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• Cirkus Kludsky
  ...dred wagons traveling by train were used to transport the circus equipment and house the personnel. ...the biggest traveling circuses in Europe, which was subsequently continued and improved by his sons.
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• Yasmine Smart
  ...e and animal training by [[John Gindl]], who was at the time Billy Smart's Circus's head trainer. ...a BBC Holiday special that aired for several years after the Billy Smart's Circus had ceased touring.
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• Billy Smart
  ==Circus Owner and Impresario== ...t to make ends meet, and on one occasion, his fellow funfair entrepreneur (and future leisure industry magnate), Billy Butlin, helped him out, which resul
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• Kris Kremo
  ...he learned various circus disciplines, which he then performed with other circus kids in amateur shows. His father soon began to train him as a juggler, dis ...cent of his father's, but significantly improved—notably with triple and quadruple pirouettes while juggling his cigar boxes.
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• Kremo Family
  ...cus and variety stars in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Kris Kremo, who also became a celebrated international star in America as w ...business), an Austrian family of talented acrobats who performed the best and most celebrated Risley act of the late 19th century.
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• Anthony Gatto
  ...ick Gatto]], a former acrobat who had a brilliant career on the vaudeville and nightclub circuits with his act, The 3 Gatos. ...rformed in front of all the major circus and variety directors and agents, and won the coveted Gold Medal.
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• Aniskin Troupe
  ...in 2003-2004. Oleg's wife, Yana, also a graduate of Moscow's State Circus and Variety College, appeared with [[The Firebirds]]. ...mir Skrinichenko, Valery Larin, Artur Ishkulov and Oleg Kasatkin (flyers), and Aleksey Voytenko (second catcher).
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• Fumagalli
  ...her famous Italian circus families, [[The Canastrelli Family|Canestrelli]] and Larible. Gianni's uncle, [[Francesco "Nené" Huesca]], was himself a renown ...reer. Gianni, however, had a knack for comedy and performed clown reprises and comic acrobatic routines from time to time with Daris.
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• Luisita Leers
  ...d with the [[Leers-Arvello Troupe]]; their act, which combined Roman Rings and acrobatic pyramids, was mostly an aerial display of strength. ...oss," which were then supposed to belong exclusively to a male repertoire, and she even held with one arm her hanging stepfather. Meanwhile, she was build
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• Bolshoi Circus
  == Moscow's "New Circus" == ...y Prospect (avenue), which separates it from the Moscow University campus, and Nikolai Kopernik (Copernic) Street; Lomonosov Avenue joins them on the sout
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• Francesco
  ...trained in acrobatics, ballet, wire walking, bareback riding and juggling, and graduated in 1978 as a clown. ...ernational Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo]], in 1990 (Tristan Rémy award) and 1996 (Junior Jury's award).
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• Barry Lubin
  ...ith Lubin's beloved character. However, he would returned to the Big Apple Circus for an ultimate bow for its Lincoln Center revival season in 2017. ...becoming a television director, but the social turmoil of the late sixties and early seventies led to a period of self-questioning—as indeed it did
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• The Svensons
  ...seback, which won her the Dame du Cirque award at the 1989 [[International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo]]. ...y and [[Cirkus Benneweis]] in Denmark, as well as on stage, in nightclubs, and on television.
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• John Bill Ricketts
  == THE FIRST CIRCUS IN AMERICA== ...oxes) surrounding a circular riding space filled in with a mixture of soil and sawdust, forty-two feet in diameter—the ring.
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• Jean Richard
  ==Actor, Comedian, Circus Owner== ...farm named "La Ménagerie." His father was Pierre Richard, a horse dealer, and his mother a homemaker, née Suzanne Boinot.
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• New York Circuses
  ..., or wooden constructions that were erected in a town, and then dismantled and transported to the next—or simply sold at wood value at the end of th ...ofitable, and they quickly prevailed: From roughly 1870 to 1930, they made circus the most popular performing art in America.
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• Regina Dobrovitskaya
  ...m 1979 to 1984 – gathering gold, silver and bronze medals along the way, and several Russian championships titles. ...ed by [[Natalia Makovskaya]]. Regina participated in both acts (flying act and Russian barre).
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• Giacomino
  ''By Alessandro Cervelatti — Translated and edited by Dominique Jando'' ...stables who had suffered from a bad fall in England during a race in 1890 and had died soon after. What is certain is that Giacomo's mother let him join,
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• Valdis Yanovskis
  ...arnaval'', which included [[Elena Drogaleva]], Andrey Ivanko, Kyril Balan, and Alek Novosolov. ...] from 1995-97, and appeared for the last time together at the [[Big Apple Circus]] in 1999, before parting ways.
