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• Diana and Yury
  ...d most important circus school in Soviet Russia (after the one in Moscow). He graduated in 1994 as an acrobat on unicycle.
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• Les Casaly
  ...que Vanetti. While Guillaume was performing his aerial act in Switzerland, he and Mireille became reacquainted. Deciding to join forces, they created an ...he touring unit, eventually rising to the post of Vice-President. In 2009, he succeeded [[Paul Binder]] as the Big Apple Circus’s Artistic Director.
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• Charlie Rivel
  ...vies and plays; his image was used for dolls and other souvenir items; and he received every honor and accolade open to a performer. ...artistic skills, a talent for pantomime, and a flair for public relations, he developed a totally original clown character that stands as one of the twen
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• Cirkus Benneweis
  ...ave been Gottfried’s elder son, but nothing is known of his siblings, if he had any.) ...rformed in the show as a child acrobat and clown. When he was 27, in 1915, he married 24-year-old Karen Christine Irene Petersen (Nov. 26, 1891-Dec. 5, 1
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• Anatoly Durov
  ...et regime. As for Vladimir, who became an iconic figure in the Soviet era, he eventually gave up clowning, came to specialize in animal training, and jus ...he Moscow Police—a job he did more because he wanted to than because he had to. Anatoly’s brother, [[Vladimir Durov|Vladimir Leonidevich]] (1863-
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• Vladimir Durov
  ...e named after him. He was said to have revolutionized animal training, and he was described as a clown-satirist whose anarchistic stance against an autoc In truth, however, although Vladimir was indeed a skilled animal trainer, he used methods that were becoming prevalent in Western Europe at the same tim
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• The Dancing Gauchos
  ...ational Folkloric Ballet of Argentina and was invited to join the company. He eventually became the Ballet's principal dancer. Before he met Martha, Sergio had developed a spectacular act based on the Boleadora,
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• Egorov Troupe
  ...ther Yury (b. February 9, 1964), he joined an Amateur Circus troupe, where he learned a wide range of circus disciplines. (Amateur Circus troupes are the ...e joined the legendary high-wire act of [[Vladimir Volzhansky]], with whom he performed for twelve years, both in Russia and abroad with the [[Moscow Cir
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• Pedro and Tatiana Carrillo
  ...lying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined his father’s high-wire act. He continued his training, gradually acquiring his father’s outstanding skil
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• The Carrillos
  ...lying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined his father’s high-wire act. He continued his training, gradually acquiring his father’s outstanding skil ...ive of Bogota, Colombia, Capitolino was born into a family of wirewalkers. He made his debut on the high wire at age twelve. With the addition of Acevedo
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• Picaso Jr.
  ...He later spent some time in the military—which is when, as a hobby, he began honing his juggling skills. ...Francisco participated in the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque Demain]], where he won a Bronze Medal. His career was definitely launched.
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• Guiming Meng
  ...onal Chinese acrobatic disciplines. As it is customary in Chinese troupes, he later participated in a variety of ensemble acrobatic acts in the shows sta ...he performers who made the trip to America. At the end of this engagement, he did not return to China, choosing instead to defect to the U.S.
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• Jeff Gordon
  ...981, he joined the [[Big Apple Circus]], where he worked on the ring crew. He also appeared as a plant in the audience for the Big Apple Circus’s trio ...e intimate, one-ring European format of the Big Apple Circus. So, in 1983, he became a full-fledged member of the Big Apple Circus’s Clown Alley as "Go
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• Ricardo Sosa
  ...l. There, he trained for four years to be a professional circus performer. He graduated in 1986 with a remarkable hand-balancing and contortion act. ...petitions, he received a special teaching award from the Cuban Government. He also continued to perform, appearing at the Tropicana in Havana and touring
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• Olivier and Melinda
  ...Olivier Merlier was not, it seemed, destined to become a circus performer. He worked as a welder on nuclear power plant construction sites, and, in his s ...he began training in all the classic circus disciplines. At the same time, he began to study Hungarian—and to pay increasing amounts of attention t
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• Circus Flora
  ...acKinnon]], was made Associate Artistic Director, a position he held until he succeeded to Balding in 2014.
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• Ivor David Balding
  ...New York, before becoming manager of the Whitney Farm in Lexington, where he raised and trained racing-horses. ...duced to the circus and theater worlds through his father’s connections. He began his show business career as stage manager at the Westport Country Pla
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• Cesare Togni
  ...The Togni Family|Togni family]], one of Italy's foremost circus dynasties. He was a beloved circus director who made his mark on the history of the Itali ...mbered as the principal flyer in his family's flying-trapeze act: in 1956, he became the first flyer ever to execute a triple return pirouette from the c
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• Sophie and Virgile
  ...le entered the Centre National des Arts du Cirque in 1986, at age fifteen. He came from the circus: His father ran a small circus company. ...ed with the Big Apple Circus and became a member of its permanent company. He later graduated to Artistic Coordinator of that circus.
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• Val De Fun
  ...performers on November 11, 1969 in Semferopol, Ukraine. While growing up, he was trained in a wide range of circus skills and learned even more by watch In 1984, at the age of fourteen, Valery followed in his mother's footsteps: he became an acrobat on horseback in the legendary equestrian troupe of Natali
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