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• Fang Yuan and He Ying Video 1990
  Fang Yuan & He Ying, from the Fujian Acrobatic troupe, hand balancing act, at the 13th [[F
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• Fang Yuan and He Ying
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• Main Page
  ...a distinctively innovative circus creator. Charismatic and multi-talented, he was also recognized as one of the greatest horse trainers of his time, both ...ity of Montbéliard, in the east of France, not far from the Swiss border. He was fourth generation of a circus family of Alsatian and Italian mixed orig
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• Cirkus Kludsky
  ...amily, and had been created before WWI by Karel Kludský (Carl Kludsky, as he became known in the West-European circus business). From humble beginnings, ...Kludský, from Bavorov, in the Strakonice District, tagged on; since 1846, he had traveled with his ropewalking troupe and a carousel. These three Josef
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• Billy Smart
  ...t Americans call a "carnival"). Success didn't come immediately: at times, he had to moonlight to make ends meet, and on one occasion, his fellow funfair ...t to keep the home front's morale high; he also continued the charity work he had started when his had become a household name.
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• Kris Kremo
  ...with at the time. In this way he learned various circus disciplines, which he then performed with other circus kids in amateur shows. His father soon beg ...th Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in England. His success was immediate, and he embarked upon a brilliant international career with an act reminiscent of h
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• Béla Kremo
  ...r in Aalborg, Sweden, under the name Trenton, as the Kremos' "second act;" he began using his own name in 1934. ...ood dose of comedy. His first wife, Welda, died in a car accident in 1939. He married a second time with Marianne Kalbitz; their son [[Kris Kremo|Kris]]
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• Anthony Gatto
  ...but spent his early childhood in Ellicott City, Maryland. It is there that he picked up his first ball and embarked upon a remarkable journey that would ...irst international juggling competition and walked away with a gold medal. He then made an appearance on the television show ''That's Incredible'', where
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• Fumagalli
  ...agalli appeared in Federico Fellini's movie, ''I Clowns'' (1970), and then he retired from performing. Gianni's mother, Daisy Huesca (b. 1920), on the ot ...me year, he toured in Germany with the short-lived Circus Fumagalli, which he ran with his brother for one season. After that, Daris Huesca and Fumagalli
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• Clown College
  ...h Feld]] became the producer of ''The Greatest Show On Earth'', with which he had been associated since 1970, and continued to operate Clown College thro
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• Francesco
  ...chools, which [[Annie Fratellini]] had just opened in Paris in 1975. There he trained in acrobatics, ballet, wire walking, bareback riding and juggling, ...ral stage and television shows in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia. He was invited twice to participate in the [[International Circus Festival of
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• Barry Lubin
  ...children were growing up laughing with Lubin's beloved character. However, he would returned to the Big Apple Circus for an ultimate bow for its Lincoln ...itution, Barry decided to go along and audition with him. To his surprise, he was among the 48 applicants that were accepted that year (along with Bill I
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• The Svensons
  Carlos Svenson was born in Gålve, Sweden. He learned horseback riding and acrobatics from his parents, Karl and Anna Gre ...nd returned to live in Sweden. Carlos remained in the United States, where he still performs his comedy haute-école act, and presents occasionally vario
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• John Bill Ricketts
  ...eading to unknown territories when, at the end of his American adventures, he sailed to the West Indies. ...season ended in July, at which time Ricketts, his company, and the horses he had recently acquired in Pennsylvania traveled to New York City, to a new c
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• Jean Richard
  ...Richard, who had a gift for drawing, began trying his hand at caricature: he would soon sell his cartoons to local newspapers. ...nd in comedies that were sometimes a little cheap. During his long career, he appeared in about eighty films.
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• New York Circuses
  ...ew and commodious amphitheater" on Broadway, north of his former location. He and his company perform there until April 21, 1795. - Ricketts announces his return in December 1798, but he never makes it. The amphitheater, however, stands until at least 1800.
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• Giacomino
  He was born in Milan, Italy, in March 1884, to a poor family. His father was p ...young Giacomo, who trained in the ring with the acrobats. Like Guillaume, he suggested that the young boy join Circo Pulaiot.
