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• Cirkus Kludsky
  ...s traveling by train were used to transport the circus equipment and house the personnel. ...iness). From humble beginnings, Karel Kludský had managed to build one of the biggest traveling circuses in Europe, which was subsequently continued and
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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== ...ed in with a mixture of soil and sawdust, forty-two feet in diameter—the ring.
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• New York Circuses
  ...d transported to the next—or simply sold at wood value at the end of the run. ...e, and they quickly prevailed: From roughly 1870 to 1930, they made circus the most popular performing art in America.
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• Big Apple Circus
  ...me one of the world’s most respected and successful circuses—until the economic crisis of 2008, which dramatically impacted its fund-raising capac ...winter season. However, the Covid pandemic prevented it from performing in the winter of 2020-21. (As of June 2021, it is not yet known if it will resume
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• Miss Mara
  ...acrobat on tight wire—before developing a famous tight wire duo, [[The Tonitos]], with his brother Jorge. ...and a slide to heel-catch in full swing, which had been a specialty of the great Australian trapeze artist [[Winnie Colleano]]. Mara worked at dizzying heig
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• Charlie Rivel
  ...lowns ever to have achieved true international stardom. Like [[Grock]] and the [[Les Fratellini|Fratellinis]] before him, Rivel was beloved all over Europ ...nal clown character that stands as one of the twentieth century's greatest circus icons.
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• Egorov Troupe
  ...he learned a wide range of circus disciplines. (Amateur Circus troupes are the Russian equivalents of Youth Circuses—albeit at a much higher level o ...he performed for twelve years, both in Russia and abroad with the [[Moscow Circus]].
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• The Knie Dynasty
  ==Knie: The Swiss National Circus== ...ng Friedrich left his studies without a second thought and went on to roam the country with a small company of traveling performers.
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• Cirque d'Hiver
  ==Cirque Napoléon, Cirque National, Cirque d'Hiver== ...eloup: The Cirque d’Hiver is therefore quite noticeable, practically "on the Boulevards."
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• Gunther Gebel-Williams
  ...round the world, one of the greatest animal trainers of the second half of the twentieth century. ...l 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 dysfunctional G
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• Tom Dougherty
  ...ness in any way. Yet Tom’s grandfather, Adolf L. Müller, who was one of the main architects of Brooklyn’s historic Williamsburg Savings Bank building ...actor: “We had a rehearsal and they offered me a contract at the end of the day.”
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• Pieric
  ..., however, has chosen this arduous specialty, and he has performed it with great success for more than three decades, in addition to being a talented august ...of Brittany in France. The people of Brittany are mariners, and fittingly, the Furics were a family of sailors. But if Pierre was as good a sailor as coul
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• The Indian Circus
  ...orted to methods that have fortunately vanished more than a century ago in the western world. [[File:Rambo_Circus_(2011).jpeg|thumb|right|375px|Rambo Circus (2011)]]
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• Johnny Hutch
  ...n reruns), as a sidekick of comedian Benny Hill in Thames Television’s ''The Benny Hill Show''. ...ny was rather short for his age (in adulthood, he was five feet tall), and the jobs available around were not for him. So, his father suggested that Johnn
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• Russia's First National Circus
  ...their merry-go-rounds, but the presence of the theater had since redeemed the square's prestige, and Guerra found himself in ideal surroundings. .... Guerra was a remarkable trick-rider, famous for his aggressive manner in the ring (which he also displayed in private life), and which got him a nicknam
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• Anhui Acrobatic Troupe
  ...for centuries, a linear evolution aimed towards the extreme refinement of the skills involved in a particular art form. ...inese tradition aims towards the perfection of already known elements, and the integration of new elements into an existing mold.
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• Bertram Mills
  ==Circus Owner and Director== ...e "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== ...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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• Leonid Engibarov
  ...Russian pop music—among others. And Leonid Engibarov for the Russian circus. ...odied the moods of a new Soviet youth, which danced the twist, listened to the Beatles, and tried to erase three decades of Stalinist tyranny.
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• Norman Barrett
  ...ve, and as these lines were written in 2011, showed no sign of retirement. The best comments ever made about this most charming man were written by Ken Do ===Barrett’s Canadian Circus===
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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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• Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe
  ...for centuries, a linear evolution aimed towards the extreme refinement of the skills involved in a particular art form. ...inese tradition aims towards the perfection of already known elements, and the integration of new elements into an existing mold.
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• The Great Carmo
  ==Juggler, Magician, Circus Owner== ...ls|Bertram W. Mills]] and his two sons in 1929, prior to the appearance of the full-fledged Mills tenting show in 1930.
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• Arturo Castilla
  ==Circus Director and Impresario== ...ght of the emerging sport arenas’ potential, and the pioneering of trans-national synergies between major European circuses.
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• Marthe and Juliette Vesque
  ==Circus Memorialists== ...visual documentation existing on the European circus of the first half of the twentieth century.
