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  • Main Page
    ...a distinctively innovative circus creator. Charismatic and multi-talented, he was also recognized as one of the greatest horse trainers of his time, both ...ity of Montbéliard, in the east of France, not far from the Swiss border. He was fourth generation of a circus family of Alsatian and Italian mixed orig
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  • Cirkus Kludsky
    ...amily, and had been created before WWI by Karel Kludský (Carl Kludsky, as he became known in the West-European circus business). From humble beginnings, ...Kludský, from Bavorov, in the Strakonice District, tagged on; since 1846, he had traveled with his ropewalking troupe and a carousel. These three Josef
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  • Billy Smart
    ...t Americans call a "carnival"). Success didn't come immediately: at times, he had to moonlight to make ends meet, and on one occasion, his fellow funfair ...t to keep the home front's morale high; he also continued the charity work he had started when his had become a household name.
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  • Kris Kremo
    ...with at the time. In this way he learned various circus disciplines, which he then performed with other circus kids in amateur shows. His father soon beg ...th Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in England. His success was immediate, and he embarked upon a brilliant international career with an act reminiscent of h
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  • Béla Kremo
    ...r in Aalborg, Sweden, under the name Trenton, as the Kremos' "second act;" he began using his own name in 1934. ...ood dose of comedy. His first wife, Welda, died in a car accident in 1939. He married a second time with Marianne Kalbitz; their son [[Kris Kremo|Kris]]
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  • Anthony Gatto
    ...but spent his early childhood in Ellicott City, Maryland. It is there that he picked up his first ball and embarked upon a remarkable journey that would ...irst international juggling competition and walked away with a gold medal. He then made an appearance on the television show ''That's Incredible'', where
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  • Fumagalli
    ...agalli appeared in Federico Fellini's movie, ''I Clowns'' (1970), and then he retired from performing. Gianni's mother, Daisy Huesca (b. 1920), on the ot ...me year, he toured in Germany with the short-lived Circus Fumagalli, which he ran with his brother for one season. After that, Daris Huesca and Fumagalli
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  • Clown College
    ...h Feld]] became the producer of ''The Greatest Show On Earth'', with which he had been associated since 1970, and continued to operate Clown College thro
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  • Francesco
    ...chools, which [[Annie Fratellini]] had just opened in Paris in 1975. There he trained in acrobatics, ballet, wire walking, bareback riding and juggling, ...ral stage and television shows in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia. He was invited twice to participate in the [[International Circus Festival of
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  • Barry Lubin
    ...children were growing up laughing with Lubin's beloved character. However, he would returned to the Big Apple Circus for an ultimate bow for its Lincoln ...itution, Barry decided to go along and audition with him. To his surprise, he was among the 48 applicants that were accepted that year (along with Bill I
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  • The Svensons
    Carlos Svenson was born in Gålve, Sweden. He learned horseback riding and acrobatics from his parents, Karl and Anna Gre ...nd returned to live in Sweden. Carlos remained in the United States, where he still performs his comedy haute-école act, and presents occasionally vario
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  • John Bill Ricketts
    ...eading to unknown territories when, at the end of his American adventures, he sailed to the West Indies. ...season ended in July, at which time Ricketts, his company, and the horses he had recently acquired in Pennsylvania traveled to New York City, to a new c
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  • Jean Richard
    ...Richard, who had a gift for drawing, began trying his hand at caricature: he would soon sell his cartoons to local newspapers. ...nd in comedies that were sometimes a little cheap. During his long career, he appeared in about eighty films.
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  • New York Circuses
    ...ew and commodious amphitheater" on Broadway, north of his former location. He and his company perform there until April 21, 1795. - Ricketts announces his return in December 1798, but he never makes it. The amphitheater, however, stands until at least 1800.
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  • Giacomino
    He was born in Milan, Italy, in March 1884, to a poor family. His father was p ...young Giacomo, who trained in the ring with the acrobats. Like Guillaume, he suggested that the young boy join Circo Pulaiot.
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  • Valdis Yanovskis
    ...the tutelage of [[Tamara Babayan]], he specialized as a juggler. In 1987, he graduated with a group-juggling act, ''Carnaval'', which included [[Elena D ...with Vasily Gratchov, Arkady Burdnestsky, and Natasha Sarygina, with whom he re-created his group juggling act, now titled ''Original Jugglers''. They p
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  • Virgile Peyramaure
    ...Cirque]], the French state circus college in Châlons-en-Champagne. There, he developed a hand-to-hand balancing act with another student at the Centre, ...to the position of Artistic Coordinator of the Circus in 2009, a position he held until the closing of the original Big Apple Circus in 2016.
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  • Andrey Mantchev
    ...joined the award-winning troupe and discovered the circus world—and he never looked back. ...offered Andrey to remain with them as a member of their resident company. He performed there from 2001 to 2013 in a wide variety of acrobatic acts, nota
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  • Big Apple Circus
    ...er a brief stint at Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts, he went to work on television as stage manager for Julia Child’s cooking sho ...d to act out the feelings stirred by his uneasy life, so, quite naturally, he enrolled in the Professional Actor Training program at the University of Wa
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  • Billy Smart Jr
    ...Smart's New World Circus]]. The following year, billed as "Cowboy Billy," he presented a pony, called Rajah, thus beginning a long career as an animal t ...of elephants, eventually working with up to twenty performing pachyderms. He was also featured with his elephants in other winter shows: Tom Arnold's [[
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  • Philip Astley
    ...ses, traits he passed on to his son. Philip Astley was nine years old when he became apprentice to his father. ...e—an area that would become very familiar to young Philip, and where he will later return. For at age 17, Philip left home after one of many disput
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  • Paul Binder
    ...band for a time. Raised in Brooklyn, Paul went to Dartmouth College, where he performed as an actor with the Dartmouth Players and the Hopkins Center Rep ...host Merv Griffin. Paul would eventually go to Columbia University, where he earned an MBA. But by then it was the late sixties, and like many young peo
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  • Duo Adamo
    ...s and Variety Arts]], and Chimgee Haltarhu, of the Mongolian State Circus. He developed skills in aerial straps, Chinese pole, and juggling.
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  • International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo
    ...e Rainier III of Monaco (1923-2005) to promote circus arts—for which he had a lifelong passion. The first Festival was held from December 26 to 30, In the foreword he wrote for the program, Prince Rainier said, "This International Circus Fest
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  • Pancracio
    ...re he saw his first circus. This dream was ingrained in him as a child; as he would say later, reflecting on his long and successful career, "''El payaso He was born Fernando Alvarez on July 29, 1955 in Jerez de la Frontera in the P
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  • Carrillo Brothers
    ...is circus career as a roustabout in traveling circuses. In his spare time, he practiced wire-walking and soon become proficient enough to perform on the ...career with various partners, the last being his son Pedro, Jr., with whom he worked until 1994. The following year, Pedro Carrillo, Jr. struck out on hi
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  • Michael Christensen
    ...Professional Actor Training Program. Upon graduation, in the late sixties, he joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a political street-theater company th ...sed clubs with Paul Binder as part of the Mime Troupe, so he asked Paul if he would come in Pisoni's place. Paul accepted.
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  • Dynamotion Jugglers
    ...Following the example of [[Kris Kremo]], he started a solo career in 1980. He toured the world with the Harlem Globetrotters and was featured in numerous ...n a circus ring, at the [[Big Apple Circus]]. He performed a juggling duet he had created with Jim Strinka, called Dynamotion.
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  • Flying Gaonas
    ...d already had a taste of the trapeze: in the summer of 1954, at age seven, he was announced as "the world's youngest flyer," with the Flying Valentines a ...Tito's goal. He caught it for the first time in 1964. The following year, he added a return to the trapeze bar with a double pirouette, in the manner of
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  • Johnny Peers
    ...He became a member of ''The Greatest Show On Earth'''s Clown Alley, where he worked alongside one of its star clowns, [[Lou Jacobs]], who became his men ...rmed with dogs, prompting Johnny to develop a comedy dog act. In 1972, he he adopted his first dog, ''Freckles'' from the Human Society. ''Freckles'' wa
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  • Lou Jacobs
    ...n recent circus history, Lou Jacobs's career spanned 62 years, 60 of which he spent with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]. Jacobs (1902-1992) was b ...Jacobs had already made his debut in show business: in 1910, at age seven, he appeared on stage as the rear end of an alligator, a costume whose front en
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  • Dolly Jacobs
    ...for decades associated with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], where he performed from 1925 to 1985. Her mother was born Jean Rockwell. An adventur ...et. Lou Jacobs visited the beautiful aerialist in the hospital as often as he could. When Jean recovered, they married. They had two daughters, [[Lou Ann
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  • Ben Williams
    ...ent, he was offered a scholarship for the University of South Florida, but he chose to go back to the circus instead, and to continue working with elepha ...e first time on television with Anna May, on the ''Ed Sullivan Show'' when he was eleven years old. Eventually, Buckles and Barbara Woodcock helped Ben d
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  • Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain
    Louis Merlin never saw the project come to fruition: he died unexpectedly at the end of 1976. The festival was held for the first t
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  • Paulina Schumann
    ...hem a successful clown trio, The Andreu-Rivels, decided to go his own way. He launched a separate career, with the help of his wife and sons, and several
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  • Marie-Pierre Bénac
    ...was sufficiently impressed with Marie-Pierre's gymnastics background that he brought her into the resident company of his [[Cirque à l'ancienne]]. A re
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  • David Dimitri
    ...the legendary Swiss clown [[Dimitri]] (1935-2016). He was only seven when he made his debut in the ring of [[Circus Knie]], along with his siblings, all ...t, Hungary. He graduated in 1981 with a tight-wire act, a version of which he had presented at the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris the
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  • The Togni Family
    ...tory of the Italian circus: He was celebrated in newspapers and magazines, he mingled with movie stars, appeared with his big cats in several "peplum" mo ...the 1980s, as an Italian pioneer in the sport and concert arena business. He has been succeeded in that business by his son Divier (b.1949). Wioris's ot
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  • Darix Togni
    ...in a Russian dance act with his cousins Wally and Angly. At age fourteen, he was included in the family’s perch-pole act. By the late 1930s, he contributed with his brother and cousins to the three popular "house acts"
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  • Diana and Yury
    ...d most important circus school in Soviet Russia (after the one in Moscow). He graduated in 1994 as an acrobat on unicycle.
