Luke Burrage

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Luke Burrage (born 26 August 1980) is a British juggler, musician, entertainer and author. He was born in Kent but lived most of his life in the North East of England (North Yorkshire, County Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne). He has lived in Berlin, Germany since 2005.

Luke works as a professional juggler, most often performing with his partner Pola Braendle under the name "Luke and Pola". They are best known for "The Art of Juggling", a number which combines technical ball, ring and club juggling with live performance painting. This is performed as a varieté act, as a street show and as part of a 50 minute theatre show. Luke and Pola also perform a separate 50 minute live juggling and video projection show titled "Tonight", which tells the story of what goes on back stage at a varieté theatre.

Burrage is very well known in the juggling world for various reasons including:

He has released numerous juggling videos, including videos of most of his shows and has featured in juggling videos such as JuggleTween 2, and 3 ball to music.
From 1999 until 2003 he ran a website that featured his writings about the world of juggling, stories, event reviews, photos and videos clips.
He performs at many juggling conventions in the UK and Europe. He normally performs with clubs or balls but in a variety of different styles, from spoken or physical comedy, through artistic acts to purely technical routines. He specializes in original performance ideas, often combining live juggling with pre-recorded video, spoken word or specially composed music. Many of his routines are re-workings of his own previous material presented in new and different forms.
Burrage is a good numbers juggler and is one of just a few people to ever claim a flash of 12 catches with 12 small balls.
Burrage helped develop a new juggling notation called Beatmap [1].
Burrage remains a controversial and outspoken author, writing for various websites and currently the Kaskade magazine.
He releases juggling podcasts on the topic of juggling.

[edit] Trivia

Burrage currently holds the Haggis Juggling World Record, setting the record in 2007 at 5 haggis for 41.4 seconds. He used to hold the three and four haggis records.
At the EJC 2004, Burrage held a 2 ball juggling workshop that was attended by over 500 other jugglers.
He won the IJA People's Choice Award 2004.
He didn't invent the 3 ball trick "Luke's Shuffle". Neither did he invent "Burke's Barrage".