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  • ...hich dramatically impacted its fund-raising capacity, sadly led it to file for bankruptcy eight years later. ...andoned its spring-summer tours of the northeast United States and beyond, and limited its activity to its Lincoln Center four-month winter season. Howeve
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  • ...aining in all circus disciplines, Svetlana demonstrated exceptional talent for hand-balancing. ...nd balancing acts in the history of the Soviet circus—indeed, of the circus anywhere.)
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  • ...Durov Dynasty|Tereza Durova]] and [[Victor Fomine]]. When it was presented for the first time in the West in 1987 (it was at a time when communist Eastern ...er parents had nothing to do with the circus: they came from peasant stock and both worked in a local factory.
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  • == The Circus On Tsvetnoy Boulevard == ...cus, is another one. And in Moscow, there is Circus Nikulin—"the Old Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard."
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  • ...had ambitions of a very different order: She wanted to be a ballet dancer and, at a very young age, she began to take ballet lessons. === From Ballet Dreams To Circus Challenges ===
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  • ...hort-lived. It was dissolved in 1997, after just a few years of existence, and not long after winning a Gold Medal at the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de ...oscow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]]—the famous Moscow Circus School.
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  • ...g act that used a combination of traditional flying trapeze, Russian swing and upright catcher, a presentation that later inspired the Korean flying acts. ...’s wife), Boris Degtiarev, Viktor Zorin, Igor Shielkov, Ruslan Yakovlev, and one of the first female triple-somersaulters, [[Margarita Egorova]], who al
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  • ...Russian pop music—among others. And Leonid Engibarov for the Russian circus. ...ds of a new Soviet youth, which danced the twist, listened to the Beatles, and tried to erase three decades of Stalinist tyranny.
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  • ...an acrobat and a clown, before becoming ringmaster of Moscow’s [[Bolshoi Circus]] from 1971 to 1986. ...in Moscow (the Russian Academy of Theatrical Arts), where he graduated as circus "regisseur" (director) in 1995. It is at that time that he met his wife, Ol
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  • [[File:Circus_Nikitin_in_Moscow.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Circus Nikitin in Moscow (c.1915)]] ==Circus Entrepreneurs==
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  • ...ist, and went on to work with the Moskovsky Music-Hall Troupe, a traveling variety company. ...made her a star of the Soviet circus. She married the acrobat [[Borisenko and Burdetsky|Viacheslav Borisenko]].
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  • ..., [[Sergei Korolev]], was trained at National Studio of Circus and Variety Arts of Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where he graduated ...oured Europe, visiting Norway, Italy, Finland, France, Switzerland, Poland and The Netherlands.
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  • ...Circus]] (''bolshoi'' means ''big'', in Russian) on Vernadsky Avenue—and there have been indeed several others before them. ...Ciniselli (St. Petersburg)|Circus Ciniselli]] stands today. Tourniaire’s circus had only a short existence: it was bought back by the government of St. Pet
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  • ...in the ring. Together, Emil Kio, Igor Kio and Emil Kio, Jr. have performed for an estimated audience of 180 million worldwide, which arguably makes theirs ...liar intricacies of their multiple marriages, notably Igor’s matrimonial and extra-marital adventures.
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  • ...s own ''Moscow Circus''. Yet, his return to Russia in 2015, for the first (and short-lived) [[Master Festival]] in Sochi, became a national cultural event ...her in a dire financial state and, at age thirteen, he had to leave school and get a job to help her. He found a place as an apprentice mechanic in the pr
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  • ...opean and American Youth Circuses, albeit at a much higher level of skills and training. ...me, after the fall of the Soviet Union, [[RosGosTsirk]], the Russian State Circus Company.
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  • ...ht|thumb|400px|Uvve Jansson, Eleona Fomine, Darya Vintilova, Elena Panova, and their coach, Victor Fomine (2014)]] ...casion of the Festival’s thirtieth anniversary. To everyone’s surprise and delight, he then called Victor Fomine.
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  • ...nd the chemistry he created with Nikulin was, in no small part, the reason for the enduring success of the two clowns. ===Early and War Years===
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  • ...the new style of swinging trapeze originated by [[Tereza Durova]], Fomine and Panova in 1987. ...for and was accepted in Moscow’s [[State College for Circus and Variety Arts]]. Under the guidance of Victor Fomine, she created her swinging trapeze ac
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