Gandini

We have a range of workshops available, aimed at both professional jugglers/ performers and those that are new to the art form.

We often collaborate with venues, festivals and schools to deliver workshops (in person or online). 

Workshops include:
- Basic juggling technique: The fundamentals of juggling. Content will be varied depending on participant skill level (all levels
- Movement & juggling: Fusing juggling and dance / pathways in space / technique versus creativity (for jugglers / performers with movement skills)
- Rhythm & mathematics juggling: The notation of juggling / breakdown of rhythm / patterns (for intermediate / advanced jugglers)
- Etc.

If you want to organise a juggling workshop and want to book one of our performers to deliver it, contact us to find out more about our workshops offer.

If you want to participate in a workshop, keep an eye on our tour & booking page where we are listing upcoming performances and workshops.

Over the years, we have created bespoke education programmes to work with a specific group of people within a specific context. We love to create unique education projects and are always open to new ideas.

Some examples of educational projects we have curated:
- A mathematics course and a physics course for Montclair University, New Jersey, USA.
- A community project at the British Museum, in partnership with the English National Opera, London.
- Creation of educational materials developed for the National Teachers Conference around Akhnaten, the Olivier Award-winning production of Philip Glas ‘s opera directed by Phelim McDermott‘s and choregraphed by Sean Gandini.
- A series of workshops and community performances at the Brooklyn Museum in collaboration with the Philadelphia Circus School, USA.
- A Nation-wide series of workshops and performances as part of Crying Out Loud’s 250th celebration of circus, UK.


Contact us to discuss your ideas with us. 


Testimonials

Sean Gandini was remarkable in the sense that Sean is a mathematician. He understands the mathematics of juggling. He was put together with both a mathematics course and a physics course last year prior to his debut here in December 2018. Throughout the semester two professors and about seventy-five students engaged with Sean remotely to understand juggling, and in fact, to learn to juggle and to interpret juggling within the context of their own imaginations. One young man wrote a rap poem using juggling as structural inspiration. Another did a video game. There were 3-D experiences with juggling, and they were all inspired by Sean.
Jed Wheeler, Executive Director for Arts and Cultural Programming, Montclair University, New Jersey, USA.

Over the years, we have a created special shows in collaboration with a local community. 
It is always a special occasion for us to be able to connect over several weeks or months with a group, grow together and eventually make a show. 

For example, in 2016, alongside working on Akhnaten , we created a 30-minute music theatre performance with non-professional performers of mixed ages, working alongside the professional artists from the opera.  As part of the ENO Baylis Community Learning and Engagement programme, Gandini Juggling had an opportunity to develop the technical and physical skills of student, amateur and emerging jugglers - exploring the music and structural patterns drawn from the music and text of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten.

The community group used the physical language of ritual to access the ancient world of Akhnaten and four vignettes were created, each responding to a scene in the opera and the project culminating in a public performance at The British Museum. Professional performers from ENO production joined the participants and a short film has been created to document the journey and tell the story of the ‘Millions of Years project’.