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• Cirkus Kludsky
  ...dred wagons traveling by train were used to transport the circus equipment and house the personnel. ...the biggest traveling circuses in Europe, which was subsequently continued and improved by his sons.
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• Yasmine Smart
  ...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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• Billy Smart
  ==Circus Owner and Impresario== ...t to make ends meet, and on one occasion, his fellow funfair entrepreneur (and future leisure industry magnate), Billy Butlin, helped him out, which resul
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• Kris Kremo
  ...he learned various circus disciplines, which he then performed with other circus kids in amateur shows. His father soon began to train him as a juggler, dis ...cent of his father's, but significantly improved—notably with triple and quadruple pirouettes while juggling his cigar boxes.
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• Kremo Family
  ...cus and variety stars in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Kris Kremo, who also became a celebrated international star in America as w ...business), an Austrian family of talented acrobats who performed the best and most celebrated Risley act of the late 19th century.
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• Anthony Gatto
  ...ick Gatto]], a former acrobat who had a brilliant career on the vaudeville and nightclub circuits with his act, The 3 Gatos. ...rformed in front of all the major circus and variety directors and agents, and won the coveted Gold Medal.
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• Aniskin Troupe
  ...in 2003-2004. Oleg's wife, Yana, also a graduate of Moscow's State Circus and Variety College, appeared with [[The Firebirds]]. ...mir Skrinichenko, Valery Larin, Artur Ishkulov and Oleg Kasatkin (flyers), and Aleksey Voytenko (second catcher).
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• Fumagalli
  ...her famous Italian circus families, [[The Canastrelli Family|Canestrelli]] and Larible. Gianni's uncle, [[Francesco "Nené" Huesca]], was himself a renown ...reer. Gianni, however, had a knack for comedy and performed clown reprises and comic acrobatic routines from time to time with Daris.
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• Luisita Leers
  ...d with the [[Leers-Arvello Troupe]]; their act, which combined Roman Rings and acrobatic pyramids, was mostly an aerial display of strength. ...oss," which were then supposed to belong exclusively to a male repertoire, and she even held with one arm her hanging stepfather. Meanwhile, she was build
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• Bolshoi Circus
  == Moscow's "New Circus" == ...y Prospect (avenue), which separates it from the Moscow University campus, and Nikolai Kopernik (Copernic) Street; Lomonosov Avenue joins them on the sout
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• Francesco
  ...trained in acrobatics, ballet, wire walking, bareback riding and juggling, and graduated in 1978 as a clown. ...ernational Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo]], in 1990 (Tristan Rémy award) and 1996 (Junior Jury's award).
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• Barry Lubin
  ...ith Lubin's beloved character. However, he would returned to the Big Apple Circus for an ultimate bow for its Lincoln Center revival season in 2017. ...becoming a television director, but the social turmoil of the late sixties and early seventies led to a period of self-questioning—as indeed it did
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• The Svensons
  ...seback, which won her the Dame du Cirque award at the 1989 [[International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo]]. ...y and [[Cirkus Benneweis]] in Denmark, as well as on stage, in nightclubs, and on television.
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• John Bill Ricketts
  == THE FIRST CIRCUS IN AMERICA== ...oxes) surrounding a circular riding space filled in with a mixture of soil and sawdust, forty-two feet in diameter—the ring.
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• Jean Richard
  ==Actor, Comedian, Circus Owner== ...farm named "La Ménagerie." His father was Pierre Richard, a horse dealer, and his mother a homemaker, née Suzanne Boinot.
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• New York Circuses
  ..., or wooden constructions that were erected in a town, and then dismantled and transported to the next—or simply sold at wood value at the end of th ...ofitable, and they quickly prevailed: From roughly 1870 to 1930, they made circus the most popular performing art in America.
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• Regina Dobrovitskaya
  ...m 1979 to 1984 – gathering gold, silver and bronze medals along the way, and several Russian championships titles. ...ed by [[Natalia Makovskaya]]. Regina participated in both acts (flying act and Russian barre).
