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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ==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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  • ...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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  • ''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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...s dynasties. Their name still resonates today in Russian lore and culture, and Moscow has even a street named after them. ...mdash;two of whom never officially married their common-law husbands—and therefore many Durovs were given, or adopted, the famous moniker even thoug
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  • ...existence (1928-1937), but it was, in the early 1930s, one of the largest and most popular traveling circuses in Europe. It was emblematic of an era when ...ng circuses, and then returned to Europe, purchased a cart and two horses, and started his own business.
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  • ...ws and festivals, winning awards in the process at the festivals of Moscow and Sochi. Meanwhile, Anna studied Social Culture Management at the University ...performed her rope act all over Russia, for Club Med in Bali and Morocco, and in the United States in the [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Dream Big'
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  • ...with a Washington trapeze act, and as an acrobat with her brothers, Viktor and [[Yury Aleksandrov]]. Dmitry's father, [[Valentin Chernov]], was himself a ...kulin]] in Moscow: At age thirteen, Dmitry was a full-fledged professional artist.
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  • ...the United States in theaters, casinos, theme parks, and corporate events, and in several [[Cirque du Soleil]] productions. ...inetic cube, juggling and roue Cyr. He is married to Olga Lukina, a former artist of the Russian "Circus on Ice", with whom he has a son, Ivan.
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  • ...made her a household name in the former USSR was directed by K. Kulieshov and choreographed by E. Grikurova; it premiered in 1944. ...and was a member of the Armenian circus collective of Erevan. She was made Artist Emeritus of the Armenian Socialist Republic in 1956.
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  • ==High Wire Artist== ...—among whom the most notable were undoubtedly [[The Triska Troupe]], and ''The Napoléon of The Skies'', Camillio Mayer.
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  • ==Carola Williams And Her Circus== ...of the twentieth century: [[Charly Baumann]], [[Gunther Gebel-Williams]], and [[Gerd Siemoneit]].
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  • ...sheer artistry of his presentations make him indeed an outstanding circus artist. ...for the Zoo-Circus (Зоо-Цирк), an ensemble of traveling menageries and trained-animal exhibitions created in 1957 by [[SoyuzGosTsirk]], the USSR c
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  • ...troupes, before creating his own high wire act; her mother, also a circus artist, presented trained pigeons. ...ace in her life, as it generally does with those who are born in the fold, and Eliza chose to leave the Academy.
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