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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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• 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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• 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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• Clown College
  ==RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CLOWN COLLEGE== ...g Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]], with help from former Ringling clown and author/illustrator [[Bill Ballantine]], who became Clown College's second D
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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
  ...s skills as a natural comedian let him to join Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's [[Clown College]], where he graduated in 1969. He became a member of ''Th ...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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• The Togni Family
  ==Circus Owners, Equestrians, Animal Trainers, Acrobats, Aerialists== ...g cupola (in the 1970s), the quarterpole-free big top (also in the 1970s), and the round-cupola, quarterpole-free "Florilegio" big top (in the 1990s).
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• Pedro and Tatiana Carrillo
  ...|Pedro Carrillo]]. When he was eighteen, Pedro, Jr. began his professional circus career as a catcher for the [[Flying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined ...a trapeze act, taking advantage of both Pedro’s experience as a catcher and Tatiana’s experience as an aerialist.
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• The Carrillos
  ...s|Pedro Carillo]]. When he was eighteen, Pedro, Jr. began his professional circus career as a catcher for the [[Flying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined ...a trapeze act, taking advantage of both Pedro’s experience as a catcher and Tatiana’s experience as an aerialist.
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• Guiming Meng
  ...from a long line of Chinese acrobats. His father was a master jar-juggler, and not surprisingly, Meng would follow in his father's footsteps. Enrolled at ...re featured in the 116th edition of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, where they performed several acts from their vast repertoire. Guiming Meng
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• Jeff Gordon
  ...owns, [[Carlo Pellegrini]] (Carlo), [[Michael Christensen]] (Mr. Stubbs), and [[Barry Lubin]] (Grandma). ...d be, for the following five years, the iconic clown trio of the Big Apple Circus.
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• Alberto Zoppé
  == Equestrian, Circus Owner == ...ei]] families, for example. Yet their companies often contained true gems, and Alberto Zoppé was to be one of these.
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• Circus Nikulin
  == The Circus On Tsvetnoy Boulevard == ...cus, is another one. And in Moscow, there is Circus Nikulin—"the Old Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard."
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• Cirque d'Hiver
  ...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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• David Larible
  ...Russia and Eastern Europe. His is by far the most famous (and most copied) circus clown in the world. ...re with new trends such as the Russian lyrical interpretation of clowning, and the street-rooted audience participation that appeared in Europe in the ear
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• Svetlana Shamsheeva
  ...ing a youth program at the local zoo, working closely with Himalayan bears and other animals. ...ana for his company, with which she worked from 1979 to 1985 with her bear and dove act.
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• Harold Alzana
  ...s daredevil manner—working on the high wire without a balancing pole and at high speed, which contrasted with the traditionally slow, seemingly care ...training his children (Harold, his brother Edgar, and their sisters Hilda and Elsie) in his backyard, where he had installed a tight wire two feet off th
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• Gunther Gebel-Williams
  ...alented and charismatic performer, he was also, for circus enthusiasts and circus professionals around the world, one of the greatest animal trainers of the ...local bars. Needless to say, Gunther's early childhood was far from happy, and the advent of World War II would further tear apart his already dysfunction
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• Charly Baumann
  ...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 ...ther was interned in Ravensbrück, and Heinz was sent to a Nazi orphanage, and then to work on a farm.
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• Tom Dougherty
  ...ings Bank building, taught him drawing and oil painting from an early age, and is also credited with teaching him how to amuse others. This gave Tom an ar ...asked Tom if he wanted to replace the missing actor: “We had a rehearsal and they offered me a contract at the end of the day.”
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• The Codonas
  ...rei Codonas'' (1940)—a very rare occurrence for circus artists—and two romanticized biographies. ...duardo also had a half-brother, William). When and for which purpose Henry and Victorine immigrated to Mexico is not known.
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• Chy Mei Ling
  ...l Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris in 1988. She was eight years old, and she became an immediate sensation! ...hand balancers of her generation. She soon was in high demand in circuses and "varieté" shows all over Europe; in 1995, she returned to the Festival Mon
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• The Chinese Acrobatic Theater
  ...embers of the former Soviet Union have been the most inventive and skilled circus artists of the twentieth century, the Chinese, who come from a different, a ...ntertainers—their craft has evolved separately, with its own history and traditions.
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• Alfred Court
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...mal trainers of all times—and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America.
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• Daniel Suskov
  ...WII, in the circuses of whom he presented for many years all sorts of wild and domestic animals. Daniel grew up in the circus. He was still a teenager when he was hired by [[Jo Clavel]] to work in [[Je
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• Fritz Schulz
  ...the legendary [[Alfred Court]]. Court had described Schulz as a “honest and courageous guy, who had what it takes to become a great trainer.” ...s a butcher. But he shared with his uncle a passion for wild animals—and not particularly dead ones!
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• Ursula Böttcher
  ''By Dominique Jando and Christian Hamel'' ...ntually chose to present, and which made her a circus star all over Europe and in the United States.
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• Les Castors
  ...decades, it has remained the same in form—a mixture of foot juggling and risley act, which, over the years, has been increasingly interspersed with ...Nona, their mother, was born [[The Bedinis|Bedini]], a celebrated Russian circus family of Italian origins.
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• Maryse Begary
  ...the trapeze bar—which she could hold for more than one minute—and her spectacular series of rotating one-arm planches (also known as "disloca ...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
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• Flying Cortes
  ...roupe were contracted by [[Hoxie Bros. Circus]] to perform their high wire and flying trapeze acts. Young Robinson performed in both acts; brother Alex wa ...retired from performing, Robinson replaced him as the catcher of the act, and Alex became the main flyer.
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• Christine Zerbini
  ...gree of fame as an excellent jockey. Christine grandfather, Charles, ran a circus in France, which was also very popular in North Africa—in what were t ...ion; one of them, [[Sylvia Zerbini|Sylvia]], is a world-renowned aerialist and equestrienne.
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• Loyal-Suarez Troupe
  ...by [[The Suarez Troupe|Enrique Suarez]] and two of his children, Magdalena and Enrique, Jr. ...(1879-1956), who had married Giuseppina Travaglia, scion of an old Italian circus family.
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• Christian Stoinev
  ...Atayde]] family, owners of Mexico’s oldest, largest, and most celebrated circus, Circo Atayde Hermanos. ...od at the [[Big Apple Circus]], where his father was Performance Director, and his mother worked in an administrative capacity.
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• Bertram Mills
  ==Circus Owner and Director== ...unced the "Death of Britain’s Nº 1 Showman" and the "King of the Modern Circus," indicating the unrivalled position in which the showman was revered.
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• Cyril Mills
  ==Circus Owner and Director== ...he Royal Air Force. After the Bertram Mills Circus closed down in 1967, he and Cyril Mills remained close friends.''
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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 ...he "American fearless hurricane hurdle rider." Like the most ''adroit'' of circus performers, bareback riders in particular, May was short but strong. She g
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• The España Family
  ...as_Video_(1978)|The Españas, flying trapeze]], at Billy Smart's Christmas Circus (1978) ...e Flying Españas, flying trapeze]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1983)
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• Norman Barrett
  ...-up comedian: "A smashing bloke and a very very nice man… A loyal friend and a very very very nice man." Quite an amazing epitaph for anybody! ===Barrett’s Canadian Circus===
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