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• Cirkus Kludsky
  ...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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• Aniskin Troupe
  ...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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• Luisita Leers
  ...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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• Clown College
  ==RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CLOWN COLLEGE== ...g Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]], with help from former Ringling clown and author/illustrator [[Bill Ballantine]], who became Clown College's second D
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• Barry Lubin
  ...ith Lubin's beloved character. However, he would returned to the Big Apple Circus for an ultimate bow for its Lincoln Center revival season in 2017. ...becoming a television director, but the social turmoil of the late sixties and early seventies led to a period of self-questioning—as indeed it did
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• The Svensons
  ...seback, which won her the Dame du Cirque award at the 1989 [[International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo]]. ...y and [[Cirkus Benneweis]] in Denmark, as well as on stage, in nightclubs, and on television.
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• New York Circuses
  ..., or wooden constructions that were erected in a town, and then dismantled and transported to the next—or simply sold at wood value at the end of th ...ofitable, and they quickly prevailed: From roughly 1870 to 1930, they made circus the most popular performing art in America.
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• Valdis Yanovskis
  ...arnaval'', which included [[Elena Drogaleva]], Andrey Ivanko, Kyril Balan, and Alek Novosolov. ...] from 1995-97, and appeared for the last time together at the [[Big Apple Circus]] in 1999, before parting ways.
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• Big Apple Circus
  ...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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• Paul Binder
  ==Juggler, Clown, Ringmaster, Circus Director== ...rtmouth College, where he performed as an actor with the Dartmouth Players and the Hopkins Center Repertory Theatre.
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• Miss Mara
  ...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 ...on presentation at the time. Her tricks included heel-catches, neck-hangs, and a slide to heel-catch in full swing, which had been a specialty of the grea
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• Carrillo Brothers
  ...1967, the troupe came to the United States, where they performed in fairs and traveling circuses. ...arold Alzana]], [[The Great Doval]] (Manfred Fritsch), and [[Gene Mendez]] and Joe Seitz had popularized this style of frenetic high-wire daredevilry, but
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• Flying Gaonas
  ...rs, Tito Gaona caught flawless triple somersaults with extraordinary grace and astonishing consistency. ...former military officer (whose brother, Rodolfo, was a well-known torero), and Carlos León, a trapeze artist. Victor's father, also named Bernabé, was a
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• Johnny Peers
  ...s skills as a natural comedian let him to join Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's [[Clown College]], where he graduated in 1969. He became a member of ''Th ...rcuses as [[Circus Krone]] in Germany, [[Circus Maximum]] in Sweden, and [[Circus Conelly]] in Switzerland.
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• Lou Jacobs
  ...of Europe's circus and variety shows, and Jacobs's parents created a song-and-dance act which they performed in local "varieté" theaters. ...ely seen today, but quite popular then, especially in Germany and Russia), and—since Ludwig had a natural ability for it—contortion. By then,
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• Dolly Jacobs
  ...woman, she was a photographer, a published writer, a model and cover girl, and even held a pilot's license—all this at a time when women were suppos ...ecovered, they married. They had two daughters, [[Lou Ann Jacobs|Lou Ann]] and Dolly Jean.
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• Ben Williams
  ...ircus in 1951 when she was five years old. By then, Anna May was thirteen, and Ben, six. ...niversity of South Florida, but he chose to go back to the circus instead, and to continue working with elephants.
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• The Togni Family
  ==Circus Owners, Equestrians, Animal Trainers, Acrobats, Aerialists== ...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).
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• Pedro and Tatiana Carrillo
  ...|Pedro Carrillo]]. When he was eighteen, Pedro, Jr. began his professional circus career as a catcher for the [[Flying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined ...a trapeze act, taking advantage of both Pedro’s experience as a catcher and Tatiana’s experience as an aerialist.
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• The Carrillos
  ...s|Pedro Carillo]]. When he was eighteen, Pedro, Jr. began his professional circus career as a catcher for the [[Flying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined ...a trapeze act, taking advantage of both Pedro’s experience as a catcher and Tatiana’s experience as an aerialist.
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• Guiming Meng
  ...from a long line of Chinese acrobats. His father was a master jar-juggler, and not surprisingly, Meng would follow in his father's footsteps. Enrolled at ...re featured in the 116th edition of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, where they performed several acts from their vast repertoire. Guiming Meng
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• Jeff Gordon
  ...owns, [[Carlo Pellegrini]] (Carlo), [[Michael Christensen]] (Mr. Stubbs), and [[Barry Lubin]] (Grandma). ...d be, for the following five years, the iconic clown trio of the Big Apple Circus.