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• Rob Torres
  ...d short the brilliant career of a young, talented clown that had conquered the affection of a large international audience. ...Rob developed a taste for performance and show business that would inform the rest of his life.
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• The Aragón Family
  ...nd Gaby, Fofó y Miliki, from the fourth generation, and their children of the fifth generation, who became major stars on Spanish television. ...ildren—and four sons among them. Little has been recorded of Arturo, the elder, who was probably significantly older than his more famous brothers:
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• Jenda Smaha
  ...ws. To the public at large, his name is certainly not as famous as that of the elephants he presented, ''Bertha'', and then a string of ''Tanyas''. ===The Vinicky-Smahas===
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• William Woodcock, Jr.
  ...erican circus, and his encyclopedic command of the history of elephants in the United States—an interest passed on to him by his father. ...854. As the feisty Babe would often say, "My family was in the circus when the Ringling brothers were still wearing wooden shoes."
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• Scott and Muriel
  ...ssistant. A friend introduced him to Muriel Brugman, a native of Weesp, in the Netherlands, who had a keen interest in physical comedy. Although he didn't ...ttended eighteen months after Muriel, when he finally overcame his fear of the legendary teacher. Scott and Muriel shared common interests (one was unicyc
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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== ...reeding ground for three of the best animal trainers of the second half of the twentieth century: [[Charly Baumann]], [[Gunther Gebel-Williams]], and [[Ge
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• Gilbert Houcke
  ...have made his one of the great names of the twentieth century’s European circus. ...trian who had settled in Sweden, where he originated his circus dynasty in the 19th century.
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• Walter Houc
  ...world, as well as on television and on film. In its several incarnations, the act always featured Walter Houc, working at various stages with his brother ...s a very strong man, and he somehow was able to catch Walter before he hit the ground; he had saved his son’s life.
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• Dalian Acrobatic Troupe
  ...for centuries, a linear evolution aimed towards the extreme refinement of the skills involved in a particular art form. ...inese tradition aims towards the perfection of already known elements, and the integration of new elements into an existing mold.
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• Nikolai Pavlenko
  ...and the sheer artistry of his presentations make him indeed an outstanding circus artist. ...o, many great Russian animal trainers made their apprenticeship in the Zoo-Circus organization.
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• Tini Berman
  ...to the circus. As a young woman, Tini went on to work as a stenographer at the Dutch Defense Ministry, while studying to become a goldsmith. ...of Cauberg in Valkenburg (in the southeastern Dutch province of Limburg). The zoo was particularly renowned for its animal-trainer school: Adriaan had le
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• Kio
  ...million worldwide, which arguably makes theirs the most widely seen act in the history of Magic. ...s—and by the Soviet gossipmongers, who showed a tabloid interest for the peculiar intricacies of their multiple marriages, notably Igor’s matrimon
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• Circus Sarrasani
  ...al undertones, dominated (and occasionally brought close to bankruptcy) by the larger-than-life personality and extravagant vision of its famous founder, ==HANS STOSCH’S CIRCUS SARRASANI==
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• The Lorch Family
  ==Acrobats, Circus Owners== ===Circus Lorch===
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• Gia Eradze
  ==Animal Trainer, Circus Producer== ...ome and abroad, and eventually propelled him to new heights in the Russian circus artistic hierarchy.
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• Arne Arnardo
  ==Circus Owner, Magician== ...its reputation and is still recognized today (2020) as Norway’s premier circus.
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• Oleg Popov
  ...15, for the first (and short-lived) [[Master Festival]] in Sochi, became a national cultural event of first magnitude. ...ndparents lived. They settled in an apartment on Leningradsky Avenue, near the old Dynamo Central Stadium. Oleg’s father, Konstantin, made a living as a
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• Yury Nikulin
  ==Clown, Actor, Circus Director== ...o the modern age, and restoring its prominence on the Russian and European circus scenes at a critical moment in Russian history.
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...vies, and even popular songs. Its history is also closely intertwined with the life of its three historic directors: Louis Fernando, [[Geronimo Medrano]], ...drano’s reign in January 1963 was an event attended by the Tout-Paris of the arts, and its demolition in December 1973 caused a massive uproar that even
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• Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe
  ...for centuries, a linear evolution aimed towards the extreme refinement of the skills involved in a particular art form. ...inese tradition aims towards the perfection of already known elements, and the integration of new elements into an existing mold.
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• Alexis Gruss, Jr.
  ==Circus Owner, Equestrian== ...recognized as one of the greatest horse trainers of his time, both in the circus world and in equestrian circles.
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• Norman Crider
  ...lso offered rare and precious circus prints and other wonderfully selected circus artifacts. ...ned baton-twirling, and went on to become the American champion and to win national and international competitions. Eventually, he created a juggling act with
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• Circus Krone
  =="Größter Circus Europas"== ...t circus building in Munich, the Kronebau, has been home to regular winter circus productions since 1919.
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