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• Stephanie Gasparoli
  ...evident that Stephanie could have a good career as a professional artist, and in 1993, she joined the [[Ecole Nationale de Cirque]] in Montreal. ...nted her new act at the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris, and at the [[Circus Prinsessan Festival]] in Sweden, each time winning a Silver
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• Hugh Forgie
  ...rom 1941 through 1952. He was born in Brantford, Ontario (Canada) in 1912, and moved to New York in the early 1930s. By then, the sport of badminton, inve ...ingdom, whose highlight was a Royal Command Performance for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
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• The Flying Caceres
  ...t an easy life, and when he was about thirteen years old, Miguel "ran away and joined the circus," as they say. ...e confusing), and within a few months, they were hired by [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]. The Flying Segreras, with Miguel as their main flyer, pa
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• Arturo Castilla
  ==Circus Director and Impresario== ...ns and marketing, his foresight of the emerging sport arenas’ potential, and the pioneering of trans-national synergies between major European circuses.
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• The Casartelli Family
  ...they purchased from the [[The Swoboda Family|Swoboda]] family of Austria, and which had no connection (beside the use of its famous name) with the legend ...to three units touring simultaneously. They are also active in the safari and theme park business. In contrast to typical century-old Italian circus dyna
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• Ali Hassani
  ''By Dominique Jando and Donald Stacey'' ...ghly respected artist and impresario came to the circus quite by accident, and in very unusual circumstances.
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• Cirque Léonce
  ...amily, who left his sedentary life to follow a circus—the well-known and highly reputable [[Cirque Bureau]], one of France’s oldest traveling circ ...e circus and became a journalist, and then, probably missing show business and touring, he went on to work with the "Tournées Baret," a famous theatrical
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• Liubov Pisarenkova
  ...She graduated four years later, in 1965, as an "estrade" (variety) artist, and went on to work with the Moskovsky Music-Hall Troupe, a traveling variety c ...made her a star of the Soviet circus. She married the acrobat [[Borisenko and Burdetsky|Viacheslav Borisenko]].
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• Pinito del Oro
  ...as also courageous and resilient: she survived three near-fatal accidents, and each time resumed her precarious career on the trapeze. ...circus company to the Canary Islands, far from the mainland’s troubles, and in an area also totally devoid of competition. (The Spanish circus scene at
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• Viktor Tikhonov
  ...field. His son, [[Vitaly Tikhonov]], followed in his father’s footsteps and matched his accomplishments with great success. Viktor Tikhonov also mentor ...de his debut as a child performer with his father, beginning as an acrobat and developing in time his own sharpshooting skills.
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• The Durov Dynasty
  ...s dynasties. Their name still resonates today in Russian lore and culture, and Moscow has even a street named after them. ...mdash;two of whom never officially married their common-law husbands—and therefore many Durovs were given, or adopted, the famous moniker even thoug
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• Julius Gleich
  ...existence (1928-1937), but it was, in the early 1930s, one of the largest and most popular traveling circuses in Europe. It was emblematic of an era when ...ng circuses, and then returned to Europe, purchased a cart and two horses, and started his own business.
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• Anna Volodko
  ...ws and festivals, winning awards in the process at the festivals of Moscow and Sochi. Meanwhile, Anna studied Social Culture Management at the University ...performed her rope act all over Russia, for Club Med in Bali and Morocco, and in the United States in the [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Dream Big'
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• Dmitry Chernov
  ...with a Washington trapeze act, and as an acrobat with her brothers, Viktor and [[Yury Aleksandrov]]. Dmitry's father, [[Valentin Chernov]], was himself a ...kulin]] in Moscow: At age thirteen, Dmitry was a full-fledged professional artist.
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• Kirill Rebkovets
  ...the United States in theaters, casinos, theme parks, and corporate events, and in several [[Cirque du Soleil]] productions. ...inetic cube, juggling and roue Cyr. He is married to Olga Lukina, a former artist of the Russian "Circus on Ice", with whom he has a son, Ivan.
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• Nazi Shiraï
  ...made her a household name in the former USSR was directed by K. Kulieshov and choreographed by E. Grikurova; it premiered in 1944. ...and was a member of the Armenian circus collective of Erevan. She was made Artist Emeritus of the Armenian Socialist Republic in 1956.
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• Camillio Mayer
  ==High Wire Artist== ...—among whom the most notable were undoubtedly [[The Triska Troupe]], and ''The Napoléon of The Skies'', Camillio Mayer.
