By: Esteban Vélez. Paul Cinquevalli. Throughout his life, Paul Cinquevalli granted interviews to reporters who, like the public, were amazed by his tricks. Through these interviews, we have been able to learn important aspects of Cinquevalli’s artistic and professional life. If you want to know more about Paul Cinquevalli, I recommend consulting the following articles by clicking here, here, and …
Juggling Interviews Podcast with XavJuggles Episode 23: Joe Fisher
This series is part of eJuggle, the IJA’s online juggling resource: https://www.juggle.org/ejuggle Throw catch collective website: throwcatchcollective.com In this episode, the talented Joe Fisher talks about his relationship with juggling from his young age to the big stage! Watch this episode to get a better insight on this elite performer and awesome member of the juggling community! Joe Fisher’s Socials: …
Diabolo by Tang Yong He from Malaysia | IJA Tricks of the Month
This series is part of eJuggle, the IJA’s online juggling resource: https://www.juggle.org/ejuggle. Hi, my name is Tang Yong He and I am from Malaysia, this video is recorded in Kajang, Selangor where I live and practiced diabolo for 8 years. In this video I did tricks that I developed over the years and inspired by many other talented jugglers around …
Playing Cards – An Unexplored Juggling Prop
By David Solomon As a teenager, I received a giant, 545-page book for Christmas. On the cover, a man in a top hat balanced a ribbon of playing cards spread across his outstretched arm. The book – the Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes by Jerry Cestkowski – excited me with its wealth of possibilities. I had no idea that one of those …
New Photos, Videos, and Information on Carl Baggesen and Boy Foy
By David Cain Today we will examine two jugglers about whom I’ve written before, Carl Baggesen and Boy Foy. I’ve included new photos and information about both and new video of Boy Foy. Carl Baggesen Carl Baggesen is little known among today’s jugglers, yet he was a major attraction during the height of vaudeville. Born in 1858 in Odense, Denmark, …
Club juggling by Sebastian Salas from Chile | IJA Tricks of the Month
This series is part of eJuggle, the IJA’s online juggling resource: https://www.juggle.org/ejuggle. Hello, my name is Sebastián Salas, better known as @sebatruko, I am from Talca, Chile, the most juggling country in the world, I want to thank first of all the Reyno de Valeska for the space to record and his great work of supporting art within the city …
Henri Agoust
By David Cain (Author’s note: Thanks to Erik Åberg for generously sharing some of his research on Agoust for this article.) Paul Cinquevalli (1859 – 1918) was the first juggling superstar and changed public perception of the art form, but he certainly wasn’t the first famous juggler. We know a decent amount about various jugglers before Cinquevalli, such as Old …
“The Big Lemniscate” Juggling Pattern
By Michael Newton On Sunday, January 18, 2026, 40 jugglers performed a “big lemniscate”[1] at the O’Keefe Middle School in Madison, as part of the 47th Annual Madfest juggling festival. Lemniscate is a funny math word referring to a figure-8 shape (see fig 1.), and “The Big Lemniscate” is a fun club-passing pattern involving a whole bunch of jugglers moving steadily …
The 441 Podcast Episode 9: Siteswap with Mike Day
The 441 podcast host Bailey Cichon talks with Mike Day, one of the originators of Siteswap, about juggling notation and its roots. Taylor Tries on Siteswap video here This episode is sponsored by eJuggle, the official publication of the International Jugglers’ Association, Modern Vaudeville Press and Jake Darrow. This episode was produced by Bailey Cichon. The sound design was created …