{"id":1283,"date":"2014-05-18T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2021-10-16T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T11:00:38","slug":"what-the-diabolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/what-the-diabolo\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Diabolo??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diabolo1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1288 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diabolo1.jpg\" alt=\"Circus equipment: Diabolo\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>What is that thing?\u00a0 We get lots of questions about this unusual circus tool and we wanted to clear up the mystery. Consisting of what looks like a big yo-yo spun on a string, tied between two sticks, the Diabolo evolved from the very similar &#8220;Chinese yo-yo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The oldest discovered Chinese yo-yo is believed to be over 4,000 years old!\u00a0 The Diabolo yo-yo is made from two cone shapes joined at the point, whereas the Chinese yo-yo has two discs connected by a longer axle, but in both cases, the performer gets the yo-yo spinning by raising and lowering a stick in each hand to roll the yo-yo on the string between the two.<\/p>\n<p>The key to balancing the yo-yo is to keep it spinning fast.\u00a0 After that, the action can get really wild with tricks ranging from tossing the Diabolo high in the air to crazy behind-the-back and under-the-leg stunts.\u00a0 Words don&#8217;t really do it justice, you have to see it to believe it \u2013 and it appears in at least half of Phare\u2019s productions!<a href=\"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diabolo2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1285 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diabolo2.jpg\" alt=\"Phare Circus artist using Diabolo in Siem Reap's live show\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get it confused with the other circus art called &#8220;Devil Sticks,&#8221; although also commonly misspelled &#8220;Diablo,&#8221; the name Diabolo actually doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with the devil.\u00a0 The Frenchman Gustave Phillippart who developed the Diabolo in the twentieth century came up with the name by joining the greek &#8220;dia&#8221; (meaning across) with &#8220;bolo&#8221; (meaning throw).<a href=\"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diabolo3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1286 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diabolo3.jpg\" alt=\"Phare Circus artist using a Diabolo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rest is history as the Diabolo has become a fun toy for kids and a popular new challenge for aspiring jugglers.\u00a0 In the hands of a skilled professional, the possibilities are limitless.\u00a0 Performers are now doings things like juggling multiple Diabolos at the same time or temporarily throwing one or both sticks in the air.\u00a0 In Phare&#8217;s show, Eclipse, our Diabolo master even manages to pull off a back flip while keeping the yo-yo flying in the air!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diabolo4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1287 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/diabolo4.jpg\" alt=\"Phare Circus artist using a Diabolo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is that thing?\u00a0 We get lots of questions about this unusual circus tool and we wanted to clear up the mystery. Consisting of what looks like a big yo-yo spun on a string, tied between two sticks, the Diabolo evolved from the very similar &#8220;Chinese yo-yo.&#8221; The oldest discovered Chinese yo-yo is believed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}