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  • Les Casaly
    ...que Vanetti. While Guillaume was performing his aerial act in Switzerland, he and Mireille became reacquainted. Deciding to join forces, they created an ...he touring unit, eventually rising to the post of Vice-President. In 2009, he succeeded [[Paul Binder]] as the Big Apple Circus’s Artistic Director.
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  • Charlie Rivel
    ...vies and plays; his image was used for dolls and other souvenir items; and he received every honor and accolade open to a performer. ...artistic skills, a talent for pantomime, and a flair for public relations, he developed a totally original clown character that stands as one of the twen
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  • Cirkus Benneweis
    ...ave been Gottfried’s elder son, but nothing is known of his siblings, if he had any.) ...rformed in the show as a child acrobat and clown. When he was 27, in 1915, he married 24-year-old Karen Christine Irene Petersen (Nov. 26, 1891-Dec. 5, 1
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  • Anatoly Durov
    ...et regime. As for Vladimir, who became an iconic figure in the Soviet era, he eventually gave up clowning, came to specialize in animal training, and jus ...he Moscow Police—a job he did more because he wanted to than because he had to. Anatoly’s brother, [[Vladimir Durov|Vladimir Leonidevich]] (1863-
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  • Vladimir Durov
    ...e named after him. He was said to have revolutionized animal training, and he was described as a clown-satirist whose anarchistic stance against an autoc In truth, however, although Vladimir was indeed a skilled animal trainer, he used methods that were becoming prevalent in Western Europe at the same tim
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  • The Dancing Gauchos
    ...ational Folkloric Ballet of Argentina and was invited to join the company. He eventually became the Ballet's principal dancer. Before he met Martha, Sergio had developed a spectacular act based on the Boleadora,
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  • Egorov Troupe
    ...ther Yury (b. February 9, 1964), he joined an Amateur Circus troupe, where he learned a wide range of circus disciplines. (Amateur Circus troupes are the ...e joined the legendary high-wire act of [[Vladimir Volzhansky]], with whom he performed for twelve years, both in Russia and abroad with the [[Moscow Cir
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  • Pedro and Tatiana Carrillo
    ...lying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined his father’s high-wire act. He continued his training, gradually acquiring his father’s outstanding skil
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  • The Carrillos
    ...lying Españas]]. Two years later, he joined his father’s high-wire act. He continued his training, gradually acquiring his father’s outstanding skil ...ive of Bogota, Colombia, Capitolino was born into a family of wirewalkers. He made his debut on the high wire at age twelve. With the addition of Acevedo
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  • Picaso Jr.
    ...He later spent some time in the military—which is when, as a hobby, he began honing his juggling skills. ...Francisco participated in the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque Demain]], where he won a Bronze Medal. His career was definitely launched.
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  • Guiming Meng
    ...onal Chinese acrobatic disciplines. As it is customary in Chinese troupes, he later participated in a variety of ensemble acrobatic acts in the shows sta ...he performers who made the trip to America. At the end of this engagement, he did not return to China, choosing instead to defect to the U.S.
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  • Jeff Gordon
    ...981, he joined the [[Big Apple Circus]], where he worked on the ring crew. He also appeared as a plant in the audience for the Big Apple Circus’s trio ...e intimate, one-ring European format of the Big Apple Circus. So, in 1983, he became a full-fledged member of the Big Apple Circus’s Clown Alley as "Go
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  • Ricardo Sosa
    ...l. There, he trained for four years to be a professional circus performer. He graduated in 1986 with a remarkable hand-balancing and contortion act. ...petitions, he received a special teaching award from the Cuban Government. He also continued to perform, appearing at the Tropicana in Havana and touring
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  • Olivier and Melinda
    ...Olivier Merlier was not, it seemed, destined to become a circus performer. He worked as a welder on nuclear power plant construction sites, and, in his s ...he began training in all the classic circus disciplines. At the same time, he began to study Hungarian—and to pay increasing amounts of attention t
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  • Circus Flora
    ...acKinnon]], was made Associate Artistic Director, a position he held until he succeeded to Balding in 2014.
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  • Ivor David Balding
    ...New York, before becoming manager of the Whitney Farm in Lexington, where he raised and trained racing-horses. ...duced to the circus and theater worlds through his father’s connections. He began his show business career as stage manager at the Westport Country Pla
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  • Cesare Togni
    ...The Togni Family|Togni family]], one of Italy's foremost circus dynasties. He was a beloved circus director who made his mark on the history of the Itali ...mbered as the principal flyer in his family's flying-trapeze act: in 1956, he became the first flyer ever to execute a triple return pirouette from the c
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  • Sophie and Virgile
    ...le entered the Centre National des Arts du Cirque in 1986, at age fifteen. He came from the circus: His father ran a small circus company. ...ed with the Big Apple Circus and became a member of its permanent company. He later graduated to Artistic Coordinator of that circus.
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  • Val De Fun
    ...performers on November 11, 1969 in Semferopol, Ukraine. While growing up, he was trained in a wide range of circus skills and learned even more by watch In 1984, at the age of fourteen, Valery followed in his mother's footsteps: he became an acrobat on horseback in the legendary equestrian troupe of Natali
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  • Kovgar Troupe
    ...|Viacheslav Chernevsky]]. It was as a member of the Chernevsky Troupe that he became the first acrobat ever to achieve, while standing on a single stilt, ...e to participate in the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris, he noted the Jewish musical atmosphere of the act and suggested they incorpora
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  • Elena Panova
    ...to take on the technical aspects of the act. To Fomin, who complained that he had never worked on an aerial act before, Durova is famously remembered to ...Fomin—now Victor Fomine—eventually settled in Montreal, where he taught at the Ecole Nationale de Cirque and opened his own very successful
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  • The Knie Dynasty
    ...ove with Wilma, a beautiful equestrienne, in 1803 at Innsbruck, little did he know that this adventure would be at the origin of one of the world's most ...sed to marry his daughter to a traveling entertainer, and as a precaution, he sent her to a convent. As family lore has it, Friedrich abducted the object
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  • Oleg Izossimov
    ...o impressed that he decided then and there that this was what he would do. He would never forget Kasse's act. ...ircus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow, the celebrated "Moscow Circus School". He was refused three years in a row, and was finally accepted in 1986—in
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  • Roby Gasser
    Roby’s act was soon recognized as an extraordinary novelty, and he and his animal partners began to work in the most prestigious nightclubs an In July 1982, while he was appearing at the Lido of Paris, Roby was invited to perform at Versaill
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  • Cirkusbygningen (Copenhagen)
    ...ngen, for which he had signed a three-year lease with its owners. Even so, he sub-rented the building in 1887 to his German colleague, [[The Schumann Dyn
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  • The Qian Brothers
    ...of the Chinese Acrobats Association. (Jiangsu is the province of Nanjing.) He was also invited to teach juggling in Australia.
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  • Duo Mouvance
    ...ntreal, and Luc went on to give it a try at Le Nœud d’Ersault. Smitten, he joined Montreal’s Ecole Nationale de Cirque in 1986. ...San Francisco’s Bay Area, and has created Pangym, in West Oakland, where he teaches the Pandora Training Technique—a comprehensive training metho
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  • Alberto Zoppé
    ..., the first actually to complete a layout somersault from horse to horse. (He also, with a longe, managed to turn a double somersault from horse to horse ...that if he were willing to ship the elephant to Italy at his own expense, he could keep it. Thus Circo Zoppé got its first elephant, which remained in
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  • Circus Nikulin
    ...in Russia. In 1879, he built a circus in Odessa, but a shrewd businessman, he knew that the place to make real money was Moscow—the Empire’s weal ...Europe. His horsemanship was greatly admired in the equestrian world, and he trained a host of good equestrians, among whom Eugen Marder-Salamonsky (pup
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  • Cirque d'Hiver
    ...hamps-Elysées]] in the fashionable ''Jardins des Champs-Elysées'', which he kept open from May through October. Up to 1846, his main establishment had ...le, and many other "classic revival" pieces of work—a style of which he was one of the most influential proponents.
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  • Valentin Gneushev
    ...g Soviet circus world, then creating and designing original acts for them, he eventually influenced the style of many young circus artists and companies, ...rcus and Variety Arts]] (the “legendary Moscow Circus School”). There, he specialized as a clown.
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  • David Larible
    ...seen in many European circus rings, on television, and on theater stages; he had an amazing career in the United States and Mexico, and has made frequen ...his writing (2009), developed about twenty different pieces, some of which he has gathered into a one-man show for the theater stage.
