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  • ...e and animal training by [[John Gindl]], who was at the time Billy Smart's Circus's head trainer. ...a BBC Holiday special that aired for several years after the Billy Smart's Circus had ceased touring.
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  • ...rcus troupe, where he learned a wide range of circus disciplines. (Amateur Circus troupes are the Russian equivalents of Youth Circuses—albeit at a muc ...he performed for twelve years, both in Russia and abroad with the [[Moscow Circus]].
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  • ==Knie: The Swiss National Circus== ...d be at the origin of one of the world's most prestigious and long-lasting circus dynasties. Born in Erfurt and nineteen years old, the young Friedrich left
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  • ...e world’s oldest extant circus building. It is also the world’s oldest circus still in activity: It opened its doors in 1852. Its address, at 110 rue Ame ...e (Paris)|Cirque Olympique]], located some five hundred yards from his new circus, on the portion of the Boulevard du Temple that disappeared in 1862, during
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  • ...alented and charismatic performer, he was also, for circus enthusiasts and circus professionals around the world, one of the greatest animal trainers of the [[File:Williamsbau_Koln.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Circus Williams in Cologne (1947)]]Max Gebel was drafted into the Wehrmacht and se
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  • ...928, in a family connected to show business and animals, albeit not to the circus: Heinz’s father was a movie stuntman who worked with horses for UFA in Be ...of the monumental [[Circus Busch]] in Berlin, and had reigned over a vast circus empire that included circuses in Altona, Hamburg, Breslau, and Vienna, and
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  • ...the USSR) on February 18, 1972 in a family that was not connected with the circus: Both her parents worked for import-export companies. As a child, the mixtu ...ymnasts 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
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  • ...oscow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]]—the famous Moscow Circus School. ...cus]]. In 1991, Kuznetsov left the Zemskov Troupe for Moscow’s [[Bolshoi Circus]], where he started working on a Russian Barre act of his own.
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  • ...Banola Troupe. Andrée adopted his name (as was the tradition then, in the circus, when a young performer had apprenticed to a famous master) when she starte ...ame for herself: Her handstand on her trapeze bar didn’t fail to impress circus professionals and aficionados, and her act continued to improve over the ye
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  • ...ters had revived a specialty that had not been seen for a long time in the circus—and their act was subsequently widely copied by other artistes. ...England at Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in 1952, and at the [[Kelvin Hall Circus]] in Glasgow, Scotlamd, for the 1952-53 winter season.
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  • ...ters had revived a specialty that had not been seen for a long time in the circus—and their act was subsequently widely copied by other artistes. ...England at Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in 1952, and at the [[Kelvin Hall Circus]] in Glasgow, Scotlamd, for the 1952-53 winter season.
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  • ==Circus Memorialists== ...perhaps the most remarkable visual documentation existing on the European circus of the first half of the twentieth century.
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  • ...70-80s, and was a featured act with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States, where she and her father, the clown [[Pio Nock]], per ...exandra Bühlmann. The [[The Nock Dynasty|Nocks]] are Switzerland's oldest circus family, whose heritage could be traced back to the 18th century; like the [
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  • ==Circus Owner== Circus Gleich had a relatively short existence (1928-1937), but it was, in the ear
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  • ==Carola Williams And Her Circus== ...he Althoff Dynasty|Althoffs]], she ran from 1945 to 1968 a very successful circus, which presented elegant shows with excellent artists and outstanding eques
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  • ...ckey act, at Circus [[The Althoff Dynasty|Adolf Althoff]], performing in [[Circus Carré]] in Amsterdam (1963)
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  • ...Enders on April 16, 1935 in Köln (Cologne), Germany, to an old family of circus equestrians. His parents were Hugo Enders (1899-1952), a jockey and horse t ...von der Gathen (1908-1999), who was Alma’s sister and was married to the circus director and animal trainer [[Adolf Althoff]] (1913-1998). Adi was trained
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  • ...Enders Brothers, clown entrée, in the Circus [[Adolf Althoff]] show at [[Circus Carré]] in Amsterdam (1963)
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  • ...and the sheer artistry of his presentations make him indeed an outstanding circus artist. ...o, many great Russian animal trainers made their apprenticeship in the Zoo-Circus organization.
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  • ...South Holland, in the Netherlands, to a family that was not related to the circus. As a young woman, Tini went on to work as a stenographer at the Dutch Defe ...the traditional winter season of [[Circus Strassburger]] in the legendary "circus-theater." The polar bears belonged to the Klant Zoo, created by [[Willy Hag
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