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• Irina Markova
  ...iner. Her first professional act involved a lion, a bear, an African goat, and a boar, who all performed together with dogs. She created her first all-dog ...rainer, [[Irina Bugrimova]], in which her dogs were dressed in lion manes, and a juggling act in which her son, juggler [[Andrey Markov]], uses dogs as pa
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• Katja Schumann
  ...of Copenhagen were in actuality Swedish, as is Katja, who held both Danish and Swedish nationalities. ...nt [[Paulina Schumann|Paulina]], and her cousins, [[Benny Schumann|Benny]] and Jacques.
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• Virgile Peyramaure
  ...teen, entered the [[Centre National des Arts du Cirque]], the French state circus college in Châlons-en-Champagne. There, he developed a hand-to-hand balanc ...ed their remarkable act at the [[Big Apple Circus]] in the U.S. in 1996-97 and returned there in 2000-01 for their farewell season—after which Sophi
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• Andrey Mantchev
  ...drey joined the award-winning troupe and discovered the circus world—and he never looked back. ...and several animal acts with [[Jenny Vidbel]]. After leaving the Big Apple Circus at the end of its 2012-2013 season, Andrey moved to Las Vegas.
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• Big Apple Circus
  ...ctivity of the organization. It became one of the world’s most respected and successful circuses—until the economic crisis of 2008, which dramatic ...andoned its spring-summer tours of the northeast United States and beyond, and limited its activity to its Lincoln Center four-month winter season. Howeve
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• Billy Smart Jr
  ==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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• Philip Astley
  ==Circus Owner, Equestrian== ...Edward Astley, a veneer-cutter and cabinet-maker. Edward had a short-fuse and a passion for horses, traits he passed on to his son. Philip Astley was nin
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• Paul Binder
  ==Juggler, Clown, Ringmaster, Circus Director== ...rtmouth College, where he performed as an actor with the Dartmouth Players and the Hopkins Center Repertory Theatre.
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• Huesca Brothers
  ...mother, Angela, was born [[The Fossett Family|Fossett]], a legendary Irish circus dynasty. ...nneweis]] in Denmark, the [[Big Apple Circus]] in the United States, and [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland. Sadly, their act was short-lived: in 2011, Giovanni
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• Duo Adamo
  ...ongolian State Circus. He developed skills in aerial straps, Chinese pole, and juggling. ...with whom she toured in Mexico and Uruguay, and taught at various colleges and universities where they were in residency. 
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• International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo
  ==Monte Carlo, Circus Capital of the World== ...ival was held from December 26 to 30, 1974 under the big top of the French circus [[The Bouglione Family|Bouglione]], installed on what was then the Esplanad
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• Miss Mara
  ...the firstborn of a very large family: She had six brothers and one sister, and all her life she would assume a sort of matriarchal responsibility for her ...on presentation at the time. Her tricks included heel-catches, neck-hangs, and a slide to heel-catch in full swing, which had been a specialty of the grea
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• Pancracio
  ...ingrained in him as a child; as he would say later, reflecting on his long and successful career, "''El payaso nace, no se hace''" (“One doesn’t becom ...herry wine. Circus in Spain, during Fernando’s childhood, was at a peak, and it produced an array of extremely talented clowns who were stars in their o
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• Carrillo Brothers
  ...1967, the troupe came to the United States, where they performed in fairs and traveling circuses. ...arold Alzana]], [[The Great Doval]] (Manfred Fritsch), and [[Gene Mendez]] and Joe Seitz had popularized this style of frenetic high-wire daredevilry, but
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• Michael Christensen
  ==Clown, Juggler, Circus Director== ...he San Francisco Mime Troupe, a political street-theater company that used circus techniques to create visual metaphors. As a member of the Mime Troupe, Mich
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• Dynamotion Jugglers
  ...d a solo career in 1980. He toured the world with the Harlem Globetrotters and was featured in numerous European nightclubs until 1984. ...later, he appeared for the first time in a circus ring, at the [[Big Apple Circus]]. He performed a juggling duet he had created with Jim Strinka, called Dyn
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• Flying Gaonas
  ...rs, Tito Gaona caught flawless triple somersaults with extraordinary grace and astonishing consistency. ...former military officer (whose brother, Rodolfo, was a well-known torero), and Carlos León, a trapeze artist. Victor's father, also named Bernabé, was a
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• Johnny Peers
  ...]] Circus. His skills as a natural comedian let him to join Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's [[Clown College]], where he graduated in 1969. He became ...rcuses as [[Circus Krone]] in Germany, [[Circus Maximum]] in Sweden, and [[Circus Conelly]] in Switzerland.
