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  • ...oned a promising career—in his case as an engineer—to join the circus. ...ould remain until 1990, performing their cradle act and, as members of the circus's resident company, a short-distance flying trapeze act.
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  • ...dary juggler [[El Gran Picaso]] (Francisco Tébar Picazo), who was a major circus star in Europe in the 1960s and '70s, and popularized "mouth juggling" with ...Realizing that he couldn't escape his circus heritage, he returned to the circus and made his debut at the Benidorm Palace Dinner-Show in Spain on May 5, 19
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  • ...tracted her, and she started training at age six. She participated in many national competitions, and eventually obtained a Master degree in Rhythmic-Gymnastic ...there did: she enrolled in Kiev’s State Institute of Variety and Circus Arts in Ukraine (still part of the Soviet Union at the time). The year was 1987.
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  • ...oo, didn’t last long. One summer, a friend asked him to help paint a set for a theatrical production in Brooklyn. While he was working on the set, an ac ...e]]: Tom didn’t know what Clown College was, but it seemed a perfect fit for his project and he decided to apply.
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  • ...Russian pop music—among others. And Leonid Engibarov for the Russian circus. ...he ringmaster in the circus ring, or [[SoyuzGosTsirk]], the central Soviet circus organization, in real life. In this, he embodied the moods of a new Soviet
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  • ...and during the Soviet regime, originated one of Russia’s most important circus dynasties. Their name still resonates today in Russian lore and culture, an ...share the same first name: Vladimir or Yury for the men, Natalia or Tereza for the women. Furthermore, the Durov line was kept alive principally through t
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  • ...common denominator between Roman and modern circuses is the word itself, ''circus'', which means in Latin as in English, "circle". ===Philip Astley: The Father Of The Modern Circus===
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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 ...press—and by the Soviet gossipmongers, who showed a tabloid interest for the peculiar intricacies of their multiple marriages, notably Igor’s matr
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  • ==Clown, Actor, Circus Director== ...o the modern age, and restoring its prominence on the Russian and European circus scenes at a critical moment in Russian history.
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  • ...discharge in 1979, he was hired by [[SoyuzGosTsirk]], the USSR’s central circus organization, to replace another gymnast in the [[Rostsov Troupe]], whose h ...and Variety Arts]] in Moscow—better known in the West as the "Moscow Circus School"—he seized the occasion!
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