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  • Vladimir Tsarkov
    ...cus and Variety Arts]]—the famous "Moscow Circus School"—where he was accepted in 1978, at age fifteen. ...ggling rings, and decided to put together a solo-juggling act for himself. He developed his concept in 1984 together with [[Valentin Gneushev]], then a p
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  • The Rios Brothers
    ...Lahoussine, headed a well-known troupe of Moroccan tumblers, [[The Rios]]. He provided his sons with a thorough circus education that included tumbling,
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  • Harold Alzana
    ...s brother Edgar, and their sisters Hilda and Elsie) in his backyard, where he had installed a tight wire two feet off the ground. ...ed in his father’s footsteps and began working as a coal miner. In 1941, he married his sweetheart, Minnie. World War II was raging, but Harold and his
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  • Gunther Gebel-Williams
    ...] and [[Lilian Leitzel]]. An extremely talented and charismatic performer, he was also, for circus enthusiasts and circus professionals around the world, ...hildren (Gunther had an elder sister, Rita, born in 1928) or his wife when he returned home after a round of the local bars. Needless to say, Gunther's e
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  • Elena Borodina
    ...ho was experimenting with the circus troupe of the ''Pravda'' plant, which he was heading (and which was in the immediate vicinity of the circus school). ...nic American dancer, Isadora Duncan. Gneushev was not a hands-on director: He has a mostly suggestive approach, leading Elena in her own discovery of her
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  • Charly Baumann
    ...rcus star both in Europe and in America—where he eventually settled. He was born Heinz Erich Baumann in Berlin, Germany, on September 14, 1928, in ...youths called to military service, and he was drafted by the German Navy; he was subsequently captured by the American forces invading Germany, and inte
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  • Kuznetsov Troupe
    ...much higher level) when he was nine years old. As a logic result, in 1976, he applied for, and was accepted in, the [[State College for Circus and Variet ...Kuznetsov left the Zemskov Troupe for Moscow’s [[Bolshoi Circus]], where he started working on a Russian Barre act of his own.
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  • César Aedo
    ...mime throughout Central and South America to pay his way to Europe, where he intended to study Political Science. ...ter a few weeks there, he had made his mind: Instead of Political Science, he would study mime in Paris—with ''the'' Master, Marcel Marceau, who ha
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  • Tom Dougherty
    ...he was working on the set, an actor got sick and the director asked Tom if he wanted to replace the missing actor: “We had a rehearsal and they offered ...ow what Clown College was, but it seemed a perfect fit for his project and he decided to apply.
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  • Simon Chaban
    ...tutelage of a Chinese instructor, Lu Yi, and a Russian one, Serguei Zenov. He also trained in Taiko drumming, martial arts, ballet, stage combat, magic, ...obatic staff manipulation act, which he developed by himself in 2006-2007. He has since appeared in many variety and nightclub shows in Europe and the Un
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  • The Codonas
    ...y Codona married a French woman, Victorine Régnier (1841-1924), with whom he had two children, Enrique and Eduardo, who was born in Mexico on September ...a (1859-1934) became a Mexican circus performer and entrepreneur. In 1883, he married the fourteen-year-old Hortense (Hortensia) Buislay (1869-1931), a t
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  • The Chinese Acrobatic Theater
    ...traditional form: In it, the magician wears a large robe from under which he or she produces a vast quantity of water bowls of all sizes with live fishe ...g the meteor again—whether with his hands or on his feet, with which he or she kicks the meteor up again. Whatever the movements, the meteor never
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  • Walter Milde
    ...debut as a property man at [[Circus Roland]], in Germany, in 1950. There, he developed a passion for big cats, which led him to go and train at [[Erie K ...and polar bears at Circus [[Adolf Fisher]] in Germany. From 1962 to 1965, he worked in Italy at [[The Togni Family|Circo Darix Togni]].
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  • Alfred Court
    ...of the twentieth century. Beginning his career as an outstanding acrobat, he became a successful, yet adventurous, circus entrepreneur, first in Mexico He was born into a wealthy family in Marseille, France, on January 1, 1883. Hi
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  • Nikolai Chelnokov
    ...scow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow in 1982, where he trained in all major circus disciplines, and specialized as an aerialist un ...leil]] for its production of ''Saltimbanco'' in 1992. At Cirque du Soleil, he also developed a hand-to-hand and contortion act with his son [[Anton Cheln
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  • Pieric
    ...rmed on horseback. Pieric, however, has chosen this arduous specialty, and he has performed it with great success for more than three decades, in additio ...uld be expected, he had also a keen interest in horses. In his late teens, he had worked both as a sailing instructor and an accompanist for equestrian t
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  • Armand Gruss
    ..., at age ten, presenting his father's elephant, Toffy. The following year, he performed a hand-balancing act with his cousin, [[Eddy Ringenbach]]. By the ...his family's circus), each time with a different act. Among other awards, he won a Silver Medal in 1984, for his first participation with his elephant a
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  • Daniel Suskov
    ...e of the brothers [[Cirque Amar|Amar]] after WWII, in the circuses of whom he presented for many years all sorts of wild and domestic animals. ...o work in [[Jean Richard]]’s zoo in Ermenonville, near Paris—where he eventually made his debut in front of an audience as a cat trainer at age t
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  • Laci Endresz Jr
    ...[[Charlie Cairoli]] (1910-1980) at the [[Tower Circus]] in Blackpool, and he has become a household name in the famous Lancashire seaside resort on Engl ...ch he toured all over Western Europe, before settling in England. In 1992, he took over the management of the Tower Circus, left vacant by [[Peter Jay]]
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  • Fritz Schulz
    ...reer that spanned six decades on three continents; upon his death in 2010, he was the last surviving member of a group of exceptional cat trainers who ha ...er for the firm of [[Carl Hagenbeck]], Fritz apprenticed as a butcher. But he shared with his uncle a passion for wild animals—and not particularly
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  • Ursula Böttcher
    ...al trainer [[Jean Michon]], before taking over a group of brown bears that he went on to present at [[Circus Barley]] in 1955. ...re added later, and when ''Charly'', the veteran brown bear, died in 1967, he was replaced by another polar bear, bringing homogeneity the group that now
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  • The Indian Circus
    ...bai). Chatre was in charge of the stables of the Rajah of Kurduwadi, where he occasionally performed "feats of horsemanship"—in the tradition of ol ...estrian, and his wife would become a trapeze artist and an animal trainer. He probably used some of his pupils in the equestrian department as well. The
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  • Giuseppe Chiarini
    ...on in the Franconi venture, Giuseppe Chiarini stayed in the United States. He appeared in New York at the [[New York Circuses|Bowery Amphitheater]] in Se He was back in New York at the Bowery Amphitheater in March 1854. At this poin
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  • Hernán
    ...performed a bird act. Hernán's father trained him in hand-balancing, and he made his debut at age seven, in a performance given for inmates in a jail, ...France and Germany, and at Busch Gardens in Florida in the United States. He also won a Bronze Medal at the International Circus Festival of Mexico City
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  • Angel Cristo
    ...me as an artist and a circus director was eventually tainted by notoriety. He was born Angel Cristo Dordi in Huelva, Spain, on October 17, 1944, to an ol ...al training, with a preference for big cats. His break nearly came up when he was seventeen: The lion trainer who worked with the show had left unexpecte
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  • Reggie Armor
    ...m the fly-bar to the catcher. He later created an aerial thrill act, which he performed until his retirement in 1978, due to an accident during a show. ...a living as an acrobat. He first joined the [[Dewayne Troupe]], with which he worked in both a teeterboard act and a risley act, and then participated in
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  • Les Castors
    ...red from performing. Charly lives in Seattle, in the United States, (where he had a French cooking show on local television, and heads Seattle's famous '
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  • Johnny Hutch
    ...are Company in 1997. Most of it was spent in music halls and circuses, but he also became universally famous, in 1988-89 (and for years thereafter on rer ...r his son to get a job. Johnny was rather short for his age (in adulthood, he was five feet tall), and the jobs available around were not for him. So, hi
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  • Les Bario
    ...d Tosca. Nello was twenty, and it was time for him to consider his future; he didn’t see himself playing forever third banana to his father’s act. Wi ...ario Meschi was affectionately called in the business) wanted to carry on; he therefore decided to form his own clown act, and approached his sons for th
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  • Borzovi Troupe
    ...in 2005, Sergei Borzov created a new and different flying act, with which he toured a few more years with Circus Krone, before retiring from performing
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  • Miss Fillis
    ...also trained Aimée to a solo trapeze act, for which he replicated a trick he had taught Aimée’s sister, Marguerite—the famous handstand on the ...cond World War put an end to the Volairs, since Alfred Robles was drafted. He would resume his activities in 1941, after the German occupation of France.