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• Lou Jacobs
  ...of Europe's circus and variety shows, and Jacobs's parents created a song-and-dance act which they performed in local "varieté" theaters. ...ely seen today, but quite popular then, especially in Germany and Russia), and—since Ludwig had a natural ability for it—contortion. By then,
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• Dolly Jacobs
  ...woman, she was a photographer, a published writer, a model and cover girl, and even held a pilot's license—all this at a time when women were suppos ...ecovered, they married. They had two daughters, [[Lou Ann Jacobs|Lou Ann]] and Dolly Jean.
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• Ben Williams
  ...ircus in 1951 when she was five years old. By then, Anna May was thirteen, and Ben, six. ...niversity of South Florida, but he chose to go back to the circus instead, and to continue working with elephants.
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• Moscow Circus
  ...rcus troupes that traveled abroad, in shows produced by the Soviet central circus organization, [[SoyuzGosTsirk]]. ...ow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in 1927, the world's first circus university.
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• Dania Kaseeva
  ...ancing act with Ruben Manasarian has become the stuff of legend in Russian circus lore. ...val Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris and won a Gold Medal, the first and only time this highest honor has been awarded to a hula-hoop act.
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• Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain
  ...nization that had, until then, produced annually an important fund-raising circus gala in Paris. ...to Cirque [[Napoléon Rancy]], [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Cirque Medrano]], and [[Cirque Jean Richard]]).
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• Liana Orfei
  ==Circus Director, Circus Performer, Singer, Actress== ...-seven films, including Fellini's ''I Clowns'' (1972) and dozens of peplum and adventure movies. She also acted onstage under the direction of legendary p
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• Paulina Schumann
  ==Acrobat and Equestrienne== ...circus, ''Circo Reina Victoria''; Paulina was, therefore, thrown into the circus world from the very moment she first opened her eyes.
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• Moira Orfei
  ==Circus Owner, Animal Trainer, Actress== ...he golden age of Italian cinema. But it was also due to the quality of her circus.
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• Svetlana Gololobova
  ...ool closest to her hometown. Although she received general training in all circus disciplines, Svetlana demonstrated exceptional talent for hand-balancing. ...nd balancing acts in the history of the Soviet circus—indeed, of the circus anywhere.)
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• Glossary
  ;adagio:Acrobatic act, generally involving a man and a woman, presented in a slow or romantic mood. ...n:(Russian) A circus act that can occupy up to the entire second half of a circus performance.
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• Marie-Pierre Bénac
  ...spanned twelve years and two continents, she proved herself a very gifted and extremely versatile performer. ...xis Gruss]]. Founded in 1974, the Conservatoire was the first professional circus school in Western Europe.
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• David Dimitri
  ==Wire Dancer, Acrobat, Circus Director and Producer== ...ather, who was starring in the show. David worked again with his father at Circus Knie in 1973.
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• Melinda Merlier
  ...ol, where she received her formal schooling as well as her training in all circus disciplines. ...agio. In April 1988—two months before their graduation—Olivier and Melinda were married in Budapest. A few months later, they made their profe
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• The Togni Family
  ==Circus Owners, Equestrians, Animal Trainers, Acrobats, Aerialists== ...g cupola (in the 1970s), the quarterpole-free big top (also in the 1970s), and the round-cupola, quarterpole-free "Florilegio" big top (in the 1990s).
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• Darix Togni
  ==Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...and Doly, and then appeared in a Russian dance act with his cousins Wally and Angly. At age fourteen, he was included in the family’s perch-pole act.
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• Diana and Yury
  ...accepted into the State Circus College of Kiev, the second most important circus school in Soviet Russia (after the one in Moscow). He graduated in 1994 as ...ate Circus College of Kiev, where she graduated in 1994 as a hand-balancer and an acrobat on unicycle. While studying in Kiev, she met Yury.
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• Les Casaly
  ...oned a promising career—in his case as an engineer—to join the circus. ...ompany of Alexis Gruss’s [[Cirque à l’ancienne]] in Paris. An acrobat and aerialist, she performed a trampoline act that mixed these two disciplines.
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• Charlie Rivel
  ...e was used for dolls and other souvenir items; and he received every honor and accolade open to a performer. ...nal clown character that stands as one of the twentieth century's greatest circus icons.
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• Cirkus Benneweis
  ...nds of the same family: It celebrated its first one-hundred years in 1987, and was still going strong after more than 130 years of uninterrupted activity& ...ntury—following the example of many North-German traveling merchants and performers who crossed the border at that time.
