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Dunai Troupe Video (1991)

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Dunai Family

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Dunai Troupe Video (1991)

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Dunai Troupe Video (1991)

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* Biography: [[Dunai Family]]

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Ma-Mao Company

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Ma-Mão Companhia

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Ma-Mão Companhia

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==Circus Company==

* Video: [[Ma-Mao_Video_(2026)|Ma-Mão Company, comedy acrobatics]] at the Festival International des Artistes de Cirque (2026)

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Ma-Mao Video (2026)

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Ma-Mão Company, comedy acrobatics, at the 25th [[Festival International des Artistes de Cirque]] of Saint-Paul-lès-Dax (2026) — ''Document: Festival International des Artistes de Cirque''

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* Biography: [[Ma-Mão Companhia]]

[[Category:Video Archive|Ma-Mão Company]]

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Rodokhov Troupe

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Radokhov Troupe

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Viktor Rodokhov

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Radokhov Teeterboard Video (c1980)

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Viktor Rodokhov

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Viktor Radokhov

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Viktor Rodokhov

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Viktor Radokhov

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Rodokhov Video (1981)

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The Rodokhov Troupe, teeterboard act, at the [[Circus Nikulin|Old Circus]] in Moscow (1981)

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* Biography: [[Viktor Rodokhov]]

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Tatiana Ozhiganova

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Tatyana Ozhiganova

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Ozhiganova Video (2026)

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Tatyana Ozhiganova, aerial straps, at the 25th [[Festival International des Artistes de Cirque]] of Saint-Paul-lès-Dax (2026) — ''Document: Festival International des Artistes de Cirque''

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* Biography: [[Tatyana Ozhiganova]]

[[Category:Video Archive|Ozhiganova, Tatyana]]

Cirque Bureau

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‎Image Gallery

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File:Octave De Pessemier.jpg

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Cirque Bureau/fr

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‎La Famille Tagg

Cirque Bureau

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‎The Tagg Family

Jigalova Tribute Video (2026)

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The Knie Dynasty

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‎Image Gallery

Louis Knie

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‎Circus Owner, Animal Trainer

Louis Knie Tigers Video (1987)

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Louis Knie Tigers Video (1987)

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Louis Knie, tiger act, in [[''Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen'']] at Berlin's Deutschlandhalle (2026)
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* Biography: [[Louis Knie]]

[[Category:Video Archive|Knie, Louis]]

The Gruss Dynasty

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‎Image Gallery

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Natalya Jigalova

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‎See Also

Jigalova Tribute Video (2026)

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A video tribute to Natalya Jigalova (1970-2022), aerialist and [[Circus Nikulin]] performance director, with a short interview of Natalya (''in Russian'') (2026) — ''Document: Circus Nikulin''

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Natalya Jigalova

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‎A New Career

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-* [[Dunai_Troupe_Video_(1991)|The Dunais]], jugglers on horseback (1991)
+* [[Dunai_Troupe_Video_(1991)|The Dunais]], jugglers on horseback (1983)
 * [[Ma-Mao_Video_(2026)|Ma-Mãho Company]], comedy acrobatics (2026)
 * [[Rodokhov_Video_(1981)|Rodokhov Troupe]], teeterboard act (1981)

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 * [[Ma-Mao_Video_(2026)|Ma-Mãho Company]], comedy acrobatics (2026)
 * [[Rodokhov_Video_(1981)|Rodokhov Troupe]], teeterboard act (1981)
 * [[Ozhiganova_Video_(2026)|Tatyana Ozhiganova]], aerial straps (2026)
 * [[Louis_Knie_Tigers_Video_(1987)|Louis Knie]], tiger act (1987)
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 ==Acrobat==
-* Video: [[Radokhov_Trampoline_Video_(c1980)|Rodokhov Troupe, trampoline act]], at the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow (c.1980)
+* Video: [[Radokhov_Trampoline_Video_(c1980)|Rodokhov Troupe, trampoline act]], at the "Old Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard" in Moscow (1981)
-* Video: [[Radokhov_Teeterboard_Video_(c1980)|Rodokhov Troupe, teeterboard act]], at the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow (c.1980)
 * Video: [[Rodokhov_Video_(1981)|The Rodokhov Troupe, teeterboard act]], at Moscow's "Old Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard" (1981)
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 * Video: [[Radokhov_Trampoline_Video_(c1980)|Radokhov Troupe, trampoline act]], at the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow (c.1980)
 * Video: [[Radokhov_Teeterboard_Video_(c1980)|Radokhov Troupe, teeterboard act]], at the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow (c.1980)
-[[Category:Artists and Acts|Radokhov, Viktor]][[Category:Acrobats|Radokhov, Viktor]][[Category:Teeterboard|Radokhov, Viktor]][[Category:Trampoline|Radokhov, Viktor]]
+[[Category:Artists and Acts|Rodokhov, Viktor]][[Category:Acrobats|Rodokhov, Viktor]][[Category:Teeterboard|Rodokhov, Viktor]]

