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  • ...dred wagons traveling by train were used to transport the circus equipment and house the personnel. ...the biggest traveling circuses in Europe, which was subsequently continued and improved by his sons.
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  • ...d Circus, with a group of twelve Shetland ponies. She was tutored in horse and animal training by [[John Gindl]], who was at the time Billy Smart's Circus ...circuses, notably for [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland and [[Circus Krone]] and [[Circus Hagenbeck]] in Germany. Eventually, Yasmine became a celebrated "R
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  • ...Kremo]], a former icarist whose "Gentleman Juggler" act was world famous, and his wife Marianne, née Kalbitz, both Swiss citizens. Kris went to school i ...cent of his father's, but significantly improved—notably with triple and quadruple pirouettes while juggling his cigar boxes.
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  • ...in 2003-2004. Oleg's wife, Yana, also a graduate of Moscow's State Circus and Variety College, appeared with [[The Firebirds]]. ...mir Skrinichenko, Valery Larin, Artur Ishkulov and Oleg Kasatkin (flyers), and Aleksey Voytenko (second catcher).
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  • ...d with the [[Leers-Arvello Troupe]]; their act, which combined Roman Rings and acrobatic pyramids, was mostly an aerial display of strength. ...oss," which were then supposed to belong exclusively to a male repertoire, and she even held with one arm her hanging stepfather. Meanwhile, she was build
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  • ...m 1979 to 1984 – gathering gold, silver and bronze medals along the way, and several Russian championships titles. ...ed by [[Natalia Makovskaya]]. Regina participated in both acts (flying act and Russian barre).
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  • ''By Alessandro Cervelatti — Translated and edited by Dominique Jando'' ...stables who had suffered from a bad fall in England during a race in 1890 and had died soon after. What is certain is that Giacomo's mother let him join,
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  • ...arnaval'', which included [[Elena Drogaleva]], Andrey Ivanko, Kyril Balan, and Alek Novosolov. ...rmed in the U.S. with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] from 1995-97, and appeared for the last time together at the [[Big Apple Circus]] in 1999, be
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  • ...ctivity of the organization. It became one of the world’s most respected and successful circuses—until the economic crisis of 2008, which dramatic ...andoned its spring-summer tours of the northeast United States and beyond, and limited its activity to its Lincoln Center four-month winter season. Howeve
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  • ...the firstborn of a very large family: She had six brothers and one sister, and all her life she would assume a sort of matriarchal responsibility for her ...in full swing, which had been a specialty of the great Australian trapeze artist [[Winnie Colleano]]. Mara worked at dizzying heights, without any safeguard
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  • ...rs, Tito Gaona caught flawless triple somersaults with extraordinary grace and astonishing consistency. ...se brother, Rodolfo, was a well-known torero), and Carlos León, a trapeze artist. Victor's father, also named Bernabé, was a celebrated clown in Mexico und
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  • ...-seven films, including Fellini's ''I Clowns'' (1972) and dozens of peplum and adventure movies. She also acted onstage under the direction of legendary p ...ephants, three rings of liberty horses, and a remarkable menagerie of wild and exotic animals.
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  • ...g cupola (in the 1970s), the quarterpole-free big top (also in the 1970s), and the round-cupola, quarterpole-free "Florilegio" big top (in the 1990s). ...istide Togni (1853-1924), a university student who, in the 1870s, ran away and joined the Circo Torinese, a circus company headed by Giovanni De Bianchi.
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  • ...nds of the same family: It celebrated its first one-hundred years in 1987, and was still going strong after more than 130 years of uninterrupted activity& ...ntury—following the example of many North-German traveling merchants and performers who crossed the border at that time.
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  • ...he Caroli Troupe]|Domenico Caroli]]. It was [[The Palacys|Pauline Palacy]] and Sacha Dubrovsky, however, who made her an aerialist. ...in the ''Cirque de l’Avenir'' category (for performers sixteen years old and under); she also won the Silver Medal at the Festival of Riva del Garda in
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  • ...of talented clowns, animal trainers, and entertainment entrepreneurs—and a few actors too. In Soviet circus lore, Anatoly and Vladimir Durov are often associated with the Bolshevik revolution. As clown
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  • ...ivalents of Youth Circuses—albeit at a much higher level of training and skills.) ...imir Volzhansky]], with whom he performed for twelve years, both in Russia and abroad with the [[Moscow Circus]].
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  • ...oliet, Illinois, Pedro Carrillo, Jr. is the son of the legendary high-wire artist [[Carrillo Brothers|Pedro Carrillo]]. When he was eighteen, Pedro, Jr. bega ...a trapeze act, taking advantage of both Pedro’s experience as a catcher and Tatiana’s experience as an aerialist.
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  • ...Joliet, Illinois, Pedro Carillo, Jr. is the son of the legendary high-wire artist [[Carillo Brothers|Pedro Carillo]]. When he was eighteen, Pedro, Jr. began ...a trapeze act, taking advantage of both Pedro’s experience as a catcher and Tatiana’s experience as an aerialist.
