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Page 8 Spring 1996
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An article in the February issue of "Discover" magazine
covers "Circus Science," discussing the physics and
biology of gymnastics, balancing and juggling. It includes a series
of strobe photos of former lJA president and AT&T mathematician Ron
Graham juggling yellow balls, as well as several photos of
performers from Cirque du Soleil in Montreal.
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Dale Jones is filling up his performance calendar, and invites
jugglers to come see his show at the following venues: Fair St.
Louis z(July 49); Ocean County Fair in NJ. (July 9-14); Orange
County Fair in N.Y. (July 18-28); Illinois State Fair (Aug. 8-18);
Michigan State Fair (Aug. 20-Sept. 2); Tennessee Valley Fair (Sept.
6-15); Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair (Oct. 10-27); Florida
Strawberry Festival (Feb. 27-March 3,1997).
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The Las Vegas juggling scene recently has included Charlie Fry performing
card tricks, linking rings and juggling in a review show. Fry uses
balls, clubs decorated as wine bottles and hat tricks to music. He
also manipulates his facial muscles to the audience's great delight.
Penn and Teller were at Bally's, and Penn juggled
torches and broken glass bottles during the course of their illusion
show.
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Australian performer Earl Shatford recently finished a year's
engagement with Silvers Grand Magic Circus, and is working hard on
his technical skills. In practice he is working on 11
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And notes on jugglers gleaned from other publications.. .Shane
Hansen, Armando, Sir Francis and Kenny Sherburne juggle
with the Robert Snowden Circus, closing their act with 15 torch
passing in a darkened house... Bob Whitcomb concluded his
bowling ball juggle for Santas Christmas Show in Cincinnati and
Dayton with a neck catch. .. The 126th edition of the Ringling
Brothers Circus blue unit includes "the worlds largest juggling
display," with Gena Shvartsman in one end ring, The
Rakhmatoullin in the other and The Ivanko in the center
ring. .. The Ramey Brothers juggle with tennis rackets, clubs
and hats in Allen Brothers Circus... The Gnerrero Brothers with
Circo Mayer... the Ortiz and Alberto Caroli with
Cirque Alexandre Bouglione in France... Antonio Alvarez and Ray
Wold with Weltweihnartscircus in Germany... the Joowani Dno with
Weihnachts-Circus in Germany. .. Lidia & Leonid with the
Nationaal Nederlands Wintercircus... the Iniakini Troupe with
the International Wintercircus in the Netherlands... Claudius with
Circus Krone in Germany... Francis Brunn at the Tiger Palast
in Frankfurt...
Rafael
de Carlo with Circo Mundial in Spain. . . Stefan Gruss juggling
up to six clubs on a revolving prop with Circus Alexis Gruss in
Paris... Gary Doyle with Courtney's Circus World in Ireland. ..
Lad Endresz Jr. juggling on the back of a motorcycle, and
passing with Steven Sallai with Bobby Roberts Super Circus in
Scotland. . . Csaba Teres from Budapest concluding a cigar box
act with a triple pirouette with Blackpool Tower Circus in England...
the Companie Jerome Thomas working with balls suspended on
bungee elastic and attached to the ends of large poles at the London
International Mime Festival. Jerome Thomas did a long solo sequence
bounce juggling five balls
while seated, and concluded by juggling three feathers. *
Strength performer John Patrick Sullivan juggled three 20-pound
balls for 49 throws for the audience of a youth basketball league in
Jonesville, La., in late February He has been juggling 16-pound
bowling balls and shot put balls for some time now as part of his
weightlifting regimen, but has lately moved to heavier objects.
"I am very close to utilizing some 30 pound iron balls in my
performances," he said. He hopes to have his heavyweight juggling
feats recognized in the Guinness book.
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The January/February issue of "Mens Health" magazine invited
its readers to meet fitness challenges for each month of the coming
year. Among challenges such as 'Jump rope for 15 minutes,"
"run your first 10k" and "knock five strokes off your
golf game" was the December challenge "learn to
juggle." The magazine article said, "Every man should be
able to juggle, if only to impress women and amuse children at family
reunions. So give your body a break after a year of hard exercise.
Relax and exercise your hand-eye coordination. As a side benefit,
juggling is a superb stress reducer." The article also included
contact information for the IJA.
* Congratulations to Pat Davison and his wife, Marites, on the birth of their daughter, Maybelle G. Davison, on January 6. The Davisons were to perform with the Jose Coles Spectacular Circus this spring. |
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