NOTES

 

* Monkey Wrench, the team of Rich Ross and Scotty Meltzer, was featured for about 10 minutes on the television show Utah 95, juggling and talking about what it means to be funny, how to create funny material, and making up stories about why Rich wears a Jugghead hat on stage (because 75% of body heat is lost through the head!)

 

* Scott Sorensen, the IJA's numbers champion with rings for the past two years, flashed eight sticks in April. Sorensen, 25, who juggles with the Cincinnati Club Club, had been working with six and seven clubs, but switched to handmade sticks for eight because he didn't have enough clubs. During the same week-long practice period, he attempted to flash 12 rings, but never achieved that mark. He said he can frequently flash 10, and occasionally do 11. "But the 12 was a lot harder than I thought," he admitted. Sorensen plans to enter the numbers championship again in Las Vegas, and hopes to get a legal run with nine rings this time around.

 

* Notes on jugglers gleaned from other pub­lications... Bobby Besmahn does clubs, cigar boxes, rings, unsupported ladder and torches with the Jordan Circus...Senor Carlos and Nicholas Zerbini juggling in two rings simultaneously with Circus Gatti... The Fudis with Circus Vargas... Ringmaster James Earhart takes a turn in center ring juggling balls, clubs and rings with Circus Pages... Pat Davison with Billy Martins All Star Circus...

 

Jose Luna with Allen Brothers Circus... Arturo Alegria juggles balls, clubs, ice cubes and hats with the Big Apple Circus... Carmen and Jimmy Hall juggling and unicycling with the Arabia Shrine Circus in Houston... Carson & Barnes includes four rings of jug­gling with The Alexis Brothers (Alex, Donald and Walter Chimal), Rosedale Family Oorge, Julio, Patsy and Carmen), Jada Brothers Oason Walker and David Salazar) and vase juggling by Hong-Shun Li... The KantuDS with the Tangier Shrine Circus... Dan Wiles with Big John Strong Magic & Variety Circus... Tito Valencia with the Famous Cole Indoor Circus... A fine color photo of Tom Rolls doing chops with clubs at the Houston International Festival in front of a big crowd appeared in the April 24 edition of the Houston Chronicle... Casey Cainan with the Culpepper Circus... Dario Vazquez with the L.A. Circus, and rumored to be slated for the Enter the Night spectacular at the Stardust in Las Vegas... Jose Luna with Allen Brothers Circus... The April Fools, Andrew Weibel and William Bosley, at the Four Winds Renaissance Faire in Texas... Justino Zoppe with the Shrine Circus in W Springfield and Wilmington, Mass.... The Hella Shrine Circus in Dallas included three rings of juggling by Gabriella Comacho, The Bautista Family and Doady Fornsari... The Torini Brothers with the Carden Circus.

 

* And in Europe... Roger Mettin juggling on horseback with Circus Krone... Kristian Kristof also with Circus Krone... Laszlo Endresz, Kate & Andras juggling on motorcycle in Vienna with the Artisten- Tiere­Attraktionen show... Antonio Alvarez with Circus Carr.

 

* Juggling acts in the Ninth Festival of the Circus of the Future in Paris were Francois Chat of France, four diabolo jugglers from China and Alexandra Pauwels from France. Jugglers at this year's Monte Carlo Circus Festival were Vladimir Tsarkov of Russia (The Red Harlequin) and Rejean St. Jules from Canada. Also appearing was the star of the lJA's Cascade of Stars show last summer, Avner Eisenberg.