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• Circus Williams
  ==Carola Williams And Her Circus== ...of the twentieth century: [[Charly Baumann]], [[Gunther Gebel-Williams]], and [[Gerd Siemoneit]].
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• Nikolai Pavlenko
  ...sheer artistry of his presentations make him indeed an outstanding circus artist. ...for the Zoo-Circus (Зоо-Цирк), an ensemble of traveling menageries and trained-animal exhibitions created in 1957 by [[SoyuzGosTsirk]], the USSR c
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• Eliza Khachatryan
  ...troupes, before creating his own high wire act; her mother, also a circus artist, presented trained pigeons. ...ace in her life, as it generally does with those who are born in the fold, and Eliza chose to leave the Academy.
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• Uuve Jansson
  ...try that was hitherto increasingly waning—giving her act a wonderful and unique flavor while maintaining the highest technical standards. She has be ...son, was an actor and puppeteer who had also acted as a circus ringmaster, and her mother, Eva, worked in the city of Stockholm’s Cultural Department. E
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• Sergei Ignatov
  ...equestrian, and his father, Mikhail Ivanovich (1924-1967), had been a dog and monkey trainer. Sergei grew up in Moscow, in what was then the USSR, along ...ith her brother Aleksandr, a major star of the Soviet circus in the 1950's and 1960's.
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• Unus
  ...he man who stands on his forefinger," a feat he performed with outstanding and—to this day—unmatched showmanship. ...ears, he had developed a taste for acrobatics, and notably hand balancing, and he had a natural flair for performing. Soon, he realized that he could make
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• Kio
  ...ated to be performed exclusively in the ring. Together, Emil Kio, Igor Kio and Emil Kio, Jr. have performed for an estimated audience of 180 million world ...liar intricacies of their multiple marriages, notably Igor’s matrimonial and extra-marital adventures.
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• Circus Sarrasani
  ...asionally brought close to bankruptcy) by the larger-than-life personality and extravagant vision of its famous founder, Hans Stosch-Sarrasani. ...ues and admirers such as [[Jérôme Medrano]] and [[John Ringling North]], and even, four generations later, [[Bernhard Paul]].
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• Struppi Hanneford
  ...st and a producer, spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. ...r. Yet at a very young age, Gertrude showed a keen interest for gymnastics and all things physical, which was strongly encouraged by her parents—in
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• Rose Gold
  ...nce and a charm that stirred unbridled enthusiasm among circus aficionados and journalists alike. ...in gymnastics. When Walt Disney released his animated movie, ''Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs'' in 1937, her father nicknamed Rosemarie, ''Snow White'':
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• Gia Eradze
  ...helped revive the creative image of the Russian circus at home and abroad, and eventually propelled him to new heights in the Russian circus artistic hier ...family with no connection whatsoever with the performing arts in general, and the circus in particular.
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• Arne Arnardo
  ...re folding its tents in 2015. Yet Cirkus Arnardo never lost its reputation and is still recognized today (2020) as Norway’s premier circus. ...Sarpsborg, on the southeastern tip of Norway, the son of Einar (1888-1967) and Elna (1895-1920) Andersen. His father was a lumberjack. At a very early age
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• Faltyny Family
  ...world. The Faltyny family’s real name is Faltynek (plural: Faltynkovi), and they trace their roots to an old circus family from South Moravia. Its stor ===The Faltynkovi and Cirkus Rozkvet===
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• Oleg Popov
  ...s own ''Moscow Circus''. Yet, his return to Russia in 2015, for the first (and short-lived) [[Master Festival]] in Sochi, became a national cultural event ...her in a dire financial state and, at age thirteen, he had to leave school and get a job to help her. He found a place as an apprentice mechanic in the pr
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• Yury Nikulin
  ...stitution into the modern age, and restoring its prominence on the Russian and European circus scenes at a critical moment in Russian history. ...ring the First World War to stay away from the combat zone. There, she met and married Vladimir Andreyevich.
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...ife of its three historic directors: Louis Fernando, [[Geronimo Medrano]], and [[Jérôme Medrano]]. ...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 eventually led
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• Duo 2-Zen-O
  ...with [[Cirque du Soleil]]. He began developing his crossed-wheel in 2005, and joined forces in 2007 with Marie-Eve Bisson to create the Duo 2-Zen-O. ...wheel act, Jonathan and Marie-Eve also perform a Cyr wheel act (Jonathan), and a floor crossed-wheel act (Marie-Eve).
