Gintaro Mizuhara (1875-1952) was a Japanese juggler who lived in the UK most of his life. He had a long and successful career performing all over the world. Since a wonderful account of Gintaro’s life written by Peter Bruning has already appeared in the Summer 2008 Juggle Magazine, I don’t wish to repeat what he has written. Instead, I want …
Severus Schaffer
Severus Schaffer (1867-1950) was one of the brightest juggling stars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Severus was son of juggler and circus artist Karl Johann Schaeffer, younger brother of early gentleman juggler Sylvester Schaeffer, and uncle to famed juggler and variety artist Sylvester Schaeffer Jr. His father was Czech, but Severus was born in Austria, where the …
Videos From The Vault # 1 – Dieter Tasso
I have one of the largest, if not the largest, juggling video collections in the world. Therefore, I’ve decided to start to share videos that were previously not online, along with other videos of the same jugglers, in a series that I call Videos From The Vault. To start off this series, I’d like to begin with the wonderful Dieter …
Juggling New Year’s Hopes
Happy New Year. This time of year, many people make resolutions – things they “promise” to do during the next twelve months. Non-jugglers make resolutions such as losing weight, getting in better shape, saving more money, or any number of other goals which usually take work. Jugglers likely have resolutions like qualify eight balls, finally learn that difficult siteswap pattern, …
Be Funnier with Scotty Meltzer and Dan Holzman: Working the Four Steps of Dan Holzman’s Framework Technique
Forgive me jugglers for I have sinned. It’s been over two years since my last column. I accuse myself of the following sins: I’ve written one chapter in a textbook I wasn’t qualified to write. I’ve performed two Neil Stammer jokes in front of children. And I’ve missed Sunday juggling more than 64 times. For these and all of my …
The Gil Dova Collection
Gil Dova My brother Scott Cain became friends with juggling legend Gil Dova and his wife, the famed foot juggler Regina Baranton, about a year ago. Gil sent us some of his clubs and cigar boxes for the Museum of Juggling History. You can see these below. He also sent us a variety of photos from his and Regina’s careers. …
Prop Launching Prop Stands and the Jugglers Who Use Them
As I do research on the history of juggling, I take note of certain trends and novel performance ideas. One thing I’ve noticed is the cross section of jugglers who have used prop stands or other devices to launch props to them. Below is a sampling videos of some of these jugglers. Instead of just providing links to their uses …
“Mystery” Vaudeville Jugglers – The Juggling Burkes, The Four Juggling Mortons, and The 3 Juggling Jordons
Background As I mentioned in my article on The Tennis Trio back in September 2016, which can be found here, researching information on jugglers from the Vaudeville era can be quite challenging. At least with The Tennis Trio, I was able to find several photos and the names of the performers. My latest project, which I’ll outline here, proved even …
A short history of Devilstick
It’s been a while since I wrote my first article about devilsticks and I plan to deprecate that old one now that this is published, because even if it was a good effort and it is partly correct, I studied the history of devilsticks quite a lot in the past year and I think I can do it better now. …