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  • Main Page
    ...a distinctively innovative circus creator. Charismatic and multi-talented, he was also recognized as one of the greatest horse trainers of his time, both ...ity of Montbéliard, in the east of France, not far from the Swiss border. He was fourth generation of a circus family of Alsatian and Italian mixed orig
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  • Cirkus Kludsky
    ...amily, and had been created before WWI by Karel Kludský (Carl Kludsky, as he became known in the West-European circus business). From humble beginnings, ...Kludský, from Bavorov, in the Strakonice District, tagged on; since 1846, he had traveled with his ropewalking troupe and a carousel. These three Josef
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  • Billy Smart
    ...t Americans call a "carnival"). Success didn't come immediately: at times, he had to moonlight to make ends meet, and on one occasion, his fellow funfair ...t to keep the home front's morale high; he also continued the charity work he had started when his had become a household name.
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  • Kris Kremo
    ...with at the time. In this way he learned various circus disciplines, which he then performed with other circus kids in amateur shows. His father soon beg ...th Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in England. His success was immediate, and he embarked upon a brilliant international career with an act reminiscent of h
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  • Béla Kremo
    ...r in Aalborg, Sweden, under the name Trenton, as the Kremos' "second act;" he began using his own name in 1934. ...ood dose of comedy. His first wife, Welda, died in a car accident in 1939. He married a second time with Marianne Kalbitz; their son [[Kris Kremo|Kris]]
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  • Anthony Gatto
    ...but spent his early childhood in Ellicott City, Maryland. It is there that he picked up his first ball and embarked upon a remarkable journey that would ...irst international juggling competition and walked away with a gold medal. He then made an appearance on the television show ''That's Incredible'', where
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  • Fumagalli
    ...agalli appeared in Federico Fellini's movie, ''I Clowns'' (1970), and then he retired from performing. Gianni's mother, Daisy Huesca (b. 1920), on the ot ...me year, he toured in Germany with the short-lived Circus Fumagalli, which he ran with his brother for one season. After that, Daris Huesca and Fumagalli
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  • Clown College
    ...h Feld]] became the producer of ''The Greatest Show On Earth'', with which he had been associated since 1970, and continued to operate Clown College thro
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  • Francesco
    ...chools, which [[Annie Fratellini]] had just opened in Paris in 1975. There he trained in acrobatics, ballet, wire walking, bareback riding and juggling, ...ral stage and television shows in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia. He was invited twice to participate in the [[International Circus Festival of
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  • Barry Lubin
    ...children were growing up laughing with Lubin's beloved character. However, he would returned to the Big Apple Circus for an ultimate bow for its Lincoln ...itution, Barry decided to go along and audition with him. To his surprise, he was among the 48 applicants that were accepted that year (along with Bill I
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  • The Svensons
    Carlos Svenson was born in Gålve, Sweden. He learned horseback riding and acrobatics from his parents, Karl and Anna Gre ...nd returned to live in Sweden. Carlos remained in the United States, where he still performs his comedy haute-école act, and presents occasionally vario
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  • John Bill Ricketts
    ...eading to unknown territories when, at the end of his American adventures, he sailed to the West Indies. ...season ended in July, at which time Ricketts, his company, and the horses he had recently acquired in Pennsylvania traveled to New York City, to a new c
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  • Jean Richard
    ...Richard, who had a gift for drawing, began trying his hand at caricature: he would soon sell his cartoons to local newspapers. ...nd in comedies that were sometimes a little cheap. During his long career, he appeared in about eighty films.
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  • New York Circuses
    ...ew and commodious amphitheater" on Broadway, north of his former location. He and his company perform there until April 21, 1795. - Ricketts announces his return in December 1798, but he never makes it. The amphitheater, however, stands until at least 1800.
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  • Giacomino
    He was born in Milan, Italy, in March 1884, to a poor family. His father was p ...young Giacomo, who trained in the ring with the acrobats. Like Guillaume, he suggested that the young boy join Circo Pulaiot.
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  • Valdis Yanovskis
    ...the tutelage of [[Tamara Babayan]], he specialized as a juggler. In 1987, he graduated with a group-juggling act, ''Carnaval'', which included [[Elena D ...with Vasily Gratchov, Arkady Burdnestsky, and Natasha Sarygina, with whom he re-created his group juggling act, now titled ''Original Jugglers''. They p
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  • Virgile Peyramaure
    ...Cirque]], the French state circus college in Châlons-en-Champagne. There, he developed a hand-to-hand balancing act with another student at the Centre, ...to the position of Artistic Coordinator of the Circus in 2009, a position he held until the closing of the original Big Apple Circus in 2016.
