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Moschen to present 'spellbinding' juggling

There is something for kids and adults alike to enjoy in the Bermuda Festival programme in the form of juggler Michael Moschen who will be mixing it up tonight at the Ruth Seaton James Centre.

Remember that scene in the 1980's Jim Henson film 'Labyrinth' where actor David Bowie effortlessly and weirdly juggles crystal balls? That was the handiwork (literally) of Mr. Moschen. He has also been in such movies as "Hair" and "Annie" and made numerous other television appearances including "In Motion with Michael Moschen" for the Great Performances series on PBS.

He was also commissioned by Cirque du Soleil to create and stage a new work for their permanent theatrical circus in Las Vegas.

Other accomplishments include being the keynote speaker for the National Conference of Teachers of Mathematics and he has also lectured on innovation and creativity at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University.

Mr. Moschen has also been featured in the book 'The Virtuoso: Face to Face with 40 Extraordinary Talents' and in the A&E production, 'The Mysteries of Genius'.

The New York Times has called Mr. Moschen's work, "balletic art" and "spellbinding".

"Labels matter little for a one-of-a-kind performer like Michael Moschen," wrote Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times. "He is as much a juggler as Marcel Marceau is a mime. But like Mr. Marceau, he is a creative artist who takes the viewer into his own poetic world."

A critic for the San Francisco Examiner wrote, "Michael Moschen is a juggler, a kind of dancer-physicist ? at the threshold where Newton's laws cease to apply ? someone who can bend and twist the visible world out of the norm through the sheer grace of his own movement ... supernatural ... divine."

Sylviane Gold of 'Newsday' wrote, "They call him a juggler, but that's like calling Michelangelo a stonecutter or Mozart a piano player. Moschen juggles and the world becomes a more beautiful and profound place."