THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK

 

SOVIET JUGGLERS VIATCESLAV ANOKIN, EUGENE BELAUER, GENNADY BUDNITSKY, VERA & VLADIMIR DESHCHUNK, THE GRACHEV TRIO, SERGI IGNATOV, VSEVOLD KHERTS, ALEXANDER & VIOLETTA KISS, NICOLAI OLHOVIKOV, THE VLADIMIR OSKAL-OOL TROUPE, IGOR PETRUKHIN, OLEG POPOV, MARGARITA SHAYEVSKAYA, VLADIMIR SMIRNOV, AND THE YERMAKOV BROTHERS HAVE APPEARED IN THE UNITED STATES THROUGH CULTURAL EXCHANGE;  THE FIRST TO DO SO WERE IN SEPTEMBER OF 1963 ( PHILADELPHIA ) - JUST OVER TEN YEARS AGO.

CHIAO KUEI-LIEN (DIABOLO), HUANG WEN-HSIA (DIABOLO, SOLO BALL JUGGLING), KANG KUEI-CHIN & LI HSIU-HUI (FOOT-JUGGLING), LU-CHUAN (DEVIL STICKS), SUN HSIAO-CHIN (DIABOLO), AND SUN KUO-HUA (DEVIL STICKS) WERE THE FIRST MAINLAND CHINESE JUGGLERS TO APPEAR IN THE UNITED STATES THROUGH CULTURAL EXCHANGE--DECEMBER OF 1972 (CHICAGO) --JUST LESS THAN ONE YEAR AGO.

 

WHAT LIES AHEAD IN THE NEXT DECADE? IN THE NEXT YEAR? - HB