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Cyr Wheel Workshop

Randy Kato

Sunday, 1pm @ The Gym

Learn to spin in a great big hoop. It's great big fun!

Cyr Wheel is a relatively new circus apparatus that is gaining in popularity not only for performance, but also as a fun recreational sport and challenging workout. This mesmerizing circus art will have you seemingly defying the laws of physics. Come find your Vitruvian self! All levels welcome. Wear sneakers.

Biography

Randy is a (hula) hooper, custom hoop crafter and fire performer. His obsession with the hoop naturally led him to the "big hoop" or Cyr Wheel. The wheel mesmerized him from the moment he first saw a video of it online. After many months of fruitless searching for instruction or information in New York City, he ordered a wheel from Montreal and began the long arduous journey of teaching himself. Randy is now a principal performer and instructor with Svindelic Cyr Wheel Troupe. He has performed with The Lost Circus, the CBS Morning Show, Lola Star's Dreamland Roller Disco, and more at venues including The Queens Theatre, The Irondale Center, and Dixon Place. He has taught at Brooklyn AirSpace, Streb, Circus Warehouse, and Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater.