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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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