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[[Image:Begary_at_Medrano_(c.1960).jpg|right|200px]]Born on February 20, 1926 in Paris, France, the daughter of a baker, Andrée "Maryse" Begary (1926-2007) was one of the most accomplished and celebrated aerialists  of her day, famous for her exceptional handstand on the trapeze bar—which she could hold for more than one minute—and her spectacular series of rotating one-arm planges (also known as "dislocations"), with which she emulated her idol, Lillian Leitzel (1892-1921). Young Andrée started training on the trapeze on her doctor’s recommendation, to improve a poor health condition. She became apprentice to a celebrated gymnast on horizontal bars, Nicolas Marcoud, who had a successful career with the Marcoud-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 started her performing career. Thus, under the name of Andrée Marcoud, she made her professional debut at Paris’s Cirque Medrano on April 14, 1939; she was thirteen years old....  ([[Maryse Begary|more...]])
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Founded in December 1977, with its first performance season in March 1978, Circus Oz was the amalgamation of two already well known groups—Soapbox Circus, a roadshow set up by the Australian Performing Group (APG) in 1976, and the New Ensemble Circus, a continuation of the New Circus, established in Adelaide in 1974. Between them, these two groups had performed over seven hundred times to an audience of more than 300,000. None of the original twenty five members had a traditional circus background, although some had worked in circuses in order to learn particular skills firsthand. Rather, the group chose circus as its medium through an intellectual (and somewhat romantic) process. The circus form, at least theoretically, provided the perfect context in which to develop the sort of performance and, as important at the time, the sort of life, that the group wanted...  ([[Circus Oz|more...]])
  
 
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the free encyclopedia of the international circus.
A project of the Big Apple Circus,
inspired and funded by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.


In the Spotlight

CIRCUS OZ

Founded in December 1977, with its first performance season in March 1978, Circus Oz was the amalgamation of two already well known groups—Soapbox Circus, a roadshow set up by the Australian Performing Group (APG) in 1976, and the New Ensemble Circus, a continuation of the New Circus, established in Adelaide in 1974. Between them, these two groups had performed over seven hundred times to an audience of more than 300,000. None of the original twenty five members had a traditional circus background, although some had worked in circuses in order to learn particular skills firsthand. Rather, the group chose circus as its medium through an intellectual (and somewhat romantic) process. The circus form, at least theoretically, provided the perfect context in which to develop the sort of performance and, as important at the time, the sort of life, that the group wanted... (more...)

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