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  • ...dred wagons traveling by train were used to transport the circus equipment and house the personnel. ...the biggest traveling circuses in Europe, which was subsequently continued and improved by his sons.
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  • ...d Circus, with a group of twelve Shetland ponies. She was tutored in horse and animal training by [[John Gindl]], who was at the time Billy Smart's Circus ...circuses, notably for [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland and [[Circus Krone]] and [[Circus Hagenbeck]] in Germany. Eventually, Yasmine became a celebrated "R
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  • ...Kremo]], a former icarist whose "Gentleman Juggler" act was world famous, and his wife Marianne, née Kalbitz, both Swiss citizens. Kris went to school i ...cent of his father's, but significantly improved—notably with triple and quadruple pirouettes while juggling his cigar boxes.
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  • ...ged to distance himself from the oft-imitated style of the juggling master and to create a style of his own. He debuted his solo-juggling act in 1931 at t ...three balls, three hats, and three cigar boxes, and a bowler hat, a cigar, and a pair of gloves rolled together. His act was known as the "Gentleman Juggl
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  • ...cus and variety stars in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Kris Kremo, who also became a celebrated international star in America as w ...business), an Austrian family of talented acrobats who performed the best and most celebrated Risley act of the late 19th century.
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  • ...ick Gatto]], a former acrobat who had a brilliant career on the vaudeville and nightclub circuits with his act, The 3 Gatos. ...rformed in front of all the major circus and variety directors and agents, and won the coveted Gold Medal.
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  • ...in 2003-2004. Oleg's wife, Yana, also a graduate of Moscow's State Circus and Variety College, appeared with [[The Firebirds]]. ...mir Skrinichenko, Valery Larin, Artur Ishkulov and Oleg Kasatkin (flyers), and Aleksey Voytenko (second catcher).
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  • ...her famous Italian circus families, [[The Canastrelli Family|Canestrelli]] and Larible. Gianni's uncle, [[Francesco "Nené" Huesca]], was himself a renown ...reer. Gianni, however, had a knack for comedy and performed clown reprises and comic acrobatic routines from time to time with Daris.
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  • ...d with the [[Leers-Arvello Troupe]]; their act, which combined Roman Rings and acrobatic pyramids, was mostly an aerial display of strength. ...oss," which were then supposed to belong exclusively to a male repertoire, and she even held with one arm her hanging stepfather. Meanwhile, she was build
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  • ...y Prospect (avenue), which separates it from the Moscow University campus, and Nikolai Kopernik (Copernic) Street; Lomonosov Avenue joins them on the sout ...ts numerous specialized features and facilities, it is the world's largest and technically most advanced circus building.
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  • ...trained in acrobatics, ballet, wire walking, bareback riding and juggling, and graduated in 1978 as a clown. ...ernational Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo]], in 1990 (Tristan Rémy award) and 1996 (Junior Jury's award).
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  • ...ces in 2012: They had laughed at Grandma's antics when they were children, and in turn, their own children were growing up laughing with Lubin's beloved c ...becoming a television director, but the social turmoil of the late sixties and early seventies led to a period of self-questioning—as indeed it did
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  • ...de-deux on horseback was a favorite of many European circuses in the 1960s and '70s. When his parents retired, Carlos took over their act with Susanne Lin ...y and [[Cirkus Benneweis]] in Denmark, as well as on stage, in nightclubs, and on television.
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  • ...oxes) surrounding a circular riding space filled in with a mixture of soil and sawdust, forty-two feet in diameter—the ring. ...etts, a British equestrian who had arrived from Scotland the previous year and had quickly established a riding school in Philadelphia, then the capital o
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  • ...farm named "La Ménagerie." His father was Pierre Richard, a horse dealer, and his mother a homemaker, née Suzanne Boinot. ...ol. He also began to work as an actor—in the movies, in the theatre, and in comedies that were sometimes a little cheap. During his long career, he
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  • ...m 1979 to 1984 – gathering gold, silver and bronze medals along the way, and several Russian championships titles. ...ed by [[Natalia Makovskaya]]. Regina participated in both acts (flying act and Russian barre).
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  • ''By Alessandro Cervelatti — Translated and edited by Dominique Jando'' ...stables who had suffered from a bad fall in England during a race in 1890 and had died soon after. What is certain is that Giacomo's mother let him join,
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  • ...arnaval'', which included [[Elena Drogaleva]], Andrey Ivanko, Kyril Balan, and Alek Novosolov. ...rmed in the U.S. with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] from 1995-97, and appeared for the last time together at the [[Big Apple Circus]] in 1999, be
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  • ...iner. Her first professional act involved a lion, a bear, an African goat, and a boar, who all performed together with dogs. She created her first all-dog ...rainer, [[Irina Bugrimova]], in which her dogs were dressed in lion manes, and a juggling act in which her son, juggler [[Andrey Markov]], uses dogs as pa
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