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  • Andrey Mantchev
    ...joined the award-winning troupe and discovered the circus world—and he never looked back. ...offered Andrey to remain with them as a member of their resident company. He performed there from 2001 to 2013 in a wide variety of acrobatic acts, nota
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  • Big Apple Circus
    ...er a brief stint at Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts, he went to work on television as stage manager for Julia Child’s cooking sho ...d to act out the feelings stirred by his uneasy life, so, quite naturally, he enrolled in the Professional Actor Training program at the University of Wa
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  • Billy Smart Jr
    ...Smart's New World Circus]]. The following year, billed as "Cowboy Billy," he presented a pony, called Rajah, thus beginning a long career as an animal t ...of elephants, eventually working with up to twenty performing pachyderms. He was also featured with his elephants in other winter shows: Tom Arnold's [[
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  • Philip Astley
    ...ses, traits he passed on to his son. Philip Astley was nine years old when he became apprentice to his father. ...e—an area that would become very familiar to young Philip, and where he will later return. For at age 17, Philip left home after one of many disput
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  • Paul Binder
    ...band for a time. Raised in Brooklyn, Paul went to Dartmouth College, where he performed as an actor with the Dartmouth Players and the Hopkins Center Rep ...host Merv Griffin. Paul would eventually go to Columbia University, where he earned an MBA. But by then it was the late sixties, and like many young peo
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  • Duo Adamo
    ...s and Variety Arts]], and Chimgee Haltarhu, of the Mongolian State Circus. He developed skills in aerial straps, Chinese pole, and juggling.
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  • International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo
    ...e Rainier III of Monaco (1923-2005) to promote circus arts—for which he had a lifelong passion. The first Festival was held from December 26 to 30, In the foreword he wrote for the program, Prince Rainier said, "This International Circus Fest
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  • Pancracio
    ...re he saw his first circus. This dream was ingrained in him as a child; as he would say later, reflecting on his long and successful career, "''El payaso He was born Fernando Alvarez on July 29, 1955 in Jerez de la Frontera in the P
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  • Carrillo Brothers
    ...is circus career as a roustabout in traveling circuses. In his spare time, he practiced wire-walking and soon become proficient enough to perform on the ...career with various partners, the last being his son Pedro, Jr., with whom he worked until 1994. The following year, Pedro Carrillo, Jr. struck out on hi
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  • Michael Christensen
    ...Professional Actor Training Program. Upon graduation, in the late sixties, he joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a political street-theater company th ...sed clubs with Paul Binder as part of the Mime Troupe, so he asked Paul if he would come in Pisoni's place. Paul accepted.
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  • Dynamotion Jugglers
    ...Following the example of [[Kris Kremo]], he started a solo career in 1980. He toured the world with the Harlem Globetrotters and was featured in numerous ...n a circus ring, at the [[Big Apple Circus]]. He performed a juggling duet he had created with Jim Strinka, called Dynamotion.
