531 Blast Off!

Tony Steinbach has been yelling and throwing things since he was a kid. This year you can see him performing at The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Spokane, WA, Live on Atlantic in Virginia Beach, VA, the world famous P3 Magic Theater in beautiful Columbus, Ohio and at the Renaissance Faires around the country. This is his 10th IJA Festival, a full decade of this great thing and you wonderful people.

Professional circus artist Tana Karo, aka “Tank” holds a Bachelors in Circus Arts from NICA and Fashion Design from SAIC. She performs Chinese-style umbrella foot juggling, illusions, aerials, and a few adult variety acts. She has been featured with circus festivals and cabarets across the USA, China, Tasmania, Australia, Amsterdam, and London. Recent accomplishments include performing as a featured artist at Spiegelworld Las Vegas and House of Yes NYC.

My name is Cyril Rabbath. I am a French artist juggler living in America. I have learned a solid skillset from both my personal experience, and from working with world-class jugglers over the years, notably Nadejda Akopovna Akvits at the Moscow Circus School and Italo Medini at the Ecole National du Cirque d’Annie Fratellini. I have been performing for 30 years, with Cirque du Soleil, Absinthe in Las Vegas, and beyond. Performing an average of 10 shows a week for a total of over 10,000 shows, I developed a series of exercises and routines to stay healthy and avoid injuries, all the while improving my skills. This workshop is an intensive exploration of the tools I learned and developed to be optimal, grounded, and efficient in my juggling practice.

Learn more about Cyril’s juggling technique at www.jugglegrooveacademy.com.

Valerie Ann Sealey (aka Valerie Solstix) is a highly skilled circus performer focusing on object manipulation, such as staff manipulation, fire spinning, and contact juggling. The first women to ever juggle three burning staffs in 2006, she is at the forefront of contemporary staff technique combining skills from classical contact juggling, baton twirling and feicha.

Until 2019, Valerie Sealey and Josh Dyffort worked as duo Solstix after studying together at the “Beijing International Art School” in China. There she studied traditional Chinese feicha (traditional chinese contact staff), antipodism (foot juggling), shooting star (also known as meteor) and contortion.

She is based in Berlin, Germany, and performs internationally.

Yushi Yahata is a Japanese Hatter. His hat juggling consists of unique and passionate techniques and body movements. It depicts how he plays, fights, and lives together with his hat.

The combined forces of Lisa Ellipse and Callum Baker, internationally renowned, multi award winning hoop juggling duo. They recently won “Best Duo” in the world hula hoop championships.