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 File:Bureau_Big_Top.jpg|Cirque Bureau (1946)
 File:Jules_Glasner_1946.jpg|Jules Glasner (1946)
 File:Troupe_Moustier_copy_2.png|The Moustier Family (1947)
 File:Bureau_Program_Cover.jpg|Program Cover (1948)

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		+	* Biography: [[De Pessemier Family]]
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 En 1853, un petit cirque équestre itinérant arriva à Villeréal. C’était une modeste affaire appartenant à William Tagg (1822-1884) et à son épouse Elizabeth, née Woodley, un couple d’artistes britanniques installés de longue date en France. Les Tagg avaient besoin d’un maréchal-ferrant pour ferrer leurs chevaux, et le patron de Jean, qui avait alors dix-sept ans et était passionné de chevaux, l'envoya pour effectuer la tâche. Jean fut immédiatement fasciné par ces gens dont l’horizon semblait sans limites ; il demanda à William Tagg s’il pouvait suivre la troupe comme garçon d’écurie — et les Tagg, dont les ressources humaines étaient sans doute limitées, quittèrent Villeréal avec Jean.
-C’est ainsi que Jean Bureau débuta sa carrière circassienne. Jeune, athlétique et passionné d’équitation, il se forma à l'acrobatie à cheval et devint rapidement un excellent voltigeur. Devenu artiste à part entière dans la troupe, il porta son attention sur la jeune Anna Tagg (1840-1913), la fille du directeur, née à Paris et de quatre ans sa cadette. Apparemment, le sentiment était réciproque — à tel point qu’en 1862, Anna donna naissance à leur premier enfant, Françoise Elizabeth (dite Elizabeth). Il était donc temps de légaliser leur union : le jeune couple se maria le 6 mars 1863 à Cenon, dans la banlieue de Bordeaux. Jean avait alors vingt-sept ans et Anna vingt-trois.
+C’est ainsi que Jean Bureau débuta sa carrière circassienne. Jeune, athlétique et passionné d’équitation, il se forma à l'acrobatie à cheval et devint rapidement un excellent voltigeur. Devenu artiste à part entière dans la troupe, il porta son attention sur la jeune Anna Tagg (1840-1913), la fille du directeur, née à Paris et de quatre ans sa cadette. Apparemment, le sentiment était réciproque — à tel point que le 18 novembre 1862, Anna donna naissance à leur premier enfant, Françoise Elizabeth (dite Elizabeth) à Bergerac (Dordogne). Il était donc temps de légaliser leur union : le jeune couple se maria le 6 mars 1863 à Cenon, dans la banlieue de Bordeaux. Jean avait alors vingt-sept ans et Anna vingt-trois.
 Cette suite d’événements soulève une question : quand le cirque Bureau fut-il réellement créé ? Selon une tradition ultérieure, le Cirque Bureau aurait été « fondé en 1854 par Jean et Anna Bureau », mais à cette date, si Jean avait dix-huit ans, Anna Tagg n’en avait que quatorze. Toutefois, la polyvalence de Jean comme garçon d’écurie, maréchal-ferrant et artiste était précieuse dans ce petit cirque familial : il est donc possible que les Tagg l’aient considéré comme le fils et l’héritier qu’ils n’avaient pas, et que l’intégrer à la famille revenait à lui accorder une copropriété.