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  • Flying Gaonas
    ...d already had a taste of the trapeze: in the summer of 1954, at age seven, he was announced as "the world's youngest flyer," with the Flying Valentines a ...Tito's goal. He caught it for the first time in 1964. The following year, he added a return to the trapeze bar with a double pirouette, in the manner of
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  • Johnny Peers
    ...He became a member of ''The Greatest Show On Earth'''s Clown Alley, where he worked alongside one of its star clowns, [[Lou Jacobs]], who became his men ...rmed with dogs, prompting Johnny to develop a comedy dog act. In 1972, he he adopted his first dog, ''Freckles'' from the Human Society. ''Freckles'' wa
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  • Lou Jacobs
    ...n recent circus history, Lou Jacobs's career spanned 62 years, 60 of which he spent with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]. Jacobs (1902-1992) was b ...Jacobs had already made his debut in show business: in 1910, at age seven, he appeared on stage as the rear end of an alligator, a costume whose front en
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  • Dolly Jacobs
    ...for decades associated with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], where he performed from 1925 to 1985. Her mother was born Jean Rockwell. An adventur ...et. Lou Jacobs visited the beautiful aerialist in the hospital as often as he could. When Jean recovered, they married. They had two daughters, [[Lou Ann
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  • Ben Williams
    ...ent, he was offered a scholarship for the University of South Florida, but he chose to go back to the circus instead, and to continue working with elepha ...e first time on television with Anna May, on the ''Ed Sullivan Show'' when he was eleven years old. Eventually, Buckles and Barbara Woodcock helped Ben d
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  • Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain
    Louis Merlin never saw the project come to fruition: he died unexpectedly at the end of 1976. The festival was held for the first t
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  • Paulina Schumann
    ...hem a successful clown trio, The Andreu-Rivels, decided to go his own way. He launched a separate career, with the help of his wife and sons, and several
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  • Marie-Pierre Bénac
    ...was sufficiently impressed with Marie-Pierre's gymnastics background that he brought her into the resident company of his [[Cirque à l'ancienne]]. A re
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  • David Dimitri
    ...the legendary Swiss clown [[Dimitri]] (1935-2016). He was only seven when he made his debut in the ring of [[Circus Knie]], along with his siblings, all ...t, Hungary. He graduated in 1981 with a tight-wire act, a version of which he had presented at the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris the
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  • The Togni Family
    ...tory of the Italian circus: He was celebrated in newspapers and magazines, he mingled with movie stars, appeared with his big cats in several "peplum" mo ...the 1980s, as an Italian pioneer in the sport and concert arena business. He has been succeeded in that business by his son Divier (b.1949). Wioris's ot
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  • Darix Togni
    ...in a Russian dance act with his cousins Wally and Angly. At age fourteen, he was included in the family’s perch-pole act. By the late 1930s, he contributed with his brother and cousins to the three popular "house acts"
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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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  • Kovgar Troupe
    ...|Viacheslav Chernevsky]]. It was as a member of the Chernevsky Troupe that he became the first acrobat ever to achieve, while standing on a single stilt, ...e to participate in the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris, he noted the Jewish musical atmosphere of the act and suggested they incorpora
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  • Elena Panova
    ...to take on the technical aspects of the act. To Fomin, who complained that he had never worked on an aerial act before, Durova is famously remembered to ...Fomin—now Victor Fomine—eventually settled in Montreal, where he taught at the Ecole Nationale de Cirque and opened his own very successful
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  • The Knie Dynasty
    ...ove with Wilma, a beautiful equestrienne, in 1803 at Innsbruck, little did he know that this adventure would be at the origin of one of the world's most ...sed to marry his daughter to a traveling entertainer, and as a precaution, he sent her to a convent. As family lore has it, Friedrich abducted the object
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  • Oleg Izossimov
    ...o impressed that he decided then and there that this was what he would do. He would never forget Kasse's act. ...ircus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow, the celebrated "Moscow Circus School". He was refused three years in a row, and was finally accepted in 1986—in
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  • Roby Gasser
    Roby’s act was soon recognized as an extraordinary novelty, and he and his animal partners began to work in the most prestigious nightclubs an In July 1982, while he was appearing at the Lido of Paris, Roby was invited to perform at Versaill
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  • Cirkusbygningen (Copenhagen)
    ...ngen, for which he had signed a three-year lease with its owners. Even so, he sub-rented the building in 1887 to his German colleague, [[The Schumann Dyn
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  • The Qian Brothers
    ...of the Chinese Acrobats Association. (Jiangsu is the province of Nanjing.) He was also invited to teach juggling in Australia.
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  • Duo Mouvance
    ...ntreal, and Luc went on to give it a try at Le Nœud d’Ersault. Smitten, he joined Montreal’s Ecole Nationale de Cirque in 1986. ...San Francisco’s Bay Area, and has created Pangym, in West Oakland, where he teaches the Pandora Training Technique—a comprehensive training metho
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  • Alberto Zoppé
    ..., the first actually to complete a layout somersault from horse to horse. (He also, with a longe, managed to turn a double somersault from horse to horse ...that if he were willing to ship the elephant to Italy at his own expense, he could keep it. Thus Circo Zoppé got its first elephant, which remained in
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  • Circus Nikulin
    ...in Russia. In 1879, he built a circus in Odessa, but a shrewd businessman, he knew that the place to make real money was Moscow—the Empire’s weal ...Europe. His horsemanship was greatly admired in the equestrian world, and he trained a host of good equestrians, among whom Eugen Marder-Salamonsky (pup
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  • Cirque d'Hiver
    ...hamps-Elysées]] in the fashionable ''Jardins des Champs-Elysées'', which he kept open from May through October. Up to 1846, his main establishment had ...le, and many other "classic revival" pieces of work—a style of which he was one of the most influential proponents.
