundia_cirque) from South Korea did diabolo in a k-pop style. His dance moves nicely highlighted his tricks. Hard to describe all the action, but my favorite tricks was some sort of slingshot effect that drove the crowd wild.

Ryo Atami (IG: #atami__n) from Japan did a high-energy routine with 3 clubs and jumping and dancing around. He worked up to multiplex tricks with 4, 5, and 6 clubs.

Mr. Kim performed a magical cigar box routine dressed in 1920s style. Holding 2 boxes, he somehow made a 3rd appear. And after some moves, a 4th appeared and then disappeared. Very polished act, with tons of surprises.

Børre Isac L’orange (FB: #borreisac) from Norway juggled his signature triangles. He did lots of classical ring tricks like shoulder rolls and an awesome chest rolls in both directions, but he also took maximal advantage of the unique shape to interconnect the props in star-like configurations within the juggling patterns. With 4 triangles, he did steswaps and flourishes.He created an unusual structure with 4 that he balanced on his face and then gave it a swat which changed the design but maintained the balance. He juggled 5 regular and with flat fronts and then configured them into a interconnected design that he proceeded to balance and gave it spin on his face.

Ovio photos by Monika Wozniak and Radek Bułtowicz:

Later that night was a special show, OVVIO (https://lapsocirk.com/ovvio/), by David & Tomas. Two men manipulated planks of wood around and did truly incredible balances on them, moving from improbable to impossible and into unthinkable and beyond. One guy managed to stand on two 2-meter boards as if they were stilts – crazy. The other created A frame structures of 2 boards and balanced precariously on top and then built higher A’s with longer boards and walked his way up higher on higher while we all held our breathes. The structures got wilder and the antics atop them increased. They ended by creating a see-saw with each sitting on opposing ends to balance the other out. But as one shifted and moved, the other had to accommodate to maintain equilibrium. One even did a headstand on one end. The finale was sitting on chairs on the see-saw and sliding themselves around before one leaned back tilted and somehow balanced. So much tension and crazy brilliance and a well-deserved standing ovation.

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Tuesday

Volleyclub photos by Hugo Villanueva:

I took a break from juggling during the day to watch some of my compatriots playing volley-club. The game has come a long way in terms of skill and strategy.

Open Stage emcees, Simon & Marc (roarcircus.com), opened the evening with a clever lighter routine magically “throwing” the flames around. They were the best show hosts all week.

Lauge Benjaminsen (FB: #Lauge1080) from Denmark got the audience clapping to the rhythm of his rapid wacky tricks with 3 and then kicking up to even wackier tricks with 4. With 5 he did many multiplexes and fast carries. He ended with a good run of 7 and then a crazy 3 ball jam.

Laylay (YT: @lay-laylu2866) performed G-pop style diabolo with many suns and suicides. She held 3 rings in a line and hopped the spinning diabolo from ring to ring. She also spun the diabolo on the outside of a ring and the diabolo went back and forth between string and ring.She did 2 diabolos with many tricks including while hula hooping around her legs. And she ended with vertax also while hooping around her knees.

Mateusz Czwojdziński (FB: #mateusz.czwojdzinski) from Poland did an ethereal routine with minimally heliumed balloon trained with static such that he was able to control them around his body and train them around the stage without ever touching them. Magical.

Torben Gerum performed “The Week,” his contact staff interpretation of the constant repetitions of life as he skillfully rolled his prop around his neck and shoulders.

“Not Really” duo of Alina Blechman (FB: #alina.blechman) and Navot Ori (FB: #navot.ori.1) did partner acro with a lot of character. For the first half, they did hand to handstand with extended arms, and standing on shoulders that got thrown to a hand to handstand high which transitioned to one hand each. But we never saw the base’s face as he was turned backwards or with his hands over his face. Eventually his face was revealed and they did more acro with cute finger-gun interactions.

The emcees came out [no pun intended] and did a homo-erotic piece with very suggestive club manipulations. Hilarious.

Sebi Haushofer (FB: #sebi.haushofer) performed diabolo which is hard to describe but definitely awesome and unique. He did a wacky string climb with 2 diabolos as well as 2 diabolos in perpedicular orientations with a number of cool tricks. He did some skilled vertax and then concluded with his trademark 2 and 3 diabolos with 2 sets of handsticks, beautifully transferring between hands in crazy, beautiful, and mind-blowing ways. The glorious routine earned him a standing ovation.

