Pocono Juggle/Circus Arts Fest 2024
BIG SHOW 2024 Special Guests and Performers... tickets sold at the gym Fri. & Sat.
Join us for a weekend of pure fun!
Where jugglers and circus arts enthusiasts come to...
* practice their craft
* share their craft
* rekindle friendships
* build new friendships
* practice their craft
* share their craft
* rekindle friendships
* build new friendships
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!
March 1, 2, and 3 of 2024
2024 BIG SHOW PERFORMERS
All seats $10
Our Emcee.....
Jonathan Burns
Jonathan Burns
EMERALD McMAHON is a circus artist and aerialist from Bethlehem, PA. She has been honing her craft since 2018 and performs a variety of different acts including aerial silks, lyra, and multi-hula hoops. Emerald strives to shape her acts into something more than just tricks and by combining interesting movements, storytelling abilities, and personal experiences. We are so excited to have her grace our Pocono stage for 2024!
Born with the gifts of
flexibility, curiosity, and
goofiness, Jonathan
Burns combines these
unique talents to astonish audiences around the globe. Jonathan has wow’d the AMERICA’S GOT TALENT judges, been told by Penn Jillette he was ”absolutely fabulous (Teller nodded along) on their show FOOL US, dazzled the audience on THE LATE LATE SHOW with James Corden. These are just a few of his many extraordinary TV appearances (Watch More Videos Here!). The New York Times called him “Extremely Funny” and Campus Activities Magazine named him “Variety Artist of the Year” — TWICE! When he’s not performing he can usually be found in an airport terminal or spending time with his beautiful family.
flexibility, curiosity, and
goofiness, Jonathan
Burns combines these
unique talents to astonish audiences around the globe. Jonathan has wow’d the AMERICA’S GOT TALENT judges, been told by Penn Jillette he was ”absolutely fabulous (Teller nodded along) on their show FOOL US, dazzled the audience on THE LATE LATE SHOW with James Corden. These are just a few of his many extraordinary TV appearances (Watch More Videos Here!). The New York Times called him “Extremely Funny” and Campus Activities Magazine named him “Variety Artist of the Year” — TWICE! When he’s not performing he can usually be found in an airport terminal or spending time with his beautiful family.
Dia
Seskin
Seskin
MATT HALL began his juggling career at
the tender age of age 27, after he purchased
Charlie Dancey's Encyclopaedia of Ball
Juggling and vowed to learn every trick in
the book.
the tender age of age 27, after he purchased
Charlie Dancey's Encyclopaedia of Ball
Juggling and vowed to learn every trick in
the book.
Known as the “Juggle Sensei”, he has
garnered several awards, including the
International Jugglers’ Association Individuals
Silver medal, the IJA Peoples’ Choice Award,
and the 2005 IJA Overall Prop Champion. He
has performed, taught juggling workshops,
and emceed in places like Scotland, England,
Australia, Israel, Canada, The Netherlands,
and Denmark. In 2008, he performed at and
hosted the Final Open Stage at the European
Juggling Convention in Karlsruhe, Germany—
the largest juggling event in history. Matt has
performed and emceed at the 2009 Montreal Juggling Festival, the 2009 Melbourne Juggling Convention, the 2011 Turbo Juggling Festival in Quebec, the 2011 British Juggling Convention (an extremely rare third invitation), the 18th Israeli Juggling Convention (an equally rare second invitation), the Barullo Circus & Juggling Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the 2012 Auckland Circus Convention. Most recently, he headlined the 2015 Newcastle Juggling Festival in Australia and paid a second and third visit to the Seattle Moisture Festival as a performer and emcee.
garnered several awards, including the
International Jugglers’ Association Individuals
Silver medal, the IJA Peoples’ Choice Award,
and the 2005 IJA Overall Prop Champion. He
has performed, taught juggling workshops,
and emceed in places like Scotland, England,
Australia, Israel, Canada, The Netherlands,
and Denmark. In 2008, he performed at and
hosted the Final Open Stage at the European
Juggling Convention in Karlsruhe, Germany—
the largest juggling event in history. Matt has
performed and emceed at the 2009 Montreal Juggling Festival, the 2009 Melbourne Juggling Convention, the 2011 Turbo Juggling Festival in Quebec, the 2011 British Juggling Convention (an extremely rare third invitation), the 18th Israeli Juggling Convention (an equally rare second invitation), the Barullo Circus & Juggling Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the 2012 Auckland Circus Convention. Most recently, he headlined the 2015 Newcastle Juggling Festival in Australia and paid a second and third visit to the Seattle Moisture Festival as a performer and emcee.