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  • Valentin Gneushev
    ...g Soviet circus world, then creating and designing original acts for them, he eventually influenced the style of many young circus artists and companies, ...rcus and Variety Arts]] (the “legendary Moscow Circus School”). There, he specialized as a clown.
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  • David Larible
    ...seen in many European circus rings, on television, and on theater stages; he had an amazing career in the United States and Mexico, and has made frequen ...his writing (2009), developed about twenty different pieces, some of which he has gathered into a one-man show for the theater stage.
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  • Vladimir Tsarkov
    ...cus and Variety Arts]]—the famous "Moscow Circus School"—where he was accepted in 1978, at age fifteen. ...ggling rings, and decided to put together a solo-juggling act for himself. He developed his concept in 1984 together with [[Valentin Gneushev]], then a p
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  • The Rios Brothers
    ...Lahoussine, headed a well-known troupe of Moroccan tumblers, [[The Rios]]. He provided his sons with a thorough circus education that included tumbling,
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  • Harold Alzana
    ...s brother Edgar, and their sisters Hilda and Elsie) in his backyard, where he had installed a tight wire two feet off the ground. ...ed in his father’s footsteps and began working as a coal miner. In 1941, he married his sweetheart, Minnie. World War II was raging, but Harold and his
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  • Gunther Gebel-Williams
    ...] and [[Lilian Leitzel]]. An extremely talented and charismatic performer, he was also, for circus enthusiasts and circus professionals around the world, ...hildren (Gunther had an elder sister, Rita, born in 1928) or his wife when he returned home after a round of the local bars. Needless to say, Gunther's e
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  • Elena Borodina
    ...ho was experimenting with the circus troupe of the ''Pravda'' plant, which he was heading (and which was in the immediate vicinity of the circus school). ...nic American dancer, Isadora Duncan. Gneushev was not a hands-on director: He has a mostly suggestive approach, leading Elena in her own discovery of her
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  • Charly Baumann
    ...rcus star both in Europe and in America—where he eventually settled. He was born Heinz Erich Baumann in Berlin, Germany, on September 14, 1928, in ...youths called to military service, and he was drafted by the German Navy; he was subsequently captured by the American forces invading Germany, and inte
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  • Kuznetsov Troupe
    ...much higher level) when he was nine years old. As a logic result, in 1976, he applied for, and was accepted in, the [[State College for Circus and Variet ...Kuznetsov left the Zemskov Troupe for Moscow’s [[Bolshoi Circus]], where he started working on a Russian Barre act of his own.
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  • César Aedo
    ...mime throughout Central and South America to pay his way to Europe, where he intended to study Political Science. ...ter a few weeks there, he had made his mind: Instead of Political Science, he would study mime in Paris—with ''the'' Master, Marcel Marceau, who ha
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  • Tom Dougherty
    ...he was working on the set, an actor got sick and the director asked Tom if he wanted to replace the missing actor: “We had a rehearsal and they offered ...ow what Clown College was, but it seemed a perfect fit for his project and he decided to apply.
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  • Simon Chaban
    ...tutelage of a Chinese instructor, Lu Yi, and a Russian one, Serguei Zenov. He also trained in Taiko drumming, martial arts, ballet, stage combat, magic, ...obatic staff manipulation act, which he developed by himself in 2006-2007. He has since appeared in many variety and nightclub shows in Europe and the Un
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  • The Codonas
    ...y Codona married a French woman, Victorine Régnier (1841-1924), with whom he had two children, Enrique and Eduardo, who was born in Mexico on September ...a (1859-1934) became a Mexican circus performer and entrepreneur. In 1883, he married the fourteen-year-old Hortense (Hortensia) Buislay (1869-1931), a t
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  • The Chinese Acrobatic Theater
    ...traditional form: In it, the magician wears a large robe from under which he or she produces a vast quantity of water bowls of all sizes with live fishe ...g the meteor again—whether with his hands or on his feet, with which he or she kicks the meteor up again. Whatever the movements, the meteor never
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  • Walter Milde
    ...debut as a property man at [[Circus Roland]], in Germany, in 1950. There, he developed a passion for big cats, which led him to go and train at [[Erie K ...and polar bears at Circus [[Adolf Fisher]] in Germany. From 1962 to 1965, he worked in Italy at [[The Togni Family|Circo Darix Togni]].
