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• Glossary
  ...n:(Russian) A circus act that can occupy up to the entire second half of a circus performance. ...h) The line of uniformed artists and assistants who, in the old equestrian circus, stood at attention at the ring entrance to assist their fellow performers
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• Tunga
  ...public of Mongolia (Outer Mongolia) to a family that did not belong to the circus. Her father was a construction manager, her mother a housewife who raised t Tunga joined the State Circus School of Ulan-Bator when she was twelve years old. She specialized in the
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• The Togni Family
  ==Circus Owners, Equestrians, Animal Trainers, Acrobats, Aerialists== ...toured in about thirty countries. The Tognis have also always excelled in circus engineering: they are credited with several technical innovations, includin
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• Les Casaly
  ...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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• Charlie Rivel
  ...nal clown character that stands as one of the twentieth century's greatest circus icons. ...s, the brothers began performing a trapeze act. Pedro later joined another circus, Circo Alegría, where he met—and later married—a French acroba
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• The Dancing Gauchos
  Martha Suarez was born into a circus family that had been active in Mexico since 1853 and had produced many rema ...rcussion instrument and a juggling prop, and it has became very popular in circus and variety shows.
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• Egorov Troupe
  ...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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• Zamoratte
  ...pple Circus]]. Zamoratte made his American debut in 1987, in the Big Apple Circus production of ''1001 Arabian Nights'', in which he impersonated Aladdin's G ...Hugo_Zamoratte_BAC_Video_1987|Zamoratte, Contortionist]], in the Big Apple Circus production of ''1001 Arabian Nights'' (1987)
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• Jeff Gordon
  ...e ring crew. He also appeared as a plant in the audience for the Big Apple Circus’s trio of clowns, [[Carlo Pellegrini]] (Carlo), [[Michael Christensen]] ...d be, for the following five years, the iconic clown trio of the Big Apple Circus.
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• Circus Flora
  ...[[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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• Ivor David Balding
  ==Circus Producer and Artistic Director== ...famous Parisian circus. There, David had an invaluable initiation into the circus world.
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• Mark David
  ...he was four. By the age of eleven, he was proficient in most of the basic circus disciplines and could hold his own in a flying-trapeze act. Most of Mark's subsequent training took place at the [[Circus World Museum]] in his hometown of Baraboo, studying under the performers wh
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• The Jokers
  In 1996, they met at Moscow's [[Circus Nikulin]] (the "Old Circus" on Tsvetnoi Boulevard) to create an original flying act under the guidance ...cult) than the relatively short distances commonly used by North and South American flyers. Their classic flying-trapeze act displayed remarkable style and ski
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• Elena Panova
  ...echnique, which she developed quite by accident at the [[State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow along with her teachers, [[The Durov Dynasty|T ...his wife, Klavdia, née Kazanskaya. Her parents had nothing to do with the circus: they came from peasant stock and both worked in a local factory.
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• Oleg Izossimov
  ...was twelve years old, he saw the Russian hand balancer Nikolai Kasse in a circus performance, and he was so impressed that he decided then and there that th ...te College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow, the celebrated "Moscow Circus School". He was refused three years in a row, and was finally accepted in 1
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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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• Circus Nikulin
  == 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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• Cirque d'Hiver
  ...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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• Valentin Gneushev
  ...eth century, and the creator of some of the most innovative and celebrated circus acts of the 1990s. ...g original acts for them, he eventually influenced the style of many young circus artists and companies, including [[Cirque du Soleil]].
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• David Larible
  ...Russia and Eastern Europe. His is by far the most famous (and most copied) circus clown in the world. David is the first traditional circus auguste to have brilliantly synthesized the virtuosity of old musical augus
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