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• Cirkus Kludsky
  ...ands, and two hundred wagons traveling by train were used to transport the circus equipment and house the personnel. ...I by Karel Kludský (Carl Kludsky, as he became known in the West-European circus business). From humble beginnings, Karel Kludský had managed to build one
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• Billy Smart
  ==Circus Owner and Impresario== ...bad (not to mention the hardship caused by trying to provide for his huge family), or perhaps Mr. Smart, Sr. had a longing for adventure, for at age 15, you
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• John Bill Ricketts
  == THE FIRST CIRCUS IN AMERICA== ...t performance of Mr. John Bill Ricketts's company at the ''Circus''. The ''Circus'' was a roofless arena that could accommodate some eight-hundred spectators
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• Katja Schumann
  ...lore attaches the Schumanns first to Berlin, then to Denmark. Although the family originated in Germany, the Schumanns of Copenhagen were in actuality Swedis ...cus at age 10, as a ballerina on horseback. She subsequently worked in her family's outstanding equestrian acts, notably in high school (dressage) presentati
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• Big Apple Circus
  ...cus Arts. Its enormous success soon put the school in the shadows, and the circus took over as the principal activity of the organization. It became one of t ...’s prestigious Lincoln Center for The Performing Arts. The new Big Apple Circus quickly abandoned its spring-summer tours of the northeast United States an
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• Billy Smart Jr
  ==Circus Director and Animal Trainer== ...d Rajah, thus beginning a long career as an animal trainer in his family's circus.
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• Philip Astley
  ==Circus Owner, Equestrian== ...modern circus. He was born January 8, 1742 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the West Midlands, England, the son of Edward Astley, a veneer-cutter and cabinet-ma
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• Ben Williams
  ...arkably gifted Indian Woodlands elephant that Buckles had purchased from a circus in 1951 when she was five years old. By then, Anna May was thirteen, and Be ...arship for the University of South Florida, but he chose to go back to the circus instead, and to continue working with elephants.
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• Circus Flora
  ...[[Sacha Pavlata|Alexandre Sacha Pavlata]], Ivor David Balding established Circus Flora in 1987 as a permanent performing arts organization in St. Louis. ...ica killed her mother. For fifteen years, Flora was a beloved star of the circus that bears her name. In 2000, she retired in the elephant sanctuary in Hohe
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• Duo Mouvance
  ...f Quebec, Canada. Since her middle-class family had no connection with the circus world, Hélène went through a traditional schooling, graduating in 1982 wi ...still a fledging school—albeit already making its mark in the “New Circus” community. At the same time, she studied acrobatic dance with Michel Jod
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• Circus Nikulin
  == The Circus On Tsvetnoy Boulevard == ...cus, is another one. And in Moscow, there is Circus Nikulin—"the Old Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard."
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• Cirque d'Hiver
  ...e world’s oldest extant circus building. It is also the world’s oldest circus still in activity: It opened its doors in 1852. Its address, at 110 rue Ame ...e (Paris)|Cirque Olympique]], located some five hundred yards from his new circus, on the portion of the Boulevard du Temple that disappeared in 1862, during
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• The Rios Brothers
  ...fter World War II, and the Rios Brothers are generally perceived as French circus artists. ...decided to combine their talents into a risley act, a particularly arduous circus discipline.
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• The Codonas
  ...Rabenalt’s ''Die drei Codonas'' (1940)—a very rare occurrence for circus artists—and two romanticized biographies. ...h century; he was a fairground showman, and illiterate—which led the family's name to be registered under a great variety of spellings over the years:
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• The Chinese Acrobatic Theater
  ...embers of the former Soviet Union have been the most inventive and skilled circus artists of the twentieth century, the Chinese, who come from a different, a ...lthough its artists perform acts of a similar genre and share with Western circus artists a similar background—that of the traveling fairground enterta
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• Alfred Court
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...the greatest wild animal trainers of all times—and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America.
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• Laci Endresz Jr
  ...me a household name in the famous Lancashire seaside resort on England’s west coast. ...mily of circus performers, and his mother, Maureen, was born [[The Roberts Family|Roberts]]—one of England’s oldest dynasties.
