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• Garamov Troupe
  ...and upright catcher, a presentation that later inspired the Korean flying acts. ...’s wife), Boris Degtiarev, Viktor Zorin, Igor Shielkov, Ruslan Yakovlev, and one of the first female triple-somersaulters, [[Margarita Egorova]], who al
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• Con Colleano
  ...d took them away to the bush to stand on his line-up boards to take on all and any challengers. ...he island of St Thomas in the West Indies (now one of the Virgin Islands), and Julia Robertson, née Saunders, aged thirty-three years, a half-caste Abori
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• May Wirth
  ..., May was adopted by Marizles ("Rill") Martin (1868-1948), an equestrienne and a sister of the [[The Wirth Family|Wirth brothers]], proprietors of one of ...os. Circus]] in balancing and tumbling acts, and as a tight wire performer and contortionist. From the Wirths, May also learned equestrian skills. At the
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• Leonid Engibarov
  ...ench theater, Vladimir Visotskiy for Russian pop music—among others. And Leonid Engibarov for the Russian circus. ...ds of a new Soviet youth, which danced the twist, listened to the Beatles, and tried to erase three decades of Stalinist tyranny.
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• Annie Fratellini
  ...one of France’s most celebrated clowns with her husband, Pierre Étaix (and, later, with her daughter, Valérie)—before creating a circus school ...-1979), son of Paul (Paolo) Fratellini (1877-1940) and nephew of François and Albert, of the illustrious [[Les Fratellini|trio Fratellini]]; her mother,
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• Charlie Cairoli
  ...at Blackpool’s [[Tower Circus]], of which he became the undisputed star and, without a doubt, the most popular attraction. ...r. As a matter of fact, Jean-Marie Cairoli became a clown against his will and by accident.
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• Tamerlan Nugzarov
  ...old Clown at the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1984, and the great respect in which he was held in the circus world at large are a t ===Family and Apprenticeship===
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• The Nikitin Brothers
  ...846-1921), who became the first true Russian circus entrepreneurs of note, and would remain so until the Bolshevik revolution. They were born to Aleksandr and Alina Ivanovna Nikitin, who were serfs attachd to one of the vast lands bel
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• The Rastellis
  ''By Raffaele de Ritis and Dominique Jando'' ...nts, performing in the most prestigious venues of the international circus and variety scene.
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• Angélina
  ...Art. The next natural step would have been to continue her art education, and she applied for the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Unfortunately, ...the Lido, which had shown over the years a remarkable talent for creating acts with a strong touch of humor.
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• Stephanie Gasparoli
  ...evident that Stephanie could have a good career as a professional artist, and in 1993, she joined the [[Ecole Nationale de Cirque]] in Montreal. ...nted her new act at the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris, and at the [[Circus Prinsessan Festival]] in Sweden, each time winning a Silver
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• Hugh Forgie
  ...rom 1941 through 1952. He was born in Brantford, Ontario (Canada) in 1912, and moved to New York in the early 1930s. By then, the sport of badminton, inve ...ingdom, whose highlight was a Royal Command Performance for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
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• The Flying Caceres
  ...t an easy life, and when he was about thirteen years old, Miguel "ran away and joined the circus," as they say. ...e confusing), and within a few months, they were hired by [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]. The Flying Segreras, with Miguel as their main flyer, pa
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• Arturo Castilla
  ==Circus Director and Impresario== ...ns and marketing, his foresight of the emerging sport arenas’ potential, and the pioneering of trans-national synergies between major European circuses.
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• The Casartelli Family
  ...they purchased from the [[The Swoboda Family|Swoboda]] family of Austria, and which had no connection (beside the use of its famous name) with the legend ...to three units touring simultaneously. They are also active in the safari and theme park business. In contrast to typical century-old Italian circus dyna
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• Ali Hassani
  ''By Dominique Jando and Donald Stacey'' ...ghly respected artist and impresario came to the circus quite by accident, and in very unusual circumstances.
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• Cirque Léonce
  ...amily, who left his sedentary life to follow a circus—the well-known and highly reputable [[Cirque Bureau]], one of France’s oldest traveling circ ...e circus and became a journalist, and then, probably missing show business and touring, he went on to work with the "Tournées Baret," a famous theatrical
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• Liubov Pisarenkova
  ...She graduated four years later, in 1965, as an "estrade" (variety) artist, and went on to work with the Moskovsky Music-Hall Troupe, a traveling variety c ...made her a star of the Soviet circus. She married the acrobat [[Borisenko and Burdetsky|Viacheslav Borisenko]].
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• Pinito del Oro
  ...as also courageous and resilient: she survived three near-fatal accidents, and each time resumed her precarious career on the trapeze. ...circus company to the Canary Islands, far from the mainland’s troubles, and in an area also totally devoid of competition. (The Spanish circus scene at
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• Viktor Tikhonov
  ...field. His son, [[Vitaly Tikhonov]], followed in his father’s footsteps and matched his accomplishments with great success. Viktor Tikhonov also mentor ...de his debut as a child performer with his father, beginning as an acrobat and developing in time his own sharpshooting skills.
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