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• Valdis Yanovskis
  ...the tutelage of [[Tamara Babayan]], he specialized as a juggler. In 1987, he graduated with a group-juggling act, ''Carnaval'', which included [[Elena D ...with Vasily Gratchov, Arkady Burdnestsky, and Natasha Sarygina, with whom he re-created his group juggling act, now titled ''Original Jugglers''. They p
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• Virgile Peyramaure
  ...Cirque]], the French state circus college in Châlons-en-Champagne. There, he developed a hand-to-hand balancing act with another student at the Centre, ...to the position of Artistic Coordinator of the Circus in 2009, a position he held until the closing of the original Big Apple Circus in 2016.
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• Andrey Mantchev
  ...joined the award-winning troupe and discovered the circus world—and he never looked back. ...offered Andrey to remain with them as a member of their resident company. He performed there from 2001 to 2013 in a wide variety of acrobatic acts, nota
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• Big Apple Circus
  ...er a brief stint at Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts, he went to work on television as stage manager for Julia Child’s cooking sho ...d to act out the feelings stirred by his uneasy life, so, quite naturally, he enrolled in the Professional Actor Training program at the University of Wa
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• Billy Smart Jr
  ...Smart's New World Circus]]. The following year, billed as "Cowboy Billy," he presented a pony, called Rajah, thus beginning a long career as an animal t ...of elephants, eventually working with up to twenty performing pachyderms. He was also featured with his elephants in other winter shows: Tom Arnold's [[
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• Philip Astley
  ...ses, traits he passed on to his son. Philip Astley was nine years old when he became apprentice to his father. ...e—an area that would become very familiar to young Philip, and where he will later return. For at age 17, Philip left home after one of many disput
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• Paul Binder
  ...band for a time. Raised in Brooklyn, Paul went to Dartmouth College, where he performed as an actor with the Dartmouth Players and the Hopkins Center Rep ...host Merv Griffin. Paul would eventually go to Columbia University, where he earned an MBA. But by then it was the late sixties, and like many young peo
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• Duo Adamo
  ...s and Variety Arts]], and Chimgee Haltarhu, of the Mongolian State Circus. He developed skills in aerial straps, Chinese pole, and juggling.
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• International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo
  ...e Rainier III of Monaco (1923-2005) to promote circus arts—for which he had a lifelong passion. The first Festival was held from December 26 to 30, In the foreword he wrote for the program, Prince Rainier said, "This International Circus Fest
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• Pancracio
  ...re he saw his first circus. This dream was ingrained in him as a child; as he would say later, reflecting on his long and successful career, "''El payaso He was born Fernando Alvarez on July 29, 1955 in Jerez de la Frontera in the P
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• Carrillo Brothers
  ...is circus career as a roustabout in traveling circuses. In his spare time, he practiced wire-walking and soon become proficient enough to perform on the ...career with various partners, the last being his son Pedro, Jr., with whom he worked until 1994. The following year, Pedro Carrillo, Jr. struck out on hi
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• Michael Christensen
  ...Professional Actor Training Program. Upon graduation, in the late sixties, he joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a political street-theater company th ...sed clubs with Paul Binder as part of the Mime Troupe, so he asked Paul if he would come in Pisoni's place. Paul accepted.
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• Dynamotion Jugglers
  ...Following the example of [[Kris Kremo]], he started a solo career in 1980. He toured the world with the Harlem Globetrotters and was featured in numerous ...n a circus ring, at the [[Big Apple Circus]]. He performed a juggling duet he had created with Jim Strinka, called Dynamotion.
