Circus performers tune up acts
Hanneford Circus starting today at the 109th Field Artillery Armory a family affair all around.
High-wire performer Jonathan Lopez tests the rigging on Saturday in preparation for the upcoming Hanneford Circus at the 109th Field Artillery Armory in Wilkes-Barre.
by Jerry Lynott
from: the abingtonjournsl.com
WILKES-BARRE – One club tumbled through the air, then another and another until Jonathan Rinny juggled six of them.
As easy and effortless as it looked, it’s taken years of practice for the 20-year-old from Argentina.
On Saturday afternoon he found a spot to work on his act between the empty bleacher seats in the 109th Field Artillery Armory where he and other performers will appear with the Hanneford Circus.
appear with the Hanneford Circus.
The 23-vehicle caravan carrying the troupe of jugglers, tight-rope walkers, dancers and animal acts arrived in town over the weekend and many of them went to work preparing for the 11 shows scheduled today through Saturday.
Marleny McIntyre practices a juggling routine with her husband, Carlos, in preparation for their act with the Hanneford Circus at the 109th Field Artillery Armory in Wilkes-Barre.
As Jonathan Lopez, wearing a pair of running shoes, toed the high wire more than 20 feet above the floor, Rinny practiced with six clubs, one more than he juggles in his show.
“I’ve been juggling since I was 7,” he said Rinny. “I would like to learn everything about juggling.”
He’s a fourth generation performer who has chosen the circus as his career.
“At this date it wouldn’t be a good idea to stop,” he said.
Besides juggling, he pedals about atop a seven-level unicycle and mesmerizes audiences with his balancing skills on the Rolla-Bolla cylinders.
There are only three or four people in the world who can balance on eight cylinders like him, he said, and “in the United States nobody does it” besides him.
Rinny’s devotion to performing is common among circus people, said Billy Martin, ringmaster of the circus.
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