Page 8 Summer 1996
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Notes on jugglers gleaned from other publications... The Russians
Igor and Tatiana juggling with the Yankee Doodle Circus... Jose
Torres finishing with torches for the Royal American Circus... Chip
Lowell doing comedy juggling at the Horizon Casino in Lake Tahoe...
The Fernandez Brothers and Osi in separate acts with Circus
Vasquez... Robert Lang does tennis rackets, torches, rings and
glowing balls with Billy Martin's All Star Circus... The rest of the
Lang Family juggles with The Torino Brothers in the Jordan Circus...
Miriam Moreno juggling four clubs and five rings, top hats,
sombreros and pingpong balls with the American Family Circus...
Jian Qian does up to nine rings with the King Royal Circus...
Ringmaster Jim Earhart juggled with balls, rings, clubs and torches
with Circus Pages... Alex Avadilla with the Circo Garcia... Wally
Eastwood headlines the new Splash II show in Las Vegas... Jose Peres
with clubs, rings and flaming devil stick with the Royal American
Circus... James Earhart in the Dallas Shrine Circus... Sampion and
Miss France with Mark Verrhault's Super Cirque in Quebec... Comedy
juggling by Curtis Cainan and Kevin Ryan at the opening of the
International Circus Hall of Fame in Peru, Ind... Dieter Tasso is
performing this summer in the Tommy Bartlett Show in The Dells, Wisc...
The Martoni Duo with hats, clubs and torches with Dubsky's Royal
Palace Circus... Rafael d'Carlo with Cirkus Maximus in Sweden... The
Faludi Family - Fudi, Susan and Victoria - with Circus Vargas...
Plate spinning and juggling by Adler with the L.A. Circus... David
Gaona with the Coronas Circus in Atlanta...
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A couple of five-ball jogglers racked up some impressive
achievements recently. Barry Goldmeier joggled two 10-kiiometer
races in the Washington, D.C., area with five in times of 1 hour, 8
minutes, and in 57:35. And, following many miles and many moons of
trying, Rev. Mike Rout in mid-May completed a five-ball joggling
mile without a drop. (Actually, he went 285 meters further, in a
time of 18:40.) Hout had joggled more than 350 miles total between
last year's festival and mid-May. Hout's joggling feats also
appeared nationwide in many
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In a regular USA Weekend column entitled "Fitness,"
world-class
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Members of a new juggling club in Uruguay, Los Juglares, ask your
help in getting started. It began with regular Sunday meetings in a
park in Montevideo, and has expanded to regular circus workshops.
The group has been offered an indoor space, and hopes to develop a
UV show to perform. But they need equipment - everything from balls
to clubs to scarves and diabolos. Contact Guillarmo Hill;
Montevideo; Uruguay. .
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Pennsylvania's Jockular Juggler, Bob Nickerson, was profiled in the
April 15 subscriber's edition of "Sports Illustrated" in
an article entitled "Hooping It Up." The article did not
appear in newsstand editions, but 1.5million subscribers were able
to read about Nickerson's basketball dribbling feats. Author
- Baby news! Congratulations to Wink and Bonnie Danenberg of San Antonio, Tex., whose second son, Kieran Anthony Danenberg, was born last December 30... Greg and Carol Sardinha announce the birth of their second child, a girl named Samantha Caroline, on February 22... Andrew Thomas Ragatz (6 lbs, 6 oz), born to Lisa and Steve Ragatz on May 21 in Montreal, where Steve is performing in the new Cirque Du Soleil show "Quidam" in a piece developed by Michael Moschen. "Quidam" comes to the U.S. in September, and tours in California for the first year... Kathy Kaufman and Mike Narotskyof Durham, N.C., announce the arrival of Carly Dava Narotsky, born Sunday, March 24 and weighing in at 6 pounds, 14 ounces. Mike reports that Carly quickly mastered several complex skills; one of her favorites is spitting up. |
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