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• Alberto Zoppé
  == Equestrian, Circus Owner == ...ei]] families, for example. Yet their companies often contained true gems, and Alberto Zoppé was to be one of these.
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• Circus Nikulin
  == The Circus On Tsvetnoy Boulevard == ...cus, is another one. And in Moscow, there is Circus Nikulin—"the Old Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard."
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• Cirque d'Hiver
  ...e world’s oldest extant circus building. It is also the world’s oldest circus still in activity: It opened its doors in 1852. Its address, at 110 rue Ame ...e (Paris)|Cirque Olympique]], located some five hundred yards from his new circus, on the portion of the Boulevard du Temple that disappeared in 1862, during
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• David Larible
  ...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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• Svetlana Shamsheeva
  ...ing a youth program at the local zoo, working closely with Himalayan bears and other animals. ...ana for his company, with which she worked from 1979 to 1985 with her bear and dove act.
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• Harold Alzana
  ...s daredevil manner—working on the high wire without a balancing pole and at high speed, which contrasted with the traditionally slow, seemingly care ...training his children (Harold, his brother Edgar, and their sisters Hilda and Elsie) in his backyard, where he had installed a tight wire two feet off th
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• Gunther Gebel-Williams
  ...alented and charismatic performer, he was also, for circus enthusiasts and circus professionals around the world, one of the greatest animal trainers of the ...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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• Charly Baumann
  ...928, in a family connected to show business and animals, albeit not to the circus: Heinz’s father was a movie stuntman who worked with horses for UFA in Be ...ther was interned in Ravensbrück, and Heinz was sent to a Nazi orphanage, and then to work on a farm.
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• Tom Dougherty
  ...ings Bank building, taught him drawing and oil painting from an early age, and is also credited with teaching him how to amuse others. This gave Tom an ar ...asked Tom if he wanted to replace the missing actor: “We had a rehearsal and they offered me a contract at the end of the day.”
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• The Codonas
  ...rei Codonas'' (1940)—a very rare occurrence for circus artists—and two romanticized biographies. ...duardo also had a half-brother, William). When and for which purpose Henry and Victorine immigrated to Mexico is not known.
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• Chy Mei Ling
  ...l Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris in 1988. She was eight years old, and she became an immediate sensation! ...hand balancers of her generation. She soon was in high demand in circuses and "varieté" shows all over Europe; in 1995, she returned to the Festival Mon
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• The Chinese Acrobatic Theater
  ...embers of the former Soviet Union have been the most inventive and skilled circus artists of the twentieth century, the Chinese, who come from a different, a ...ntertainers—their craft has evolved separately, with its own history and traditions.
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• Alfred Court
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...mal trainers of all times—and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America.
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• Daniel Suskov
  ...WII, in the circuses of whom he presented for many years all sorts of wild and domestic animals. Daniel grew up in the circus. He was still a teenager when he was hired by [[Jo Clavel]] to work in [[Je
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• Fritz Schulz
  ...the legendary [[Alfred Court]]. Court had described Schulz as a “honest and courageous guy, who had what it takes to become a great trainer.” ...s a butcher. But he shared with his uncle a passion for wild animals—and not particularly dead ones!
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• Ursula Böttcher
  ''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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• Les Castors
  ...decades, it has remained the same in form—a mixture of foot juggling and risley act, which, over the years, has been increasingly interspersed with ...Nona, their mother, was born [[The Bedinis|Bedini]], a celebrated Russian circus family of Italian origins.
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• Maryse Begary
  ...the trapeze bar—which she could hold for more than one minute—and her spectacular series of rotating one-arm planches (also known as "disloca ...Banola Troupe. Andrée adopted his name (as was the tradition then, in the circus, when a young performer had apprenticed to a famous master) when she starte
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• Flying Cortes
  ...roupe were contracted by [[Hoxie Bros. Circus]] to perform their high wire and flying trapeze acts. Young Robinson performed in both acts; brother Alex wa ...retired from performing, Robinson replaced him as the catcher of the act, and Alex became the main flyer.
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• Christine Zerbini
  ...gree of fame as an excellent jockey. Christine grandfather, Charles, ran a circus in France, which was also very popular in North Africa—in what were t ...ion; one of them, [[Sylvia Zerbini|Sylvia]], is a world-renowned aerialist and equestrienne.
