The thing about something like Buskerfest is that you may go down looking for a particular act but the fun is discovering something/someone new and unexpected. Sometimes that search can be fraught with peril .. or, in the case of busker festivals .. jugglers. Many, many jugglers.
Now, I have nothing against jugglers, really I don't, but even they realize that the juggling tank as an art form, may be running on empty. Balls, knives, torches, chainsaws .. none of this is very surprising any more.
So what most jugglers resort to now, in order to capture our attention, is patter. Some of it is very good patter, but it's still really 10 minutes of talking leading up to 40 seconds of shtick that we've seen before.
I mean, once you've seen a guy, hooded, juggling knives on a tall unicycle, haven't you seen em all?
What we haven't seen before was a very charming act, Senmaru & Yuki, a husband and wife team from Japan
Yes, these two had patter. But with their broken English and male-female give and take, it was pretty entertaining patter. It never lasted long and it always led to something special. What this pair did was a balancing act. They could balance anything. Balls on umbrellas, metal rings on umbrellas and boxes on umbrellas .. square wooden boxes that they spun around on the top of their Japanese umbrellas with such speed, they seemed to take the corners off the objects.
They worked very well together but also independently. Senmaru demonstrated some novel uses for such common household objects as tea pots and glasses of water.
So, something a little different, lots of skill, some humour, some gentle flair. See more of the act in the video below. But as good as Senmaur and Yuki were, they were not the highlight of our night at Buskerfest. That honour belongs to an Australian troupe called Dream State Circus, a fire show so good, it will be getting a post of its very own (gosh, they must be so excite by that) So stay tuned.
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