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  • ==Circus Websites== '''Eden Brothers''' Circus [http://www.edencircus.com/ www.edencircus.com]
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  • ==Actor, Comedian, Circus Owner== His early encounters with circus performers (particularly [[Martha-la-Corse]], a cat trainer) triggered his
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  • File:Cirque jean richard poster 1957 2.jpg
    Poster designed by Gustave Soury (1884-1966) for Philippe Gruss's leopard act at Cirque Jean Richard (1957). — ''Pierre Fenouillet Co * Biography: [[The Gruss Dynasty]]
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  • File:Jean richard and his elephants 1957.jpg
    ...circus bearing his name in 1957. He presented [[The Gruss Dynasty|Rodolphe Gruss]]'s elephants, seen here, in the show (1957) — ''Photo: Pierre Fenoui
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  • File:Poster cirque jean richard 1957.jpg
    ...he first season of his circus, in association with the [[The Gruss Dynasty|Gruss]] family (1957) — ''Pierre Fenouillet Collection''
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  • ...nization that had, until then, produced annually an important fund-raising circus gala in Paris. ...ala de la Piste'', a black-tie gala featuring some of the world's greatest circus acts, which was produced by Dominique Mauclair and staged at Paris's [[Cirq
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  • ...exis Gruss]]Marie-Pierre Bénac was not born into the circus. Yet during a circus career that spanned twelve years and two continents, she proved herself a v ...xis Gruss]]. Founded in 1974, the Conservatoire was the first professional circus school in Western Europe.
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  • ==Circus Owners, Equestrians, Animal Trainers, Acrobats, Aerialists== ...toured in about thirty countries. The Tognis have also always excelled in circus engineering: they are credited with several technical innovations, includin
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  • ...oned a promising career—in his case as an engineer—to join the circus. ...ter, Mireille made her debut as a member of the resident company of Alexis Gruss’s [[Cirque à l’ancienne]] in Paris. An acrobat and aerialist, she perf
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  • When his circus contract was over, he returned to the stage, but didn’t abandon clowning: ...he was awarded the Silver Medal. That same year, he joined the [[Big Apple Circus]]’s celebrated Clown Care Unit®, bringing much needed comic relief to ho
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  • ...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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  • ...omedy on horseback, which was present in the very first days of the modern circus, is a very difficult genre—as is, actually, any act performed on hors ...e Fratellini’s school had acquired at various times the services of such circus equestrian luminaries as [[Chotachen Courtault]] and [[Francesco Caroli]].
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  • ...o encompass Alexis Gruss's circus as well as the first French professional circus school. ...y inherited from his grandfather, the famous auguste [[André Gruss|Dédé Gruss]].
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  • Daniel grew up in the circus. He was still a teenager when he was hired by [[Jo Clavel]] to work in [[Je ...as lions were still bred. The following year (1971) Daniel Suskov made his circus debut with that group at [[Cirque Amar]], and then spent the 1972 and 1973
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  • ...Nona, their mother, was born [[The Bedinis|Bedini]], a celebrated Russian circus family of Italian origins. ...Charly, Eddy, and their sister, Nora (b. 1938, first married to [[Rodolphe Gruss]] [1938-1964], then to the clown [[Les Chabri|Toto Chabri]]).
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  • ...no (Freddy, 1922-1988) was born in Brussels on December 18, 1922. Like all circus children, the two sons of Manrico Meschi, known as Bario (1888-1974), and L In 1938, the Dario-Barios were in England, at Blackpool’s [[Tower Circus]]. Nello took advantage of the occasion to learn tap-dancing, of which Engl
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  • Although the name of Camilla Mayer is part of circus lore and legend, there have been actually several high wire artists by that ...] in Berlin. Already famous by then, the name of Camilla Mayer entered the circus pantheon through Lotte—a honor often bestowed upon celebrated artists
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  • ==Equestrian, Circus Director== * Video: [[Alexis_Gruss_Sr_Video_(1971)|Alexis Gruss, Sr., liberty act]], at the Cirque Municipal in Amiens, France (1971)
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  • ...erty act with [[Cirque Jean Richard]]'s horses, at the 2nd [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] (1975). The voice of the off-screen commentary is * History: [[The Gruss Dynasty]]
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  • ...975). The off-screen technical description of the act is made by the great circus photographer—and former Cadre Noir equestrian—Paul de Cordon (( * Biography: [[Lucien Gruss]]
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