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• Loyal-Suarez Troupe
  ...by [[The Suarez Troupe|Enrique Suarez]] and two of his children, Magdalena and Enrique, Jr. ...(1879-1956), who had married Giuseppina Travaglia, scion of an old Italian circus family.
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• Christian Stoinev
  ...Atayde]] family, owners of Mexico’s oldest, largest, and most celebrated circus, Circo Atayde Hermanos. ...od at the [[Big Apple Circus]], where his father was Performance Director, and his mother worked in an administrative capacity.
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• Bertram Mills
  ==Circus Owner and Director== ...unced the "Death of Britain’s Nº 1 Showman" and the "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== ...he Royal Air Force. After the Bertram Mills Circus closed down in 1967, he and Cyril Mills remained close friends.''
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• Con Colleano
  ...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 Wirth
  ..., 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 ...he "American fearless hurricane hurdle rider." Like the most ''adroit'' of circus performers, bareback riders in particular, May was short but strong. She g
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• The España Family
  ...as_Video_(1978)|The Españas, flying trapeze]], at Billy Smart's Christmas Circus (1978) ...e Flying Españas, flying trapeze]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1983)
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• Norman Barrett
  ...-up comedian: "A smashing bloke and a very very nice man… A loyal friend and a very very very nice man." Quite an amazing epitaph for anybody! ===Barrett’s Canadian Circus===
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• Erhard and Christiane Samel
  ...ould add two ligers (a cross between a lion and a tiger), a black leopard, and finally, a boa to this rather varied jungle family. ...t [[Circus Busch|Zirkus Busch-Berlin]], where she and her husband, worked, and became increasingly involved with the care of their animals, until she even
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• Rogana
  ...ved a specialty that had not been seen for a long time in the circus—and their act was subsequently widely copied by other artistes. ...England at Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in 1952, and at the [[Kelvin Hall Circus]] in Glasgow, Scotlamd, for the 1952-53 winter season.
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• The Rogge Sisters
  ...revived a specialty that had not been seen for a long time in the circus—and their act was subsequently widely copied by other artistes. ...England at Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in 1952, and at the [[Kelvin Hall Circus]] in Glasgow, Scotlamd, for the 1952-53 winter season.
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• The Flying Caceres
  ...and when he was about thirteen years old, Miguel "ran away and joined the circus," as they say. ...eras, with Miguel as their main flyer, participated in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1977.
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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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• Ali Hassani
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner== ''By Dominique Jando and Donald Stacey''
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• Nadia Houcke
  ...[[Alphonse Rancy]] (1861-1933). She belonged to genuine circus aristocracy and, not surprisingly, she was an equestrienne of great talent. ...e]] eventually turned into a unforgettable tiger trainer—and a major circus star when he became the first "Tarzan" of the big cage in the 1940s, wearin
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• Liaoning Acrobatic Troupe
  ...forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have followed, for centuries, a linear evolution aimed towards ...e Chinese tradition aims towards the perfection of already known elements, and the integration of new elements into an existing mold.
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• Udarma
  ...contortion: In this remote Asian country (located between Russian Siberia and China), contortionists endowed with spiritual significance their unique abi Udarma went to work with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] in the United States in 1988. In 1990, she participated in the [[Festival
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• Paul Jung
  ...oxes of Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks—and has been often used on European circus posters as a generic clown image. ...working for the Ringling organization, with ''The Greatest Show On Earth'' and other Ringling-owned circuses, for nearly half a century.
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• Freddy Osler
  ...Observatory, Cape Town, which defined the South African school of flyers, and produced most of them.) ...]] (catcher). There were not many great flying acts in Europe at the time, and the Flying Oslers began an impressive career that led them to practically a
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• Terry Cavaretta
  ...flyers of all time. A diminutive, eye-catching woman with a girlish charm and a luminous smile, she was for twenty-three years a headliner in Las Vegas, ..., born in 1949; the twins Maureen (Moe) and Marlene (Molli), born in 1951; and Darlene (Terry), the youngest.
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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. ...troubles, and in an area also totally devoid of competition. (The Spanish circus scene at the time was particularly active.)
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• William Woodcock, Jr.
