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  • ...e and animal training by [[John Gindl]], who was at the time Billy Smart's Circus's head trainer. ...a BBC Holiday special that aired for several years after the Billy Smart's Circus had ceased touring.
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  • ...rcus troupe, where he learned a wide range of circus disciplines. (Amateur Circus troupes are the Russian equivalents of Youth Circuses—albeit at a muc ...he performed for twelve years, both in Russia and abroad with the [[Moscow Circus]].
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  • ==Knie: The Swiss National Circus== ...d be at the origin of one of the world's most prestigious and long-lasting circus dynasties. Born in Erfurt and nineteen years old, the young Friedrich left
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  • ...e world’s oldest extant circus building. It is also the world’s oldest circus still in activity: It opened its doors in 1852. Its address, at 110 rue Ame ...e (Paris)|Cirque Olympique]], located some five hundred yards from his new circus, on the portion of the Boulevard du Temple that disappeared in 1862, during
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  • ...alented and charismatic performer, he was also, for circus enthusiasts and circus professionals around the world, one of the greatest animal trainers of the [[File:Williamsbau_Koln.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Circus Williams in Cologne (1947)]]Max Gebel was drafted into the Wehrmacht and se
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  • ...928, in a family connected to show business and animals, albeit not to the circus: Heinz’s father was a movie stuntman who worked with horses for UFA in Be ...of the monumental [[Circus Busch]] in Berlin, and had reigned over a vast circus empire that included circuses in Altona, Hamburg, Breslau, and Vienna, and
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  • ...the USSR) on February 18, 1972 in a family that was not connected with the circus: Both her parents worked for import-export companies. As a child, the mixtu ...ymnasts there did: she enrolled in Kiev’s State Institute of Variety and Circus Arts in Ukraine (still part of the Soviet Union at the time). The year was
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  • ...oscow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]]—the famous Moscow Circus School. ...cus]]. In 1991, 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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  • ...Banola Troupe. Andrée adopted his name (as was the tradition then, in the circus, when a young performer had apprenticed to a famous master) when she starte ...ame for herself: Her handstand on her trapeze bar didn’t fail to impress circus professionals and aficionados, and her act continued to improve over the ye
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  • ...ters had revived a specialty that had not been seen for a long time in the circus—and their act was subsequently widely copied by other artistes. ...England at Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in 1952, and at the [[Kelvin Hall Circus]] in Glasgow, Scotlamd, for the 1952-53 winter season.
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  • ...ters had revived a specialty that had not been seen for a long time in the circus—and their act was subsequently widely copied by other artistes. ...England at Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in 1952, and at the [[Kelvin Hall Circus]] in Glasgow, Scotlamd, for the 1952-53 winter season.
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  • ==Circus Memorialists== ...perhaps the most remarkable visual documentation existing on the European circus of the first half of the twentieth century.
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  • ...70-80s, and was a featured act with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States, where she and her father, the clown [[Pio Nock]], per ...exandra Bühlmann. The [[The Nock Dynasty|Nocks]] are Switzerland's oldest circus family, whose heritage could be traced back to the 18th century; like the [
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  • ==Circus Owner== Circus Gleich had a relatively short existence (1928-1937), but it was, in the ear
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  • ==Carola Williams And Her Circus== ...he Althoff Dynasty|Althoffs]], she ran from 1945 to 1968 a very successful circus, which presented elegant shows with excellent artists and outstanding eques
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  • ...ckey act, at Circus [[The Althoff Dynasty|Adolf Althoff]], performing in [[Circus Carré]] in Amsterdam (1963)
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  • ...Enders on April 16, 1935 in Köln (Cologne), Germany, to an old family of circus equestrians. His parents were Hugo Enders (1899-1952), a jockey and horse t ...von der Gathen (1908-1999), who was Alma’s sister and was married to the circus director and animal trainer [[Adolf Althoff]] (1913-1998). Adi was trained
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  • ...Enders Brothers, clown entrée, in the Circus [[Adolf Althoff]] show at [[Circus Carré]] in Amsterdam (1963)
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  • ...and the sheer artistry of his presentations make him indeed an outstanding circus artist. ...o, many great Russian animal trainers made their apprenticeship in the Zoo-Circus organization.
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  • ...South Holland, in the Netherlands, to a family that was not related to the circus. As a young woman, Tini went on to work as a stenographer at the Dutch Defe ...the traditional winter season of [[Circus Strassburger]] in the legendary "circus-theater." The polar bears belonged to the Klant Zoo, created by [[Willy Hag
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  • ...They performed notably with [[Adolf Althoff]] and at the Blackpool [[Tower Circus]], and also worked in the United States, where they appeared on CBS Televis
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  • ...ntury, under a succession of owners of more or less legitimate lineage. In circus lore, Sarrasani is still a fabled name that evokes a history of epic propor ==HANS STOSCH’S CIRCUS SARRASANI==
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  • ==Acrobats, Circus Owners== ===Circus Lorch===
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  • ...ed to settle in Germany, where he toured for a while with his own ''Moscow Circus''. Yet, his return to Russia in 2015, for the first (and short-lived) [[Mas ...en visited with his mother the "Old Circus" on Tsvetnoy Boulevard (today [[Circus Nikulin]]), and he remembered (in hindsight, perhaps a little disingenuousl
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  • ...rque Medrano holds a singular place in the Parisian cultural fabric and in circus history. From its beginnings as Cirque Fernando, in 1873, until the end of ...into genuine circus stars; appearing in its ring was a recognition for any circus artist. Its last performance under Jérôme Medrano’s reign in January 19
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  • ...28 to Oreste and Tamara Raspini. The Raspinis were one of many old Italian circus families established in the Russian Empire prior to the Bolshevik Revolutio ...was already an accomplished juggler; he made his solo debut in 1942, at [[Circus Mikkenie-Strassburger]] in Holland, with his beautiful sister, Elvira, as h
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  • =="Größter Circus Europas"== ...t circus building in Munich, the Kronebau, has been home to regular winter circus productions since 1919.
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  • ...at the end of his act. His was a remarkable presentation which won him his circus title, "The Tiger King." In his book ''Les Dompteurs'' (1929), French circus historian (and amateur cat trainer) Henry Thétard described Henricksen’s
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  • ...erty act from the [[Williams-Althoff Circus]], at the 19th [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]]. The off-screen commentary is by [[Sergio]]. (199
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  • ...ed a group of camels and lamas. Wim was not particularly interested in the circus as such, but he was fascinated by its animals. The process of training them ...Wim began his performing career as one of the camel riders at the German [[Circus Roland]], where [[Jos Uyterlinde]]—another of Klant’s pupils—
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  • ...man animal trainer [[Gerd Siemoneit]], who was performing that season at [[Circus Knie]. ...s, Jürg was allowed to help Siemoneit with his cats at his [[Circus Barum|Circus Barum-Safari]]. In 1975, Siemoneit finally hired Jürg to become his assist
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  • ==Circus Director== ...eat names of the past by taking good advantage of the struggle of some old circus luminaries to stage a comeback.
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  • ==Gröẞter Rennbahn-Circus Europas== ...ee-ring circus and the refinement and intimacy of the traditional European circus.
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  • ...-hand balancing, in the German television show ''Telezirkus'', filmed at [[Circus Williams-Althoff]] (1984)
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