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• Clown College
  ...8 by [[Irvin Feld]], then co-owner of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]], with help from former Ringling clown and author/illustrator [[Bill Balla ...ing of the applicant's psychology, interests, and previous experience. The circus also organized live auditions along its route, which was an efficient way o
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• Katja Schumann
  ...Denmark, to one of the circus world's oldest and most respected families. Circus lore attaches the Schumanns first to Berlin, then to Denmark. Although the ...rkus Schumann]], Katja made her first appearance in the ring of the family circus at age 10, as a ballerina on horseback. She subsequently worked in her fami
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• Flying Gaonas
  ...egitimacy, the Flying Gaonas. And indeed, this has happened. To the circus world, however, there has been one and only one Flying Gaonas: the act in which, Victor Gaona Murillo (1925-2016) was born to an old, prolific Mexican circus family that traces its roots to the Circo Gaona y León, created in 1891 by
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• Ben Williams
  ...arkably gifted Indian Woodlands elephant that Buckles had purchased from a circus in 1951 when she was five years old. By then, Anna May was thirteen, and Be ...arship for the University of South Florida, but he chose to go back to the circus instead, and to continue working with elephants.
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• Paulina Schumann
  ..., ''Circo Reina Victoria''; Paulina was, therefore, thrown into the circus world from the very moment she first opened her eyes. In the 1930s, the Rivels toured Europe, appearing in virtually every circus and variety house on the Continent. Then Charlie Rivel, who had performed h
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• Alberto Zoppé
  == Equestrian, Circus Owner == ...estrians and traveling entertainers whose origins predate the birth of the circus. His parents, Luigi and Emma Zoppé, owned one of the numerous small circus
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• Gunther Gebel-Williams
  ...r, he was also, for circus enthusiasts and circus professionals around the world, one of the greatest animal trainers of the second half of the twentieth ce ...ss to say, Gunther's early childhood was far from happy, and the advent of World War II would further tear apart his already dysfunctional Gebel family.
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• Glen Nicolodi
  Born in Valencia, Spain, Glen Nicoldi is seventh generation of an old Italian circus family, the Nicolodis, which has produced in recent generations an uncanny ...eer as an acrobat in 1989, at age sixteen, and then joined the [[Big Apple Circus]]’s resident company, in the United States, in 1992—when his father
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• Rob Torres
  Rob Torres (1973-2018) had become, in a few short years, one of the world's most successful clowns, working with equal success in the Americas, Asia, ...rres_Cole_Bros.jpeg|thumb|left|400px|Rob Torres at Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus (c.1993)]]While in high school, he was a member of the cross-country track
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• Terry Cavaretta
  ...by Faye Moses (who was to marry [[Hugo Zacchini]]). Faye had trained in a circus program that existed then at Florida State University in Tallahassee, and s ...for Terry, the diminutive of her second name, Teresa.) She worked in every circus discipline, on the ground and in the air, including tumbling and high wire.
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• Zhejiang Acrobatic Troupe
  ...in Suzhou 400 years ago and is performed in Suzhou dialect. (Known as the "Venice of the Orient", Suzhou is renowned for its beautiful Grand Canal, pagodas, ...ussia International Circus Festival in 2009, and has obtained two Guinness World Records Certificates.
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• Walter Nones
  ==Acrobat, Animal Trainer, Circus Director== ...built true circus empires in their own countries equating in strength the circus empires of yore.
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• Nouveau Cirque (Paris)
  ...e it difficult to manage. It began to lose its prominence before the first World War and proved unable to adapt to the post-war era. ...irque d’Hiver]], completely refurbished, returned to the presentation of circus shows after a rather futile hiatus as a movie-house and theater; the [[Cirq
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