Did you know professional jugglers come from Charlottesville?

Posted by Thor on February 25th, 2008 14 Comments

I didn’t.

But Mark Nizer is a Charlottesville native according to a recent writeup discussing his professional juggling performance in Martinsville, Virginia. The writeup explains:

Nizer, of Charlottesville, has been juggling for 30 years. One of his performances was to the sequestered jury at the O.J. Simpson trial in 1994. “I’m expecting a second booking in Las Vegas,” he joked.

Anyway, I thought that’s pretty cool. Does anyone know anything else about this guy? Why hasn’t he done a show in Charlottesville, or am I just living under a rock?

Here is a video of him in action.

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14 Responses to “Did you know professional jugglers come from Charlottesville?”

  1. 25 Feb 2008 at 11:44 am1colfer said:

    David Vanderveer from here, lives here, works all over the world, including in Iraq.
    http://thechainsawcomedian.com/
    He’s the guy that used to ride the uni, juggle the saws, throw the knives, etc., on the Mall. He has a good story about accidentally dating a Playboy centerfold, by the way.

  2. 25 Feb 2008 at 11:45 am2Thor said:

    Are they from the same family?

  3. 25 Feb 2008 at 11:52 am3colfer said:

    Dunno, Nizer seems to be from Beantown.

  4. 25 Feb 2008 at 11:52 am4sdot said:

    Mark did a show last April (or around then) at the Paramount and is so talented.
    He often practices on the bball court of the Albemarle Square ACAC

  5. 25 Feb 2008 at 11:54 am5Stanley said:

    He has a good story about accidentally dating a Playboy centerfold, by the way.

    Putting the “jugg” in juggler, as it were.

    (No, no, it’s fine; I’ll see myself out.)

  6. 25 Feb 2008 at 2:03 pm6TANK said:

    He is the orignator of the Air Raid Juggling Club: http://juggler.bz/

    I think they meet once a week at the library, or something like that. C’ville has a pretty decent juggling scene.

  7. 25 Feb 2008 at 2:51 pm7Elizabeth McCullough said:

    I saw Nizer at the Paramount a couple of years ago. He’s mighty good.

  8. 25 Feb 2008 at 2:57 pm8ff said:

    Juggling scene!?!?

  9. 25 Feb 2008 at 3:03 pm9orchid said:

    i used to live next door to a professional juggler. he ate fire & one time burned his face. he juggled fire near the house & it scared us because it was a wood house surrounded by a lot of trees. he also walked on stilts. he shaved his legs & tried to get us to read playboy with him.

  10. 25 Feb 2008 at 3:11 pm10belmont yo said:

    Now Orchid. I know this is hard. Show me, on the doll, where the juggler touched you.

  11. 25 Feb 2008 at 4:34 pm11Silmo Syrup said:

    @9 Did he try to shave your legs??? If so, I think you have the makings of a great Lifetime Channel movie of the week.

  12. 25 Feb 2008 at 8:29 pm12orchid said:

    it’s ok, i don’t think he liked girls. however, when he babysat the dog, it walked a little funny afterwards…

  13. 26 Feb 2008 at 9:08 am13Chuck said:

    It’s “Mark” not Mike, and his Paramount show was fantastic. However, to simply call him a juggler is to do an injustice to his showmanship. He is juggler, magician, comedian and performance artist. Check him out if you get a chance!

  14. 26 Feb 2008 at 9:22 am14Thor said:

    Chuck - Fixed. Thanks for the heads up. I did call him “professional.”

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