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• Giacomino
  ''By Alessandro Cervelatti — Translated and edited by Dominique Jando'' ...stables who had suffered from a bad fall in England during a race in 1890 and had died soon after. What is certain is that Giacomo's mother let him join,
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• Valdis Yanovskis
  ...arnaval'', which included [[Elena Drogaleva]], Andrey Ivanko, Kyril Balan, and Alek Novosolov. ...] from 1995-97, and appeared for the last time together at the [[Big Apple Circus]] in 1999, before parting ways.
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• Irina Markova
  ...iner. Her first professional act involved a lion, a bear, an African goat, and a boar, who all performed together with dogs. She created her first all-dog ...rainer, [[Irina Bugrimova]], in which her dogs were dressed in lion manes, and a juggling act in which her son, juggler [[Andrey Markov]], uses dogs as pa
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• Katja Schumann
  ...of Copenhagen were in actuality Swedish, as is Katja, who held both Danish and Swedish nationalities. ...nt [[Paulina Schumann|Paulina]], and her cousins, [[Benny Schumann|Benny]] and Jacques.
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• Virgile Peyramaure
  ...teen, entered the [[Centre National des Arts du Cirque]], the French state circus college in Châlons-en-Champagne. There, he developed a hand-to-hand balanc ...ed their remarkable act at the [[Big Apple Circus]] in the U.S. in 1996-97 and returned there in 2000-01 for their farewell season—after which Sophi
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• Andrey Mantchev
  ...drey joined the award-winning troupe and discovered the circus world—and he never looked back. ...and several animal acts with [[Jenny Vidbel]]. After leaving the Big Apple Circus at the end of its 2012-2013 season, Andrey moved to Las Vegas.
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• Big Apple Circus
  ...ctivity of the organization. It became one of the world’s most respected and successful circuses—until the economic crisis of 2008, which dramatic ...andoned its spring-summer tours of the northeast United States and beyond, and limited its activity to its Lincoln Center four-month winter season. Howeve
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• Billy Smart Jr
  ==Circus Director and Animal Trainer== ...d Rajah, thus beginning a long career as an animal trainer in his family's circus.
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• Philip Astley
  ==Circus Owner, Equestrian== ...Edward Astley, a veneer-cutter and cabinet-maker. Edward had a short-fuse and a passion for horses, traits he passed on to his son. Philip Astley was nin
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• Paul Binder
  ==Juggler, Clown, Ringmaster, Circus Director== ...rtmouth College, where he performed as an actor with the Dartmouth Players and the Hopkins Center Repertory Theatre.
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• Huesca Brothers
  ...mother, Angela, was born [[The Fossett Family|Fossett]], a legendary Irish circus dynasty. ...nneweis]] in Denmark, the [[Big Apple Circus]] in the United States, and [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland. Sadly, their act was short-lived: in 2011, Giovanni
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• Duo Adamo
  ...ongolian State Circus. He developed skills in aerial straps, Chinese pole, and juggling. ...with whom she toured in Mexico and Uruguay, and taught at various colleges and universities where they were in residency. 
