Luke Burrage

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 [http://www.jugglingdb.com/jugglewiki/index.php/BeatMapNotation] .
* 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.

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".

External links

* [http://www.lukeburrage.com Official homepage]
* [http://www.lukeandpola.com The Luke and Pola homepage]
* [http://www.jugglingdb.com/videos/index.php?performer=31&text=Luke+Burrage Videos of Luke] - Numerous videos of Luke juggling
* [http://www.lukeburrage.com/jugglingpodcasts.html Juggling Podcasts with Luke and Pola]