Think Laterally and Trust Wild Ideas: How to Use Your Circus Skills Outside of Circus
Gandini Juggling is a world-renowned juggling company that is known for its collaborations with other art forms. I interviewed founder
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Announcing The International Jugglers’ Association Award Honorees of 2021
Every year since 1947, the International Jugglers’ Association (IJA) has been uniting jugglers around the world with events, awards and
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Congratulations–and Farewell–to Donald Lehn
CircusTalk would like to congratulate busker, school director, and long-time circus performer Donald Lehn on his retirement! Originally from New
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Dancing with Gravity: Episode 36, Teaching VS Performing
We’ve been through the most arid era in recent circus history. We all did our best to do what we
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Marcelo Matta — Meet the Graduate 2021
As the circus industry comes back to life, a new class of graduates flexes its muscles. These bright artists have
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New Artistic Director of Circusstad Festival: Menno van Dyke
CircusTalk would like to congratulate Menno van Dyke on his recent promotion to Artistic Director of the Circusstad Festival. Starting
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YANA–Paper Pages Celebrating Emotional Juggling, Interview with Editor Florence Huet
The brainchild of hoop artist Florence Huet, YANA is a new annual publication that taps into all that is independent, creative
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PRO Exclusive: Think Like an Acrobat–Let’s Innovate For Yourself–Mastering the Side Hustle
As part of our CircusTalk PRO membership content, available exclusively to PRO membership subscribers, we are pleased to launch our
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Circus Immersion–Juggling: It’s More Than Just Throwing Objects in the Air
In this short series titled Circus Immersion, Martin Frennette explores the ins and outs of a circus discipline through the
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Thom Wall’s New Book Juggling–What It Is And How To Do It 5 Reasons Jugglers Should Read It
In Thom Wall’s new book Juggling–What It Is And How To Do It –a not so brief introduction to the world’s
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Feminist Juggling – Creating Inclusive Spaces Within the Juggling Community, A Panel Talk
The International Jugglers Association’s Festival (founded in 1947) celebrated its festival as many other circus festivals this year did–online. This
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Juggling: The New Mindfulness Made for Quarantine
In our media-saturated world in which individuals must manage excessive demands on their time and attention, we praise the skill
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Alright – BLM, A New Video From Paris the Hip Hop Juggler
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how you make your art socially relevant and reach a wide audience about your cause.
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Behind the Back Pirouette Cigar Box Juggling Tutorial with Barcode’s Eric Bates
One positive thing that the coronavirus pandemic isolation has given performers is the gift of time to focus on special
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How Can the Show Go On? MOVE IT! Live Performance Series Turns To Online Circus
Artistic director of Parallel Exit and circus artist Mark Lonergan is making good use of his quarantine time by giving
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LOLing Over Spilt Milk, Part of ‘Homemade Circus’ Emerging During Coronavirus Quarantine Times
Zak McAllister and Stephen Doutt, two circus school students from Philadelphia, are using their quarantine time to create. Already on
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Is Juggling Liquid? – Obstacles and Opportunities in Artistic Research in Circus
Thoughts on practice as Research in Circus, by Robin Dale, creator and performer of “What Does Stuff Do?” Thinking it
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Juggling and Circus Festivities For All
One winning master-juggler will wing their way to Mexico after a competition next week in Katikati. “These guys are beasts
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Can You Name a Famous Juggler? | Thom Wall | TEDxGatewayArch
The Ted X Youtube page says of Thom Wall that he is, “known for his avant-garde performance style and is
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Juggling in the Opera with Gandini–Akhnaten Comes to The Met
Juggling features heavily in Phelim McDermott’s US premier of the production of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten, now playing at the New York Metropolitan
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Backstage at the European Juggling Convention 2019 with the Production Team
High summer is here, and this August that means the European Juggling Convention is in high gear. For nearly 24
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Juggling and Playfulness: Wasn’t Juggling Supposed to Be Fun?
This last year, I’ve been researching playfulness in greater depth. It has always been an important part of my juggling
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Stop and Read: Early 20th Century Juggling Manual Re-Release!
Juggling or How To Become a Juggler: the annotated edition is another piece of juggling literature from Modern Vaudeville Press
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Jonathan Lardillier’s Harmonic Throws– a New Juggling Notation
“In all the other languages all over the world juggling is a verb, it’s an action. In the French language
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Alessandro Sciarroni Juggles Time at the ICA
This short review in the Boston Globe is an indicator of the growing trend of circus as a contemporary art
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Breaking the Boundaries of Juggling and Acrobatics – Meet the LAZUZ Company!
LAZUZ is an Israeli/ French/Swedish contemporary circus company created by Ron Beeri & Itamar Glucksmann.Through their personal approach, Itamar and
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Contemporary Juggling Star Wes Peden Tells All–A Quick Talk
My 17-year-old son had just returned home from the European Juggling Convention where he was fortunate enough to see many
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The Juggling Genius of Paul Cinquevalli
As a boy, Emil Otto Paul Braun, born in 1859 in a Prussian (now Polish) village, was renowned for his
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Celebrating Juggler Thom Wall with His Video “30 Tricks for a 30 Year Old”
Referred to by my juggling son as his favorite ‘Gentleman juggler’, Thom Wall has celebrated at least his last two
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Circus & Science: About Balls and the Brain
What happens when you put a neuroscientist like professor Maarten Frens and a juggler and psychologist like Harm van der
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Inside Ephemeral Architectures with Gandini Juggling
Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala have been the backbone of the juggling company Gandini for 24 years. Their signature style,
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Obituary: Edoardo Raspini
The juggling community has lost one of its living legends, Edoardo Raspini, who passed away on January 11, 2015, just
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A Circus Performer’s Big Secret: He’s Juggled for Decades, but There’s One Thing Audiences Never Knew
Nino Frediani stands in his kitchen, ready for an impromptu demonstration of his craft: throwing things into the air with
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