Dave Gillies's guest appearances

Dave Gillies

Northwest Philly Neighbors

Chapel@TMU

Tiffany Palmer

Lori Tharps

Amy Ignatow

Alex Burns

Joel Fish

Keith Russell

John Janick

Yvonne Haskins

Nina Berryman

Wire Walker

OwlTail

In part 1 we heard how Dave evolved from teacher to juggler, and then discovered a love for wire walking over rivers. His current passion is rigging and walking tightwires in beautiful places — from the Susquehanna River to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) — where sometimes the negotiation is as much of an adventure as the wire walking. He describes the seemingly impossible feat of rigging a tightwire with nothing but open water on one side, and how in Venice he stumbled on an eerily similar rigging system from 500 years ago.Back home we hear how he came to live in a 9000 sq ft mansion (built by a shoe polish baron) central to the dynamic Philly circus arts community, musings on the rising participation in circus arts, and how to stay balanced as the years advance.Podcast website: https://nwphillypodcast.netMore about Dave’s Funicular Circus troupe, and the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts:Tightrope walkers will tempt the Susquehanna River at expanded Kipona Festival this year (PennLive 2016)Funicular Circus video (2018)Philadelphia School of Circus ArtsWest Mt. Airy church gets new life as circus school (Curbed Philadelphia, 2017)

In <a href="https://nwphillypodcast.net/episode/013" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">part 1</a> we heard how Dave evolved from teacher to juggler, and then discovered a love for wire walking over rivers. His current passion is rigging and walking tightwires in beautiful places — from the Susquehanna River to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) — where sometimes the negotiation is as much of an adventure as the wire walking. He describes the seemingly impossible feat of rigging a tightwire with nothing but open water on one side, and how in Venice he stumbled on an eerily similar rigging system from 500 years ago. Back home we hear how he came to live in a 9000 sq ft mansion (built by a shoe polish baron) central to the dynamic Philly circus arts community, musings on the rising participation in circus arts, and how to stay balanced as the years advance. Podcast website: <a href="https://nwphillypodcast.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://nwphillypodcast.net</a> More about Dave’s Funicular Circus troupe, and the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts:<ul><li><a href="https://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/08/kipona_2016_harrisburg_events.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tightrope walkers will tempt the Susquehanna River at expanded Kipona Festival this year</a> (PennLive 2016)</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kr4pLyV4EU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Funicular Circus video</a> (2018)</li><li><a href="http://phillycircus.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Philadelphia School of Circus Arts</a></li><li><a href="https://philly.curbed.com/2017/9/7/16266124/philadelphia-school-circus-arts-church-adaptive-reuse" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">West Mt. Airy church gets new life as circus school</a> (Curbed Philadelphia, 2017)</li></ul>

Dave Gillies - Juggler and Wire Walker (part 2)

Great stories from 45 years of connecting with people through circus arts.As a teacher Dave inspired fifth-graders for years to learn juggling and create weekly performances — to the consternation of an uptight principal who eventually got him fired (for juggling). But that opened other doors as he learned the ropes of street performing, harkening back to his street-preaching grandfather and using a knack for theatre to connect with audiences. Hobby became profession as he joined with other jugglers and circus artists, building a troupe of “kind, curious, and patient” entertainers. Along the way juggling expanded to wire walking as he discovered the thrill of “taking my fear for a walk” on a long wire over bodies of water.And don’t miss part 2 next time as we hear about adventures in wire walking on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), how he came to live in a 9000 sq ft mansion central to the dynamic Philly circus arts community, and more.Podcast website: https://nwphillypodcast.netMore about Dave Gillies:BioHistory of the Give and Take JugglersJuggler, tightrope walker is a Philly Folk Fest treasure (Courier Post, 2017)Subsistence juggling (Philadelphia Inquirer, 2007)

Great stories from 45 years of connecting with people through circus arts. As a teacher Dave inspired fifth-graders for years to learn juggling and create weekly performances — to the consternation of an uptight principal who eventually got him fired (for juggling). But that opened other doors as he learned the ropes of street performing, harkening back to his street-preaching grandfather and using a knack for theatre to connect with audiences. Hobby became profession as he joined with other jugglers and circus artists, building a troupe of “kind, curious, and patient” entertainers. Along the way juggling expanded to wire walking as he discovered the thrill of “taking my fear for a walk” on a long wire over bodies of water. And don’t miss <a href="https://nwphillypodcast.net/episode/014" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">part 2</a> next time as we hear about adventures in wire walking on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), how he came to live in a 9000 sq ft mansion central to the dynamic Philly circus arts community, and more. Podcast website: <a href="https://nwphillypodcast.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://nwphillypodcast.net</a> More about Dave Gillies:<ul><li><a href="https://www.jugglers.com/who-we-are/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bio</a></li><li><a href="https://www.jugglers.com/history/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">History of the Give and Take Jugglers</a></li><li><a href="https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/life/2017/08/08/juggler-tightrope-walker-philly-folk-fest-treasure/549848001/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Juggler, tightrope walker is a Philly Folk Fest treasure</a> (Courier Post, 2017)</li><li><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/20070418_Subsistence_juggling.html%3foutputType=amp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subsistence juggling</a> (Philadelphia Inquirer, 2007)</li></ul>

Dave Gillies - Juggler and Wire Walker (part 1)