Kris (YT: Kris Juggling) from Poland did acrylic contact with gravity-defying isolations and body rolls. He kicked a ball to his forehead and while balancing the sphere on top of his head, he palm rolled 4 then 6 then 8. The routine ended with a magical floating gold ball. One of the sharpest contact routines I’ve seen.

Ofek Rafaeli (FB: #ofek.rafaeli) and Or Koren (FB: #or.koren.light) from Israel combined contemporary dance and juggling in a raucous display. They started with 3 club takeouts and a runaround with hat steals. They shared 4 and 5 club patterns and then did a pretty 5 club runaround with hat steals. They pirouetted under 6 in ultimates and then did 7 in a number of patterns. The finished with a nice run of 8. All throughout they did lip sync, dance, and poses overflowing with energy and kept the audience roaring.

The Barbarian Barbies photos by Michal Patron:

Special Show: The Barbarian Barbies: A Wild Women Circus (https://barbarenbarbies.com/)
A campy energy that is hard to describe. There was silly hula-hooping, comedy trapeze, a nipple monologue, Chinese pole with poses and crazy free-falls, wondrous hat manipulation (including lying down and exchanging 4 between hands and feet), fabulous cyr wheel, sperm imagery with tissue, and wild tightrope with jumps and splits while the rig was being spun around the stage. While all the ladies where obviously very skilled circus artists, it was mostly about the wacky characters and hilarious interactions. The finale ended with antipodism and confetti and streamers filling the stage, while the audience burst into a huge standing ovation.

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Wednesday

Stickman photos by Michal Patron:

 

This EJC has had some amazing special shows. Another I was fortunate to get tickets for was “Stickman” by Darraugh McLaughlin (https://squarehead-productionsltd.squarespace.com/stickman). The balancing skills were the best I’ve ever seen – on his big toe (just using his toe to make corrections, not his whole foot), on his butt while sitting on his side, on his knee while lying on his back, on his crotch, on the back of his hand while wiping the floor, on his foot while sliding it around (very much limiting correction possibilities), and on his chin while talking (and really only using his chin for corrections, not his neck). He maintained these balances for considerable amounts of time, but by far his greatest was lying on his back and balancing on his stomach without moving his body around the stage; he made all the corrections with his stomach muscles which you could see flex and bulge in what he described [accurately] as a scene from “Aliens.” But not only was the skill outrageous, but the presentation and interactive multimedia humor was truly genius.

Open Stage photos by Radek Bultowicz. And you can see more at on EJC’s facebook.

Wednesday’s Open Stage was emceed by Super Sequoia (IG: #sequoia_boom) and her not-so-hidden cohort who later became Super Daniel FB: #dsimu).

Opening the show was Nurit Angel Amir (FB: #nuritamir) who performed a bi-polar themed trapeze act to raise awareness for mental health. Her shy and awkward character worked between two trapezes with lots of twirls and tumbles.

Second up was Gerardo “Goofy” Avila (FB: #Geeraav) from Mexico. He used his 3 clubs to form slick shapes and forms and specialized in rolling the club into forearm balances and wrist traps. Then he took things up a notch and did harder variations with 4 clubs. He ended with 5 club multiplexes and a cascade and a nice standing ovation.

Julia Pinter (FB: #iris.vegan.3) blew soap bubbles and manipulated a hoop around them in aesthetic ways. One bubble magically became a crystal ball. She worked with two hoops of different sizes twisting them in different orientations for cool effect. She ended with contact ball butterflies and arm rolls.

Shu Chien Hung (FB: #shuchienhung) from Taiwan worked with cigar boxes, offering a feast of moves and a lot of body movement and style.

Namjae (YT: @CircusSeo) brought out a pole on a small (unstable) base and did tricks on the wobbly pole. He built it higher and higher. Though the final 5 meters tall required riggers, it was a gutsy climb and standing atop he took a selfie and a video of everyone in the audience dong a pirouette.

Juliusz Lewandowski (FB: #juliusz.lewandowski) did dragon staff?

Matías Alarcón (YT: #@matiasalarcon5696) made a grand entrance, entering from the rear of the hall and singing opera. Juggling 5 clubs, he did doubles, singles, and backcrosses. He also did 6 clubs before finishing with a fast and flashy 3 club routine with shoulder rolls, club bumps, and much more.