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 In 1853, a small traveling equestrian circus came to Villeréal. It was a modest affair owned by William Tagg (1822-1884), and his wife Elizabeth, née Woodley, a couple of British traveling performers who had long settled in France. The Taggs needed a blacksmith to reshoe their horses, and his boss sent seventeen-year-old Jean Bureau, a horse lover, to do the job. Jean was immediately fascinated by these people whose horizon seemed limitless; he asked William Tagg if he could join the company as a groom&mdash;and the Taggs, whose human resources were probably wanting, left Villeréal with Jean in tow.
-Thus, Jean Bureau had started his circus career. Young, athletic, and interested in horsemanship, he trained in trick-riding and quickly became a proficient bareback rider. Having become a full-fledged performer in the company, he began to pay attention to the young Anna Tagg (1840-1913), the director's daughter, who was born in Paris and was four years his junior. Apparently, the feeling was mutual&mdash;to the extent that, in 1862, Anna gave birth to their first child, Françoise Elizabeth (known as Elizabeth, b.1862). It was time indeed to legalize their union: The young couple was married on March 6, 1863, in Cenon, in the outskirts of Bordeaux. By then, Jean was twenty-seven and Anna, twenty-three.
+Thus, Jean Bureau had started his circus career. Young, athletic, and interested in horsemanship, he trained in trick-riding and quickly became a proficient bareback rider. Having become a full-fledged performer in the company, he began to pay attention to the young Anna Tagg (1840-1913), the director's daughter, who was born in Paris and was four years his junior. Apparently, the feeling was mutual&mdash;to the extent that, on November 18, 1862, Anna gave birth to their first child, Françoise Elizabeth (known as Elizabeth) in Bergerac (Dordogne). It was time indeed to legalize their union: The young couple was married on March 6, 1863, in Cenon, in the outskirts of Bordeaux. By then, Jean was twenty-seven and Anna, twenty-three.
 This sequence of events begs a question: When was Jean Bureau's own circus really created? According to a later tradition, the Cirque Bureau was "founded in 1854 by Jean and Anna Bureau," but at that date, if Jean was eighteen, Anna Tagg was only fourteen. However, Jean's usefulness as a groom-blacksmith-cum-performer was precious in this small family circus: It is possible indeed that the Taggs considered him as the son and heir they didn't have and accepting him in the family was akin to give him a co-ownership.
 According to records, Jean Bureau began to operate under the title "Cirque Bureau" around 1884, having used several different names prior to that year. Jean and Anna did not marry until 1863, following the birth of their first child in 1862, which means they were not yet a legitimate couple in 1854—not to mention Anna’s age at the time. Given these details, it is reasonable to interpret the year 1854 as marking Jean Bureau’s debut as a circus performer and, possibly, as a co-director of the Taggs’ circus enterprise.
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 Be as it may, at some point Jean and Anna Bureau created their own circus. It was probably with the equipment of the Taggs, who may have left it to the young couple&mdash;which would further explain the date of 1854 as the Cirque Bureau's creation: Jean and Anna's first circus may have been a mere continuation of the Taggs' circus. However, the Bureaus' circus was still a modest traveling enterprise that needed to grow, and Jean asked his brother Cosme to come and help him run and develop it.
-At first, their company worked under various names&mdash;as it generally happened with traveling circuses whose owners' name was not well established enough to attract an audience&mdash;or when the owners didn't want their name to be associated with some challenging situations that might turn to their disadvantage. The first mention of a circus managed by the Bureaus was in 1876: It was the ''Cirque Bordelais'', which suggests that the Bureaus had remained in the region originally visited by the Taggs, and where Jean came from (i.e. the Bordelais, which is the region of Bordeaux and its environs).
+At first, their company worked under various names, as it generally happened with traveling circuses whose owners' name was not well established enough to attract an audience&mdash;or when the owners didn't want their name to be associated with some challenging situations that might turn to their disadvantage. The first mention of a circus managed by the Bureaus was in 1876: It was the ''Cirque Bordelais'', which suggests that the Bureaus had remained in the region originally visited by the Taggs, and where Jean came from (i.e. the Bordelais, which is the region of Bordeaux and its environs).
 The Cirque Bordelais was not hiding its identity anymore: it was clearly advertised under the management of the brothers Bureau and "Joanny Fils ainé" (Joanny, Jr. the elder). Joanny was the pseudonym used by an old Italian family of traveling entertainers, the Magrinis; as an experienced professional, Joanny Fils must have helped the Bureaus to develop their enterprise. They now performed in a "construction," a wooden circus that was built, dismantled, and rebuilt in the towns they visited (usually for extended periods, such as a local fair), as was the custom for many traveling companies in the 19th century.

