JW: Do you think it's good that more young people worldwide are learning to juggle? Is that good for you as an entertainer?

KK: I think it's for the better. In the old days there were to or 12 acts in variety theatres, and a certain group of people would attend every month. They knew every month there was a juggler, and they knew how good each juggler was.

 

You had a knowledgeable audience, and knowledgeable journalists because they had seen thousands of acts. Now there are no experts. The journalists write if they like it or not, but they don't have any idea of expertise, and neither does the audience. Coming back to the question, maybe if more people juggle they become more expert and when they see something they will understand more the degree of difficulty.

 

JW: Are there tricks you want to put into your act?

KK: Sure, I'd like to put in a lot, but they don't want me to perform for an hour! It's a matter of time. Now I'm not supposed to do over 10 minutes, but in Sweden I did 17-18 minutes. There's also a few jokes I'm not doing anymore. There's some things I'm working on but I can't tell you because the others would work on it too!

 

You become a product on the market, though. You cannot change too much anymore. People offer me a contract because of what I do. That's when you're really in the business. If ! would do 50 percent different people wouldn't call me anymore because they're afraid of what I might do next. They also have a schedule and they have to plan. This year they want a club juggler, then a hoop juggler, "then we take Kris with top hats and cigar boxes." If I come there and do clubs and hoops they're going to say "What the hell is going on?"

 

JW: By the time you were ready for a solo career, you already had a lot of experience, didn't you?