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GOSHEN — Britton Pankratz was 13 when he came across a video of Tom Smothers of the “Smothers Brothers” performing difficult tricks with a Yo-Yo.
"The flowers" are Chinese yo-yos. Five of them, each with a different color, are handled by just one performer and revolve at the same time. It's a set of movements designed for the celebration of ...
Diabolo is a form of juggling that has evolved from the 12th century Chinese yo-yo and consists of an axle and two discs spun using string attached to two hand sticks.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Chinese Association of Greater Kalamazoo, also known as CAGK, is scheduled to host its 42nd annual Chinese New Year Celebration Saturday. The celebration is expected to ...
When he was 11, a yo-yo fad hit middle school. “Everyone was yo-yoing,” he recalled. “I asked for one for Christmas.” Then it was just a toy, something fun, Weber said.
Commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Angel Lam’s unusual cello concerto will be premiered Thursday in Atlanta’s Symphony Hall by superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma, conductor Robert Spano and the Atlanta ...
Sunday, Feb. 13 at the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, a series of successful ukulele and Yo-Yo performers are putting on a show.
Performers from the Blacksburg Chinese School put on an exhibition of Chinese yo-yo tricks. The yo-yos look like a pair of bowls joined at their bottoms by an axle.
Every time the performers completed a complicated trick—such as passing the yo-yo to one another from across the stage or synchronizing yo-yo flips—the audience went wild. At one point, Justin Cheung, ...
More than 60 acts will entertain downtown crowds on Thursday evenings this summer. The Downtown Street Performer Series begins Thursday and continues every Thursday night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. thr… ...
"The flowers" are Chinese yo-yos. Five of them, each with a different color, are handled by just one performer and revolve at the same time. It's a set of movements designed for the celebration of ...