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  • ...amily, and had been created before WWI by Karel Kludský (Carl Kludsky, as he became known in the West-European circus business). From humble beginnings, ...Kludský, from Bavorov, in the Strakonice District, tagged on; since 1846, he had traveled with his ropewalking troupe and a carousel. These three Josef
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  • ...t Americans call a "carnival"). Success didn't come immediately: at times, he had to moonlight to make ends meet, and on one occasion, his fellow funfair ...t to keep the home front's morale high; he also continued the charity work he had started when his had become a household name.
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  • ...with at the time. In this way he learned various circus disciplines, which he then performed with other circus kids in amateur shows. His father soon beg ...th Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in England. His success was immediate, and he embarked upon a brilliant international career with an act reminiscent of h
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  • ...r in Aalborg, Sweden, under the name Trenton, as the Kremos' "second act;" he began using his own name in 1934. ...ood dose of comedy. His first wife, Welda, died in a car accident in 1939. He married a second time with Marianne Kalbitz; their son [[Kris Kremo|Kris]]
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  • ...but spent his early childhood in Ellicott City, Maryland. It is there that he picked up his first ball and embarked upon a remarkable journey that would ...irst international juggling competition and walked away with a gold medal. He then made an appearance on the television show ''That's Incredible'', where
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  • ...agalli appeared in Federico Fellini's movie, ''I Clowns'' (1970), and then he retired from performing. Gianni's mother, Daisy Huesca (b. 1920), on the ot ...me year, he toured in Germany with the short-lived Circus Fumagalli, which he ran with his brother for one season. After that, Daris Huesca and Fumagalli
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  • ...h Feld]] became the producer of ''The Greatest Show On Earth'', with which he had been associated since 1970, and continued to operate Clown College thro
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  • ...chools, which [[Annie Fratellini]] had just opened in Paris in 1975. There he trained in acrobatics, ballet, wire walking, bareback riding and juggling, ...ral stage and television shows in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia. He was invited twice to participate in the [[International Circus Festival of
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  • ...children were growing up laughing with Lubin's beloved character. However, he would returned to the Big Apple Circus for an ultimate bow for its Lincoln ...itution, Barry decided to go along and audition with him. To his surprise, he was among the 48 applicants that were accepted that year (along with Bill I
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  • Carlos Svenson was born in Gålve, Sweden. He learned horseback riding and acrobatics from his parents, Karl and Anna Gre ...nd returned to live in Sweden. Carlos remained in the United States, where he still performs his comedy haute-école act, and presents occasionally vario
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  • ...eading to unknown territories when, at the end of his American adventures, he sailed to the West Indies. ...season ended in July, at which time Ricketts, his company, and the horses he had recently acquired in Pennsylvania traveled to New York City, to a new c
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  • ...Richard, who had a gift for drawing, began trying his hand at caricature: he would soon sell his cartoons to local newspapers. ...nd in comedies that were sometimes a little cheap. During his long career, he appeared in about eighty films.
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  • ...ew and commodious amphitheater" on Broadway, north of his former location. He and his company perform there until April 21, 1795. - Ricketts announces his return in December 1798, but he never makes it. The amphitheater, however, stands until at least 1800.
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  • He was born in Milan, Italy, in March 1884, to a poor family. His father was p ...young Giacomo, who trained in the ring with the acrobats. Like Guillaume, he suggested that the young boy join Circo Pulaiot.
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  • ...the tutelage of [[Tamara Babayan]], he specialized as a juggler. In 1987, he graduated with a group-juggling act, ''Carnaval'', which included [[Elena D ...with Vasily Gratchov, Arkady Burdnestsky, and Natasha Sarygina, with whom he re-created his group juggling act, now titled ''Original Jugglers''. They p
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  • ...Cirque]], the French state circus college in Châlons-en-Champagne. There, he developed a hand-to-hand balancing act with another student at the Centre, ...to the position of Artistic Coordinator of the Circus in 2009, a position he held until the closing of the original Big Apple Circus in 2016.
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  • ...joined the award-winning troupe and discovered the circus world—and he never looked back. ...offered Andrey to remain with them as a member of their resident company. He performed there from 2001 to 2013 in a wide variety of acrobatic acts, nota
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  • ...er a brief stint at Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts, he went to work on television as stage manager for Julia Child’s cooking sho ...d to act out the feelings stirred by his uneasy life, so, quite naturally, he enrolled in the Professional Actor Training program at the University of Wa
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  • ...Smart's New World Circus]]. The following year, billed as "Cowboy Billy," he presented a pony, called Rajah, thus beginning a long career as an animal t ...of elephants, eventually working with up to twenty performing pachyderms. He was also featured with his elephants in other winter shows: Tom Arnold's [[
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  • ...ses, traits he passed on to his son. Philip Astley was nine years old when he became apprentice to his father. ...e—an area that would become very familiar to young Philip, and where he will later return. For at age 17, Philip left home after one of many disput
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