Staff

 

Paris director, Manhattan instructor - (email) Paris, given the nickname "The Hip-Hop Juggler" by Al Roker himself, has been dazzling audiences with his brand of juggling for over a decade. He has appeared at the Big Apple Circus, The Today Show, Sesame Street, The White House, and the International Juggling Association's Youth Showcase to name a few. He has also been featured in Juggle magazine and Time Out New York. Paris has gained critical acclaim for his juggling instruction, teaching hundreds at conventions, universities, and corporations. He has just completed his 4th year of teaching juggling with the Big Apple Circus and has taught over 1,000 people how to juggle. We bet he can teach you too!

 

Viveca Gardiner Brooklyn instructor - (email) Viveca is president of Playful Productions, which produces variety and circus shows and provides performers and instructors for special events, corporate training, and education programs. She performs as a juggler, ringmistress, clown, and stilt walker. Viveca co-produces CircusNYC.com and Juggle NYC.com, writes for JUGGLE magazine, directs Bindlestiff Family Cirkus' youth programs, and belongs to the International Jugglers Association and the American Youth Circus Organization. She was a director at the Big Apple Circus and has also taught circus skills to hundreds of people. She might have sawdust in her veins.

 

Rod Kimball founder, alternate instructor   Rod is the founder of our classes at JugglingClasses.com. At age 17, he started juggling, and he hasn't stopped since (and, boy, are his arms tired!) Roderick went to college twice. The first time for art. The second time for physics. He left both times for the same reason - to combine art and physics by juggling. Since 1991, he has been performing and teaching juggling and related forms in Portland, ME, Washington, DC, and New York, NY. You can currently see Rod on tour with the Flying Karamazov brothers or making music with his band, The Maestrosities.