Hovey Burgess pedagogie (Circus)
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The Hovey Burgess pedagogy divides circus skills into 3 categories, each with 3 skill groupings.
| / | Preliminary | Essential | Diversified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juggling | Balancing objects | Toss juggling: balls, rings clubs | Gyroscopic Juggling: Devil sticks, Diablo, plate spinning, etc |
| Equilibristics | Headstands and hand balancing | Balancing: on rolling objects (unicycle, rolla bolla, etc), on "stilting" objects (stilts, unsuported ladder, etc) and human columns. | Rigging: Trapeze, horizontal bar, slackwire, tight wire, etc |
| Vaulting | Jumping | Turning the body along its long, medium and short axes | Catapults |
H. Burgess has been known to compare his system to Newton's third law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Vaulting is concerned with action. Juggling is concerned with reaction, and equilibrium is the intersection of action and reaction.
[edit] References
- Article: The Classification of Circus Technique, by Hovey Burgess
- Book: Circus Technique, by Hovey Burgess
