Working this week in Jacksons Lane on what will be their first production as a company, Circus Geeks are three jugglers, Arron Sparks, Jon Udry and Matt Pang , who've know each other for the last ten years without, until now, ever quite making a show together.
Their vision for Beta Testing is a scrappy mongrel of a piece, mixing contemporary performance, informal lecture, and street arts showmanship, and preserving its informality, its liveness and its rehearsal-room pace as it comes at the question of why the three of them juggle anyway. En route it delves into the history of juggling and the evolution of specific tricks (with live projection of archival footage), and makes a quick study of the notion of the drop and of the discipline's particular relationship with failure (Arron: 'if there's one thing juggling's good at it, it's investigating fucking up').
The first performances of the show are at Jacksons Lane 1 & 2 February 2013.