Matt still considers himself a hobby juggler, given that he spends most of his time and effort working as a high school Japanese language teacher and student activities director in Palo Alto, CA. He credits his undergraduate education at Notre Dame as the main inspiration for becoming a teacher, and he is thankful for his graduate education at Stanford for helping him become the teacher he is today.
His philosophy of juggling is the same as his philosophy of public high school teaching--"I'm in it for the money.” Seriously though, Matt thinks of himself as a regular guy who keeps ending up in amazing situations. Over the years, he has been used as the model for the Kinetic Juggling Superstar T-Shirt line, received an invitation to go to Taiwan to judge and instruct at its national diabolo championships, served as a consultant to The Passing Zone in designing a new cigar box routine, gone on tour with Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam show as a paid instructor, and was awarded the 2011 IJA Bobby May Award.
Emerald
McMahon
McMahon
Matt
Hall
Hall
THOMAS MILLER is a Juggler, Director, Writer and Theatre Artist based in Philadelphia, PA. He infuses juggling with thespianry in an attempt to identify the world's contradictions. Thomas has ambitions to write and produce dozens of shows with current and future collaborators. After studying physical theatre at Accademia dell'Arte (Arezzo, Italy), Thomas made his professional circus debut in 2019 with BOHEMIA! at Muhlenberg College. Since then, he has fully embraced spectacle as an integral piece of storytelling. Thomas enrolled at Circadium School of Contemporary Circus in 2021. In 2023, he and his classmates represented the United States onstage at the CIRCA Festival (Auch, France). In a world saturated by hatred, delusion, and greed, live performance offers hope. Empathy, compassion, reflection, and transformation provide order to the chaos of the universe. Nimble hands are the satellites with which Thomas explores the creative cosmos. Large questions require many minds! Circus is proof that, together, we can make something greater than the sum of its parts.
Thomas
Miller
Miller
NICK POLINI has been performing for 10 years, Nick does a bit of everything with a comedic spin and unique flare. Ridiculous Nicholas is so funny he must have been born with two funny bones… That’s 2 humerus!
A goofball as a child, he always loved making people laugh and smile. Growing up to be a top-rated athlete in the off- beat sport “Footbag”, Nick competed in competitions around the globe. He holds 5 World Records and is regarded as one of the best players in the entire world.
While in college studying for his Biology degree, Nick began to fall in love with the arts of juggling, magic, and stand-up comedy. Nick performs a unique and hilarious family-friendly one-man circus show and has appeared on various TV shows most recent being The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon!
Nick has competed and won a coveted Smedley at our Pocono Juggle/Circus Arts Fest Best Trick Contest in the past. He will even be performing his one man show on Friday afternoon for Panther Valley's 7th and 8th graders! We are thrilled to have him perform on our stage this year.
Nick
Polini
Polini
Dia Seskin is a New York City based handbalancer and contortionist. She began gymnastics at the age of 4 competing in the tri-state area and eventually switching over to competitive acrobatic dance. Dia currently performs and teaches around New York City. She trains Mongolian Contortion with her coach Khazu and handstands with Artur Bezkorinnyy.
Alex
Rozanov
Rozanov
Alex Rozanov is a ball juggling fanatic with a style defined by box/shower variations, and body throw techniques. He was born and raised in Rochester, NY and learned how to juggle at the age of 12. He attributes his life-long juggling obsession to Rochester's vibrant juggling community... and his ADHD. He was ranked 22nd two different years in the annual "Top 40 Jugglers" list. Alex currently works as an electronics engineer, but devotes every vacation hour he gets to traveling to juggling festivals around the world.
Matan
Presberg
Presberg
Matan is a juggler who has split his time between the east coast and west coast of the U.S. and is the current Bronze Medalist at the International Jugglers’ Association Championships this past summer. He is currently ranked #27 on the Top 40 Jugglers of 2023 which is voted on by jugglers from throughout the world. Matan is a software engineer by day and a powerhouse juggler all other times of the day. He even holds 2 World Records for juggling!
Abby
Brodsy
Brodsy
Abby Brodsky has held a fanaticism for yoyo for 13 years. She has competed at the national and world level for yoyo multiple times, received a free cinnamon bun, and had the honor to have signature yoyo made by her yoyo sponsor. When she isn't yo-yoing and juggling, she lives in Maryland, and works a gneiss day job as a geologist which totally ROCKS.
Tohm
Pace
Pace
