THE YO-YO LADY RETURNS
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Helane Zeiger is one of the few women yo-yo professionals in the United States. She appeared on The Dinah Shore Show and on Captain Cosmic where she showed Dinah Shore and Captain Cosmic how to "sleep" their yo-yos. She was also featured on several local Northern California morning and news shows. With over twenty-five years of yo-yo performing experience, Helane has worked as a demonstrator for the Duncan Yo-Yo Company, Tom Kuhn Custom Yo-Yos, and Pro-Yo. Known as the Yo-Yo Lady, she started thousands of children in yo-yo play at libraries, schools, and shopping malls across California. |
| At age ten Helane got hooked on yo-yoing during the yo-yo craze of the 50s. She saw her first yo-yo demonstration by a Duncan pro at the corner candy store in her native Bronx. Caught up once again in the current yo-yo craze, she loves the new high-tech yo-yos with trans-axles, ball bearings, and longer spin. Helane recognizes that yo-yos have come a long way from the wooden ones with fixed axles that she used as a kid. She also likes the fast action and continual motion tricks that are easier to master with the new breed of yo-yos. In preparation for her upcoming yo-yo tour, she is busy creating new combination tricks like Brain Twister from the Bottom into Ferris Wheel, Atom Bomb, Rock the Baby, ending in a Pinwheel and is eager to share them with yo-yo lovers in her audience. | 
Tommy Smothers, "The Yo-Yo Man" and Helane Zeiger, "The Yo-Yo Lady" on stage at the Celebration and Exhibition of the Return of the Yo-Yo, 1930-1990, at The Hilltop Shopping Center, Richmond, CA, March, 1990 |
You
can catch Helane's performances at the Dublin Library, August 13,
2002, 2 p.m. and Solano Stroll, September 8, 2002. Check newspapers
for date and time of her up coming shows at Fairyland in Oakland.
Helane will be honored for her classic book "World on a String: The
How To Yo Yo Book" at the Berkeley Public Library Foundation Dinner
on January 25, 2003, along with 25 other Berkeley authors.
To hire the Yo-Yo Lady for a demonstration or training session call: (510) 849-4451 or e-mail her.
