Mike Caveny involved a reluctant volunteer in a magic trick that included archery and a deck of playing cards. Donald Grant presented the diabolo routine he has developed over the past year, and the Passing Zone closed the first half of the show in tights with a chainsaw ballet to the tune of "The Blue Danube Waltz."

 

After the Ninja / Raspynis opened the second act, it continued with an elegant devil stick routine by German performer Volker Maria Maier. Fred Garbo, the inflatable man, presented the evocative life and death of a cube that he manipulated from the inside. Japanese master Kosen Kagami performed his traditional Japanese dikagura act, rolling objects on an umbrella and working with sticks and a ball. Henrik Bothe, attired in black, employed black light to highlight a stick figure painted on his costume, and segued his actions into a club swinging routine. The identical twin Karvounis brothers, who perform as Doubble Troubble, showed off club passing tricks and even nailed a ten­club run with minimal trouble. The show closed with Individual Champion Francoise Rochais presenting her superb juggling of up to six batons through the character of a coquettish clown.

 

Jugglers leaving the show waved goodbye to local Shriners in the audience, whose clubs had purchased 40 tickets to allow children in the burn wards at local hospitals to see the show. Everyone then retired to the gym, where Club Renegade at midnight was just the beginning of an endless night's activities.

 

Owen Morse proved himself to be the absolute master at catching club passing trash, winning several rounds of an impromptu game that jug­glers call "tennis." Two people pass six clubs, throwing every club. One acts as server and tries to make the receiver miss a catchable throw, thereby winning a point. Referees were on hand to make the tough calls about whether a throw was catchable or not. Morse proved that almost anything is catchable!

 

Combat was a popular favorite again, but probably just as many people picked sides for "field ball." Played much like ultimate Frisbee, field ball begins with everyone holding just two balls (or clubs). Someone serves a third ball to the other team and the game proceeds with the third ball being passed to team members up the field, while members of the other team attempt to intercept it. Field ball players trampling the Matador Arena carpet raised clouds of dust that provided a further challenge to the game.                                                                                   ~

 

Many people stayed up all night on that final evening to pass clubs and visit with friends they may not see for another year. In accordance with strict hotel rules, the witching hour was 8 a.m. Friday morning. Shortly thereafter all the vendor tables were stored away, the Renegade stage was gone, there was not a banner to be found on the walls and all loose props were off the floor. The IJA circus had packed up and left an empty, impersonal convention hall behind for another group to find their own Las Vegas surprises!