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 * [[Jigalova_Tribute_Video_(2026)|Natalya Jigalova]], video tribute (2026)
 * [[Navratil_Video_(2026)|Ludvik Navratil]], horizontal juggling (2026)
 * [[Bracha_Video_(2026)|Sagi Bracha]], juggler (2026)
 * [[Pepin_Leon_Video_(2012)|Pepin León Trio]], clowns (2012)

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 * Video: [[Louis_Knie_Video_(1977)|Louis Knie, tiger and elephant act]], Monte Carlo Circus Festival (1977)
 * Video: [[Rolf,_Gaston,_Pipo_Video_(1983)|Rolf Knie, Gaston Häni & Pipo Sosman, clown entrée]], from their stage show (1983)
 * Video: [[Knie_Elephants_Video_(2000)|Franco Knie, elephant act]], at the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo (2000)
 * Video: [[Circus_Knie_Setup_Video_(2012)|The set up of Circus Knie]] in Windisch, Switzerland (2012)
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 File:Knie_Zurich_2019.jpeg|Circus Knie (2019)
 File:Knie_Postage_Stamps.jpg|Postage Stamps Celebrating Circus Knie 100th Anniversary (2019)
-File:Circopedia_award_2019.jpeg||The Knie Family receive the Circopedia Award (2019)
+File:Circopedia_award_2019.jpeg|The Knie Family receive the Circopedia Award (2019)
 File:Knie_chapiteau_2021.jpg|Circus Knie in Geneva (2021)
 File:Knie_facade.jpg|Circus Knie big top (2023)

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 * Video: [[Knie_Elephant_and_Tigers_Video_(1976)|Louis Knie, elephant and tiger act]], at Berlin's Deutschlandhalle (1976)
 * Video: [[Louis_Knie_Video_(1977)|Louis Knie, elephant and tiger act]], at the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo (1977)
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 File:Philippe_Gruss_-_Arlette_Jeannet.jpg|Mireille and Philippe Gruss, Arlette Jeannet, and Tonino Zavatta (1960)
 File:Dédé_Gruss_Poster.jpg|Poster featuring Dédé Gruss (c.1960)
 File:The_Gruss_Juniors.jpg|Patrick, Bella, and Alexis Gruss, Jr. (1964)
 File:Dédé_Gruss.jpg|André Gruss as Dédé (c.1978)

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	Mahomet's ''capriole'' presented by Alexis Gruss, Sr. at the [[Grand Cirque de France]] (Gruss-Jeannet) (1960) — ''Document: Joël Rhede Archive''		Mahomet's ''capriole'' presented by Alexis Gruss, Sr. at the [[Grand Cirque de France]] (Gruss-Jeannet) (1960) — ''Document: Joël Rhede Archive''
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		+	==See Also==
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		+	* Biography: [[The Gruss Dynasty]]
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		+	[[Category:Photo Archive\|Gruss, Alexis Sr.]]

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 * Video: [[Jigalova_-_Louis_Knie_Video_(2003)|Natalya Jigalova, swinging trapeze]], at Circus Louis Knie (2003)
 * Video: [[Jigalova_Video_(2003)|Natalya Jigalova, swinging trapeze]], at the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo (2003)
 ==Image Gallery==

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 ===A New Career===
-[[File:Jigalova_Panova_Fomine.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Natalya Jigalova, with Elena Panova, Dominique Jando, Roxane Giliand, and Eleona and Victor Fomine (2018)]]Natalya and Andrey eventually separated, and having to raise her son as a single mother, Natalya decided to ensure that she would have a safety net when her career was over; thus, she resumed her studies to obtain a physiotherapist diploma&mdash;not an unusual conversion among circus artists, who develop over the years a keen understanding of the human body. However, she never had much time to develop this new occupation.
+[[File:Jigalova_Panova_Fomine.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Natalya Jigalova, with Elena Panova, Dominique Jando, Roxane Giliand, and Eleona and Victor Fomine (2018)]]Natalya and Andrey eventually separated, and having to raise her son as a single mother, Natalya decided to ensure that she would have a safety net when her career was over; thus, she resumed her studies to obtain a physiotherapist diploma&mdash;not an unusual conversion among circus artists, who develop over the years a keen understanding of the human body. However, she never had much time to develop this new occupation.
 Knowing that she had decided to retire from performing, [[Maksim Nikulin]] contacted Natalya and offered her the position of "manège inspector" at [[Circus Nikulin]], the legendary "Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard" in Moscow. This job, which is called ''maître de manège'' or ''régisseur de piste'' in France, ''Equestrian Director'' in Britain, and ''Performance Director'' in America, put her in charge of the ring crew and of the technical aspect of the performance&mdash;a function not generally given to a woman in Russia&mdash;or anywhere else for that matter!