NOTES

Thanks to Dave Jones and Markus Markoni

 

.. Australian member Reg Bolton sends along a copy of a new stamp from that country featuring our favorite art. In case you don't understand the patterns that the characters are supporting, Australians commonly call their country "The Land of Oz."

 

.. Reports from performers overseas indicate that Robert Nelson has been seen at the Edinburgh fringe festival and in London and Cardiff, along with Waldo. Markus Markoni missed his first IJA annual festival in six years because he was also performing in Europe. They loved him, though. At the recent Karlsruhe, Switz., festival he was called back on stage for four encores!

 

.. Bryan Nash and Merik Yollis recently toured the Midwest with the King Royal Circus.  Nash juggled balls, four torches and three and four clubs. Yollis specializes in juggling on the rola bola, climaxing his act with four clubs while standing three boards high, each level being supported by four drinking glasses. Nash is back with the same troupe touring the northwest U.S. through November.

 

.. Gil Dova is juggling in a new show called "Cabaret" that opened in mid-July at Maxims in Las Vegas.

 

.. Some notes gathered from other publications: The Dunderdales (Pee Wee, Carmen and Billie) passed clubs in John Strong's Children's Variety Show, while announcer Stephen Fisher did his devil stick and diabolo routines... The Strong show is lining up jugglers for shows this fall also. Richard Oresto will be with one troupe beginning Oct. 11, while Carter Brown and Mark Faje will team up with another Strong show Todd Victor and Lisette Guy combined juggling, wire walking, mime and clowning in a one ring show in California... Mauricio Droguett with the George Hubler International Shrine Circus in

Holland, Mich............ Franzen Brothers Circus featured a massed juggling display by Curtis Cainin, Chad Franzen and clown Casey... Middleground Streeter, a one-man band with Circus Jaeger, juggles drum sticks while balancing a horn on his chin. He also does balls, hoops and clubs...

 

The Aarons Duo opened the Allen Brothers Circus in Indiana... The Caesars, Kris Kristos and The Yolandas make up three rings of simultaneous juggling with the Beatty/Cole Brothers Circus... Don Philips and David Conners with the Shrine Circus in Lincoln, Neb... Pat Davison with the Shrine Circus in Des Moines, Iowa... The Osario Brothers and 13-year-old Eros Espana with the Great American Circus in South Carolina... Scott and David Cain at The Circus Kingdom...Miss Jaqueline with Fisher Brothers Circus... The Sikorskys at a special circus show in Holmdel, NJ... Ringmaster Bob Welzand The Torinos and The Williams with Circus Gatti... Weiner Hemot with the Shrine Circus in Cincinnati... Sampion with Plunkett Brothers Circus... California's "Make A Circus" includes juggling as a main theme in its show, and gives free juggling workshops following each show... Lauren Muney runs a medicine show at Scarborough Fair in Texas, an act that includes juggling, fire eating and comedy... Chip Lowell, The Willettys and Michelle Villena and Bracey Bobbitt with Burnes Brothers International Circus in California... Miguel Posso with Circus Valentine...

 

... Kathy Doutt of Midland, Penn., said the state rejected quite a few of her choices before granting her exclusive rights to "I JUGGLE" personalized plates. "I didn't know there were so many jugglers with personalized plates in my state," she said. But the joy of having other motorists wave their arms up and down . from a passing car makes it all worthwhile. How many others out there have personalized juggling plates? Write us at Juggler's World by the end of the year and we'll print a roster of you in the Spring issue. Please include your name, state and what your tag says.

 

... Larry Schmid of Riverside, Calif., brought some of his Advocate School juggling class students to the L.A. convention. He says it's good therapy for the students, who are at the private school because of emotional and behavioral problems requiring special education. Since 1984 Schmid has taught six or eight students a time, meeting with them five days per week. He says, "These are students who are failure-oriented, and juggling takes them past that." At the convention Schmid was showing off a neat trick, balancing an arrangement of a dozen nails on top of another nail on a pole balanced on his chin! He also performs balls, clubs, tightrope and fire eating.