Jesse Patterson (FB: #jesse.patterson.5) closed the show with an impressive hoop rolling routine. She rolled frontcrossed and backcrosses around her body and then did Bramson rolls while spinning a hoop on a raised foot. Her expertise of floor rolling sent hoops everywhere with 5, 7, and even 9 hoops being pushed away and always obediently returning into her hands. Impressive and visual, she earned a standing ovation.

Tunnel show photos by Radek Bułtowicz:

Later I saw the outdoor show, Tunnel by Alex Allison and Jonas Schiffauer (https://www.hippanamaleta.com/tunnel), with physical comedy with benches while exchanging juggling balls. The often placed the balls on teeterboard that they stepped on (or dropped benches on) to pop the balls in the air. Their antics and interactions intertwined their bodies to comedic effect and they got a warm standing ovation.

Later in the evening, was Fight Night. Always a great show, the non-fighting highlight for me was Krzysztof Kostera coming out for his first round like a boxer with an entourage of groupies. In the battles, there was a lot of excitement and skill and more than a few broken clubs (more than I recall ever seeing in the past). Check out the video below and go to the Fight Night website for the full results.

 

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Thursday
At the EJA General Assembly, business reports were presented and country reps and festival reps were elected. And the Holland team presented a great offering for EJC 2025 which was enthusiastically approved. See their promo video and get psyched.

I missed the flowerstick battle, but I heard a lot applause and cheers.

The Open Stage was emceed by Or Koren (FB: #or.koren.light) and Gal Ben Heim (FB: #galbh1), “The Opposite Brothers” from Israel. Sadly, I couldn’t find photos from this show (but there is one video below).

First up was Isidora Cardenas (FB: #isidora.cardenas.33) from Chile with clubs doing smooth shoulder pad variations and contact rolling backcrosses. She did 4 clubs in many patterns and then balanced 1 and doing backcrosses and 441 with the 1 behind the back. Her smooth 5 club routine included multiplexes, cascade, and 4 with a balance into 5. She actually did a lot of tricks I’m working on, but much better than I’ll ever be able to.

Shaka (FB: #shahar.avneri.1) did his intense whip cracking with both hands. Then he used the whip to snap stick held in his hand, behind his back, on his head, and in his mouth. High energy, but short and sweet.

Szatan juggled 3 balls with a lot of body placements, neck traps, and foot catches. Working tightly with the rhythms of the music, she sat and juggled between the legs and in many cool patterns.

Łukasz Bogusław (FB: #luck.boguslaw) did a classic trick bike routine, circling the stage while traversing the bike in numerous inconceivable orientations. It was super polished and full of big impressive tricks.

Tony nowhere aka Tony Robinson (FB: #tonyautumndiamond) performed rope dart, wrapping it around his elbows, neck, and legs before flinging it out away in different directions.

Rita (IG: #margarita_hoop) from Israel did pretty hoop manipulations combined with modern dance with lots of energy.

Yoav and Tal, Israelis living in Australia, did an ESP experiment with humorous audience interactions, clever predictions, and a surprising card magic trick.

Closing the show was Itamar Hai (FB: #itamar.hai.5) from Israel with a ring routine. He did body rolls and his specialty of ring on ring spinning, usually caught blind behind he head. He did a fast 4 ring routine with more blind-caught ring on ring spinning.

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Friday

Another show with no photos. 🙁

The Open Stage started with Clara, Nicole, and Leire Froufe (IG: #lenxa.fv) in their Chinese pole act, “Melancholy.” They took turns spinning and doing gymnastic moves on the pole, and also did some synchronized moves. There was a full height drop to inches from the ground. And a clever sequence of one artist climbing on and around other hanging performers who moved around constantly to form a dynamic spiral staircase for the other to climb up and up. One woman climbed up skillfully using only one arm while the other held a watermelon which she proceeded to smash to the stage. The trio ended by rolling and dancing in the sloppy stage. Standing ovation achieved.

Ofir Raymond (FB: #raymond.ofir) from Israel clowned with a fishing theme and had some funny interactions with a reluctant volunteer. She fished for balls that he hooked onto a tall pole hanging from his back. He did a short routine swinging the 3 hanging balls and then added 2 more which he manipulated in a number of patterns. Cute clowning and a very original prop.

