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• Circus Knie
  #REDIRECT [[The Knie Dynasty]] [[Category:Circuses|Knie, Circus]]
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• Circus Knie Setup Video (2012)
  ...poles, so that one can be erected ahead of time in the next town while the circus is playing in the last town. The zoo is set up at the rear of the big top; ...ideo, click here:''' [http://player.vimeo.com/video/46251105 '''✪ Circus Knie Setup''']
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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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• 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 ...career in 1975. He signed his first circus season with Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in England. His success was immediate, and he embarked upon a brilliant i
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• Links
  ==Circus Websites== '''Eden Brothers''' Circus [http://www.edencircus.com/ www.edencircus.com]
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• Fumagalli
  ...ent that had settled in Italy, and was related to two other famous Italian circus families, [[The Canastrelli Family|Canestrelli]] and Larible. Gianni's uncl ...on. (Bernhard Paul, a great "discoverer" of clown talent, also launched at Circus Roncalli the careers of [[Pic]], [[Jean-Paul]], [[David Shiner]] and [[Pete
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• Francesco
  ...(today the [[Académie Fratellini]], one of the western world's very first circus schools, which [[Annie Fratellini]] had just opened in Paris in 1975. There ...rica, and Asia. He was invited twice to participate in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo]], in 1990 (Tristan Rémy award) and 1996 (Junior J
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• Jean Richard
  ==Actor, Comedian, Circus Owner== His early encounters with circus performers (particularly [[Martha-la-Corse]], a cat trainer) triggered his
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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 ...n]] in Paris. They first performed their remarkable act at the [[Big Apple Circus]] in the U.S. in 1996-97 and returned there in 2000-01 for their farewell s
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• Huesca Brothers
  ...mother, Angela, was born [[The Fossett Family|Fossett]], a legendary Irish circus dynasty. ...]] in Denmark, the [[Big Apple Circus]] in the United States, and [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland. Sadly, their act was short-lived: in 2011, Giovanni began
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• Duo Adamo
  ...or Circus and Variety Arts]], and Chimgee Haltarhu, of the Mongolian State Circus. He developed skills in aerial straps, Chinese pole, and juggling. ...et over the course of six years, while continuing to work for The Midnight Circus.
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• Dynamotion Jugglers
  ...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 ...ing career as a street performer. He honed his performance skills with the Circus Arts Troupe, a group with which he performed in schools and shopping malls
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• Flying Gaonas
  ...some legitimacy, the Flying Gaonas. And indeed, this has happened. To the circus world, however, there has been one and only one Flying Gaonas: the act in w Victor Gaona Murillo (1925-2016) was born to an old, prolific Mexican circus family that traces its roots to the Circo Gaona y León, created in 1891 by
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• Marie-Pierre Bénac
  ...exis Gruss]]Marie-Pierre Bénac was not born into the circus. Yet during a circus career that spanned twelve years and two continents, she proved herself a v ...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== ...who was starring in the show. David worked again with his father at Circus Knie in 1973.
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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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• Les Casaly
  ...oned a promising career—in his case as an engineer—to join the circus. ...ould remain until 1990, performing their cradle act and, as members of the circus's resident company, a short-distance flying trapeze act.
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• Charlie Rivel
  ...nal clown character that stands as one of the twentieth century's greatest circus icons. ...s, the brothers began performing a trapeze act. Pedro later joined another circus, Circo Alegría, where he met—and later married—a French acroba
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• Yelena Larkina
  ...Moscow’s [[State College of Circus and Variety Arts]] (a.k.a. the Moscow Circus School) in 1987, where the famous Russian act director [[Valentin Gneushev] ...[[Circus Knie]] and [[Circus Conelli]] in Switzerland; and, in Germany, [[Circus Krone]], Frankfurt’s TigerPalast, Düsseldorf’s Apollo Varieté, and Be
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• Sophie and Virgile
  ...om one to five days a week. Eventually she decided to pursue a career as a circus artist. ...e in 1986, at age fifteen. He came from the circus: His father ran a small circus company.
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• Kovgar Troupe
  ...s champion who, like many of his Russian counterparts, transitioned to the circus when his competition days were over. He learned his trade with the famous R ...'Freilix'' (Free). It immediately won a Golden Lion at the [[International Circus Festival of Wuqiao]], China, in 2001.
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• Serge Percelly
  ...ée De Jonghe, was a tight-wire dancer and heiress to a celebrated Belgian circus dynasty. His father, Bruno Chicky (Stutz), is one Europe's great whiteface ...me before an audience. It was an immediate success, and the Boswell-Wilkie Circus offered him a contract. In 1983, Serge won a Bronze Medal at the [[Festival
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• Elena Panova
  ...echnique, which she developed quite by accident at the [[State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow along with her teachers, [[The Durov Dynasty|T ...his wife, Klavdia, née Kazanskaya. Her parents had nothing to do with the circus: they came from peasant stock and both worked in a local factory.
