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  ...el-catch in full swing, which had been a specialty of the great Australian trapeze artist Winnie Colleano. Mara worked at dizzying heights, without any safegu * [[Flying_Gonzalez_Video_(2024)|The Flying González]], flying trapeze (2024)
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• Aniskin Troupe
  ==Flying Trapeze, Trampoline== ...[[The Flying Cranes]]) on the creation of [[The Firebirds]], a spectacular flying act that was featured in the United States with [[Ringling Bros. Barnum & B
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• Luisita Leers
  ...r own, in which she could display her unusual strength. She began her solo trapeze career in 1926. ...|Codonas]] and the [[The Siegrist-Silbons|Siegrist-Silbons]] on the flying trapeze, and the undisputed star of the show, [[Lillian Leitzel]], on the Roman rin
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• Aniskin Troupe Trapeze BAC 2002 Video
  The Aniskin Troupe, Flying Trapeze, in the [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Dreams of a City'' (2002).
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• Regina Dobrovitskaya
  ...were directed by [[Natalia Makovskaya]]. Regina participated in both acts (flying act and Russian barre). ...ancing, aerial "bambou" (aerial perch) with [[Valdis Yanovskis]], swinging trapeze, tissu, cloud swing, and even an acrobatic act with dogs! She retired from
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• Big Apple Circus
  ...Paul Lubera, a flamboyant trapeze artist, and Susan Perry, an out-of-work trapeze artist, who kept a day-job as a secretary. Then of course, Paul and Michael ...earth it ain’t. (…) Just lots of funny clowns, acrobats, tumblers and trapeze artists. And something else—an intimacy with the audience that is har
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• Miss Mara
  ...el-catch in full swing, which had been a specialty of the great Australian trapeze artist [[Winnie Colleano]]. Mara worked at dizzying heights, without any sa ...t was during her time with Circo Segura that she sustained a fall from her trapeze for the first time: Badly injured, she was incapacitated for one month.
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• Flying Gaonas BAC Video 1984
  The Flying Gaonas, flying trapeze, at the [[Big Apple Circus]] (1984). * Biography: [[Flying Gaonas|The Flying Gaonas]]
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• Flying Gaonas BAC Video 1986
  Flying Gaonas, flying trapeze, in the [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Carnival and Mardi Gras'' (198 * Biography: [[Flying Gaonas|The Flying Gaonas]]
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• Flying Gaonas
  ==Flying Trapeze== ...as happened. To the circus world, however, there has been one and only one Flying Gaonas: the act in which, for 35 years, Tito Gaona caught flawless triple s
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• Dolly Jacobs
  After attempting to develop a trapeze act for Dolly, Margie took her old rings from their box and, during the sum ...an aerialist, Frank Sheppard, who, at the end of his act, jumped from his trapeze to catch a vertical rope. Even though Sheppard actually killed himself doin
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• Flying Vazquez BAC 1991 Video
  The Flying Vazquez, flying trapeze, in the [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Greetings from Coney Island'', * Biography: [[Flying Vazquez]]
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• Aniskin Troupe BAC 2003 Video
  The Aniskin Troupe, Flying Trapeze, in the [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Carnevale!'' (2003)
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• Paulina Schumann
  ...same time, her father had begun presenting a famous parody, on the flying trapeze, of Charlie Chaplin. In London the following year, while her father was par ...variety house on the Continent. Then Charlie Rivel, who had performed his trapeze act with his brothers and had created with them a successful clown trio, Th
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• Glossary
  ;aerialist:Any acrobat working above the ring on an aerial equipment such as trapeze, Roman Rings, Spanish web, etc. ;aerial hoop:A heavy metallic hoop used as a variance of trapeze, usually with contortion moves. (Also called Cerceau.)