  ...fans, who enjoyed testing his historical knowledge of the American circus, and his encyclopedic command of the history of elephants in the United States&m ...sconsin in 1854. 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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• Isabella Nock
  ...secutive seasons. Her heel catches on her swinging trapeze bar, barefooted and scantily clad in a sparkling bikini, made her act memorable wherever she wo ...) were originally itinerant rope-dancers, who performed on village squares and fairgrounds, their ropes strung between church spires or above the open-air
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• Lillian Leitzel Outdoors Video (c1928)
  ...in a publicity stunt in Chicago for [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus. (c.1928) — ''"The Crimson Petal" (by Fred Jewell), Lillian Leitzel's
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• The Suarez Troupe
  ...e years, as members of his family got married and occasional partners came and went, the composition of the troupe changed. His daughter Martha, a gifted ...West''. Enrique, Jr., has since become a major equestrian star of his own, and was featured for several seasons with the equestrian hit show, [[Cavalia]].
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• Julius Gleich
  ==Circus Owner== ...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
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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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• Trevor Bale Video 1955
  ...hosting with Trevor's kids, [[Elvin Bale|Elevin]], [[Gloria Bale|Gloria]], and Nita (1955)
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• Trevor Bale
  ...Video_1955|Trevor Bale, tiger act]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1955) File:Trevor_and_Gloria_Bale_1955.jpeg|Trevor and Gloria Bale (1955)
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• Justino Loyal Troupe Video 1955
  ...t Show On Earth'', filmed under the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus's big top in Sarasota, Florida. [[Emmett Kelly]], standing next to the ring
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• Justino Loyal
  ...Loyal Troupe, Bareback Riding Act]] at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1955) [[Category:Artists and Acts|Loyal, Justino]][[Category:Equestrians|Loyal Justino]][[Category:Jocke
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• Tonito Video 1955
  ...t Show On Earth'', filmed under the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus's big top in Sarasota, Florida. (1955)
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• Tonito
  ...1955|Tonito, tight wire (excerpt)]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1955) [[Category:Artists and Acts|Tonito]][[Category:Acrobats|Tonito]][[Category:Tight Wire|Tonito]]
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• Hugo Schmidt Video 1955
  ...t Show On Earth'', filmed under the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus's big top in Sarasota, Florida. The announcer heard in the clip is Charlton
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• Hugo Schmidt
  ...o and Roman Schmidt, elephant act]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1955) [[Category:Artists and Acts|Schmidt, Hugo]][[Category:Animal Trainers|Schmidt, Hugo]][[Category:El
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• Camillio Mayer
  ...—among whom the most notable were undoubtedly [[The Triska Troupe]], and ''The Napoléon of The Skies'', Camillio Mayer. ...o be French, and was due to return sooner or later to the motherland—and French-born Alsatians continued to consider themselves French, ethnically a
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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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• Gilbert Houcke
  ...have made his one of the great names of the twentieth century’s European circus. ...]], a French equestrian who had settled in Sweden, where he originated his circus dynasty in the 19th century.
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• Francis Brunn Video (1955)
  ...ersion of the act he performed with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, before he re-staged it with his signature "Flamenco" presentation (1955)
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• Mayya Panfilova
  ...cats made their professional debuts in 2001 in an edition of the [[Moscow Circus]] On Ice. ...he Grand Country Music-Hall in Branson, Missouri, among many other venues, and on television on ''The Tonight Show'' with Jay Leno.
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• Mayya Panfilova Video (2012)
  ...anfilova, house cats act (excerpts), at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (2012)
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• Lola Dobritch
  ...h;still a rare feat in her times—which, along with her natural grace and her use of a feather fan instead of an umbrella for balancing, won her to b ...dancer. She made her debut on the wire at age ten, in 1932, in the family circus.
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• La Toria Video (c.1965)
  ...ky Unus), Roman rings (excerpts) at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus (c.1965)
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• Victoria Unus (La Toria)
  ...eo_(c.1965)|La Toria, Roman rings]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (c.1965) [[Category:Artists and Acts|Unus, Victoria]][[Category:Aerialists|Unus, Victoria]][[Category:Roman
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• The Dobrich Family
  ==Acrobats, Circus Owners and Directors== ...n. He was also a writer and magazine editor, and he wrote two books on the circus that were published soon after his death.