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• The Panteleenko Brothers
  ...]] (1908-1976), a famous Russian illusionist who worked exclusively in the circus ring and—like his predecessor, the legendary [[Emil Kio]]—used In 1969, during an engagement at the Circus of Rostov-on-Don, Vladivien Levshin, who was the Rubanov Company’s acroba
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• The Knie Dynasty
  [[Image:Friedrich_Knie_(1784-1850).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Friedrich Knie]] ==Knie: The Swiss National Circus==
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• Oleg Izossimov
  ...was twelve years old, he saw the Russian hand balancer Nikolai Kasse in a circus performance, and he was so impressed that he decided then and there that th ...te College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow, the celebrated "Moscow Circus School". He was refused three years in a row, and was finally accepted in 1
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• Roby Gasser
  ==Sea Lion Trainer, Circus Director== ...The Tongas]], had had a brilliant international run, left the family’s [[Circus Royal]] in Switzerland to create their own traveling dolphin and sea-lion s
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• Circus Knie
  #REDIRECT [[The Knie Dynasty]] [[Category:Circuses|Knie, Circus]]
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• Friedrich Knie
  #REDIRECT [[The Knie Dynasty]] [[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Knie, Friedrich]]
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• Karl Knie
  #REDIRECT [[The Knie Dynasty]] [[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Knie, Karl]]
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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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• Vladimir Tsarkov
  ...scow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]]—the famous "Moscow Circus School"—where he was accepted in 1978, at age fifteen. After the usual basic training in all classic circus disciplines, Vladimir went on to specialize in juggling under Firs Petrovic
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• The Rios Brothers
  ...fter World War II, and the Rios Brothers are generally perceived as French circus artists. ...decided to combine their talents into a risley act, a particularly arduous circus discipline.
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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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• César Aedo
  ...asty|Louis Knie]]—which led to a contract for a season with [[Circus Knie]] in 1985. ...h Street Seaport. Then, in 1989, he landed a contract with the [[Big Apple Circus]], where he was featured in its production of ''Grandma Goes West''.
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• Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe
  ...nd association with a Western circus was in 1988-1989 with the [[Big Apple Circus]], which also marked its first appearance in the United States. ...oupe, Bicycle Act]], in the Big Apple Circus production of ''The Big Apple Circus Meets The Monkey King'' (1988)
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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 ...lthough its artists perform acts of a similar genre and share with Western circus artists a similar background—that of the traveling fairground enterta
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• Daniel Suskov
  Daniel grew up in the circus. He was still a teenager when he was hired by [[Jo Clavel]] to work in [[Je ...as lions were still bred. The following year (1971) Daniel Suskov made his circus debut with that group at [[Cirque Amar]], and then spent the 1972 and 1973
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• Fritz Schulz
  ...trainer Fritz W. Schulz (1910-2010) was one of Australia's most celebrated circus personalities. He had a long and brilliant career that spanned six decades ===Circus Debut===
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• Ursula Böttcher
  ...the huge polar bears she eventually chose to present, and which made her a circus star all over Europe and in the United States. ...p novels: She took a job as an usher and cleaning woman with [[Jakob Busch|Circus Busch]], which was visiting Dresden in 1952. She was twenty-five, living ri
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• Collins Brothers
  ...led in Berlin's State Circus School. There, they were trained in all basic circus disciplines, including acrobatics, juggling, ballet, and trapeze. ...embarked on a two-year tour of the USSR with the East-German [[Jakob Busch|Circus Busch]], and they used that time to develop their comedy routines. Back in
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• Les Castors
  ...Nona, their mother, was born [[The Bedinis|Bedini]], a celebrated Russian circus family of Italian origins. ...Moustier (c.1900)]]The first Dedessus le Moutier known to have joined the circus was a woman, Marie-Célestine, whose son, Alphonse, created the Cirque Mous
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• Franco Knie
  #REDIRECT: [[The Knie Dynasty]] ..., Franco]][[Category:Exotic Animals|Knie, Franco]][[Category:Elephant Acts|Knie, Franco]]
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• Les Castors Video (1973)
  ...Foot Juggling and Risley Act, with their father Louis Moustier at [[Circus Knie]], Switzerland, in 1973. The voice doing the French commentary is that of [
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• Rolf Knie Jr Video (1973)
  Rolf Knie, Jr., mixed group of exotic animals, at Circus Knie, Switzerland (1973). The voice of the French commentary belongs to [[Jean R * Biography: [[The Knie Dynasty]]
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• Fredy Knie Jr Video (1973)
  Fredy Knie, Jr., liberty act, with Mary-José Knie, at [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland (1973). The voice of the French commentary belongs to [[Je * Biography: [[The Knie Dynasty]]
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• Knie High School Act (1973)
  ...Franco, Erika & Mary-José Knie, Jrs., High School presentation at Circus Knie, Switzerland (1973). The voice of the French commentary belongs to [[Jean R * Biography: [[The Knie Dynasty]]
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• Knie's Elephant Act Video 1973
  Louis & Franco Knie, elephant act at Circus Knie, Switzerland (1973). The voice of the French commentary belongs to [[Jean R * Biography: [[The Knie Dynasty]]
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• Les Bario
  ...no (Freddy, 1922-1988) was born in Brussels on December 18, 1922. Like all circus children, the two sons of Manrico Meschi, known as Bario (1888-1974), and L In 1938, the Dario-Barios were in England, at Blackpool’s [[Tower Circus]]. Nello took advantage of the occasion to learn tap-dancing, of which Engl
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• Perezvony
  ...tzerland. In 1993, it was awarded the Silver Clown at the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]]. Pavel Brun created new versions of the act for [ * Video: [[Perezvony_Video_(c_2005)|''Perezvony'']] at Circus Kronebau in Munich (c.2005)
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• Les Frères Taquin
  ...988 edition of the Festival, and won a Gold Medal. The numerous agents and circus directors present at the Festival came immediately knocking at their door, ...Varieté in Germany; the Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris; and the [[Big Apple Circus]] in the U.S. (where he performed twice: in 1991-1992 with Olivier Deschave
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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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