An interview with Domenyk La Terra on creating juggling tricks for himself and the public, circus education and his favourite videos. Dom also shares a juggling tutorial for beginners. I really enjoy both the technical and creative aspects of juggling. I see juggling as both a sport and an art form and I try to train both aspects equally.
I like training high numbers and pushing my ability that is more for myself as a hobby and to share with the juggling community. Performing feels quite separate to that although I do still put some technical tricks onstage. I enjoyed performing from a young age, starting out learning magic which I performed to friends and family. This led me to performing juggling and I started street performing in Melbourne after seeing Richard Filby perform actually. Richard helped me make my first show which I then took to London and Edinburgh after I finished high school.
You have just graduated from a circus school in Stockholm. What did it give you as a person and a performer? Would you recommend other performers choose artistic education? I really enjoyed the school. Before going to the school I was mostly training technical juggling tricks.
I was already performing but I was very into juggling as a sport and training difficult technical tricks. This was a good foundation for me to have and then during my studies I went in a different direction into more contemporary circus. On a typical day in circus school, we would have juggling class in the mornings for 3 hours then after lunch a workshop with a guest teacher. These workshops changed every 2 weeks and included topics like dance, acting, clowning, acrobatics etc.
We had 3 main juggling teachers and in class, we discussed conceptual ideas about juggling as an art form and were given tasks to create new juggling tricks and patterns. In our interview , Ian Deadly pointed out that circus school graduates are not always good buskers.
