Object manipulation
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Object manipulation is a form of dexterity play or performance, in which one or more performing artists physically interact with props including balls, hoops, rings, poi, staff and clubs. Object manipulation can be considered an advanced combinatorial form of sports, dance, and games.
A separate subculture exists around fire dancing, which is essentially object manipulation where specially designed props are soaked in fuel and lit on fire.
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[edit] Types of object manipulation
[edit] Juggling and tossing
Involves an orderly tossing, exchange of hands, and/or bounding of various objects:
[edit] Spinning and twirling
Rotation of an object (or significant parts of) often as a component of dance:
[edit] Dexterity
Showcasing manual dexterity, sometimes with the use of small props, typically in illusionary ways:
- Dice stacking
- Hat manipulation
- Illusions
- Isolation
- Pen spinning
- Prestidigitation—"quick fingers", a.k.a. Magic manipulation
- Shuffling
- Card-Throwing
- Knife Throwing
[edit] Complex object
Highlighting the mechanics of an object, or interplay between a set of objects:
[edit] Other
- Multi-ball Contact
- Body Rolling
[edit] See also
- Michael Moschen
- Burning Man, an annual event that attracts object manipulators
- Modern juggling culture