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• Marie-Pierre Bénac
  ...seven years with the Cirque à l'ancienne, including: Roman Rings; flying trapeze; Russian Barre; floor acrobatics; several equestrian acts, including a uniq ...back of two elephants, both with David Dimitri. She was also featured in a trapeze act, and she performed for the last time her Russian Barre act in 1992-93 w
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• Melinda Merlier
  ...an astonishing variety of acrobatic acts, from floor acrobatics to flying trapeze, contortion to dancing with elephants. During this period, she became roman * Video: [[Big_Apple_Circus_Comedy_Flying_Act_(1989)|Melinda Merlier, Comedy Flying Act]], with [[Les Casaly]] and [[Taso Stavrakis]] in the Big Apple Circus p
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• The Togni Family
  ...d cupola allowed the presentation of the Tognis's spectacular cross-flying trapeze act, which had no less than two catchers and nine flyers. Among those, [[Ce ...mily split, they went to the United States in 1952 to perform their flying trapeze act at the [[Mills Bros.]] circus. Angly joined the [[Justino Loyal]] bareb
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• Darix Togni
  ...ar "house acts" of the family’s ''Circo Nazionale Togni'': double flying trapeze, jockey, and pyramids on horseback. In the following years Darix revealed h
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• Les Casaly
  ...and, as members of the circus's resident company, a short-distance flying trapeze act. * Video: [[Big_Apple_Circus_Comedy_Flying_Act_(1989)|Les Casaly, Comedy Flying Act]] with Melinda Merlier and Taso Stavrakis in the Big Apple Circus produ
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• Charlie Rivel
  ...low Circo Milá. As members of the circus, the brothers began performing a trapeze act. Pedro later joined another circus, Circo Alegría, where he met— ...mbert]], that the three siblings began work on their standing-frame flying-trapeze act, with Neña as the catcher. The following year, in 1906, José got a fi
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• Pedro and Tatiana Carrillo
  ==Trapeze== ...en, Pedro, Jr. began his professional circus career as a catcher for the [[Flying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined his father’s high-wire act. He con
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• The Carrillos
  ...en, Pedro, Jr. began his professional circus career as a catcher for the [[Flying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined his father’s high-wire act. He con ...gan training on the high wire. At the same time, she and Pedro worked on a trapeze act, taking advantage of both Pedro’s experience as a catcher and Tatiana
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• Olivier and Melinda
  ...the 1992 summer tour. Olivier returned to France, where he became a flying-trapeze catcher in the groundbreaking and successful aerial show, [[Les Arts-Sauts]
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• Cesare Togni
  ...st flyer ever to execute a triple return pirouette from the catcher to the trapeze. ...eze legends [[Tony Steele]], [[Enzo Cardona]], [[The Palacios]], and the [[Flying Jimenez|Jimenez]].
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• The Jokers BAC Video 1999
  The Jokers, Flying Trapeze, in the [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Bello & Friends'' (1999-2000)
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• Mark David
  ...in most of the basic circus disciplines and could hold his own in a flying-trapeze act. ...Mark David also had a daredevil side, which was reflected in his swinging-trapeze act. Moreover, he worked for a time with Jim and Heidi Grogan’s ''Star Sh
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• The Jokers
  ==Flying Trapeze== ...s Nikulin]] (the "Old Circus" on Tsvetnoi Boulevard) to create an original flying act under the guidance of [[Valentin Gneushev]], the celebrated act directo
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• Circus Nikulin
  ...s’s [[Cirque d’Hiver]], where [[Jules Léotard]] originated the flying trapeze in 1859, is one of them. The glorious [[Circus Ciniselli]] in St. Petersbur ...has been considerably elevated, allowing the presentation of the new giant flying acts that had been, until then, the exclusive domain of the Bolshoi Circus.
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• Cirque d'Hiver
  ...from Toulouse, [[Jules Léotard]], of a new circus discipline, the flying trapeze. A marble plaque located just behind the curtain, on the right side of the ...f [[Charlie Rivel]] impersonating Chaplin’s Tramp character in Rivel’s trapeze act, ''Charlie and the Rivels''.
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• Circus Oz
  ...e Chinese acrobatic master classes, and the group’s relations with the [[Flying Fruit Fly Circus]], a children’s circus based in New South Wales. Still ...arly eighties, the relationship between the "Fruities" (the members of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus) was usefully symbiotic: not only did they share a big top
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• Charly Baumann
  ...odriguez, a Spanish-born showgirl, daughter of flying trapeze artist [[The Flying Rodriguez|Juan Rodriguez]]. In 2001, The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of
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• Raúl Jimenez
  ==Flying Trapeze== ...w years later, he completed a triple with a full twist. Raulito joined the Flying Jimenez in 1974; at age thirteen, he was already the star of the act.
