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Randy Kato is a Cyr Wheel artist athlete, performer, and coach. His obsession with the Cyr Wheel began 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. His Space Oddity/Major Tom act was selected to be performed as part of the “David Bowie Is” exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum. He has performed for Lincoln Center, Big Apple Circus, The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Montréal Complètement Cirque, The Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival, NBC News, the CBS Morning Show, the FOX Morning Show, Lola Star's Dreamland Roller Disco, and more at venues including Lincoln Center, The Smithsonian, the NYC World Financial Center Winter Garden, and Caesar’s Palace. He is a Wheel Gymnastics World Championship competitor for Team USA, and he has taught at Circus Warehouse, Streb, Cirque de Vol, In the Dark Circus Arts, Circus Connections, Circadium, Philadeliphia School of Circus Arts, Rebel Circus Arts, Brooklyn AirSpace, Friends Academy, and Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater. He is also a co-founder and principal with Svindelic Cyr Wheel Troupe. Randy hopes to continue spreading his love of this unique art form through performance and instruction. Check him out at http://randy.kato.com/cyr .