"...the road less travelled..." a personal statement

The nature of my work involves both teaching and interactive performing. As a teacher, it is not only my goal to teach juggling, but to use juggling as a vehicle to learn and understand new concepts. I communicate through my juggling, creating an universal language everyone can understand and enjoy.

As a performer, I move back and forth between the audience and stage, sharing my joy of juggling as an art form, and spontaneous participatory event. Every performance is unique, but the pleasure and delight I always receive in response, is my driving motivation.

What about juggling as a science? ...Ahhhh!! It is to this end, that I have explored the philosophy, poetry and geometric theories of R. Buckminster Fuller. Juggling is filled with geometric patterns, spacial beauty and poetry. It mesmerizes us with ever changing colorful multi-dimensional images and challenges us with gravity-defying feats of technical prowess. Over the years, Fuller's building blocks have become a foundation for how I view the world around me, more importantly how I perceive my own work. It is Fuller's lifelong experiment in seeing the world in a radically different way, that provides the glue for every performance, every class or seminar, and every impactful choice I make on my own life long journey.

So, let me take the opportunity to introduce your world, through mine... Customized entertainment, performances, classes, and presentations by "The Mad Mountain Juggler"- John Flower.