The Flamingo Club

Women in Juggling Videos:

Trailblazers: Women Who Juggle, DVD 2006. From the cover: Renowned female jugglers Lottie Brunn, Francoise Rochais, Noelle Franco, Cindy Marvell, Ilka Licht and Kati Yla-Hokkala share their travels, performances and training techniques over a five year period. Connie Leaverton travels across America and Europe to theaters, juggling festivals and competitions seeking talented trailblazers who reveal the passions that drive them to new juggling heights. Follow the history and culture of female jugglers and their collaborators from vaudeville to the zany 1960's and beyond. Meet families that juggle together such as the Finnigans and the Dazzling Mills Family. Catch a view of some of the troupes that have featured female jugglers, including Circus Chimera, the Pickle Family Circus, Lazer Vaudeville and Gandini Juggling. Also includes Gena Shvartsman, Olga Galchenko, Lana Bolin, Michelle Mills, The Jugheads, Olga Karavaeva, Karen Bourre, Sky King, Laura Green, Judy Finelli, Trixie LaRue, Kezia Tenenbaum and many more.1 hour 46 min. NTSC format. Produced by Connie Leaverton and Cindy Marvell © 2006 Walkabout Productions.  available from IJA Store

Cindy Marvell's gold medal act in Senior Juggling Championships, July 20, 1989 Baltimore, Maryland, '89 Senior Championships VHS available from IJA Store

Airjazz: A World in Motion with Kezia Tenenbaum, Peter Davison and Jon Held, early 1990's, New Frontier Productions VHS tape

Champion Acrobats of China, "Steel Silk" 46 minutes VHS tape, View Video 1992, Performances: dancing with lions, wire dancing, rope skills, acrobatics, foot juggling, the spinning diabolo, man & his best friend, tower of chairs, revolving glasses, and double foot juggling

Champion Acrobats of China, "Flying Lotus" 43 minutes, View Video 1992 VHS tape, Performances: plate spinning, pyramid of benches, kicking bowls, bicycle balancing, flying eggs & plates, pagoda of bowls and stunt cycling

Juggling for Success At Hazel Dell Elementary School, Vancouver, WA 1992 "A classroom based Physical Activity." 16 minute documentary VHS tape with lots of young students juggling, available from JuggleBug, One Sportime Way, Atlanta, GA 30340-1402

The circus original tour Cirque Du Soleil "We Reinvent the Circus", 1992 Island Visual Arts VHS tape

Cirque Du Soleil "Saltimbanco" VHS tape, 78 minutes circa 1992-1993

Bouncing Back with Wendy Osserman and Cindy Marvell & other guest artists, circa 1993 VHS tape

Jill Westover's silver medal act in Seniors Juggling Championships, July 23, 1993 Fargo, North Dakota Produced by IJA Videos VHS tape available from IJA

Circus Smirkus presents highlights from the 1995 New England Tour Class Clowns!, available from Circus Smirkus, VHS tape

Francoise Rochais gold medal act in unedited performance in Senior Championships, 1995 Produced by Alan Plotkin Productions on 1995 Las Vegas IJA Champs DVD, available from IJA Store

The Great All American Youth Circus (also called the Great Y Circus) presented by the Redland, CA, YMCA, May 16, 1999 VHS tape, (This circus started way back in 1929.)

The Tweaksters with Julia Snyder and Regan Patno of Santa Monica, CA, 2000, short promo tape VHS available from Tweaksters@aol.com

The 5^th. Annual IJA Youth Showcase 2002 DVD available from IJA Store

The 6^th. Annual IJA Youth Showcase 2003 DVD available from IJA Store

2004 IJA/Buffalo Youth Showcase DVD  An Alan Plotkin Video available from IJA Store  Run time one hour 46 minutes

Cindy Marvell in Performance. By Cindy Marvell. DVD available from www.dube.com and other juggling stores 105 minutes Reviewed in Bagai, Eric. “Shoptalk” Juggle Jan. Feb. 2005: 43.

The Jugglers That Jugglers Watch  An Alan Plotkin Production DVD 2004 One hour  Contents include many women jugglers. Reviewed in Bagai, Eric. “Shoptalk” Juggle Jan. Feb. 2005:43. available from IJA Store

Vova & Olga Galchenko VHS A World Juggling Federation Production www.galchenko.com

Juggler An Eagle Entertainment Production VHS 1999 approx. 49 minutes.  Produced by Mark Farrell Directed by Danny Kaplan  Executive Produced by Karen Taussig & Edward Jackman  Women jugglers in the video: Chinese women with diabolos, Dorothy Finnigan, Laura Green, Katja Ignatov, Ginny Rose, Mardene Rubio, JoAnn Swaim, Kezia Tenenbaum.

-- compiled by Mary Wilkins

The Flamingo Club supports and encourages juggling for women, children and families.