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• Fritz Schulz
  ...trainer Fritz W. Schulz (1910-2010) was one of Australia's most celebrated circus personalities. He had a long and brilliant career that spanned six decades ===Circus Debut===
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• The Indian Circus
  ...y where the level of extreme poverty is still fairly high, a few traveling circus entrepreneurs may have resorted to methods that have fortunately vanished m [[File:Rambo_Circus_(2011).jpeg|thumb|right|375px|Rambo Circus (2011)]]
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• Giuseppe Chiarini
  [[File:Chiarini_Utagawa_Masanobu.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Chiarini's Circus in Japan (1886)]] ==Equestrian, Circus Entrepreneur==
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• David Rosaire
  ...side, and his father had worked on the fairgrounds. Freddy Ross created [[Circus Rosaire]] in England in 1904. ...ire Family|Derrick, Jr.]], [[The Rosaire Family|Linda]], and [[The Rosaire Family|Pamela]], who settled in the United States, are also famous animal trainers
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• Loyal-Suarez Troupe
  ...956), who had married Giuseppina Travaglia, scion of an old Italian circus family. ...lized the importance of his artistic heritage, and decided to carry on the family tradition. Under the guidance of his father, Timi quickly became a remarkab
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• Bertram Mills
  ==Circus Owner and Director== ...unced the "Death of Britain’s Nº 1 Showman" and the "King of the Modern Circus," indicating the unrivalled position in which the showman was revered.
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• Con Colleano
  Near the end of the 19th century, the Sullivan family—the family was later to adopt the professional name of Colleano—were obscure box ...er, aged thirty-four years, and a native of the island of St Thomas in the West Indies (now one of the Virgin Islands), and Julia Robertson, née Saunders,
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• Leonid Engibarov
  ...Russian pop music—among others. And Leonid Engibarov for the Russian circus. ...he ringmaster in the circus ring, or [[SoyuzGosTsirk]], the central Soviet circus organization, in real life. In this, he embodied the moods of a new Soviet
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• Norman Barrett
  Over many years, Norman Barrett has become the most loved and best known circus personality in Great Britain—regarded as "The World’s Greatest Ring ===Barrett’s Canadian Circus===
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• Annie Fratellini
  ==Singer, Actress, Clown, Circus Director, Circus Teacher== ...s school in 1975, which has become one of France’s major state-sponsored circus schools, the [[Académie Fratellini]].
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• Charlie Cairoli
  ...ed period of forty years, from 1939 through 1979, at Blackpool’s [[Tower Circus]], of which he became the undisputed star and, without a doubt, the most po ...an old French circus family of Italian origins—like so many ancient circus families anywhere else in the world. As for [[Jean-Marie Cairoli]] (1879-1
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• The Great Carmo
  ==Juggler, Magician, Circus Owner== ...gedy. He might also be considered the man who launched the [[Bertram Mills Circus]] on its first tour, having had a short connection with [[Bertram Mills|Ber
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• Arturo Castilla
  ==Circus Director and Impresario== ...evements were the introduction of theatrical aesthetics into the traveling circus performance, a modern approach to public relations and marketing, his fores
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• Circus Medrano-Swoboda
  ...and belongs now (2011) to the Italian [[The Casartelli Family|Casartelli]] family. ...he Austro-Hungarian Empire. They always called Ludwig, who was born in the family’s horse-drawn living wagon, Lajos—the Hungarian equivalent of his G
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• Ali Hassani
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner== ...pted England. Yet, this highly respected artist and impresario came to the circus quite by accident, and in very unusual circumstances.
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• The Suarez Troupe
  ...in every major circus in North America. Over the years, as members of his family got married and occasional partners came and went, the composition of the t ...was featured in the 1989 [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Grandma Goes West''. Enrique, Jr., has since become a major equestrian star of his own, and w
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• Julius Gleich
  ==Circus Owner== Circus Gleich had a relatively short existence (1928-1937), but it was, in the ear
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• SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS
  ...common denominator between Roman and modern circuses is the word itself, ''circus'', which means in Latin as in English, "circle". ===Philip Astley: The Father Of The Modern Circus===
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• Camillio Mayer
  ...ft|400px|Camillio Mayer (c.1925)]]Camillio didn’t come from a performing family, but when he saw a high wire troupe give a show in Mülhausen in 1905, he d ...d. Camilio fell for her, and he gave her as a "nom-de-scène" not only his family name, but also his first name: Lotte became known as [[Camilla Mayer]].