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• The Codonas
  ==Flying Trapeze== ...ke Léotard, Eduardo worked alone, leaping from trapeze to trapeze. Flying trapeze, in whatever form, proved to be a specialty to which Eduardo was particular
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• Flying Vazquez
  ==Flying Trapeze== * Video: [[Flying_Vazquez_BAC_1991_Video|The Flying Vazquez]] in the Big Apple Circus production of ''Greetings From Coney Isla
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• Alfred Court
  ...ust left the [[Siegrist-Silbons]] troupe and was performing his own flying trapeze act for the first time.
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• Los Maravillas Video - 2007
  Los Maravillas (aka Flying Fuentes-Gascas]], Flying Trapeze Act, featuring quadruple somersaulter Gino Maravilla, at [[Circo Hnos. Fuen
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• Los Maravillas
  ==Flying Trapeze== [[Category:Artists and Acts|Maravillas, Los]][[Category:Flying Acts|Maravillas, Los]]
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• Reggie Armor
  ...he 1960s and 1970s, a triple somersaulter at a time when only a few flying trapeze artists were able to master the triple somersault from the fly-bar to the c ...cle Beach fellow alumnus [[Bob Yerkes]] in an act that became known as the Flying Artons.
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• Flying Armors Video (1966)
  The Flying Armors, flying trapeze, on Thames Television's ''Hippodrome'' (1966)
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• Miss Fillis
  ...act. She is remembered as the first woman ever to hold a handstand on the trapeze bar, a feat that has been replicated only by one of her father’s students ...Banolas (Marcoud and the brothers Banola) had an act that was a mixture of flying act and horizontal bars: Nicolas flew from his bars to the hands of one of
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• Flying Cortes
  ==Flying Trapeze== ...contracted by [[Hoxie Bros. Circus]] to perform their high wire and flying trapeze acts. Young Robinson performed in both acts; brother Alex was only six mont
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• Flying Zuniga Video (2012)
  The Flying Zuniga, flying trapeze, featuring the triple somersault with a twist of Sergio Zuniga, at the [[In * Biography: [[Flying Zuniga]]
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• Flying Zuniga
  ==Flying Trapeze== * Video: [[Flying_Zuniga_Video_(2012)|The Flying Zuniga, flying trapeze]], at the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo (2012)
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• The Samwell Family
  ...his wife toured some cities of Australia with the Lenton Troupe, who had a trapeze act, and he also acted in some plays. Their daughter Rose was born in Melbo ...r. She continued her singing career, although in 1909 she appeared on the "flying rings" as Florence Julian in New York. That same year, her husband deserted
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• Aniskin Troupe BAC 2009 Video
  [[Aniskin Troupe|The Aniskin Troupe]], Flying Trapeze, in the [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Bello Is Back!'' (2009)
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• Simonov's Hommage a Leotard Video (1993)
  Aleksandr Georgevich Simonov's ''Hommage à Léotard'', flying trapeze act staged by Valentin Gneushev, at the 1993 [[Festival Mondial du Cirque d
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• Russia's First National Circus
  ...touring companies. [[Jules Léotard|Léotard]], the inventor of the flying trapeze, performed there in February 1861; he had to wear black pants and a white s
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• Masha Garamova
  * Video: [[Masha_Garamova_BAC_Video|Masha Garamova, Swinging Trapeze]], in the Big Apple Circus production of ''Grandma Goes To Hollywood'' (200 * Video: [[Garamov Troupe BAC 2005 Video|The Garamov Troupe, Flying Act]], in the Big Apple Circus production of ''Grandma Goes To Hollywood''
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• Bertram Mills
  ...re]] and Partners; [[Mona Connors]]’ equestrian act; the [[Edmond Rainat|Flying Rainats]] from France; and [[Captain Woodward]]’s sea lion act. In fact, ...effer’s Midgets|Schaeffer]]’s thirty Midgets; and the contortionist on trapeze [[Albert Powell]].
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