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  • Alfred Court
    ...of the twentieth century. Beginning his career as an outstanding acrobat, he became a successful, yet adventurous, circus entrepreneur, first in Mexico He was born into a wealthy family in Marseille, France, on January 1, 1883. Hi
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  • Nikolai Chelnokov
    ...scow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow in 1982, where he trained in all major circus disciplines, and specialized as an aerialist un ...leil]] for its production of ''Saltimbanco'' in 1992. At Cirque du Soleil, he also developed a hand-to-hand and contortion act with his son [[Anton Cheln
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  • Pieric
    ...rmed on horseback. Pieric, however, has chosen this arduous specialty, and he has performed it with great success for more than three decades, in additio ...uld be expected, he had also a keen interest in horses. In his late teens, he had worked both as a sailing instructor and an accompanist for equestrian t
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  • Armand Gruss
    ..., at age ten, presenting his father's elephant, Toffy. The following year, he performed a hand-balancing act with his cousin, [[Eddy Ringenbach]]. By the ...his family's circus), each time with a different act. Among other awards, he won a Silver Medal in 1984, for his first participation with his elephant a
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  • Daniel Suskov
    ...e of the brothers [[Cirque Amar|Amar]] after WWII, in the circuses of whom he presented for many years all sorts of wild and domestic animals. ...o work in [[Jean Richard]]’s zoo in Ermenonville, near Paris—where he eventually made his debut in front of an audience as a cat trainer at age t
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  • Laci Endresz Jr
    ...[[Charlie Cairoli]] (1910-1980) at the [[Tower Circus]] in Blackpool, and he has become a household name in the famous Lancashire seaside resort on Engl ...ch he toured all over Western Europe, before settling in England. In 1992, he took over the management of the Tower Circus, left vacant by [[Peter Jay]]
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  • Fritz Schulz
    ...reer that spanned six decades on three continents; upon his death in 2010, he was the last surviving member of a group of exceptional cat trainers who ha ...er for the firm of [[Carl Hagenbeck]], Fritz apprenticed as a butcher. But he shared with his uncle a passion for wild animals—and not particularly
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  • Ursula Böttcher
    ...al trainer [[Jean Michon]], before taking over a group of brown bears that he went on to present at [[Circus Barley]] in 1955. ...re added later, and when ''Charly'', the veteran brown bear, died in 1967, he was replaced by another polar bear, bringing homogeneity the group that now
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  • The Indian Circus
    ...bai). Chatre was in charge of the stables of the Rajah of Kurduwadi, where he occasionally performed "feats of horsemanship"—in the tradition of ol ...estrian, and his wife would become a trapeze artist and an animal trainer. He probably used some of his pupils in the equestrian department as well. The
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  • Giuseppe Chiarini
    ...on in the Franconi venture, Giuseppe Chiarini stayed in the United States. He appeared in New York at the [[New York Circuses|Bowery Amphitheater]] in Se He was back in New York at the Bowery Amphitheater in March 1854. At this poin
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  • Hernán
    ...performed a bird act. Hernán's father trained him in hand-balancing, and he made his debut at age seven, in a performance given for inmates in a jail, ...France and Germany, and at Busch Gardens in Florida in the United States. He also won a Bronze Medal at the International Circus Festival of Mexico City
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  • Angel Cristo
    ...me as an artist and a circus director was eventually tainted by notoriety. He was born Angel Cristo Dordi in Huelva, Spain, on October 17, 1944, to an ol ...al training, with a preference for big cats. His break nearly came up when he was seventeen: The lion trainer who worked with the show had left unexpecte
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  • Reggie Armor
    ...m the fly-bar to the catcher. He later created an aerial thrill act, which he performed until his retirement in 1978, due to an accident during a show. ...a living as an acrobat. He first joined the [[Dewayne Troupe]], with which he worked in both a teeterboard act and a risley act, and then participated in
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  • Les Castors
    ...red from performing. Charly lives in Seattle, in the United States, (where he had a French cooking show on local television, and heads Seattle's famous '
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  • Johnny Hutch
    ...are Company in 1997. Most of it was spent in music halls and circuses, but he also became universally famous, in 1988-89 (and for years thereafter on rer ...r his son to get a job. Johnny was rather short for his age (in adulthood, he was five feet tall), and the jobs available around were not for him. So, hi
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