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• Kannan Bombayo
  ...dia. Still, his name holds a major place in Indian circus lore and legend, and in circus history in general: Not only was Kannan Bombayo incontestably the ...state of Kerala. His father, Eerayi Korumban, struggled as a small farmer, and was not connected with the circus. In India, children’s names are differe
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• Alexis Gruss, Jr.
  ...s one of the greatest horse trainers of his time, both in the circus world and in equestrian circles. ...the Swiss border. He was fourth generation of a circus family of Alsatian and Italian mixed origins. His father was [[The Gruss Dynasty|Théophile André
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• Pierre Etaix
  ==Film Director, Playwright, Graphic Artist, Author, Clown== File:Le_Grand_Amour.jpeg|Pierre Etaix and Annie Fratellini in ''Le Grand Amour'' (1969)
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• Irina Bugrimova
  ...true legend of the Soviet circus. She had performed as a circus daredevil and a high-school rider before finding her true calling as a very successful li ...volution started that Irina, who was seven years old, began studying music and ballet at the Kharkov Opera studio.
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• The Pompeyo Family
  ...over the years as an acrobat, a flying trapeze artist, a high-wire walker, and an animal trainer—notably with a group of tigers. ...she fell on her back after doing a double somersault from the uneven bars, and spent one month in a hospital: Her father had to teach her to walk again. Y
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• Franz Czeisler (Tihany)
  ...in the international circus community, highly respected by his colleagues and the artists who had been lucky to work for him. ...as twelve years old when his father died in 1928; the Czeislers were poor, and young Ferenc had to find a job in order to help his family survive: He got
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• Gene Mendez
  ...h a wonderful “Latino” temperament, he worked without a balancing pole and without a net, in the manner of low wire artists such as [[Con Colleano]]. ...in his mother’s apartment! He quickly developed a talent for the craft, and eventually participated in a televised talent show in Philadelphia, where [
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• The Kornilov Dynasty
  ...ong the world’s very best—and the productions of their magnificent acts remain unequaled. ...he legendary Russian bear trainer [[The Filatov Familt|Valentin Filatov]], and scion of an old family of itinerant animal trainers.
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• Circus Krone
  ...owned and operated continuously by the same family for more than a century and has maintained troughout the years the standards of quality initiated by it ...entation of some of their colleagues; in doing so, they averted the crises and failures that had often plagued their competition. They developed internati
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• Walter Nones
  ...entury (from [[Arturo Castilla]] to [[Jean Richard]] and [[Gerry Cottle]]) and built true circus empires in their own countries equating in strength the c ...is constant imperative was novelty, for which he was faithful to the style and methods of the great Italian variety entrepreneurs.
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• The Owl and The Pussycat
  Paul Tracogna and Adrienne Jack-Sands met in Seattle at Emerald City Trapeze Arts in 2012, th ...the Friedrichsbau Varieté in Stuttgart, [[Teatro Circo Price]] in Madrid, and as a finalist on NBC's television show ''America’s Got Talent''.
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• Victor Fomine
  ...ht|thumb|400px|Uvve Jansson, Eleona Fomine, Darya Vintilova, Elena Panova, and their coach, Victor Fomine (2014)]] ...casion of the Festival’s thirtieth anniversary. To everyone’s surprise and delight, he then called Victor Fomine.
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• Mikhail Shuydin
  ...o his immense popularity, Mikhail Shuydin held indeed his own in the ring, and the chemistry he created with Nikulin was, in no small part, the reason for ===Early and War Years===
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• Dimitri
  ...red, and sometimes trained, many clowns who pursued a career in the circus and, therefore, he is indeed an important figure of circus history. ...anding performer, he attained a rare international popularity for a clown, and was considered in Switzerland a cultural ambassador of his country.
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• Nell Gifford
  ...quality: it takes its audience into a nostalgic world of quaint simplicity and tangible wonder. ...hire. In the English countryside, horse riding is an integral part of life and Nell became indeed a horse enthusiast.
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• Without Socks
  ...в ("Bez Noskov", meaning ''Without Socks''): Maxim Karpov, Artiom Babinov and Konstantin Kopeikin. ...deo_(2023)| Without Socks, ''Photograph'' entrée]], at the 1st Festival ''Artist'' at Circus Nikulin (2023)
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