Luke Burrage

Luke Burrage (born 26 August 1980) is a British juggler, musician, entertainer and author. He was born in Kent but has lived most of his life in the North East of England (North Yorkshire, County Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne). He now lives in Berlin, Germany.

Burrage is very well known in the juggling world for various reasons including:

From 1999 until 2003 he ran one of the most popular juggling related websites 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. Burrage has the reputation that he never repeats the same act on stage twice. This isn't true, as many of his routines are re-workings of his own previous material presented in new and different forms (see postmodern juggling).
Burrage is a good numbers juggler and is one of just 5 people to ever manage 12 catches with 12 balls. As of 2005 he performs on stage with 10 balls and 6 or 7 clubs.
He is a creative juggler who invents lots new tricks, patterns and sometimes new props (eg. Rocket Poi). He shares many of his new ideas online and at juggling workshops.
Burrage helped develop a new juggling notation called Beatmap [1].
Burrage remains a controversial and outspoken author, writing for various websites and currently the Kaskade magazine.

[edit] Trivia

Burrage holds the Four Haggis Juggling World Record. He used to hold the three and five 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".