THE DANCE OF TIME by Michael Menes

I first performed this piece in 1990 at the Philadelphia Jugglers Convention. Two years later I took it to Barcelona for the Summer Olympic Games (The International Arts Festival) in a show with many great variety artists including Natalie and Francis Brunn.

After the swinging clubs I used eventually gave out and cracked from the percussion, they were discontinued by the prop builder. I retired the piece... Almost two decades later friends urged me to bring the number back... Finally, just this year, I discovered Brian Dubé had begun making a very similar club for illuminated swinging.

Here is a studio edit of the number... "The Dance of Time". For those wondering, the music is a very rare recording of "Pieces of Eight" by Neil Peart, the extraordinary drummer from the Canadian rock band RUSH. It was only published on a thin flexible plastic sheet (turntable technology) inside an issue of Modern Drummer Magazine back in the 1970's.

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• Clubswinging
• Club Swinging
• Juggling
• Variety Art
• Michael Menes
• Neil Peart
• Piece of Eight

[theVinceVega76]

Michael Menes is an alien genius. Have loved him ever since I saw his 3ball/ ring routine from the 1989 ija festival. You make me want to go and juggle. Thank you, sir. P.S. If God does snakes in his club swinging routine, I bet they look just like that.

[B9666]

Nice presentation and wonderful drums by NP (the World's best drummer)

[TheOmnipotentJuggler]

This was my favorite act of the ija! thanks so much for performing it!! :D

[SorcererUB]

Great work. Just for your information, the piece is available on the DVD "Anatomy of a Drum Solo" now, by NP

[ego531]

I learned how to perform better in 3 minutes. Awesome.

[jamesjbarlow]

Awesome! Many, many thanks for bringing this piece back and sharing it. It was watching some of your club swinging routines years ago on IJA videos that got me interested in club swinging. Time to get back to working on it more...

[MinistryOfM]

Wow! Amazing timing; great isolations!