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• Fumagalli
  ...d in Italy, and was related to two other famous Italian circus families, [[The Canastrelli Family|Canestrelli]] and Larible. Gianni's uncle, [[Francesco " ...all sorts of balancing feats with teeterboard on the wire. For many years, the Feller Boys enjoyed a brilliant international career. Gianni, however, had
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• Francesco
  ...the Ecole Nationale du Cirque (today the [[Académie Fratellini]], one of the western world's very first circus schools, which [[Annie Fratellini]] had j ...e, Africa, South America, and Asia. He was invited twice to participate in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo]], in 1990 (Tristan Rémy aw
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• Moira Orfei
  ...ch coincided with the golden age of Italian cinema. But it was also due to the quality of her circus. ...nally successful Italian productions based on mythological themes, such as the ''Hercules'', ''Ursus'', and ''Samson'' series.
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• The Togni Family
  ...he 1970s), and the round-cupola, quarterpole-free "Florilegio" big top (in the 1990s). ...to be the granddaughter of a French nobleman who had fled to Italy during the French revolution.
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• Darix Togni
  ...act with his cousins Wally and Angly. At age fourteen, he was included in the family’s perch-pole act. ...nd acting as a whiteface clown in a clown act with his brother Wioris, and the circus's midget clown, Checco Medori: ''I Sorellini''.
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• Cirkus Benneweis
  ...activity—until its "temporary" closure in 2015 for a "revamping" of the organization that has not materialized. ...xample of many North-German traveling merchants and performers who crossed the border at that time.
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• Alberto Zoppé
  ...he major circuses of the [[The Togni Family|Togni]] and [[The Orfei Family|Orfei]] families, for example. Yet their companies often contained true gems, and ...ly instead of France? The story doesn’t tell—but the Zoppé circus dynasty became an Italian one.
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• David Larible
  ...rn Europe. His is by far the most famous (and most copied) circus clown in the world. ...g, and the street-rooted audience participation that appeared in Europe in the early 1980s.
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• The Casartelli Family
  ...tria, and which had no connection (beside the use of its famous name) with the legendary [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Parisian circus]]. ...ties, the Casartelli family managed to become in just a few decades one of the largest circus families in Europe; it counts today about one hundred member
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• Gerd Siemoneit Video (1998)
  ...l of Monte Carlo]]. The Italian commentary is by [[The Orfei Dynasty|Ambra Orfei]] (1998)
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• Stefano Orfei-Nones
  * Video: [[Orfei-Nones_Video_(2004)|Stefano Orfei-Nones, Exotic Animals]] at the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo (2004) ...Orfei_Tigers_Video_(2015)|Stefano Orfei-Nones, tiger act]], at Circo Moira Orfei (2015)
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• Walter Nones
  ...and built true circus empires in their own countries equating in strength the circus empires of yore. ...erative was novelty, for which he was faithful to the style and methods of the great Italian variety entrepreneurs.
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• Nell Gifford
  ...ted an amazingly faithful and enthusiastic following in the countryside of the south of England—not a large territory, but Nell Gifford wanted hers ...y moved from Oxford to a farm in a village called Minety, in Wiltshire. In the English countryside, horse riding is an integral part of life and Nell beca
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• Oskar Hoppe
  ...his attempts to revive great names of the past by taking good advantage of the struggle of some old circus luminaries to stage a comeback. ...circuses of [[Alfred Schneider]] and [[Willy Hagenbeck]], and by 1935, for the new [[Circus Barlay]] of Harry Barlay and his wife [[Carola Williams|Carola
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• Franz Althoff
  ...of the American-style three-ring circus and the refinement and intimacy of the traditional European circus. ...-60s, which were held in these arenas and proved an efficient way to catch the attention of a public solicited by an increasing number of new forms of ent
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