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• Aurelia Cats
  ...re Rampe]] in Monte Carlo, the youth circus version of the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]]. ...he Caroli Troupe]|Domenico Caroli]]. It was [[The Palacys|Pauline Palacy]] and Sacha Dubrovsky, however, who made her an aerialist.
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• Anatoly Durov
  ...of talented clowns, animal trainers, and entertainment entrepreneurs—and a few actors too. In Soviet circus lore, Anatoly and Vladimir Durov are often associated with the Bolshevik revolution. As clown
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• Vladimir Durov
  ...ed as a clown-satirist whose anarchistic stance against an autocratic Tsar and his government had helped bring about the Soviet revolution. ...of talented clowns, animal trainers, and entertainment entrepreneurs—and a few actors too.
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• Yelena Larkina
  ...Moscow’s [[State College of Circus and Variety Arts]] (a.k.a. the Moscow Circus School) in 1987, where the famous Russian act director [[Valentin Gneushev] ...pless under a light veil that her dancing movements made teasingly move to and fro.
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• The Dancing Gauchos
  ...ars later, he was discovered by the National Folkloric Ballet of Argentina and was invited to join the company. He eventually became the Ballet's principa ...e equestrians, including Martha’s father, [[The Suarez Troupe|Enrique]], and her brother, [[Enrique Suarez, Jr.|Enrique, Jr]]. Martha’s maternal grand
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• Egorov Troupe
  ...ivalents of Youth Circuses—albeit at a much higher level of training and skills.) ...he performed for twelve years, both in Russia and abroad with the [[Moscow Circus]].
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• Pedro and Tatiana Carrillo
  ...|Pedro Carrillo]]. When he was eighteen, Pedro, Jr. began his professional circus career as a catcher for the [[Flying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined ...a trapeze act, taking advantage of both Pedro’s experience as a catcher and Tatiana’s experience as an aerialist.
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• The Carrillos
  ...s|Pedro Carillo]]. When he was eighteen, Pedro, Jr. began his professional circus career as a catcher for the [[Flying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined ...a trapeze act, taking advantage of both Pedro’s experience as a catcher and Tatiana’s experience as an aerialist.
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• Picaso Jr.
  ...t he was too shy to be a performer. Therefore, he chose to attend college, and earned a degree in economics. He later spent some time in the military&mdas ...ing that he couldn't escape his circus heritage, he returned to the circus and made his debut at the Benidorm Palace Dinner-Show in Spain on May 5, 1996,
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• Guiming Meng
  ...Chinese troupes, he later participated in a variety of ensemble acrobatic acts in the shows staged by the the Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe. ...[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, where they performed several acts from their vast repertoire. Guiming Meng was among the performers who made
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• Jeff Gordon
  ...owns, [[Carlo Pellegrini]] (Carlo), [[Michael Christensen]] (Mr. Stubbs), and [[Barry Lubin]] (Grandma). ...d be, for the following five years, the iconic clown trio of the Big Apple Circus.
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• Ricardo Sosa
  ...al circus performer. He graduated in 1986 with a remarkable hand-balancing and contortion act. ...ed to perform, appearing at the Tropicana in Havana and touring with Cuban circus companies in South America.
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• Olivier and Melinda
  ...wer plant construction sites, and, in his spare time, practiced kickboxing and karate. ...ic circus disciplines. At the same time, he began to study Hungarian—and to pay increasing amounts of attention to a certain fellow student, [[Melin
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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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• Cesare Togni
  ==Circus Owner and Performer== ...rcus director who made his mark on the history of the Italian and European circus.
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• David and Dania
  ==DAVID MAAS AND DANIA KASEEVA — Quick-Change Act== ...ssional debut at age fifteen. Her amazing technique, dynamic choreography, and magnetic stage presence won her a Gold Medal at the 1988 [[Festival Mondial
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• Sophie and Virgile
  ...om one to five days a week. Eventually she decided to pursue a career as a circus artist. ...e in 1986, at age fifteen. He came from the circus: His father ran a small circus company.
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• Val De Fun
  ...the legendary [[Valery Serebryakov]], who for many years delighted Soviet and international audiences with his partner, [[Stanislav Shchukin]]. ...while Valery found an engagement at [[Circus Vargas]] in the United States and settled for a while in Los Angeles.
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• Kovgar Troupe
  ...s champion who, like many of his Russian counterparts, transitioned to the circus when his competition days were over. He learned his trade with the famous R ...'Freilix'' (Free). It immediately won a Golden Lion at the [[International Circus Festival of Wuqiao]], China, in 2001.