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  • Flying Cortes
    ...es’s main flyer left the troupe, Robinson replaced him. At age thirteen, he threw his first triple somersault to the hands of his father, Edmundo. Alex
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  • Christine Zerbini
    ...for an engagement with the [[Mills Bros. Circus]]. He never left: In time, he created his own circus, which still tours successfully in the United States
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  • The Samwell Family
    ...o doubt part of his father's traveling circus company from the late 1700s. He married Mary Ann Jones in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in 1813 and they had severa ...ited the proprietorship of Samwell's Circus on his father's death in 1816. He seems to have concentrated on the circus route of south England, particular
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  • Rodion Troupe
    ...as many Russian gymnasts do when their competitive career comes to an end. He became a member of the Mikhhev Troupe, which has succeeded the legendary Ru ...eit in keeping with the style created by Gneushev for the Zemskov Troupe. He already had Valery Rodion, who was the act’s second catcher, and a talent
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  • Crystalle
    ...llet. But when her father heard of her intention to go to a circus school, he stopped talking to Cryzta for two years! To him, she had chosen “to becom
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  • Les Frères Taquin
    .... His instructors thought he had good dispositions for mime, and suggested he furthered his training in that discipline. ...choice: If he wanted to truly improve his abilities as a pantomime artist, he had to focus on performing, and make it his sole occupation. Around 1975, O
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  • David Rosaire
    ...ter Ida married Martin Russell Hawkes, a lion trainer; David is their son. He grew up in a family where animal training was predominant: His uncle [[The ...g Apple Circus]] production of ''Grandma Goes West'' (1989-1990). In 2009, he was featured at[[Circus Sarasota]], in Sarasota, Florida, in their producti
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  • Vince Bruce
    ...in the Tony Award-winning hit musical, ''The Will Rogers Follies'', where he created the role of "The Roper," portraying Will Rogers on the silver scree
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  • Loyal-Suarez Troupe
    ...sport activities, until he suffered a broken shoulder. While recuperating, he went to see his father training children at [[Sailor Circus]], the famous h ...ngling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]. Enrique remained in the country, where he performed with his family in every major circus. His son, Enrique, Jr., lat
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  • Russia's First National Circus
    ...emarkable trick-rider, famous for his aggressive manner in the ring (which he also displayed in private life), and which got him a nickname: ''Il Furioso ...iool|Ludovico (Louis) Viool]], who was not unknown to St. Petersburg since he had already been there with the [[Jacques Tourniaire|Tourniaire Company]] i
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  • Anhui Acrobatic Troupe
    ...aris in 1987. The Troupe's star artists include Ye Tongsheng, Yang Enqing, He Lianhua, and Zhang Jun.
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  • Christian Stoinev
    ...and over time, Christian became a proficient unicyclist and hand balancer. He spent a large part of his childhood at the [[Big Apple Circus]], where his ...e following year in the [[Festival Première Rampe]] in Monte Carlo, where he received a Bronze Medal and Prince Rainier’s Special Award.
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  • Olate Family
    ...ricks. Richard discovered that he was actually quite good at dog training. He found two other dogs, and started building a small dog act, which his mothe ...was beginning to make a better living doing so than with the many odd jobs he had been forced to do in order to survive. His brother José eventually joi
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  • Bertram Mills
    ...novator of the British circus," and throughout the British Isles, the show he had created in 1920 had become known as "The Quality Show"—a title it ...eyes were as blue as the cornflower he invariably wore in his button-hole. He would have looked undressed without that cornflower…"
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  • Garamov Troupe
    ...iety Arts]] (better known as Moscow Circus School), and graduated in 1970. He made his professional debut as a flyer with [[Nikolai Sukhov]]’s legendar
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  • Sergey Akimov
    ...an teaching Sergey acrobatics when he was six years old. Four years later, he was doing a hand-to-hand balancing act with his father. Later, while rehear ...[[Festival Première Rampe]] in Monte-Carlo, where he won a Bronze Medal. He continued participating and winning prizes in various youth circus festival
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  • Cyril Mills
    ...n the Royal Air Force. After the Bertram Mills Circus closed down in 1967, he and Cyril Mills remained close friends.'' ...er, [[Bertram Mills|Bertram W. Mills]], in 1938 to direct the great circus he had created in England in 1920—until its closure in 1967.
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  • Con Colleano
    ...llivan was known as "Con" Sullivan. A boxing troupe showman by profession, he hired aspiring young fighters in the cities and took them away to the bush ...South Wales, the Sullivans’ third and most fame-destined child was born; he was named Cornelius after his father but would be known, like his father, s
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  • May Wirth
    ...known Frank White since 1907 when he joined Wirth’s Circus in Australia. He did a number of jobs around the show, including selling tickets, playing a
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  • Feller Boys
    ...r named Heinz. Unfortunately, Heinz was an alcoholic and died prematurely; he was replaced by Hans Buckson, who stayed with the Gudopps until their retir
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  • Leonid Engibarov
    Although he had a meteoric career that lasted only twelve years, the influence of Leoni ...GosTsirk]], the central Soviet circus organization, in real life. In this, he embodied the moods of a new Soviet youth, which danced the twist, listened
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  • Zhang Fan
    ...rd at the [[International Circus Festival of Budapest]], Hungary, in 2001. He then improved on his already exceptional act with a revolving apparatus; th ...e [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Legendarium'' in the United States. He has also appeared on television shows in Europe, and in China for CCTV's ''
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  • Glen Nicolodi
    ...then spent some time studying at the Accademia d’Arte Circense in Italy. He began his professional career as an acrobat in 1989, at age sixteen, and th ...resented with [[Julian Stachowski]] and [[Marie-Pierre Benac]]. Meanwhile, he practiced his hand-balancing act under his father’s tutelage. His act was
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  • Anatoly Zalievsky
    ...ct in 1998 at the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris, where he was an immediate sensation and won the Gold Medal. The following year, Anat ...eating his own physical theater company, Theatre Rizoma, based in Ukraine. He has also trained numerous hand balancers, most notably his wife, [[Natalia
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  • Duo Perfilyev
    ...ballet at age four. Andrey also showed an interest in physical activities; he regularly practiced sports, mostly karate and boxing. ...not so for Andrey, who had to spend another year training arduously before he was finally accepted. Four years later, they graduated with their double tr
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  • Natalia Yakubova
    ...[[Yury Popov]]. Acrobatics, however, were not his true calling: In 1977, he became assistant of [[Tamara Sharitova]], a famous monkey trainer who worke This was something more in line with Farid’s interests, and in 1978, he decided to further his education in animal training under [[The Durov Dynas
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  • Norman Barrett
    ...ading British newspaper ''The Observer'', "The Ringmaster’s Ringmaster." He was born in 1935, made his professional debut in the sawdust ring at the ag ...lled ''The Low Farm''. There he had a stock of farm animals, some of which he quickly started training—small animals like dogs, geese, a pony, and
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  • Ella Levitskaya
    ...Bishkek (formerly Frunze, in Kyrgyzstan) were not only built by Levitsky: He also was, at various times, their director. Levitsky obviously caught the c
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  • The Kurziamovi
    ...raduated as circus "regisseur" (director) in 1995. It is at that time that he met his wife, Olga (b.1965), a former ballerina on horseback; together they
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  • Annie Fratellini
    ...n his film ''Le Grand Amour'' (1969)—in effect, a paean to the woman he loved. ...(c.1980)]]Étaix was quick to notice Annie’s innate sense of comedy, and he convinced her to return to her roots and try the family craft: Clowning. So
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  • Erhard and Christiane Samel
    ...rown bear and a Himalayan bear who worked as… prop handlers. Later, when he began to work with his wife, Erhard would add two ligers (a cross between a
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  • Charlie Cairoli
    ...years, from 1939 through 1979, at Blackpool’s [[Tower Circus]], of which he became the undisputed star and, without a doubt, the most popular attractio ...her, he was born in Moissac, in the southwest of France, on April 9, 1879. He had began his career as a juggler and foot juggler, and had turned into a m
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  • Tamerlan Nugzarov
    ...l Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1984, and the great respect in which he was held in the circus world at large are a testimony to his immense talent He was born Tamerlan Temirsoltanovich Khabriev on June 1st, 1942 in Ordzhoniki
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  • The Nikitin Brothers
    ...ase the condition of the serfs bound to his Imperial estates in 1842, when he established the "quit-rent" system, which allowed them to leave the land to ...ok care of the business, Piotr developed into a remarkable bareback rider (he is said to have mastered the somersault on horseback), a flying trapeze and
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  • Rogana
    ...ended a swaying ladder, holding in his mouth a dagger, on the tip of which he balanced a sword, tip-to-tip. Circus director [[Cyril Mills]], who held an
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  • The Rastellis
    ...a bareback rider or an acrobat, according to what was needed for the show he was in, and sometimes as a clown. ...n for clowning. He made his debut in the ring at age four in Germany, and he first put on a red nose in 1932 in Warsaw; his clown career would continue
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  • Michael Korthaus
    ...1995. He has since created another comedy act, ''Ping Pong Pop'', in which he juggles ping pong balls with his mouth in the manner of [[Picaso|El Gran Pi ...tuttgart, GOP in Hannover, Traumtheater Salomé, and Chamäleon in Berlin. He has also been featured at [[Circus Krone|Circus Kronebau]] in Munich, and w
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  • Ahmed Ben Ali Zinati
    ...rgy he had left helped him make his first steps toward a circus career, as he began practicing acrobatics and tumbling on the beach with a group of frien
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  • Emmerich Ankner
    ...nd in Sarajevo in 1914. Ankner left the army with the rank of Captain, and he would be often billed in his subsequent circus career as "Captain Ankner." ...rcuses. He also worked with the legendary [[Circus Sarrasani]], with which he toured South America in 1923/1924. In 1928, Ankner brought a stud of horses
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  • The Great Carmo
    ...e scene, and for a short period, the owner of a circus stalked by tragedy. He might also be considered the man who launched the [[Bertram Mills Circus]] ..., and then by [[Paul Cinquevalli]], the greatest juggler of his time, whom he saw in a variety theatre in Melbourne: Harry set out to emulate the feats o
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  • China Acrobatic Troupe
    ...s as Yang Xiaoting, Pi Defu, Guan Yuhe, Cheng Liaobao, Qin Bin, Jin Yeqin, He Shuwang, Zhang Guosheng, Zi Jifa, Jin Zhen, Yin Yuhong, Chen Linben, Cheng
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  • Zhang Gongli
    ...art of chair balancing, bringing it—literally—to new heights. He won a Gold Medal at the 2001 [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Pa
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  • Hugh Forgie
    ...nuine badminton champion, who held the World title from 1941 through 1952. He was born in Brantford, Ontario (Canada) in 1912, and moved to New York in t ..., he became a badminton instructor at the New York Athletic Club. In 1938, he gave an exhibition at the Roxy, the famous movie-palace in Manhattan, with
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  • Lilly Yokoi
    ...e great circuses, I still had to wait two years until she was free.” And he added, “I think she was one of the greatest performers I ever engaged. Sh ...tional cast gathered by Australian producer [[Michael Edgley]], for a show he titled ''The Greatest Circus On Earth''. She shared the bill with such circ
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  • Emile Carey
    ...here he graduated as a juggler in 2001. Meanwhile, as a Junior Competitor, he had already been awarded two consecutive Gold Medals (1999 and 2000) for hi ...th [[Cirque du Soleil]] and [[Cirque Eloize]], among many others. In 2009, he created with his partner, Marie-Claude Chamberland, his own comedy show, ''
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  • The Flying Caceres
    ...at home to take care of her large brood. It was not an easy life, and when he was about thirteen years old, Miguel "ran away and joined the circus," as t ...n the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo, and at the age of ten, he became one of the youngest flyers ever to catch a triple somersault.