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• International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo
  ==Monte Carlo, Circus Capital of the World== ...ival was held from December 26 to 30, 1974 under the big top of the French circus [[The Bouglione Family|Bouglione]], installed on what was then the Esplanad
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• Miss Mara
  ...the firstborn of a very large family: She had six brothers and one sister, and all her life she would assume a sort of matriarchal responsibility for her ...on presentation at the time. Her tricks included heel-catches, neck-hangs, and a slide to heel-catch in full swing, which had been a specialty of the grea
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• Pancracio
  ...ingrained in him as a child; as he would say later, reflecting on his long and successful career, "''El payaso nace, no se hace''" (“One doesn’t becom ...herry wine. Circus in Spain, during Fernando’s childhood, was at a peak, and it produced an array of extremely talented clowns who were stars in their o
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• Carrillo Brothers
  ...1967, the troupe came to the United States, where they performed in fairs and traveling circuses. ...arold Alzana]], [[The Great Doval]] (Manfred Fritsch), and [[Gene Mendez]] and Joe Seitz had popularized this style of frenetic high-wire daredevilry, but
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• Michael Christensen
  ==Clown, Juggler, Circus Director== ...he San Francisco Mime Troupe, a political street-theater company that used circus techniques to create visual metaphors. As a member of the Mime Troupe, Mich
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• Dynamotion Jugglers
  ...d a solo career in 1980. He toured the world with the Harlem Globetrotters and was featured in numerous European nightclubs until 1984. ...later, he appeared for the first time in a circus ring, at the [[Big Apple Circus]]. He performed a juggling duet he had created with Jim Strinka, called Dyn
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• Flying Gaonas
  ...rs, Tito Gaona caught flawless triple somersaults with extraordinary grace and astonishing consistency. ...former military officer (whose brother, Rodolfo, was a well-known torero), and Carlos León, a trapeze artist. Victor's father, also named Bernabé, was a
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• Johnny Peers
  ...]] Circus. His skills as a natural comedian let him to join Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's [[Clown College]], where he graduated in 1969. He became ...rcuses as [[Circus Krone]] in Germany, [[Circus Maximum]] in Sweden, and [[Circus Conelly]] in Switzerland.
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• Lou Jacobs
  ...of Europe's circus and variety shows, and Jacobs's parents created a song-and-dance act which they performed in local "varieté" theaters. ...ely seen today, but quite popular then, especially in Germany and Russia), and—since Ludwig had a natural ability for it—contortion. By then,
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• Dolly Jacobs
  ...woman, she was a photographer, a published writer, a model and cover girl, and even held a pilot's license—all this at a time when women were suppos ...ecovered, they married. They had two daughters, [[Lou Ann Jacobs|Lou Ann]] and Dolly Jean.
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• Ben Williams
  ...ircus in 1951 when she was five years old. By then, Anna May was thirteen, and Ben, six. ...niversity of South Florida, but he chose to go back to the circus instead, and to continue working with elephants.
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• Moscow Circus
  ...rcus troupes that traveled abroad, in shows produced by the Soviet central circus organization, [[SoyuzGosTsirk]]. ...ow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in 1927, the world's first circus university.
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• Dania Kaseeva
  ...ancing act with Ruben Manasarian has become the stuff of legend in Russian circus lore. ...val Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris and won a Gold Medal, the first and only time this highest honor has been awarded to a hula-hoop act.
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• Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain
  ...nization that had, until then, produced annually an important fund-raising circus gala in Paris. ...to Cirque [[Napoléon Rancy]], [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Cirque Medrano]], and [[Cirque Jean Richard]]).
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• Liana Orfei
  ==Circus Director, Circus Performer, Singer, Actress== ...-seven films, including Fellini's ''I Clowns'' (1972) and dozens of peplum and adventure movies. She also acted onstage under the direction of legendary p
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• Paulina Schumann
  ==Acrobat and Equestrienne== ...circus, ''Circo Reina Victoria''; Paulina was, therefore, thrown into the circus world from the very moment she first opened her eyes.
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• Moira Orfei
  ==Circus Owner, Animal Trainer, Actress== ...he golden age of Italian cinema. But it was also due to the quality of her circus.
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• Svetlana Gololobova
  ...ool closest to her hometown. Although she received general training in all circus disciplines, Svetlana demonstrated exceptional talent for hand-balancing. ...nd balancing acts in the history of the Soviet circus—indeed, of the circus anywhere.)
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• Glossary
  ;adagio:Acrobatic act, generally involving a man and a woman, presented in a slow or romantic mood. ...n:(Russian) A circus act that can occupy up to the entire second half of a circus performance.
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• Marie-Pierre Bénac
  ...spanned twelve years and two continents, she proved herself a very gifted and extremely versatile performer. ...xis Gruss]]. Founded in 1974, the Conservatoire was the first professional circus school in Western Europe.
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• David Dimitri
  ==Wire Dancer, Acrobat, Circus Director and Producer== ...ather, who was starring in the show. David worked again with his father at Circus Knie in 1973.
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