By JoAnn Ireland The USA Diabolo Association (USADA) hosted the USA Diabolo Competition (USADC). The USADA’s mission is to grow diabolo into a sport that more people can enjoy across the United States and through the USADA, they hope to encourage players of all skill levels to connect with one another and to share their collective passion for diabolo. The …
Kara Talks About His Best Tricks
By: Esteban Vélez. “Strange as it may seem, my most difficult trick receives less applause than my easiest…” Kara. Kara, the famous 20th-century juggler, about whom I’ve written three articles that you can read here, here, and here, gave several interviews to reporters during his world tours. One of them is the following, published in The Age-Herald on …
Elite Athletes Are Turning to Juggling: Could This Be the Next Big Thing in Fitness?
By Niels Duinker For most of my juggling career now, I’ve stood on stage, trying to get laughs and applause. But today, the kind of juggling that might truly change our craft is happening far from theaters—in locker rooms, classrooms, warm-up areas, training camps, and even recovery rooms of elite athletes. Major media like The New York Times and Olympics.com are starting to take …
Zansue Cultural Association
Zansue is a circus arts collective founded in 2010 by Nasly Quimbaya -a psychologist by profession- and César Perdomo -an industrial engineer-, in the municipality of Campoalegre, Huila, Colombia. The collective promotes the human development of children and adolescents in vulnerable conditions through artistic and cultural processes. The group’s name comes from ZAN (stilts) and SUE (the sun god in …
Philadelphia Juggling Festival 2025 Review
By JoAnn Ireland Philadelphia Juggling Festival at the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts The Philadelphia School of Circus Arts (PSCA) (https://phillycircus.com) and Circadium (https://circadium.edu) hosted the Philadelphia Juggling Festival (https://circuscampusphiladelphia.com/JugglingFestival), which was a full weekend of juggling for professionals, hobbyists, and beginners. The festival commenced on Friday, June 13th at 5:00 PM with open juggling. The weekend festival cost $30 …
The 441 Podcast Episode 6, Part 2 (The Art of the Juggling Video)
In The 441 on The Art of the Juggling Video Part 2, host Bailey Cichon is joined by video producers extraordinaire Tim Air-Walker, Taylor Glenn and Lisa Ellipse to talk through the advice they have for people looking to make juggling videos. This episode is sponsored by eJuggle, the official publication of the International Jugglers’ Association, Modern Vaudeville Press and …
31st Congress of Jugglers at the University of Maryland
By JoAnn Ireland The University of Maryland (UMD) and the student run University of Maryland Juggling Club hosted the 31st Congress of Jugglers that was open to the public with free admission and commenced on Friday, May 9th during the late afternoon, welcoming jugglers of all experience levels to the Ritchie Coliseum, a gymnasium on campus, drawing jugglers from surrounding …
Juggling for Pope Francis
By: Esteban Vélez. “(Circus artists) are artisans of celebration, of wonder; they are artisans of beauty: with these qualities they enrich global society, also with the aspiration to nurture feelings of hope and trust”. Pope Francis. On April 21, 2025, one day after Easter Sunday, the world received the news of Pope Francis’s death. According to the death certificate released …
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Pocono Juggle and Circus Arts Festival in Lansford, Pennsylvania
By JoAnn Ireland The Pocono Juggle and Circus Festival, the thirteenth festival in fifteen years, took place this year over a three-day weekend, starting on Friday evening, February 28th and going through Sunday afternoon, March 2nd at the Panther Valley Junior and Senior High School in Lansford, Pennsylvania. All skill levels are welcome at the juggling and circus arts festival …