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  • Arturo Castilla
    ...he circus’s integration into the modern entertainment industry. In this, he followed a few other visionary mavericks such as [[Jérôme Medrano]] and [ ...itable) Circo de Parish building, on the Plaza del Rey in Madrid, to which he gave back its original name, ''Circo Price''.
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  • The Casartelli Family
    ...Leonida acquired in 1950 a group of lions trained by Amedeo Gerardi, which he presented himself. Still, Leonida felt he still had to develop two important elements for his circus: a name with a s
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  • Circus Medrano-Swoboda
    ...d, at twenty-three, he decided to run his own circus. ''Zirkus Lajos'', as he called it, opened in Vienna on June 3, 1904. It was not yet an important en
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  • Ali Hassani
    ...p some food or make a few dirhams in the streets of Marrakech. One day, as he was watching a group of tumblers on Djama Al Ifna, a square in Marrakech, A ...siblings again, in spite of his attempts at tracking them years later when he returned to Morocco.
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  • Marthe and Juliette Vesque
    ...talents on to his daughters, and was not only their first art teacher, but he also taught them how to do precise and accurate renderings through careful
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  • Cirque Cassuli
    Paul Cassuli sold his circus in 1929, but he didn’t stay idle for a long time: In 1930, a new ''Grand Cirque National
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  • Cirque Léonce
    ...France’s oldest traveling circuses (active from c.1855 to 1953). There, he worked in the circus office as a jack-of-all-trades: Someone with a high sc ...became a journalist, and then, probably missing show business and touring, he went on to work with the "Tournées Baret," a famous theatrical touring com
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  • Nadia Houcke
    ...rned into a unforgettable tiger trainer—and a major circus star when he became the first "Tarzan" of the big cage in the 1940s, wearing only leopar
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  • Oliver Groszer
    ...ther, Gert, developed radically opposite views in matters of politics, and he and Franziska eventually divorced when Oliver was four years old. ...ly. On weekends, he went to perform on street corners in Heidelberg, where he was studying then.
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  • Fang Yuan and He Ying Video 1990
    Fang Yuan & He Ying, from the Fujian Acrobatic troupe, hand balancing act, at the 13th [[F
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    * Video: [[Fang_Yuan_and_He_Ying_Video_1990|Fang Yuan & He Ying, Hand Balancers]], at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Pari
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  • Paul Jung
    ...it with the Ringling-owned [[Barnum & Bailey Circus]] the following year. He would be working for the Ringling organization, with ''The Greatest Show On ...Circus. So he actually started clowning at eighteen, a very young age, but he had good role models in ''The Greatest Show On Earth''’s Clown Alley, and
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  • Italo Medini
    ...elonged to an old and numerous Italian circus family; his wife, Anna, whom he married in 1920, was the daughter of [[Pierre Périé]], the owner of a hig ...Circus Renz]]. From then on, Italo began training in a specialty for which he showed an uncanny ability.
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  • Freddy Osler
    ...vaded the European circus scene. Born Frederick Weppenaar in South Africa, he learned to fly with [[Keith Anderson|Keith Osler Anderson]], a puppeteer an ...to catch a triple somersault (still a rarity in Europe in the 1970s), and he secured his role as the troupe's star flyer. Then, in 1969, the Flying Osle
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  • The Andreu-Rivels
    ...ng a trapeze act. Pedro later joined another circus, Circo Alegría, where he met—and later married—a French acrobat, Marie-Louise Lasserre S ...ong-man act and in a hand-to-hand balancing act with his sister, for which he was originally dressed as a girl—which made their "all-girl" act look
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  • The Charlivels
    ...and appeared notably with [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland in 1974 and 1975. He later worked occasionally with his father as his straight man. Juanito even
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  • Rob Torres
    ..., working with equal success in the Americas, Asia, and Europe—where he was on his way to becoming a genuine star. His untimely death stopped short ...d County, New York, on September 10, 1973 to Marguerite and Efrein Torres. He had one sister, Allison, and two brothers, Thomas and Andrew. His parents l
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  • The Aragón Family
    ...owing year, Teodoro returned from his engagement in the United States, and he and José-María decided to revive their clown act.They debuted in 1913 in ...er the stage name of Emig, Emilio created a "Cuban" auguste character that he played in blackface, in the American old minstrel tradition.
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  • Terry Cavaretta
    ...rcus show involving top circus acts. Dobritch provided acts for Sarno, and he offered him the Flying Cavarettas, with its glamorous all-female flying tea ...ernational cast gathered by Australian producer Michael Edgley, for a show he titled ''The Greatest Circus On Earth''. The Terrels shared the bill with s
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  • Cedric Walker
    ...nded the circuses that came to Baltimore: he fell in love with the circus. He and his brother Frank would go home and re-create the spectacles they had w ...t this certainly didn’t limit his imagination, and he knew that one day, he would reach further than that—much further.
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  • Pinito del Oro
    ...didn’t suit José’s bohemian lifestyle and his taste for pretty girls; he ran away from home and joined a traveling comedian and puppeteer named Anas José Segura had found his true calling. He became a circus performer—a jack-of-all-trades working indiscriminate
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  • Don Saunders
    ...ispense with his clown makeup altogether—which Saunders did: indeed, he didn't need it. ...he places they expected! What truly attracted Donald was comedy, for which he had a natural talent, and more precisely the type of visual comedy that was
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  • Jenda Smaha
    ...lic at large, his name is certainly not as famous as that of the elephants he presented, ''Bertha'', and then a string of ''Tanyas''. ...932 in Bad Salzelmen, a district of Schönebeck in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, he was fifth generation of a celebrated German family of equestrians and anima
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  • William Woodcock, Jr.
    ...twentieth century American circus. A true circus legend in his own times, he was extremely respected in the profession and loved by circus fans, who enj ...tcher. But Buckles had other plans: in 1951, over his father's objections, he found a job as an animal handler with another elephant trainer, Eugene "Ark
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  • Isabella Nock
    ...as a clown, developed a high-wire comedy act with his sister Erika, which he later performed above a cage filled with lions—kept under the watchfu ...ight|300px|Isabella Nock (c.1975)]]With Pio Nock’s clown entrées, which he performed with [[Max van Ebdem]], [[Grock]]’s former partner, his high-wi
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  • Circus Schumann (Frankfurt)
    ...was then situated in a largely undeveloped area; the success of the shows he gave there encouraged him to construct a permanent building in the same are
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  • Linon
    ...major circus and variety shows in Europe and the United States—where he appeared in numerous television shows, including several appearances on CBS
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  • The Suarez Troupe
    ...leaving the Loyal-Repenskys, Enrique remained in the United States, where he performed with his family in every major circus in North America. Over the
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  • Viktor Tikhonov
    ...ov (1917-1991) was an outstanding and amazingly innovative animal trainer. He displayed remarkable elegance and grace in the ring—a rather uncommon ...[[Kio]], where he was in charge of the animals used in his illusions. Then he dedicated his career to animal acts, each one more original than the other.
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  • The Durov Dynasty
    ...milar to his father’s in 1907. His career, unfortunately, didn’t last: He died prematurely at age twenty-four, on February 14, 1912. ...ond son of [[Vladimir Durov]] met with a premature death: A Cavalry Cadet, he died during the Soviet Revolution.
