How many ways are there to throw balls in the air?
Several years ago, I met professional juggler Luke Burrage. He makes a living juggling. Yep, that’s an actual job people can do to pay their bills. And Luke is very good at it. He performs all around the world, on land at and sea.
When we met, Luke was developing a new act unlike anything I’d ever seen in juggling. It was a variation on the classic rotating-room illusion, like the one used in the movie Inception . The idea was that Luke would be on stage performing his act in a revolving room, and the audience would see it live while it’s simultaneously projected on a screen, allowing them to see both the illusion and behind-the-scenes at the same time. Luke even built a rotating room in his apartment as a proof of concept and workshopped a few ideas where balls appeared to behave unnaturally.