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• Gilbert Houcke
  ...have made his one of the great names of the twentieth century’s European circus. ===Family Roots===
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• Sergei Ignatov
  ...e former German Democratic Republic (or East Germany), to a Russian circus family. His grandfather, Ivan Petrovich (1900-?), was an equestrian, and his fathe ...d-balancer who was, with her brother Aleksandr, a major star of the Soviet circus in the 1950's and 1960's.
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• Kio
  ..., where they performed extensively on international tours of the "[[Moscow Circus]]." Kio’s illusions had a unique particularity: they were created to be p ...more than their illustrious father, who was a bona fide star of the Soviet circus, Emil, Jr. and Igor became celebrities in their own right; they appeared on
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• Circus Sarrasani
  ...ntury, under a succession of owners of more or less legitimate lineage. In circus lore, Sarrasani is still a fabled name that evokes a history of epic propor ==HANS STOSCH’S CIRCUS SARRASANI==
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• John Herriott
  ==Animal Trainer, Circus Owner== ...rainer and circus owner, third-generation of one of the few truly American circus dynasties. He was born on January 15, 1931 in St. Peter, Minnesota to Milto
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• Oleg Popov
  ...ed to settle in Germany, where he toured for a while with his own ''Moscow Circus''. Yet, his return to Russia in 2015, for the first (and short-lived) [[Mas ...his father was arrested for unknown reasons. Two years later, in 1943, the family learned that he had died, probably one of the many victims of Stalin’s pu
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• Yury Nikulin
  ==Clown, Actor, Circus Director== ...o the modern age, and restoring its prominence on the Russian and European circus scenes at a critical moment in Russian history.
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...rque Medrano holds a singular place in the Parisian cultural fabric and in circus history. From its beginnings as Cirque Fernando, in 1873, until the end of ...into genuine circus stars; appearing in its ring was a recognition for any circus artist. Its last performance under Jérôme Medrano’s reign in January 19
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• Kannan Bombayo
  ...incontestably the best in his specialty—he also introduced it to the West. ...rayi Korumban, struggled as a small farmer, and was not connected with the circus. In India, children’s names are different from their father’s; Kannan B
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• Circus Krone
  =="Größter Circus Europas"== ...t circus building in Munich, the Kronebau, has been home to regular winter circus productions since 1919.
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• Rudy Horn
  ...born Rudolf Horn in Nuremberg, Germany, on February 14, 1933, in a circus family. His father, Rupert Horn, had worked as a strong man before appearing in a ...ther, Benedikt Schiefer, the family’s juggler, who owned a small touring circus. In late 1942, Rupert Horn contacted the manager of Nuremberg’s WinterGar
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• Nell Gifford
  ==Equestrienne, Circus Owner== ...l Gifford wanted hers to be a "village-green circus." And indeed, Giffords Circus has this unique quality: it takes its audience into a nostalgic world of qu
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• Nouveau Cirque (Paris)
  ...d, for that matter, of Europe. For many years, it was the High Society’s circus of choice. Its relatively small size gave it warmth and intimacy (it was so ...irque d’Hiver]], completely refurbished, returned to the presentation of circus shows after a rather futile hiatus as a movie-house and theater; the [[Cirq
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• Franz Althoff
  ==Gröẞter Rennbahn-Circus Europas== ...ee-ring circus and the refinement and intimacy of the traditional European circus.
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• The Schumann Dynasty
  ==Equestrians, Circus Owners== ...own circus and settled in (and then purchased) [[Ernst Renz]]’s flagship circus in Berlin in 1899—which remained active under Schumann’s ownership
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• Gerry Cottle
  ==Circus Owner and Producer== ...y Cottle seized the opportunity, and his name soon became synonymous with "circus" in the United Kingdom and would remain so until Cottle’s untimely death
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• Barbette
  The family moved south to the farm of Hattie's grandparents in Llano, fifty miles from ...was immediately hooked and, then and there, decided that he would become a circus performer.
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• Ethel Jennier
  ...ing else that rendered her "generally useful," as was what was expected of circus performers in those days. ...Haag show, she continued her circus apprenticeship on the [[Sam B. Dill's Circus]] in 1930; she had by now a trapeze act to which she added a cloud swing an
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