The 37th Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain was very interesting for object manipulation! Besides diabolo and club-passing there were a few disciplines making their festival début: Kendama, levistick, and pendulum juggling all made an appearance on stage. On January 30th, 2016, I witnessed both the A and the B shows of the festival in Paris. Like every year, 22 …
Dream Tricks Challenge # 2 – The Results
About four months ago, I challenged the juggling community with ten tricks of which I was unaware that anyone had accomplished on video, as well as tricks from the first Dream Tricks Challenge that no one had done. A number of intrepid jugglers did succeed in meeting the challenge of these very difficult tricks. Below are the amazing videos that …
Rosani – The First “One Man Juggling Show” Juggler
Rosani (Joseph Stadtmuller, 1868-1944) was a juggler who played the American Lyceum and Chautauqua circuits, performing up to a two-hour show for 40 years. He was born in Brooklyn, NY (USA) and called the New York City area his home his entire life. As a boy, he would spin a school book or slate on his finger. Rosani said …
Juggling at traffic lights
Traffic light juggling Some have never heard of it, for others it is their daily life. Traffic light jugglers jump out when the light turns red, perform a 30 second routine, collect cash from the cars and jump back on the sidewalk before the light turns green again! This style of busking is popular in many places of the world, …
Cups And Spoons
The cups and spoons trick is a fun and easy to learn trick that has a long history among jugglers. Let’s take a look at the trick, its history, performers, and variations. Description The cups and spoons trick involves a row of cups that are attached to a board or tray. In front of each cup, a spoon is placed. …
Juggling in Fashion – The Changing Attire of Performers and Juggling Festival Attendees
Juggling is such a visual art, and we usually focus on the props and the manipulation of those as an audience. However, the attire of the juggler themselves can also be quite reflective of the theme, performance style, or current fashions of the time period as well. Though it can’t ever be said that I personally was the most fashionable …
Kathi Gultini – “The Lady Juggler”
Kathi Gultini was one of the first and brightest female juggling stars of the twentieth century. Billed as “The Lady Juggler,” she considered herself the female version of a Gentleman Juggler. Kathi was born in Germany in 1889 and began her performing career in 1908. She had been trained by her father, a well known acrobat named Josef Corty. Her …
(Way) Up In The Air – Juggling Pilots Of Yesteryear
Jugglers constantly seek to push the limits of gravity by controlling objects thrown into the air, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that several of them were early airplane pilots as well. Let’s take a look at a few of them. HAP HAZARD The idea for this article started when a saw a rough set of Harry Lind clubs up …
Juggling On Moving Objects
Jugglers have a very long history of juggling on top of moving objects. Juggling on a unicycle, rolling globe, or rola bola are obviously extremely common. Juggling on horseback dates back at least as far as the late 1700s, when John Bill Rickets performed equestrian juggling in the first American circus, which he presented. Juggling on horseback is still performed …