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• Links
  ==Circus Websites== '''Eden Brothers''' Circus [http://www.edencircus.com/ www.edencircus.com]
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• John Bill Ricketts
  == THE FIRST CIRCUS IN AMERICA== ...n Bill Ricketts's company at the ''Circus''. The ''Circus'' was a roofless arena that could accommodate some eight-hundred spectators (divided between pit a
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• New York Circuses
  ...e end of the eighteenth century (see ''[[Short History of the Circus]]''), circus performances were originally presented in buildings, either permanent struc ...ofitable, and they quickly prevailed: From roughly 1870 to 1930, they made circus the most popular performing art in America.
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• Philip Astley
  ==Circus Owner, Equestrian== Philip Astley (1742-1814) is considered the creator of the modern circus. He was born January 8, 1742 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the West Midlands,
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• Paulina Schumann
  ...circus, ''Circo Reina Victoria''; Paulina was, therefore, thrown into the circus world from the very moment she first opened her eyes. In the 1930s, the Rivels toured Europe, appearing in virtually every circus and variety house on the Continent. Then Charlie Rivel, who had performed h
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• The Togni Family
  ==Circus Owners, Equestrians, Animal Trainers, Acrobats, Aerialists== ...toured in about thirty countries. The Tognis have also always excelled in circus engineering: they are credited with several technical innovations, includin
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• The Knie Dynasty
  ==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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• Alberto Zoppé
  == Equestrian, Circus Owner == ...estrians and traveling entertainers whose origins predate the birth of the circus. His parents, Luigi and Emma Zoppé, owned one of the numerous small circus
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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. David is the first traditional circus auguste to have brilliantly synthesized the virtuosity of old musical augus
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• Harold Alzana
  ...he mid-sixties, a star fixture of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey]] Circus. His daredevil manner—working on the high wire without a balancing po ...6, when impresario [[Clem Butson]], then producer of Blackpool’s [[Tower Circus]], gave "The Sensational Alzanas" (as Harold and his siblings had named the
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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 [[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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• 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 ...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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• Alfred Court
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...the greatest wild animal trainers of all times—and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America.
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• The Indian Circus
  ...y where the level of extreme poverty is still fairly high, a few traveling circus entrepreneurs may have resorted to methods that have fortunately vanished m [[File:Rambo_Circus_(2011).jpeg|thumb|right|375px|Rambo Circus (2011)]]
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• The Samwell Family
  ...er luminaries of the British circus, they still hold an important place in circus history.'' ...rcus performers and entrepreneurs, thus establishing one of the very first circus dynasties.''
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• Al Saheel
  Al Saheel is an equestrian show (the very essence of the circus) based in Dubai—the first show of its genre to have its roots in the ...the general public, in a tent that was initially meant to be its practice arena, waiting for sponsors to help build a real amphitheater.
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• Cyril Mills
  ==Circus Owner and Director== ...break for National Service in the Royal Air Force. After the Bertram Mills Circus closed down in 1967, he and Cyril Mills remained close friends.''
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• Agaev Troupe High Wire Act 1990
  ...t, with the [[Moscow Circus]] 1990 U.S. Tour at Milwaukee's Bradley Center Arena (1990).
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• Ibragimovi Bear Act (1990)
  ...t, with the [[Moscow Circus]] 1990 U.S. Tour at Milwaukee's Bradley Center Arena (1990).
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• May Wirth
  ...Bundaberg, Queensland, in Australia, the daughter of John Edward Zinga, a circus artist from Mauritius (an island nation off the southwest coast of Africa) ...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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• Sarvat Begbudi - Juggler on Horseback (1990)
  ...k, with the [[Moscow Circus]] 1990 U.S. Tour at Milwaukee's Bradley Center Arena (1990).
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• Gugkaevi Aerial Act 1990
  ...t, with the [[Moscow Circus]] 1990 U.S. Tour at Milwaukee's Bradley Center Arena (1990).
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• Valery Serebriakov Tap Dance Video 1990
  ...e, with the [[Moscow Circus]] 1990 U.S. Tour at Milwaukee's Bradley Center Arena (1990).
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• Begbudi - Tiger Act Video (1990)
  ...t, with the [[Moscow Circus]] 1990 U.S. Tour at Milwaukee's Bradley Center Arena (1990).
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• Norman Barrett
  Over many years, Norman Barrett has become the most loved and best known circus personality in Great Britain—regarded as "The World’s Greatest Ring ===Barrett’s Canadian Circus===
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• Gibadulin Jugglers 1990
  ...t, with the [[Moscow Circus]] 1990 U.S. Tour at Milwaukee's Bradley Center Arena (1990).