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  • Julius Gleich
    ...t, it was said that he had been in the United States at a young age, where he had been exposed to the American giant three-ring circuses, and then return ...t is at that point that Julius Gleich joined his wife’s family business; he became the director of Circus Henny in 1919. In 1922, Gleich renamed his tw
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  • Scott and Muriel
    ...est in physical comedy. Although he didn't consider her for his assistant, he fell in love with her. ...in London—a school Scott attended eighteen months after Muriel, when he finally overcame his fear of the legendary teacher. Scott and Muriel shared
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  • Jakob Busch
    ...élia. Jakob began his career as a strongman. In 1903, at age twenty-four, he launched a small one-pole tenting show of his own named ''Raubtier-Attrakti ...s like Krone and Kludsky (and several other German shows); like Sarrasani, he preferred to stick to the traditional one-ring format—albeit on a gra
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  • Dmitry Chernov
    ...two years old. But his "professional debut" happened two years later, when he shared the ring with [[Oleg Popov]], as a miniature version of the legendar ...Petersburg)|"Circus on the Fontanka"]] in St. Petersburg. That same year, he won the "Best Young Juggler Award" at Moscow's Juggling Convention. This wa
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  • SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS
    ...(1756-63) as part of Colonel Elliott's 15th Light Dragons regiment, where he displayed a remarkable talent as a horse-breaker and trainer. Upon his disc ...he process of developing. Astley's building featured a circular arena that he called the ''circle'', or ''circus'', and which would later be known as the
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  • Kirill Rebkovets
    ...for which he showed a particular affinity, and in which he soon excelled. He has performed his spectacular rola bola act all over the United States in t ...to Olga Lukina, a former artist of the Russian "Circus on Ice", with whom he has a son, Ivan.
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  • James Washington Myers
    ...e ''Great American Circus'' he created there toured extensively, and where he even established a resident circus in Paris. ...reback rider and acrobat under the name of James Turner. By 1845, however, he had reverted to his own identity and, as Jim Myers, presented equestrian sc
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  • Camillio Mayer
    ...nce his German citizenship was only the result of political circumstances: He was born April 25, 1890 in what was then Mülhausen (today Mulhouse) in Als ...e knew he could find a piece of cable, installed it between two trees, and he began training himself—learning the rudiments of wire walking by tria
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  • Dosov Troupe
    ...the Republic of Belarus (then part of the USSR). He was six years old when he started training in competitive trampoline in Gomel’s Sports School. In 1
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  • Circus Williams
    ...Rheinesche Line" (Rhine Line) of this ancient and extensive circus family. He and his wife, Adele, née Mark, had eight children: Carola, Sabine (1906-19 ...rcus Hollzmüller]], and finally, in 1948, to [[Circus Barum]]—which he would eventually own. Heinz Geier, who would later become the Director and
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  • Gilbert Houcke
    ...t charisma, his elegance, his gentle methods of training, the genuine love he showed to his animals, and the unforgettable beauty and originality of his ...an Léonard Houcke]], a French equestrian who had settled in Sweden, where he originated his circus dynasty in the 19th century.
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  • Walter Galetti
    ...—in his case, Switzerland’s premier circus, [[Circus Knie]], where he found a job as an animal keeper. ...ure, and he began to work as a clown. The very colorful costume and makeup he eventually developed would become as iconic as those of [[Lou Jacobs]] or [
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  • Paul Freedman
    ...flute, clarinet, and the full saxophone family—and not unexpectedly, he chose to embrace a musical career. ...e in London. They fell in love, got married, and Paul remained in England. He continued to work as a musician, notably with Harry Roy, a well known clari
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  • Walter Houc
    ...train his children in acrobatics as soon as they were able to learn; when he was eight years old, Walter started working as an acrobat with his father, ...ong man, and he somehow was able to catch Walter before he hit the ground; he had saved his son’s life.
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  • Margarita Koroleva
    ...Variety Arts of Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where he graduated in 1981.
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  • Angelo Rodriguez
    ...o train at Moscow’s [[State College of Circus and Variety Arts]]. There, he was trained by the legendary acrobat and hand-balancer, [[Valery Raschivkin ...ammy Awards, the Super Bowl, and several MBA games. Beside his aerial act, he performs a hand-to-hand balancing act with Miguel Balderrama, an Argentinia
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  • George Carl
    ...ion to anyone interested in pursuing a career in physical comedy—and he was indeed one of the greatest clowns/comedians of the second half of the t ...is teens, he left the family’s farm and joined a traveling circus. There he learned an array of traditional circus disciplines and began his performing
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  • Francis Brunn Video (1955)
    ...ct he performed with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus, before he re-staged it with his signature "Flamenco" presentation (1955)
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  • Coco
    ...ritable activities and his commitment to children’s wellbeing, for which he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) ...vpils), in southwestern Latvia, which was then part of the Russian Empire. He had seven brothers and sisters.
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  • Scott & Muriel Video (2008)
    Scott & Muriel, comedy magicians, at he [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] (2008)
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  • Nino Frediani
    ...strophy of the optic nerve, and was considered legally blind! Nonetheless, he was a superb and precise technician, working with only three small balls, t ...equestrian who had been the top-mounter in the three-man-high column that he performed on horseback with his brothers in the history-making jockey act o
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  • Adi Enders
    ...and 1960's, Adi Enders was considered one of the world’s finest jockeys. He and his brother Jakob performed for many years their jockey act as Gebrüde ...career, Adi also took part in [[Holdy Barlay]]'s cowboy act. Additionally, he performed as a clown together with his brothers.
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  • Desire Of Flight
    ...imes"), [[Valentin Gneushev]]'s groundbreaking aerial creation, with which he performed on Broadway at the Gershwin Theater in 1991, in Steve Lieber's pr
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  • Menno Van Dyke
    ...Germany, and the Royal Palace Music-Hall of Kirrwiller in France. In 2006, he won the Special Prize of the Jury at the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de De
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  • The Circuses Of Moscow
    ...[Jacob Bates]], had long preceded him in the former Russian capital, where he performed in 1864, and since then, Moscow had welcomed several equestrian c ...s, a piece of land on Vozdvizhenka Street near the Arbat in Moscow. There, he erected a wooden construction in which his circus troupe began to perform.
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  • Nikolai Pavlenko
    ...in Severodonetsk, in southwestern Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). He began his career with wild animals in 1960, at age seventeen, working as an ...in 1963. He then continued to work for the Zoo-Circus organization, where he moved up to guide and lecturer first, and from 1969 to 1972, to the directo
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  • Tini Berman
    ...ed his trade with Klant, and when his contract with Strassburger was over, he returned to Cauberg with Klant’s bears, and Tini in tow.
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  • Uuve Jansson
    ...gria''. (Her brother was cast with Cirque du Soleil’s ''Varekai'', where he performed his solo strap act, and continued a career of his own.)
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  • Lola Dobritch
    ...la’s brother, [[Al Dobritch]], had also come to the United States, where he became an influential circus agent, impresario and producer until his tragi
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  • Sergei Ignatov
    ...After only one year, he had to give up acrobatics due to knee problems and he specialized as a juggler. His teacher was the legendary [[Violetta Kiss]], ...of creative work. At the Moscow circus college's graduation show in 1968, he was an unmitigated success. The audience present was well aware of his exce
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  • The Dobrich Family
    ...n State Circus organization. He was also a writer and magazine editor, and he wrote two books on the circus that were published soon after his death. ...ny young men were then, before gymnastics became a competitive sport), and he left his studies and "ran away and joined the circus", as the saying goes&m
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  • Die Maiers
    ...ded between East- and West-Germany) and subsequently to Switzerland, where he worked at various jobs, none of them related to the circus. When Yogi returned to Freiburg in the late 1980s, he began to juggle, and finally met Sabine. Recognizing their common interests
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  • Unus
    ...r Europe. Unus was known as "The man who stands on his forefinger," a feat he performed with outstanding and—to this day—unmatched showmanshi ...lancing, and he had a natural flair for performing. Soon, he realized that he could make a living just doing that.
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  • Kio
    ...y 1890-1920), which he presented on a spectacular scale. In most instances he had to find new and subtle solutions to create his deceptions in his unusua ...age sixteen, young Emil began to visit it with his father’s complicity: he hid himself under Theodor’s ample winter coat. The shows at the Odeon con
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  • Alfred Beautour
    ...as active as such from 1956 to 1989. Also known as Fred or Fredo Beautour, he was born September 23, 1924 in Bourg-Achard, near Rouen, France, the scion ...a great personality in the ring, created a very successful tiger act that he presented with a good dose of humor as [[Tarass Boulba]].
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  • Circus Sarrasani
    ...arrasani_Clown.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Giovanni Sarrasani (1900)]]of Poland). He was the son of Albrecht Friedrich Stosch, a chemist and glass factory owner ...e. At Circus Renz, he had met the clowns [[Didic and Eugen Veldeman]], and he decided to follow them as an apprentice.
