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  • ...ands, and two hundred wagons traveling by train were used to transport the circus equipment and house the personnel. ...I by Karel Kludský (Carl Kludsky, as he became known in the West-European circus business). From humble beginnings, Karel Kludský had managed to build one
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  • ==Circus Owner and Impresario== ...bad (not to mention the hardship caused by trying to provide for his huge family), or perhaps Mr. Smart, Sr. had a longing for adventure, for at age 15, you
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  • == THE FIRST CIRCUS IN AMERICA== ...t performance of Mr. John Bill Ricketts's company at the ''Circus''. The ''Circus'' was a roofless arena that could accommodate some eight-hundred spectators
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  • ...lore attaches the Schumanns first to Berlin, then to Denmark. Although the family originated in Germany, the Schumanns of Copenhagen were in actuality Swedis ...cus at age 10, as a ballerina on horseback. She subsequently worked in her family's outstanding equestrian acts, notably in high school (dressage) presentati
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  • ...cus Arts. Its enormous success soon put the school in the shadows, and the circus took over as the principal activity of the organization. It became one of t ...’s prestigious Lincoln Center for The Performing Arts. The new Big Apple Circus quickly abandoned its spring-summer tours of the northeast United States an
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  • ==Circus Director and Animal Trainer== ...d Rajah, thus beginning a long career as an animal trainer in his family's circus.
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  • ==Circus Owner, Equestrian== ...modern circus. He was born January 8, 1742 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the West Midlands, England, the son of Edward Astley, a veneer-cutter and cabinet-ma
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  • ...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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  • ...[[Sacha Pavlata|Alexandre Sacha Pavlata]], Ivor David Balding established Circus Flora in 1987 as a permanent performing arts organization in St. Louis. ...ica killed her mother. For fifteen years, Flora was a beloved star of the circus that bears her name. In 2000, she retired in the elephant sanctuary in Hohe
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  • ...f Quebec, Canada. Since her middle-class family had no connection with the circus world, Hélène went through a traditional schooling, graduating in 1982 wi ...still a fledging school—albeit already making its mark in the “New Circus” community. At the same time, she studied acrobatic dance with Michel Jod
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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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  • ...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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  • ...fter World War II, and the Rios Brothers are generally perceived as French circus artists. ...decided to combine their talents into a risley act, a particularly arduous circus discipline.
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  • ...Rabenalt’s ''Die drei Codonas'' (1940)—a very rare occurrence for circus artists—and two romanticized biographies. ...h century; he was a fairground showman, and illiterate—which led the family's name to be registered under a great variety of spellings over the years:
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  • ...embers of the former Soviet Union have been the most inventive and skilled circus artists of the twentieth century, the Chinese, who come from a different, a ...lthough its artists perform acts of a similar genre and share with Western circus artists a similar background—that of the traveling fairground enterta
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  • ==Acrobat, Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...the greatest wild animal trainers of all times—and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America.
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  • ...me a household name in the famous Lancashire seaside resort on England’s west coast. ...mily of circus performers, and his mother, Maureen, was born [[The Roberts Family|Roberts]]—one of England’s oldest dynasties.
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  • ...trainer Fritz W. Schulz (1910-2010) was one of Australia's most celebrated circus personalities. He had a long and brilliant career that spanned six decades ===Circus Debut===
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  • ...y where the level of extreme poverty is still fairly high, a few traveling circus entrepreneurs may have resorted to methods that have fortunately vanished m [[File:Rambo_Circus_(2011).jpeg|thumb|right|375px|Rambo Circus (2011)]]
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  • [[File:Chiarini_Utagawa_Masanobu.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Chiarini's Circus in Japan (1886)]] ==Equestrian, Circus Entrepreneur==
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