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• Alesya Goulevich
  ..., Alesya Goulevich (or Gulevich) is Belarusian. She comes from a family of circus performers: Her father is a famous clown, Fedor Goulevich (of the duo [[Gou ...icient unicyclist, worked as a clown, and eventually created her energetic and unusually elegant hula-hoop act.
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• Elena Panova
  ...sensation that triggered the creation of a string of new swinging trapeze acts in a similar style, notably in Canada. ...er parents had nothing to do with the circus: they came from peasant stock and both worked in a local factory.
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• The Knie Dynasty
  ==Knie: The Swiss National Circus== ...n years old, the young Friedrich left his studies without a second thought and went on to roam the country with a small company of traveling performers.
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• Enis Togni
  [[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Togni, Enis]][[Artists and Acts|Togni, Enis]][[Category:Equestrians|Togni, Enis]][[Category:Animal Trainers
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• Oleg Izossimov
  ...asse in a circus performance, and he was so impressed that he decided then and there that this was what he would do. He would never forget Kasse's act. ...he celebrated "Moscow Circus School". He was refused three years in a row, and was finally accepted in 1986—in the nick of time, since 21 was the ag
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• Roby Gasser
  ==Sea Lion Trainer, Circus Director== ...rteen, Roby was in charge of the technical aspects of the show—sound and lighting.
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• The Qian Brothers
  Qian Jian Ping and his brothers, Qian Jian Hua and Qian Jian Wen, came from an old family of Chinese entertainers. They practi ...du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris, where their juggling trio won a Gold Medal and the Prize of the President of the Republc—the Festival's top award. B
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• Tangier Troupe
  ...roupes may disappear and reappear with different leaders. There have been, and will be, many troupes working under that name. ...holding the largest possible number of his partners on and around himself, and a display of tumbling by each member of the troupe, whose quality depends o
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• Duo Mouvance
  ...l’s Collège Ahunstic. But the previous year, her interest in gymnastics and physical activities had led her to join Le Nœud d’Ersault, a trapeze sch ...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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• Alberto Zoppé
  == Equestrian, Circus Owner == ...ei]] families, for example. Yet their companies often contained true gems, and Alberto Zoppé was to be one of these.
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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
  ...tury, and the creator of some of the most innovative and celebrated circus acts of the 1990s. ...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. ...re with new trends such as the Russian lyrical interpretation of clowning, and the street-rooted audience participation that appeared in Europe in the ear
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• Festival International du Cirque de Massy
  ...[[Achille Zavatta]] to celebrate his seventy-five birthday under Zavatta's circus big top in Massy—a small town in the southern outer boroughs of Paris ...ation was to celebrate traditional circus, and notably to highlight animal acts.
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• Vladimir Tsarkov
  ...scow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]]—the famous "Moscow Circus School"—where he was accepted in 1978, at age fifteen. ...nicycle. Meanwhile, he was experimenting with new bouncing juggling rings, and decided to put together a solo-juggling act for himself. He developed his c
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• The Rios Brothers
  ...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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• Svetlana Shamsheeva
  ...ing a youth program at the local zoo, working closely with Himalayan bears and other animals. ...ana for his company, with which she worked from 1979 to 1985 with her bear and dove act.
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• Harold Alzana
  ...he Wallendas]], that had preceded him—inspired many of the high wire acts that are seen today. ...training his children (Harold, his brother Edgar, and their sisters Hilda and Elsie) in his backyard, where he had installed a tight wire two feet off th
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• Gunther Gebel-Williams
  ...alented and charismatic performer, he was also, for circus enthusiasts and circus professionals around the world, one of the greatest animal trainers of the ...local bars. Needless to say, Gunther's early childhood was far from happy, and the advent of World War II would further tear apart his already dysfunction
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• Circus Oz
  ...stralian performance and brought to the company attitudes that were forged and developed during that time. === From "New Circus" To "Circus Oz" ===
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• Elena Borodina
  ...had ambitions of a very different order: She wanted to be a ballet dancer and, at a very young age, she began to take ballet lessons. === From Ballet Dreams To Circus Challenges ===
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• Charly Baumann
  ...928, in a family connected to show business and animals, albeit not to the circus: Heinz’s father was a movie stuntman who worked with horses for UFA in Be ...ther was interned in Ravensbrück, and Heinz was sent to a Nazi orphanage, and then to work on a farm.
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• Elena Serafimovich
  ...arted training at age six. She participated in many national competitions, and eventually obtained a Master degree in Rhythmic-Gymnastics. ...ymnasts there did: she enrolled in Kiev’s State Institute of Variety and Circus Arts in Ukraine (still part of the Soviet Union at the time). The year was
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