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• Nugzarov Troupe Video 1990
  ...', with the [[Moscow Circus]] 1990 U.S. Tour at Milwaukee's Bradley Center Arena (1990).
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• The Nikitin Brothers
  [[File:Circus_Nikitin_in_Moscow.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Circus Nikitin in Moscow (c.1915)]] ==Circus Entrepreneurs==
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• Rogana
  ...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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• The Rogge Sisters
  ...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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• Arturo Castilla
  ==Circus Director and Impresario== ...evements were the introduction of theatrical aesthetics into the traveling circus performance, a modern approach to public relations and marketing, his fores
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• The Casartelli Family
  ...e of its famous name) with the legendary [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Parisian circus]]. ...sartelli family managed to become in just a few decades one of the largest circus families in Europe; it counts today about one hundred members.
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• Pinito del Oro
  ...d been a center-ring headliner with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States for seven consecutive seasons. She was also courageous ...troubles, and in an area also totally devoid of competition. (The Spanish circus scene at the time was particularly active.)
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• SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS
  ...common denominator between Roman and modern circuses is the word itself, ''circus'', which means in Latin as in English, "circle". ===Philip Astley: The Father Of The Modern Circus===
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• Circus Williams
  ==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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• Gilbert Houcke
  ...have made his one of the great names of the twentieth century’s European circus. ...]], a French equestrian who had settled in Sweden, where he originated his circus dynasty in the 19th century.
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• Golden Circus Festival
  ==International Circus Festival== ...January. The Festival is staged at the Teatro Tendastrisce, a vast concert arena that belongs to Pristipino. The international cast of top-notch performers
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• Walter Houc
  ...enough, Ernst would give him a solid "rap" on the head. Indeed, like many circus performers of his generation, Walter felt that life was tough for him as a By 1923, as the family was touring with an arena show, a performer who was doing a swaypole act left. The swaypole act was t
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• The Circuses Of Moscow
  ...ses in Moscow, [[Circus Nikulin]] on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, and the [[Bolshoi Circus]] (''bolshoi'' means ''big'', in Russian) on Vernadsky Avenue—and the ...Ciniselli (St. Petersburg)|Circus Ciniselli]] stands today. Tourniaire’s circus had only a short existence: it was bought back by the government of St. Pet
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• Uuve Jansson
  ...holm’s Cultural Department. Eva was instrumental in helping a then small circus organization, [[Cirkus Cirkör]], to settle in Botkyrka, a suburb of Stockh ...ne (c.2008)]]Cirkus Cirkör was (and still is) both a circus company and a circus school. Uuve went to see a performance of Cirkus Cirkör, and saw there a s
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• Unus
  ...s business, thanks notably to [[John Ringling North]], who made him a true circus star in the United States and, consequently, all over Europe. Unus was know ...aben, a small town in the northeast of Austria. Franz didn’t belong to a circus family: He began his professional life as a carpenter. Yet over the years,
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• Kio
  ..., where they performed extensively on international tours of the "[[Moscow Circus]]." Kio’s illusions had a unique particularity: they were created to be p ...more than their illustrious father, who was a bona fide star of the Soviet circus, Emil, Jr. and Igor became celebrities in their own right; they appeared on
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• Struppi Hanneford
  ==Aerialist, Acrobat, Animal Trainer, Circus Owner== ...ith her husband, [[The Hanneford Family|Tommy Hanneford]] (1927-2005). Her circus career, both as an artist and a producer, spanned the entire second half of
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• John Herriott
  ==Animal Trainer, Circus Owner== ...rainer and circus owner, third-generation of one of the few truly American circus dynasties. He was born on January 15, 1931 in St. Peter, Minnesota to Milto
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• Andrey Dementiev-Kornilov (2011)
  ...t attraction, at the 5th Circus Arts Festival, at the Luzhniki Small Sport Arena in Moscow. The elephants are Chita, Gerda, Ranga, and Pretty (2011)
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• Zapashny Brothers Tigers Video (2011)
  ...and lion act, at the 5th Circus Arts Festival, at the Luzhniki Small Sport Arena in Moscow (2011)
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• Gia Eradze Video (2011)
  ...l attraction, at the 5th Circus Arts Festival, at the Luzhniki Small Sport Arena in Moscow (2011)
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• Averik Seyranyan Video (2011)
  ...the 5th International Festival of Circus Arts, at the Lizhniki Small Sport Arena in Moscow (2011)
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• Chernevsky Troupe Video (2011)
  ...terboard act, at the 5th Circus Arts Festival, at the Luzhniki Small Sport Arena in Moscow (2011)
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