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  • ...owns, [[Carlo Pellegrini]] (Carlo), [[Michael Christensen]] (Mr. Stubbs), and [[Barry Lubin]] (Grandma). ...wn Alley as "Gordoon," a newly created clown persona. Mr. Stubbs, Gordoon, and Grandma would be, for the following five years, the iconic clown trio of th
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  • ==Circus Owner and Performer== ...a beloved circus director who made his mark on the history of the Italian and European circus.
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  • ...to five days a week. Eventually she decided to pursue a career as a circus artist. She auditioned for, and was accepted by, the French state circus college, the [[Centre National des
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  • ...sensation that triggered the creation of a string of new swinging trapeze acts in a similar style, notably in Canada. ...er parents had nothing to do with the circus: they came from peasant stock and both worked in a local factory.
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  • ...n years old, the young Friedrich left his studies without a second thought and went on to roam the country with a small company of traveling performers. ...ich abducted the object of his flame on a night of lightnings and thunder, and the two lovers got married that same year.
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  • ...asse in a circus performance, and he was so impressed that he decided then and there that this was what he would do. He would never forget Kasse's act. ...he celebrated "Moscow Circus School". He was refused three years in a row, and was finally accepted in 1986—in the nick of time, since 21 was the ag
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  • ...rteen, Roby was in charge of the technical aspects of the show—sound and lighting. ...a true comedy act involving in parts of equal importance both the animals and their trainer.
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  • ...s Ciniselli]] in St. Petersburg, Russia’s oldest circus, is another one. And in Moscow, there is Circus Nikulin—"the Old Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulev ...eded for their reconstruction. Yet, for the Muscovites, they have been one and the same—their circus, just wearing different coats.
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  • ...t appearances in Russia and Eastern Europe. His is by far the most famous (and most copied) circus clown in the world. ...re with new trends such as the Russian lyrical interpretation of clowning, and the street-rooted audience participation that appeared in Europe in the ear
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  • ...ly talented and charismatic performer, he was also, for circus enthusiasts and circus professionals around the world, one of the greatest animal trainers ...local 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 dysfunction
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  • ...in, Germany, on September 14, 1928, in a family connected to show business and animals, albeit not to the circus: Heinz’s father was a movie stuntman wh ...ther was interned in Ravensbrück, and Heinz was sent to a Nazi orphanage, and then to work on a farm.
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  • ...hort-lived. It was dissolved in 1997, after just a few years of existence, and not long after winning a Gold Medal at the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de ...tate College for Circus and Variety Arts (Moscow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]]—the famous Moscow Circus School.
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  • ''By Dominique Jando and Christian Hamel'' ...ntually chose to present, and which made her a circus star all over Europe and in the United States.
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  • ...ucted or bought and forced into bondage, training in horrifying conditions and performing to enrich their "owner"—the circus proprietor—have s ...d to the dubious reputation of an industry that is often seen as marginal, and not well adapted to the modern world. Today (2010), the traditional Indian
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  • ...onality, although in spite of his holy-sounding name, he fame as an artist and a circus director was eventually tainted by notoriety. He was born Angel Cr ...s brother, Miro, was the father of the legendary aerialist [[Miss Mara]], and of the wire dancer [[Tonito]]. Angel’s mother, Margareta Dordi, had perfo
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  • ...sic halls and circuses, but he also became universally famous, in 1988-89 (and for years thereafter on reruns), as a sidekick of comedian Benny Hill in Th ...Johnny 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 J
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  • ...which included their uncle Dario (Dario Meschi, 1880-1962), their father, and a third partner that changed over the years: [[Félix Gontard]], [[Rhum]], ...ourteen, Nello began to develop a threadlike hobo character named Siméon, and embarked in earnest on his clown apprenticeship, while Freddy, dressed as a
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  • ...Philip Astley]], [[Charles Hughes]], [[Andrew Ducrow]], [[George Sanger]], and other luminaries of the British circus, they still hold an important place ...ing for their line of work, and the Samwells turned into circus performers and entrepreneurs, thus establishing one of the very first circus dynasties.''
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  • ...nthroposophy, her 
younger sister became an artist and costume designer, and her brother, a scientist: An interesting family mix. ...er, Gabriella Hogendorf, was by far the most beautiful woman in town—and she still wonders if this was because of her looks or the grace of her move
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  • ...ime technique of Olivier Taquin, serving an act that has become a classic, and has often been copied but—as the saying goes—never equaled. ...ith his pupils. His instructors thought he had good dispositions for mime, and suggested he furthered his training in that discipline.
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  • ...1934. Fearless and talented, she soon became the troupe's star attraction, and Camilio gave her as a "nom-de-scène" not only his family name, but also hi ...in Stedten an der Ilm (near Weimar in Germany); Annemarie became his wife and she performed with him around the world as Camilla Mayer from 1946 to 1961.
