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  • ...io created a "Cuban" auguste character that he played in blackface, in the American old minstrel tradition. ...f, Thedy and family, who spoke and were excellent musicians, was closer to American vaudeville or burlesque comedy acts.)
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  • ...herself, and for the 1949 Christmas season, she performed in Valencia with Circo [[Hermanos Diaz]]. There she was spotted by one of [[John Ringling North]]â On April 5, 1950, Pinito del Oro made her American debut at Madison Square Garden in an aerial spectacle heralded as "The Inde
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  • ===The American Traveling Circus=== ...ng-term resident circuses. Furthermore, settlers were steadily pushing the American frontier westward, establishing new communities in a process of inexorable
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  • ...ded to establish a version of their [[Circo Americano (Feijóo y Castilla)|Circo Americano]] in Germany. At the time, Germany and Spain (then still under G ...of the circus, too, became very close to that of Feijóo and Castilla’s Circo Americano in Spain, and the tour was punctuated by diplomatic visits of pol
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  • ...y theaters, from Saint Petersburg’s [[Circus Ciniselli]] to Madrid’s [[Circo Parish]]. In 1893 Hans Stosch married twenty-year-old Anna Albertina August ...Adolph Friedländer (1851-1904), Sarrasani developed beautifully designed American-style posters, establishing a new standard in the European advertising busi
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  • ...om another family of Italian traveling entertainers. Together they created Circo Anastasini in 1877. The choice of that name, however, remains unclear since ...that it disappeared towards the end of the 19th century. However, another Circo Anastasini was created in 1910 by Luigi Biasini, and remained active until
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  • ...animal trainer and circus owner, third-generation of one of the few truly American circus dynasties. He was born on January 15, 1931 in St. Peter, Minnesota t ...the Miller Brothers’ [[101 Ranch Wild West Show]], the last of the great American Wild West shows, which toured the United States from 1907 to 1939.
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  • ...t the [[Cirque d’Hiver]]. A few months later, they embarked on a tour of American Army bases in Germany and Sweden. It is in that latter country, in Eda, a s ...n, and its one-ring, indoor format suited Rose Gold much better than other American tenting shows, including ''The Greatest Show On Earth'' itself.
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  • ...with an army of clowns: They were always in great numbers in British (and American) circuses, and they were all fending each other for a small place in the sp ..., who was then one of the star-clowns of Madrid’s [[Circo Price (Madrid)|Circo Price]], offered Rafael a job as his apprentice/assistant in exchange of ro
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  • ...ia Rizzoli, a Bolognese tight-wire dancer, and together they created the ''Circo Tea Arata'', which remained active until 1943. Amedeo and Claudia had five ...d to their country, where they worked for a time with [[The Gerardi Family|Circo Gerardi]]. Meanwhile, Guido began to put together a low-wire act for his ch
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  • ...cus Carré]] in Amsterdam, among other prestigious venues. They made their American debut in 2015 at [[Circus Sarasota]], in Sarasota, Florida.
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  • ...Family|Chiarini]] family, the dog and monkey trainer [[Jules Bugny]], the American equestrienne Jenny Visser, and the clowns Vallier & William were part of th ...the end of World War I, its programs ended with a short projection of the "American Vitograph" (''sic'')—which morphed into the "Medranograph." Other ack
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  • ...nd Franz went to work in Cyprus and Turkey before touring with the Italian Circo Coliseo in Austria. In Vienna, he met the Brazilian ambassador, who invited ===From Circo Magico Tihany To Tihany Spectacular===
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  • ...se troupes were the Soviet (and today, Russian) equivalent of European and American Youth Circuses, albeit at a much higher level of skills and training. ...rds, including the Pista de Bronzo at the [[Gran Premio Internazionale del Circo]] in Milano, Italy, in 1997; the second prize at the All-Russian Festival o
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  • ...e twentieth century in Europe, triggered by the European tour of the giant American circus [[Barnum & Bailey Circus|Barnum & Bailey]], which introduced Europea ...man itinerant circus to adopt the "sensational" and "giant" aspects of its American counterparts would be [[Circus Sarrasani]], which had been created in 1902.
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  • ===From the Trio Nones to Circo Hellas=== ...w company: November 10, 1962 saw the debut in Viareggio of the brand-new ''Circo Hellas''; Walter involved his brothers, Moira’s (Paolo, Mauro and Dea), a
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  • ...ble, with appearances at the Friedrichsbau Varieté in Stuttgart, [[Teatro Circo Price]] in Madrid, and as a finalist on NBC's television show ''America’s
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  • ...ld Medal. In December 1994, they won a Gold Medal at the [[Gran Premio del Circo di Genova]] in Italy. The following year (1995), they were featured at the ...re-settled in Los Angeles, following the men in their lives. Being in the American movie and television epicenter brought them new opportunities. They partici
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  • Flavio Togni and the [[The Togni Family|Circo Americano]] (or "American Circus") group of 15 elephants at the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland (201
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  • ...is act. Then, in 1969, Boltini sent him with his lion act to the Spanish [[Circo Cristo]]. But he was soon called back to the Netherlands, after [[Barbara a ...a dance company that performed in fairs and circuses, and was appearing in Circo Cristo's show. Oftentimes, William had seen her by his lions' cage wagons,
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