What Does Stuff Do?

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this... I am a tool.

But I’ve been thinking a lot about what kind of tool I’d like to become”

What is my purpose? Who do I want to become? How do I connect with people? We may
have all asked these questions, but Robin has discovered that juggling has the answers.
What Does Stuff Do? is an extraordinary TED Talk-meets-circus show from award winning
practitioner, Robin Boon Dale. As the mechanics of juggling are dismantled before our eyes,
Robin encourages us to see ourselves and each other in a new way: as a lot of tools, full of
potential.

We begin with a simple ping-pong juggling routine. As the show goes on, the objects
thrown become stranger, and the scientific notation becomes more complicated, but the
philosophical ideas more relevant to our lives, and the slapstick comedy is ramped up.
Showing us that wine glasses can be juggled and flipcharts can be wrestled, Robin
leads us to see that when we choose the people we want to spend time with, we choose
which of our qualities we want to reveal and develop, and which we want to hide. This
playful, funny and philosophical show leaves the audience with a renewed appreciation of
what we all have in common, and of what the physical world has to offer.