Ofer Ram (FB: #oferam4) from Israel juggled 3 balls with a lot of floaty and flowy catches. He did 4 ball Mills Mess and siteswaps and a hi-lo shower. He also did 5 with sync patterns and some high siteswaps.

Jakub Dolejš (YT: @kubdol3312) is a yo-yo master from the Czech Republic. His super-human speed must have landed thousands of tricks with yo-yo and string in every direction. Smooth and precise and totally intense, he got a standing ovation.

Shahar Itzhaki (FB: #shahar.itzhaky) from Israel had drumming plates in the thighs of his jumpsuit and juggled drumsticks while doing wild and rhythmic percussion on himself. He brought out rattle balls which added to the beats. Juggling various amounts of drumsticks and rattle-balls he would belt out vocal sequences and then match them with his percussion. A good energy and fun to watch.

Agnieszka Kawałek (IG: #ageue) from Lublin performed aerial silks with fast-pace flips and rolls. She tangled herself from the heights and unraveled up and down the silks.

Felix Feldmann (FB: #felix.feldmann.140) from Germany juggled plungers and balls, with stunning visual effect. His mechanical movements and satisfying moves formed stunning shapes. He used various numbers of balls vs plungers to maximum effect with balances, flowerstick moves, and sync tricks that were beautifully kaleidoscopic. With 5 props, he did slow and rhythmic balances and manipulations which drove the crowd wild, and then he took it a up notch with fast and crazy multiplexes and more exquisite tricks. This was my favorite open stage act of the week and the audience agreed with a huge standing ovation.

Asia Gervits (FB: #asia.gervits) from Israel closed the show with antipodism with a table. Her high energy act included dragon staff using her legs and feet (while she lay on her back) combining contact staff and foot twirling. In a headstand she did more including spinning the staff on one foot. For a finale, she spun hoops on the foot manipulated staff and 2 more on her arms.

Late Thursday night was the diabolo battle. Each side trying to out-do the other with crazy skills. The competition was intense, but the camaraderie and mutual support gave such a wonderful feel for the event. Here’s a playlist on youtube of most of the battles.

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Saturday

There was an overnight storm watch so many of us packed our stuffs and slept indoors. It turned out not to be so bad, but sleeping inside was nice. I didn’t go to the games because of the rain, but apparently it wasn’t so bad and it was a typical success.

Opening the Open Stage was Jatziry Berumen (FB: #100016773694908) who started dancing and twirling with a large, floaty scarf and then performed a hair hanging act. She did many poses and contortion as she swung above the stage.

Jasper Fleer (FB: #jasper.fleer) from Australia’s ball juggling style included a very fast slapping technique and body movement. He moved from 3 to 4 and did Mills Mess with variations and then 5 with multiplexes and siteswaps. He finished with 6 in multiplexes and a very clean run of 7.

Kamil (YT: #@poikamil) performed glow poi with lots of pace changes and all the expected spins and twirls. He had a lot of cool moves with 2 poi in one hand.

Birte connected to the audience with speaking candidly before doing her balancing act. She threw her hoop high to a back of hand balance and then balanced it on her chest and lay down flat and smooth.

Rauli Katajavuori’s “Meditation is Boring” act started with cats cradle string tricks and got the audience involved in the chant. He also did some ping pong magic before moving on to his forte, diabolo. He started with string figures similar to the cat’s cradle start, but with the diabolo this time, and sometimes incorporating the handsticks in the visuals. He then did more classic moves with suicides and very smooth vertax. A bit long, but certainly highly skillful.

Klaudia Bawer (IG: #aerialclimber) from Krakow performed silks with swings, rolls, twists, and poses. She did a lovely mid-air split between the silks.

“Lach” is a rhythm dance troupe that incorporated hat juggling. Their energetic steps and synch dancing was truly joyful.

I had to leave early so missed Simom Jorkera (YT: #@simonolivares7159) and Julian Sæther (FB: #julian.saether).

GALA

[Apologies in advance for name misspellings. I couldn’t get official details for this show.]

