the juggler’s psychology (Hurst du Prey 1978: 13), which both required and concurrently developed advanced improvisational skills based on ingenuity and originality, facilitated by a very particular use of his technique. This creative juggler’s psychology was to be applied to everything: ‘If we grow accustomed to considering our simple exercises as wonders, we will get from them much more than if we consider them something dull and ordinary. We rob ourselves of a certain power. We reject something which is very necessary for our creative work. We must do our simplest exercises with love and
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