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Movable Feast

This is a pattern for five or more jugglers. Each juggler passes to every other juggler including himself. Also everyone moves around as they juggle! It can be juggled on any count, purists would say it should be done on a three count.
You'll find a description of a six person movable feast below. Here's a description of a five person version: For the first pass A passes with E, B passes with D and C does a self. The jugglers start in these positions:

Then everyone moves around one place in a clockwise direction:

On the next pass A passes with D, B passes with C and E does a self:

Then everyone moves around one place in a clockwise direction:

Now A passes with C, B does a self and E passes with D:

This is just like the first diagram, except all the jugglers have moved around.

With any odd number of jugglers the pattern will be like the five person pattern. On one pass one juggler selfs at the right hand end of the pattern and on the next pass one juggler selfs at the left hand end of the pattern.

Here's how the six person movable feast works:
For the first pass A passes with F, B passes with E and C passes with D:

Then everyone moves around one place in a clockwise direction:

On the next pass A passes with E, B passes with D and C and F do selfs:

Then everyone moves around one place in a clockwise direction:

Now A passes with D, B passes with C and E passes with F:

This is just like the first diagram, except all the jugglers have moved around.
With any even number of jugglers the pattern will be like the six person version. On every other pass two jugglers do selfs at either end of the pattern.