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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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• Pepe Silva
  ...m Dougherty, piano warmup reprise]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (2009) * Video: [[Dougherty_and_Silva_RBBB_Video_(2012)|Pepe Silva and Tom Dougherty, clown reprises]], at Cirque Arlette Gruss (2012)
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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. ==HANS STOSCH’S CIRCUS SARRASANI==
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• Struppi Hanneford
  ==Aerialist, Acrobat, Animal Trainer, Circus Owner== ...st and a producer, spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first.
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• Anastasini Family
  ==Acrobats, Jugglers, Animal Trainers, Circus Owners== ...in the late 1800s as an equestrian, and in all probability, he was Sidonia and Antonia's brother. But that doesn't mean it was their actual family name.
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• John Herriott
  ==Animal Trainer, Circus Owner== ...ry 15, 1931 in St. Peter, Minnesota to Milton Lindsay Herriott (1901-1962) and his wife, Viola (1905-1981), née Engesser. John was the second of their tw
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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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• 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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• Kannan Bombayo
  ...ill, 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 best in h ...rayi Korumban, struggled as a small farmer, and was not connected with the circus. In India, children’s names are different from their father’s; Kannan B
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• Loyal Repenski Jockey Video (1930-40)
  ...ky Troupe, jockey act (excerpts) at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the 1930-40s. (''The "wandering screen" effect is due to the fact that t
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• Loyal Repensky Troupe
  ...Loyal Repensky Troupe, jockey act]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1930-40s) ...roupe, ''Tally Hoe'' carriage act]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1930-40s)
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• Loyal Repensky Tally Hoe Video (c1935)
  ...Hoe'' equestriasn act (excerpts) at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the 1930-40s. (''The "wandering screen" effect is due to the fact that t
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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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• 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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• Walter Nones
  ==Acrobat, Animal Trainer, Circus Director== ...built true circus empires in their own countries equating in strength the circus empires of yore.
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• Kelli Ramazini
  ...clown. In 2009, she auditioned for [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], and was accepted for the upcoming session of its Clown College training the fol ...—for which she self-trained with help from Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and Chinese "coaches" who were her fellow performers.
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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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• Henrik Henricksen
  ...at the end of his act. His was a remarkable presentation which won him his circus title, "The Tiger King." ...work with the usual German phlegm. He 'started' his tigers ''en voltige'' and added interludes of bravura to his training exercises: gun firing, props sh
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• Tianjin Acrobatic Troupe
  ...y form of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have followed, for centuries, a linear evolution aimed towards ...e Chinese tradition aims towards the perfection of already known elements, and the integration of new elements into an existing mold.
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• Nouveau Cirque (Paris)
  ...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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• Franz Althoff
  ==Gröẞter Rennbahn-Circus Europas== ...ee-ring circus and the refinement and intimacy of the traditional European circus.
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• Alexandre Palisse
  ==Clown, Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...no]] bought and continued to exploit his elegant and revolutionary touring circus.
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• The Schumann Dynasty
  ==Equestrians, Circus Owners== ''By Dominique Jando and Johan Vinberg''
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• Sarah Chapman Video (1971)
  Sarah Chapman, balancing trapeze, at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus (1971)
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• Sarah Chapman
  ...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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• Pablo Noel
  ...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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• Espanas Video (1983)
  ...ña, with catcher Carlos Filles) at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus (1983)
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• Barbette
  ...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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• Circus Ring of Fame
  ...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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• Ethel Jennier
  ...watch. She left the orphanage at fourteen and went on to live with an aunt and uncle. ...ing else that rendered her "generally useful," as was what was expected of circus performers in those days.
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• Walter Jennier
  ...eorge Jennier and Cornelia (Nina) Howland Jennier, who performed in circus and variety venues. George Jennier’s family had changed their name from Hess ...e of her visits to her uncle. At that time, George performed a Risley act, and Nina was a songstress with various shows.
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• Jo-Ann Jennier
  ...ood. Soon they were on their way to join Walter, and Jo-Ann began learning circus life. ...ong until she became tired and sat on the ring curb, thus ending her early circus career.
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• Caceres Video (2023)
  ...ceres, flying act (in rehearsal) at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus (2023) — ''Document: Laughing Place''
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• Alona Zhuravel
  Alona Zhuravel was born in Russia on May 30, 1991, in a family of circus performers: Her father, [[Vitaly Zhuravel|Vitaly]], had won a Gold Medal at ...n award by Princess Stephanie of Monaco at the Youth Circus Festival, at [[Circus Nikulin]] in Moscow. Then, she toured Germany with the show ''Feuerwerk der
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