Gala photos by Michal Patron, Klaudia Sawka, Hugo Villanueva, Wiktor Sawicki, Radek Bultowicz, and Natalia Szymanska:

The opening act started with acrobatics off a yoga ball. He did many slides and flips and some cool trampolining sequences. He mostly jumped on the ball but sometimes held it to his chest as he bounced. With 2 balls he did some cool double bounces and slides. He stood on one ball and blindly head-balanced the other on the top of his head. He did cool continuous sliding on 3 balls redirecting them around the stage.

Between all the acts, the local dance troupe did some cute segues in cheerleader style, a pillow fight, on scaffolding, with some hidden screen effects, and more.

Artu did ring manipulation and juggling. He rolled three up his back and did elbow traps and stalls. He did rolling backcrosses and shoulder throws. He did Mills Mess with shoulder pancakes and then 4 with multiplexes and body rolls. He finished with 5 in lazies and a long run of 7.

My favorite non-juggling routine of the evening was a partner trapeze act. They did many releases and catches with flips and beautiful poses. There were many dramatic and risky moves such as a catch of one foot.

There was a unique partner act combining rope-climbing and cyr wheel. The cyr artist attached the rope to his waist which acted as a tether for his partner to ascend the rope. Then he proceeded to cyr around attached by his umbilical cord. Later the rope dangler lifted the cyr with rider in the air to swing around. Then the cyr circled on the ground and spun the rope artist to oblivion.

Jonglissimo (Daniel Ledel, Dominik Harant, Julius Preu, Moritz Rosner, Luca Pferdmenges, Manuel Mitasch) (jonglissimo.com/) started by introducing the audience to the real-time interaction of the props and multimedia background. As clubs were thrown, trails were projected on the background and spectacularly like a fireworks display but better, since it’s juggling. And then there’s the fast-paced technical juggling and passing that alone blows everyone away. They did 4 and 6 person line passing and awesome sync juggling with tons of props filling the air. The most technical passing juggling around combined with astonishing visuals and high intensity presentation made many I spoke to agree that Jonglissimo should have been the night’s finale.

Amy’s aerial hoop was full of bubbly and humorous talk while swinging and hanging. She performed different poses in the hoop and on the rope above.

A man performed on a motorized turntable spinning and running and dancing around. He was able to lean back on his heels and balance with the centripetal force and did another trick leaning extremely forward. He ended with super fast dizzying spins.

???? did hanging straps with many spins, contortion, and gymnastic poses. During the display, 6 women hoverboarded motionlessly below.

Ball juggler, ?????, started with smooth mills mess and behind the head throws and sequences before moving on to 4 with multiplexes and the 4 ball box. He did 5 with multiplexes and Mills Mess and very solid pinball juggling. He flashed 7 in a half pirouette and did 7 bball multiplexes and synch siteswaps. He finished with a 9 ball kickup flash.

The finale act was rola bola on a high platform and building towers that went higher and higher. He also balanced his board on a bowling ball and twirled around. He built high stack and juggled 3 clubs atop. Everything was performed with high energy and showmanship.

Many more show photos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/45EJC2023/posts/603429165268681

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I have to say it was one of my favorite EJCs. The site is great with lush camping space super close to the halls. The open stages were in a nice nearby location with seats (compared with 2017 when they were in a circus tent 2km away and we had to sit on the ground). The special shows were amazingly good. Attendance was a bit lower than some years, but it also meant not needing to line up for shows an hour in advance. Kudos to the organizers for a successful event!

See ya’ll in Ovar, Portugal (FB: #European-Juggling-Convention-2024-Ovar).

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Other EJC Reviews:

• Tons more great photos from EJC: https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZIsf2ZzxC6wcFfSsy6iwOfJirUn7LNubnk
• Luke and Juliane discuss their experience at the European Juggling Convention in Lublin, talk about organising Cup of the Day and Fight Night Combat, and each share their H.L.G.C.B.S. on YouTube.
• EJC 2023 in Lublin Polen by TW-Juggling on YouTube.
• Attila’s EJC 2023 Lublin – Recap of the juggling trip – European Juggling Convention in Poland on Youtube.
• Robert Härkönen’s EJC 2023 video dump on YouTube.
• Artystazdiabolo’s EJC diabolo Players 2023 on YouTube.
• Gerardo “Goofy” Avila’s review on Youtube (the first few minutes are in Spanish, but after that there’s a lot of gym footage).