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  • ...and upright catcher, a presentation that later inspired the Korean flying acts. ...’s wife), Boris Degtiarev, Viktor Zorin, Igor Shielkov, Ruslan Yakovlev, and one of the first female triple-somersaulters, [[Margarita Egorova]], who al
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  • ...d took them away to the bush to stand on his line-up boards to take on all and any challengers. ...he island of St Thomas in the West Indies (now one of the Virgin Islands), and Julia Robertson, née Saunders, aged thirty-three years, a half-caste Abori
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  • ..., May was adopted by Marizles ("Rill") Martin (1868-1948), an equestrienne and a sister of the [[The Wirth Family|Wirth brothers]], proprietors of one of ...os. Circus]] in balancing and tumbling acts, and as a tight wire performer and contortionist. From the Wirths, May also learned equestrian skills. At the
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  • ...ench theater, Vladimir Visotskiy for Russian pop music—among others. And Leonid Engibarov for the Russian circus. ...ds 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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  • ...one of France’s most celebrated clowns with her husband, Pierre Étaix (and, later, with her daughter, Valérie)—before creating a circus school ...-1979), son of Paul (Paolo) Fratellini (1877-1940) and nephew of François and Albert, of the illustrious [[Les Fratellini|trio Fratellini]]; her mother,
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  • ...at Blackpool’s [[Tower Circus]], of which he became the undisputed star and, without a doubt, the most popular attraction. ...r. As a matter of fact, Jean-Marie Cairoli became a clown against his will and by accident.
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  • ...old Clown at the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1984, and the great respect in which he was held in the circus world at large are a t ===Family and Apprenticeship===
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  • ...846-1921), who became the first true Russian circus entrepreneurs of note, and would remain so until the Bolshevik revolution. They were born to Aleksandr and Alina Ivanovna Nikitin, who were serfs attachd to one of the vast lands bel
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  • ''By Raffaele de Ritis and Dominique Jando'' ...nts, performing in the most prestigious venues of the international circus and variety scene.
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  • ...Art. The next natural step would have been to continue her art education, and she applied for the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Unfortunately, ...the Lido, which had shown over the years a remarkable talent for creating acts with a strong touch of humor.
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ==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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  • ...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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  • ''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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ==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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  • ==Carola Williams And Her Circus== ...of the twentieth century: [[Charly Baumann]], [[Gunther Gebel-Williams]], and [[Gerd Siemoneit]].
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ==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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...cult to manage. It began to lose its prominence before the first World War and proved unable to adapt to the post-war era. ...-equipped to fight. Once a revolutionary and trendsetting house whose rich and often glorious life had lasted forty years, the Nouveau Cirque finally call
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  • ''By Dominique Jando and Johan Vinberg'' ...bert Schumann, Sr. (1858-1939), who created his own circus and settled in (and then purchased) [[Ernst Renz]]’s flagship circus in Berlin in 1899—
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  • ...had no relation whatsoever with show business, but both had studied music and played musical instruments; they imagined a musical career for their son. ...began training incessantly. Rain or shine, at home or at school, Jefferson and his clubs were inseparable.
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  • ...tired there. Therefore, when a young hopeful in Sarasota wants to run away and join the circus, it is relatively easy: The circus is all over the place! ...s (today the Sailor Circus Academy, part of the Circus Arts Conservatory), and became a showgirl on the Ringling show.
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  • ...al, and his humoristic style in the midst of a group of roaring lionesses (and a phlegmatic lion) has never been duplicated—although one of his cont ...d when he lost his mother; he was adopted by Louis Bouillon, a cat trainer and menagerie owner better known as [[Ivanoff]], in whose family he grew up.
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  • ...s act, which played with great artistry and flair on gender confusion, was and would remain unique. ...most important publication, ''Le numéro Barbette'', with texts by Cocteau and photographs by Man Ray, dates from 1980—seven years after Barbette's
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  • ...the new style of swinging trapeze originated by [[Tereza Durova]], Fomine and Panova in 1987. ...she applied for and was accepted in Moscow’s [[State College for Circus and Variety Arts]]. Under the guidance of Victor Fomine, she created her swingi
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  • ...umber of circuses and circus performers since [[The Ringling Brothers|John and Charles Ringing]] moved their winter quarters there in 1927. ...ircus arts appreciation community, who gather to honor the inductees, past and present.
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  • ...t ("Funny Harry"), [[Tommy Fossett]], better known as "Professor Grimble," and Jacko's own father, also known as "Jacko." The junior Jacko Fossett, howeve ...known to his friends and family) had three elder sisters, Margaret, Emmie, and Louise, who, as a trio, performed a trapeze act.
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  • ...ircus) "Kosmos'', in Donetsk, Russia. Their act won them Gold at the 1st ''Artist'' festival at Circus Nikulin in Moscow, in the Junior category. * Video: [[Klyueva-Shumilo_Video_(2023)|Alina Klyueva and Sergey Shumilo, aerial straps]] (''Peter Pan'') at Circus Nilkulin in Mosco
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