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  • Struppi Hanneford
    ...g. Meanwhile the Wehrmacht had drafted Struppi’s father; some time later he was killed in action. ...em to let him know if ever they needed anything; they reach out to him and he helped them not only to go through the winter months, but also to get their
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  • The Lorch Family
    ...1912, working in American vaudeville during the winter months. Even after he stopped being an active [[File:Lorch_Family_Ringling.jpeg|thumb|left|400px| ...and Hilda (b. 1869). His second wife was Amalie Dienhelt (1834-1886), whom he married in 1875; they had an adopted daughter, Amalie Stein (1865-1937). Fi
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  • Anastasini Family
    ...stasini active 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 actua ...o and Giovanni parted, Luciano creating a rambunctious dog act, with which he was featured notably with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] and the [[
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  • Dmitry Sokolov
    ...ircus and Variety Arts]] (better known as the Moscow Circus School), where he graduated in 2000, and immediately joined what was then considered the worl
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  • John Herriott
    ...ola (1905-1981), née Engesser. John was the second of their two children; he had an elder sister, Jean. ...nted all sorts of animal acts, with a preference for horses and elephants. He was also for a time Manager of the [[Cole Bros. Circus]]. Milt Herriott’s
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  • Rose Gold
    ...pied territories, and therefore he could work in the Axis countries should he choose to do so. ...nd they treated her as such. [[Jérôme Medrano]] knew star potential when he saw it: No later than late November 1945, ''Rose Gold and Co.'', as they we
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  • Gia Eradze
    ...become an animal trainer. From then on, nothing stopped him. Not only did he become a successful animal trainer, but his rich, extravagant visual imagin ...e circus—and especially with animal acts. There and then, he decided he would be an animal trainer.
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  • Cirque Prin
    ...Prin was Roland’s father. With his wife, née Etiennette Louise Artique, he had had three children: The aforementioned Roland and Yolande, and Simon. A
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  • Arne Arnardo
    ...e was known as The Circus King—and in the European circus community. He had created Cirkus Arnardo in 1949; it became Norway’s largest and best-k ...id to have given his first performance at age six—a puppet show that he presented in his parents’ home.
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  • Foottit et Chocolat
    ...’s father was known, like his son, as Geo (George) Foottit (?-1874), and he had performed at Drury Lane Theatre in London as the clown Funny Foottit&md ...middle of the 1868 season. Foottit, Sr. got back the equipment and horses he had invested in the venture, and continued alone with his ''Foottit’s All
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  • Anton Mikheev
    ...rick Sebastien's ''Le plus grand cabaret du monde''. In the United States, he has appeared at Beau Rivage Resorts and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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  • Maiss and Grock Video (1950)
    ...acter that is not what it was at the time of his association with Antonet; he was then copying a silhouette popularized by [[Little Walter]]. Each repris
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  • Faltyny Family
    ...ung Frantisek left the Army and returned to the circus. At Cirkus Rozkvet, he worked as a clown and put together a comedy unicycle act with Marie. ...d Vlasta Kroupova-Alesova (b.1980), from the Ales circus family, with whom he had three children, Vanessa (born July 17, 2006 in Switzerland), Emil III (
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  • Albert Fratellini Interview (1957)
    ...ert Fratellini was conducted by the French national television (RTF) while he was putting on his makeup before a performance. It was broadcast on January
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  • Vitaliy Smolyanets
    ...tion, ''The Lioness Empire'', and won the coveted Russian ''Golden Bear''. He had reached circus star status. ...amputated of both legs. To him, it seemed to be the end of his career, and he began to lose his appetite for life. Friends rallied around him (among whom
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  • Oleg Popov
    ...viet Union, with Russia in turmoil, he decided to settle in Germany, where he toured for a while with his own ''Moscow Circus''. Yet, his return to Russi ...father, Konstantin, made a living as a watch repairman. According to Oleg, he drank heavily—which unfortunately was not a rare occurrence in Russia
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  • Oleg Popov Sochi Video (2015)
    ...us of Sochi—and it was the first time Popov had been in Russia since he had chosen to establish himself in Germany after the Fall of the Soviet Uni
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  • Yury Nikulin
    ...r of Moscow's "[[Circus Nikulin|Old Circus]]" on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, which he had entirely rebuilt (from 1985-1989) into a modern facility by a Finnish c ...organized the theater group at the school his son, Yury, attended. Later, he became a journalist.
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  • The Aratas
    ...old his or her own individually. Billy was ambitious and resourceful; soon he began to work as the act’s agent, and secured for it very good internatio ...sy in his business deals, although he always ended up solving the problems he himself created.
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  • Cirque Medrano (Paris)
    ...lly evolved after his auspicious flight from home remains conjectural, but he did actually work for Gauthiez. ...strian repertoire as his father’s, but after a bad fall in 1865 in which he suffered a broken leg and a broken arm, Louis was forced to abandon barebac
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  • Heinrich Lang
    ...n Künste), which was at the time the German States’ leading art school. He then went on to study horses in veterinary schools, and in the stud farms o ...settled in Munich where he worked as an illustrator and writer, and where he died on July 8, 1891, at age fifty-three.
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  • Edoardo Raspini
    ...ponents of the classical Italian style popularized by [[Enrico Rastelli]]. He was born in Russia on January 19, 1928 to Oreste and Tamara Raspini. The Ra ...o was very charismatic and good-looking, which contributed to his success; he would later be known as "The Don Juan of the Ring."
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  • Duo 2-Zen-O
    ...hich led him to a generalist performer contract with [[Cirque du Soleil]]. He began developing his crossed-wheel in 2005, and joined forces in 2007 with
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  • Réjean St. Jules
    ...f Québec), and suggested that Maurice take a more American-sounding name. He thus become Lou Robertson… and Maurice and Françoise became known therea ...able to train regularly and to become quite a proficient juggler. In time, he was comfortable juggling five clubs and eight rings.
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  • Kannan Bombayo
    ...Not only was Kannan Bombayo incontestably the best in his specialty—he also introduced it to the West. ...N. P. Kunchikannan—the Indian contracted spelling of Kunchi Kannan: He became familiarly known as Kunchy.
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  • Alexis Gruss, Jr.
    ...a distinctively innovative circus creator. Charismatic and multi-talented, he was also recognized as one of the greatest horse trainers of his time, both ...ity of Montbéliard, in the east of France, not far from the Swiss border. He was fourth generation of a circus family of Alsatian and Italian mixed orig
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  • Irina Bugrimova
    ...discus. Meanwhile, as a teenager, young Irina often helped her father when he treated horses and wild animals at the state circus of Kharkov, and she thu ...attracted to working in the circus. Butenko was a good mechanic, and both he and Irina wanted to present something original, involving physical stunts.
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  • The Pompeyo Family
    ...e ring at age five, as a clown… Like most children born into the circus, he was trained in a wide variety of disciplines, and worked over the years as ...what he still owed him, and perhaps in an attempt to show his good faith, he presented him instead with two dogs…
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  • Franz Czeisler (Tihany)
    ...er known as Tihany, was said to be the world’s oldest circus impresario: He was four months short of his hundredth birthday. His had created in South A ...r, and young Ferenc had to find a job in order to help his family survive: He got his first one in a visiting traveling circus, working as a helper in th
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  • Sergei Korolev
    ...the USSR. Like many circus performers of the Soviet era (and even after), he started training in an amateur circus troupe at age eleven in Shymkent, So ...ned [[SoyuzGosTsirk]], the USSR’s central Circus organization, for which he performed as an acrobat in a variety of acts from 1982 to 1999—at whi
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  • Gene Mendez
    ...early 1970s. Energetic, nimble, with a wonderful “Latino” temperament, he worked without a balancing pole and without a net, in the manner of low wir ..., Gene began self-training in wire walking… in his mother’s apartment! He quickly developed a talent for the craft, and eventually participated in a
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  • Zavatta Video (1966)
    ...te [[Rhum]] (Enrico Sprocani, 1904-1953), who suffered from throat cancer (he would die of it) and had imagined such a piece for himself. (The sandwich b
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  • Norman Crider
    ...n champion and to win national and international competitions. Eventually, he created a juggling act with his baton-twirling, and left college to work as ...Television show [[La Piste aux Étoiles]]. He then settled in Paris, where he remained for eight years.
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  • The Kornilov Dynasty
    ...1920s, he landed in Samara, the great port city on the Volga river, where he discovered the traveling menagerie of Ivan Lazarevich Filatov (1873-1956)&m ...in love, and Aleksandr decided to stay on dry land and follow Masha, whom he eventually married.
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  • Circus Krone
    ...rried Johanna Dorothea Wilhelmina Hempel, a resident of Questenberg, where he settled and had a son, Heinrich Wilhelm Krone. Heinrich, who was active in ...lped the small business as "advance man"—thus making us presume that he had a basic school education. Alexandre Philadelphia (whose legal name was
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  • Walter Nones
    Even though he was not born in the circus, Walter Nones (1934-2016) was, in Italy, a refor ...ify his company many times; his constant imperative was novelty, for which he was faithful to the style and methods of the great Italian variety entrepre
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  • Andrey Ivakhnenko
    ...n, where he graduated as a juggler on slack wire in 1989. Upon graduation, he was hired by [[SoyuzGosTsirk]], the Soviet central circus agency, and toure ...e works principally in varieté theaters in Germany, where he now resides. He is married to the hula-hoop performer and fellow Gneushev's student, [[Nata
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  • The Owl and The Pussycat
    ...onally as an aerialist at [[Lennon Brothers Circus]] in Australia in 2005. He furthered his training under Rodleigh Stevens (of the [[Flying Rodleighs]])
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  • Rokardy
    ...[Circo Nacional de Cuba]] in Vietnam, France and Mexico. After graduation, he went to work with major circuses in Spain, Sweden, Norway, Portugal and Fra ...pearing in its productions of ''Viva Elvis'' and ''Zarkana'' in Las Vegas. He has also appeared in numerous special events in the United States, Canada,
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  • Geddy Pavlovich
    ...was 11, he had chosen Rola-Bola as the specialty he wanted to pursue, and he made his debut two years later in an open-air theater in Nevada. At 6'2", h
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  • Joel Baker
    ...t until a cross-country motorcycle trip landed him in San Francisco, where he discovered and fell in love with circus arts. ...ircus Center. There, he joined the newly-created Clown Conservatory, where he began incorporating acrobatics and balancing into physical comedy under the
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  • Circopedia Books
    ...stley became England's greatest showman, but if he was indeed a visionary, he was not a lone experimentalist: immediately, other equestrians followed his
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  • Victor Fomine
    ...Festival’s thirtieth anniversary. To everyone’s surprise and delight, he then called Victor Fomine. ...the Australian aerialist whose act he had trained, receive her Gold Medal he had returned behind the curtain and was quietly packing his student’s equ
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  • Baptiste Loisset
    ...test equestrians and circus directors, a major figure in the circus world. He was one of the first horsemen to perform a somersault on horseback (on a "p He was born Jean-Baptiste Antoine Loisset on November 28, 1797 (according to h
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  • Togo Video (1937)
    Togo, Japanese juggling, from a Bristish-Pathé newsreel. Although he is presented here as Australian, Togo was actually a Japanese juggler who h
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  • Albert Rebla
    ...the "t", and he was generally billed simply as such, without a first name. He had been an apprentice to the celebrated juggler [[Maxime Agoust]], who had ...uggling act was filmed for British-Pathé newsreels in 1935 (in which film he displayed his acting talents) and in 1938.
