Performance
As a performing art, the juggler will display his or her skill at manipulation, quite often performing intricate maneuvers with the tossed objects, but usually limiting those tricks to ones that the juggler is confident of successfully accomplishing. Some of the tricks performed can be a fountain when juggling an even number of objects, where each hand juggles half the number of objects to itself. Another common pattern is the shower which refers to a toss pattern in which the balls follow each other in a rotary pattern, with each ball being thrown from the same hand, and each ball being caught with the opposite hand, then quickly passed to the throwing hand again. Instead of a fountain, when juggling an odd number of objects, the most common pattern a juggler may perform is a cascade — where balls are thrown from alternate hands, and caught in alternate hands.
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