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Barrett Felker & Jim Strinka - Jugglers

By Dominique Jando

Inspired by juggling legend Dick Franco, Barrett Felker (b.1959) learned juggling while still in high schoolA display of equestrian dressage by a rider mounting a horse and leading it into classic moves and steps. (From the French: Haute école), and made a name for himself in the juggling community through his mastery of five-clubA juggling pin. backcrosses. Equally stimulated by the example of Kris Kremo, he started a solo career in 1980, toured the world with the Harlem Globe Trotters, and was featured in numerous European nightclubs until 1984.

In 1983, he saw a performance of Circus Knie in Switzerland, and began considering working in the circus. His dream came true when he appeared for the first time in a circus ring at the Big Apple Circus in 1986, in a juggling duet he had created with Jim Strinka, Dynamotion.

Strinka (b.1957) began his juggling career as a street performer, and honed his performing skills with the Circus Arts Troupe, a group with which he performed in schools and shopping malls in 1980-81. Felker and Strinka had originally met in 1977 in Arizona, where Strinka lived while Felker studied at Arizona State University. They parted ways, then reunited in Boulder, Colorado, and in 1985, they began working together on a “passing act.” which would become, after became, after five months of intense rehearsals, Dynamotion.

Felker and Strinka performed their act in Europe (notably at Circus Krone, in Munich), South America, and Africa. They eventually parted ways in 1987, and Barrett Felker teamed up with Allan Jacobs to create another very successful juggling duet, the Gizmo Guys.

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Video: Dynamotion Jugglers, Big Apple Circus, 1986