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  • Rudy Horn
    ...018) was one of the best and most successful jugglers of the post-WW2 era; he was not only a great technician: It took a long time for his cup and saucer ...howed an innate ability to catch and return the fruits; after ten minutes, he could juggle them by himself! His professional path was decided then and th
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  • Henrik Henricksen
    ...s) included a giant and quite dangerous Siberian tiger named Cæsar, which he presented alone at the end of his act. His was a remarkable presentation wh ...ete with a blushed complexion, didn’t work with the usual German phlegm. He 'started' his tigers ''en voltige'' and added interludes of bravura to his
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  • Alisher Aliyev
    ...he high wire with his family before creating a German wheel act with which he could work as a soloist. ...needed a German wheel acrobat for the arena shows they produced in Russia, he jumped on the opportunity and came back to the fold.
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  • Mikhail Shuydin
    ...larity, Mikhail Shuydin held indeed his own in the ring, and the chemistry he created with Nikulin was, in no small part, the reason for the enduring suc ...learned to play percussion instruments and the basics of acrobatics. Then he began to work as a locksmith.
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  • Nikulin Bureaucrat Video (c.1968)
    ...cide (with a gun that Nikulin hands him when, finally, Shuydin asks him if he has a gun...)! (''In Russian'') (c.1968)
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  • William Vos
    ...and lamas. Wim was not particularly interested in the circus as such, but he was fascinated by its animals. The process of training them would become hi ...sterdam, where Circus Strassburger had a regular season in the winter, and he took care of their horses and a few zebras. There was also a tiger act in t
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  • Dimitri
    ...es trained, many clowns who pursued a career in the circus and, therefore, he is indeed an important figure of circus history. ...international awards and celebrated worldwide as an outstanding performer, he attained a rare international popularity for a clown, and was considered in
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  • Jürg Jenny
    ...he will become an animal trainer. When he was fourteen years old, in 1967, he saw for the first time the famous German animal trainer [[Gerd Siemoneit]], ...that awaited a cat trainer. Jürg was undeterred and, the following year, he bought a group of seven lionesses from the Künzler Zoo in Romanshorn, (a S
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  • Oskar Hoppe
    ...f show business. He married Kathe Kuhlen, a circus tight wire-dancer, when he was quite young and, in the early 1920s, began to work as an administrative ...Hoppe.jpg|left|thumb|400px|Circus Helene Hoppe (1945)]]From Circus Barlay, he went on to manage [[The Althoff Dynasty|Dominik Althoff]]’s circus. Domin
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  • Nouveau Cirque (Paris)
    ...study at the University of Bilbao in the Basque Country, and while there, he discovered cockfighting, which was still very popular in the nineteenth cen ...ller, who was thirty-one then, went to London to avoid the conflict. There he began to take an interest in the world of show business—not so much i
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  • Franz Althoff
    ...of large indoor sport arenas offered to the European circus industry, and he participated in the emergence of the so-called "circus festivals" of the 19 ...eals with the American movie industry. A remarkably gifted animal trainer, he created spectacular yet elegant presentations of horses and elephants; his
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  • Alexandre Palisse
    ...and some bordering countries); in addition, his traveling equipment, which he conceived, was extremely innovative at the time and would inspire some of h ...was fifteen when he lost his father, and his mother died four years later: He had to help support his family at a young age, which developed in him earne
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  • The Schumann Dynasty
    ...ted in following in his father’s footsteps, horses were his passion, and he often helped groom and taking care of the neighbourhood horses. Gotthold ha ...nd principal horse trainer (that is to say, Renz's right hand), a position he kept for nearly two decades. Gotthold and his wife, Elise (of whom not much
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  • Jefferson Freire
    ...His parents were José Josilvado de Almeida and Eula Da Silva Freire, and he had two sisters, Thais and Thalita. His parents had no relation whatsoever ...est jugglers in the country. At first, Jefferson learned just for fun, but he quickly caught the juggling bug, and began training incessantly. Rain or sh
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  • Rex Williams
    ...thods with the development of close interpersonal relationships with them. He was one of the rare elephant trainers who could present his act completely ...llowed the old saying: He ran away from home and joined the circus. There, he soon fell in love with animals.
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  • Sarah Chapman
    ...who replaced Danny as Sarah’s coach, was [[Pinito del Oro]]’s nephew: He loaned Sarah his aunt’s trapeze bar, which was much better than the one h ...hough he was a gifted young performer, he didn’t pursue a circus career: He is today a retired Army Captain and lives with his three children in Wiscon
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  • Gerry Cottle
    ...urt, in London. He caught the circus bug and, then and there, decided that he would become not a clown, an animal trainer, a juggler or an acrobat, but s ...ed O-levels where I am going. I am going to join the circus. I have gone." He was back home two weeks later.[[File:The_Melvilles.png|thumb|right|300px|Ge
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  • Pablo Noel
    ...t trainer and menagerie owner better known as [[Ivanoff]], in whose family he grew up. ...oming his apprentice. He was fifteen in 1941 when, unbeknownst to Ivanoff, he decided to enter by himself a cage that contained a hyena and a group of wo
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  • Barbette
    ...l variety circuit, notably in Europe. If he was indeed a talented acrobat, he was also a remarkable female impersonator and his act, which played with gr In Paris, where he first became a true sensation, Barbette was feted by the legendary poet, pl
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  • Serge
    ...urnalist and chronicler, author of many books, and a prolific illustrator. He was also an exuberant circus enthusiast, and most of his work concerned the ...46), which chronicled the great city as it was just after the end of WWII. He traveled often to see circus and variety shows all over Europe. His wife, n
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  • Rico y Alex
    ...the equestrian troupe of the D'Angolys. He married in the D'Angoly family: He and the equestrienne Quinta D'Angoly had six children, Angelo, Enrico, Giov ...], escaping from the pocket of the latter's extra-large trousers! Although he would remain an acrobat and equestrian for many years to come, Alex had mad
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  • Circus Ring of Fame
    ...it," and the idea was conceived for a ''Circus Walk of Fame'' in Sarasota. He shared the idea with the committee, who liked it, but didn’t want to infr
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  • Jacko Fossett
    He was born Robert George John Francis Fossett on November 11, 1922, in Kingst ...ove their prop, and Jack obliged. The Reid Twins were very attractive, and he fell in love with Constance (1923-2005). They began a long and patient cour
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  • Little Billy Merchant
    ...igious circuses of Britain and Europe. He truly came to the spotlight when he eventually partnered with the popular auguste [[Jacko Fossett]], a successf ...ge. Billy, as he became known, was placed in an orphanage in Bristol where he spent his childhood and adolescence.
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  • Ethel Jennier
    ...entative of the [[Mighty Haag Circus]] doing acrobatics in her front yard; he offered to take her as an apprentice on the show, and her uncle accepted. T ...is trained sea lion, Buddy. Walter was a former acrobat and aerialist, and he started working with Ethel to polish her trapeze act and eventually helped
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  • Walter Jennier
    ...y led a brilliant career as an animal trainer with a sea lion named Buddy. He was born august 24, 1891 in Cincinnati, Ohio to George Jennier and Cornelia ...naged his own circus. George had been apprenticed to Dan Rice about 1860; he met Nina on one of her visits to her uncle. At that time, George performed
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  • Jo-Ann Jennier
    ...e asked her father to help her obtain and train a sea lion act—which he did. Thus began the start of her single sea lion act, copying Walter’s or ...ist, decided to take Jo-Ann under his wing and to promote her trapeze act; he called her ''Aerialetta II'', in reference to her mother’s ''Miss Aeriale
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  • Ross Mollison
    ...hild: He got instantly hooked! Later, he attended Monash University (where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics) and got heavily involved ...' which toured Australia in a 2000-seat black big top. Meanwhile, in 1998, he had became involved with an original hit show, ''Puppetry of the Penis'', w
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  • Totti Alexis
    ...erland. His strong personality was already evident at that tender age, and he was immediately hired to participate in a stage show, without his parents, ..., at Arnhem, in 1995. He became soon popular with audiences everywhere and he went on to perform in some of Europe’s leading circuses and variety shows
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