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• Flying Gaonas
  ...d already had a taste of the trapeze: in the summer of 1954, at age seven, he was announced as "the world's youngest flyer," with the Flying Valentines a ...Tito's goal. He caught it for the first time in 1964. The following year, he added a return to the trapeze bar with a double pirouette, in the manner of
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• Johnny Peers
  ...He became a member of ''The Greatest Show On Earth'''s Clown Alley, where he worked alongside one of its star clowns, [[Lou Jacobs]], who became his men ...rmed with dogs, prompting Johnny to develop a comedy dog act. In 1972, he he adopted his first dog, ''Freckles'' from the Human Society. ''Freckles'' wa
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• Lou Jacobs
  ...n recent circus history, Lou Jacobs's career spanned 62 years, 60 of which he spent with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]. Jacobs (1902-1992) was b ...Jacobs had already made his debut in show business: in 1910, at age seven, he appeared on stage as the rear end of an alligator, a costume whose front en
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• Dolly Jacobs
  ...for decades associated with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], where he performed from 1925 to 1985. Her mother was born Jean Rockwell. An adventur ...et. Lou Jacobs visited the beautiful aerialist in the hospital as often as he could. When Jean recovered, they married. They had two daughters, [[Lou Ann
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• Ben Williams
  ...ent, he was offered a scholarship for the University of South Florida, but he chose to go back to the circus instead, and to continue working with elepha ...e first time on television with Anna May, on the ''Ed Sullivan Show'' when he was eleven years old. Eventually, Buckles and Barbara Woodcock helped Ben d
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• Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain
  Louis Merlin never saw the project come to fruition: he died unexpectedly at the end of 1976. The festival was held for the first t
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• Paulina Schumann
  ...hem a successful clown trio, The Andreu-Rivels, decided to go his own way. He launched a separate career, with the help of his wife and sons, and several
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• Marie-Pierre Bénac
  ...was sufficiently impressed with Marie-Pierre's gymnastics background that he brought her into the resident company of his [[Cirque à l'ancienne]]. A re
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• David Dimitri
  ...the legendary Swiss clown [[Dimitri]] (1935-2016). He was only seven when he made his debut in the ring of [[Circus Knie]], along with his siblings, all ...t, Hungary. He graduated in 1981 with a tight-wire act, a version of which he had presented at the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris the
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• The Togni Family
  ...tory of the Italian circus: He was celebrated in newspapers and magazines, he mingled with movie stars, appeared with his big cats in several "peplum" mo ...the 1980s, as an Italian pioneer in the sport and concert arena business. He has been succeeded in that business by his son Divier (b.1949). Wioris's ot
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• Darix Togni
  ...in a Russian dance act with his cousins Wally and Angly. At age fourteen, he was included in the family’s perch-pole act. By the late 1930s, he contributed with his brother and cousins to the three popular "house acts"
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• Diana and Yury
  ...d most important circus school in Soviet Russia (after the one in Moscow). He graduated in 1994 as an acrobat on unicycle.
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• Les Casaly
  ...que Vanetti. While Guillaume was performing his aerial act in Switzerland, he and Mireille became reacquainted. Deciding to join forces, they created an ...he touring unit, eventually rising to the post of Vice-President. In 2009, he succeeded [[Paul Binder]] as the Big Apple Circus’s Artistic Director.
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• Charlie Rivel
  ...vies and plays; his image was used for dolls and other souvenir items; and he received every honor and accolade open to a performer. ...artistic skills, a talent for pantomime, and a flair for public relations, he developed a totally original clown character that stands as one of the twen
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• Cirkus Benneweis
  ...ave been Gottfried’s elder son, but nothing is known of his siblings, if he had any.) ...rformed in the show as a child acrobat and clown. When he was 27, in 1915, he married 24-year-old Karen Christine Irene Petersen (Nov. 26, 1891-Dec. 5, 1
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• Anatoly Durov
  ...et regime. As for Vladimir, who became an iconic figure in the Soviet era, he eventually gave up clowning, came to specialize in animal training, and jus ...he Moscow Police—a job he did more because he wanted to than because he had to. Anatoly’s brother, [[Vladimir Durov|Vladimir Leonidevich]] (1863-
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• Vladimir Durov
  ...e named after him. He was said to have revolutionized animal training, and he was described as a clown-satirist whose anarchistic stance against an autoc In truth, however, although Vladimir was indeed a skilled animal trainer, he used methods that were becoming prevalent in Western Europe at the same tim
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• The Dancing Gauchos
  ...ational Folkloric Ballet of Argentina and was invited to join the company. He eventually became the Ballet's principal dancer. Before he met Martha, Sergio had developed a spectacular act based on the Boleadora,
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• Egorov Troupe
  ...ther Yury (b. February 9, 1964), he joined an Amateur Circus troupe, where he learned a wide range of circus disciplines. (Amateur Circus troupes are the ...e joined the legendary high-wire act of [[Vladimir Volzhansky]], with whom he performed for twelve years, both in Russia and abroad with the [[Moscow Cir
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• Pedro and Tatiana Carrillo
  ...lying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined his father’s high-wire act. He continued his training, gradually acquiring his father’s outstanding skil
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• The Carrillos
  ...lying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined his father’s high-wire act. He continued his training, gradually acquiring his father’s outstanding skil ...ive of Bogota, Colombia, Capitolino was born into a family of wirewalkers. He made his debut on the high wire at age twelve. With the addition of Acevedo
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• Picaso Jr.
  ...He later spent some time in the military—which is when, as a hobby, he began honing his juggling skills. ...Francisco participated in the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque Demain]], where he won a Bronze Medal. His career was definitely launched.
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