Erin Stephens – Moderator
Christian Tinoco
Christian Emilio Tinoco Gallardo is a circus artist from the city of Gómez Palacio, Durango. He began juggling in 2005. He is part of the first generation of Urban Circus artists in the Lagunera Region. His formal training began at the National Center of the Arts within the international training program Circus and Street Arts, and later he gained experience participating in various presentations, national and foreign festivals, as well as various meetings and workshops. He founded the Unicirclo company in 2011 with a group of circus artists from La Laguna.
Christian Tinoco gave workshops and began to train jugglers who are currently prominent international representatives in the discipline, including Cinthia Buitrón Juárez, Dizan Elizalde and Brayan Poblador. Christian continues as a circus artist, participating in national and international festivals, managing projects, promoting the discipline and training creators. He currently works in the “Melon and Watermelon” work, which has won 3 national awards so far and organizing Battle Night where more than 5 leagues have been held involving more than 20 countries from 3 continents.
Ori Roth
A second generation juggler from Israel. His father, Yuval, is one of Israel’s first professional jugglers. Part of the IJC organizing team since 2007. Currently directing and editing promo videos for broadcast television.
Ilya Polyakov
Ilia Poliakov is the diretor of juggling school since 2010 and organizer of juggling conventions i Russia. In 2018 he started Russian Series of Fight Night Combat. In 2019 he won awards in nomination “contibution to the development of juggling in Russia”. In 2018 he organized the first IRC Eurasia at the Russian Juggling Convention and in 2021 he became a WJF affiliate.
Brenda Corso
Brenda Corso, freelance and itinerant circus artist. She began her artistic training in 2009 at the El Eternauta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, focusing on juggling, more specifically spinning with clubs (spin-antispin). Since then he has participated in different workshops, seminars, conventions and festivals in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Mexico. Self-taught cultural producer and manager, she participated and promoted projects such as Ladies Malabaristas (virtual and collaborative community of juggling women and femininity), and Ninguna Costilla Varieté (cycle of feminist variety shows, Arg-Br co-production, since 2012), among others . He based his training on flow arts, juggling, dance, theater, and pyrophagy. She is currently studying the
Circus Arts Interpreter Cart at the Municipal School of Urban Arts in Rosario.