Cascade Of Stars

Paris, given the nickname “The Hip Hop Juggler” by Al Roker himself, has been dazzling audiences with his style of juggling for over a decade. Born and raised in Harlem, New York City, his juggling has reached the masses. In addition to appearing on the The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Sesame Street, and The White House, Paris has also gained critical acclaim for his juggling instruction, teaching for the Big Apple Circus’s outreach programs for 7 years, leading workshops for hundreds at conventions, and training world famous illusionist David Blaine for his “Electrified” stunt that was performed live in New York City. Website: www.hiphopjuggler.com

Hi! My name is Amélie Bolduc! I’m a Canadian baton twirler and Cyr wheel artist. I’m kind of short, I always travel with too many suitcases and I’m a chocolate addict! I trained for nine years as a competitive baton twirling athlete and won multiple prizes in competitions such as the Canadian Baton Twirling Championships. I graduated from the Quebec Circus School in 2019 and have since performed with FLIP Fabrique, Machine de Cirque and GOP-Varieté Theater (Germany). My future goals include touring in Asia, climbing the Kilimanjaro and learning how to juggle balls.

A pivotal performer, event producer, and juggling teacher from the west coast of the US, Richard Hartnell is best known as one of the world’s eminent practitioners of contact juggling.

Richard was a co-founder of the Bellingham Circus Guild in the late ’00s as it spun off from the Dream Science Circus. Following this initiation in the world of movement arts he moved down the coast to Oakland, California’s famous Vulcan Studios, the seat of North American fire dance culture at the time. While opening one of its eight conjoined live-in circus studios and producing several regional events, he launched tours around the United States and another twelve countries beyond, finding himself a mainstay at such variete events as the Oregon Country Fair, the European Juggling Convention, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He presently lives in Bellingham, Washington.

Salih Mahammed is Circus Artist from Mekelle Tigrai Region in the northern part of Ethiopia, His Juggling journey started with free style soccer, then joined Circus Tigrai at the age of 13, He trained tumbling, human pyramid, Risley act, Banquine act, Club-juggling, Bounce-juggling, Unicycle, Dance, After a hard years of training he got his first international contract in 2007 with Circus Mother Africa Europe tour as a Bounce-juggler.

He moved to the United States in 2011, he then started performing with Cirque Dreams, Cirque Zuma Zuma, Zuzu Acrobats and with other local shows around the country, now he is resides in the DMV area.

Pun Ho Lam is a Kendama Artist from Hong Kong. He is the first person to ever win IJA with Kendamas in 75 years of history. He is talented at integrating different juggling tools and tricks in Kendama performances. The goal for him right now is to perform kendama all around the world.

Born and raised in Dallas, TX, Jesse is bringing old school hoop juggling techniques to the 21st century.

Starting at the age of ten, she studied at the Lone Star Circus School until moving to London, UK to attend the National Centre for Circus Arts in 2016. She has studied under teachers Ian Merchant and Inaki Sastre, as well as Ukrainian juggling coach Yuriy Pozdnyakov. At circus school, Jesse focused on incorporating and reinventing old school juggling technique, known as hoop rolling. First invented by William Everhart in the late 1800s and later sensationalized by Bob Bramson, hoop rolling is a juggling technique that involves hoops rolling in circles on the ground in various patterns. Jesse holds the unofficial world record for most hoops rolled with a flash of 11 hoops.

She has performed at Six Flags Great Adventure, the European Juggling Convention, Circo Metropolis and most recently at the Krystallpalast Varieté Theatre in Germany. Jesse’s personality shines through every performance and inspires audiences around the world.

Cassaundra Smyth has been performing for 13 years at events all over the world! With a background in dance, she specializes in poi, staff, and club manipulations. Throughout Cassaundra’s years of practice she has focused on integrating her dance background with her prop manipulation to create a unique fusion flow.

The Hoop Troop is a hoop juggling performance trio established in 2019 featuring the combined forces of Lisa Ellipse, Callum Baker and Cameron Ford.

Each Hoop Trooper brings their own speciality to the mix to create a unique trio. Lisa comes from a multi- hooping background, Callum is best known for his bramson roll hoop juggling and Cameron specialises in club passing, ring passing and, now, hoop passing.

Devin is a juggler from California. He was introduced to juggling from friends he was living with and was lucky to come into contact with many great jugglers who helped him learn and grow. He took an interest in performing which led him to attend a circus school in France called Le Lido.