Ali Hassani - Revision history

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‎Acrobat, Circus Owner test

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Djando: /* The Hassani Troupe */

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‎The Hassani Troupe

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‎Image Gallery

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‎Image Gallery

Djando: /* From Circus Hassani To Tamara Coco’s Circus */

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‎From Circus Hassani To Tamara Coco’s Circus

Djando: /* Ali Houssain And The Moroccan Tumblers */

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‎Ali Houssain And The Moroccan Tumblers

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‎Ali Houssain And The Moroccan Tumblers

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 The troupe continued to work in Europe, before securing an engagement at [[Billy Smart’s Circus]] in Great Britain in 1950. There, Ali's life would take another turn. While performing with the Billy Smart show (where contracts were often renewed from year to year), he met Tamara Polakovs. Tamara was the daughter of the legendary [[Coco]] (Nicholai Polakovs, 1900-1974), who had long been associated with the [[Bertram Mills Circus]] and had become its iconic clown.
-[[File:Hassani_Troupe.jpeg|thimb|right|300px|The Hassani Troupe (c.1960)]]In 1951 Tamara and her brothers Sascha and [[Michael Coco|Michael]] had left Mills, where the shadow of their father no doubt loomed a little too large, to join the Billy Smart show. They performed an act that combined slapstick clowning with acrobatics and trampoline. Tamara fell for Hassani, who had become by then a powerful athlete capable of supporting seven or more fellow acrobats on his shoulders and around his body&mdash;a feat that was known in the early days of the circus as ''Les Colonnes d’Hercule'' ("Hercules’s Columns").
+[[File:Hassani_Troupe.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|The Hassani Troupe (c.1960)]]In 1951 Tamara and her brothers Sascha and [[Michael Coco|Michael]] had left Mills, where the shadow of their father no doubt loomed a little too large, to join the Billy Smart show. They performed an act that combined slapstick clowning with acrobatics and trampoline. Tamara fell for Hassani, who had become by then a powerful athlete capable of supporting seven or more fellow acrobats on his shoulders and around his body&mdash;a feat that was known in the early days of the circus as ''Les Colonnes d’Hercule'' ("Hercules’s Columns").
 Thus Ali, a Muslim, and Tamara, a Jew, got married (in the circus world, such details are of no importance: all belong to the same nation, or culture, the Circus), and the couple left Billy Smart and went their own way. They formed a new Moroccan tumbling act, the Hassani Troupe&mdash;in which Tamara and, in time, their three daughters, Zayna, Susi and Mina, took part. Their act was spectacular and highly skilled, enhanced by colorful costumes created under Tamara's supervision, and it soon was much in demand in circuses all over Europe.

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 File:Hassani_Troupe.jpeg|The Hassani Troupe (c.1960)
 File:Circus_Hassani_Program.jpg|Circus Hassani Program Cover (1982)

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 ===From Circus Hassani To Tamara Coco’s Circus===
-[[File:Circus_Hassani_Program.jpg|left|thumb|280px|Circus Hassani Program (1982)]]By then Ali and Tamara had already invested all their savings in their own circus, ''Circus Hassani'', which they launched in 1979 and was Britain's first circus without animals. Unfortunately, as much as animal-rights activists praised it, it was a flop with the public. Luckily, in 1982, Circus Hassani found a permanent home at the Chessington Zoo (today Chessington World of Adventures Resort), southwest of London, where it succeeded the old [[Gilberts Circus]] and continued to present all-human circus shows.
+[[File:Circus_Hassani_Program.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Circus Hassani Program (1982)]]By then Ali and Tamara had already invested all their savings in their own circus, ''Circus Hassani'', which they launched in 1979 and was Britain's first circus without animals. Unfortunately, as much as animal-rights activists praised it, it was a flop with the public. Luckily, in 1982, Circus Hassani found a permanent home at the Chessington Zoo (today Chessington World of Adventures Resort), southwest of London, where it succeeded the old [[Gilberts Circus]] and continued to present all-human circus shows.
 That same year, the Hassani Troupe were cast in John Glen’s James Bond film, ''Octopussy'' (released in1983), which marked the beginning of a friendship between Ali and Tamara and Barbara Broccoli, the daughter of the film’s producer, Albert R. Broccoli. In 1983, Hassani’s circus was renamed ''Tamara Coco’s Circus''. Ali and Tamara also opened a second unit, called ''International Circus Hassani'', at the Alton Towers Theme Park in Staffordshire.

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 ===Ali Houssain And The Moroccan Tumblers===
-[[File:Ali_Hassani_Tumbler.jpeg|thumb|left|320px|Ali Hassani (2nd from left) with his "abducters" (c.1940)]]Ali Hassani was born Ali Houssain in a village on the outskirts of Marrakech, in Morocco, on March 7, 1927. Morocco has an age-long tradition of itinerant troupes of acrobats specializing in tumbling and building human pyramids, which for centuries have traveled from market places to village squares. They have been part of the circus practically [[SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS|since its inception]], and can still be seen today in the ring, performing their traditional acrobatic skills in a style of presentation that has remained by and large unchanged.
+[[File:Ali_Hassani_Tumbler.jpeg|thumb|left|400px|Ali Hassani (2nd from left) with his "abducters" (c.1940)]]Ali Hassani was born Ali Houssain in a village on the outskirts of Marrakech, in Morocco, on March 7, 1927. Morocco has an age-long tradition of itinerant troupes of acrobats specializing in tumbling and building human pyramids, which for centuries have traveled from market places to village squares. They have been part of the circus practically [[SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS|since its inception]], and can still be seen today in the ring, performing their traditional acrobatic skills in a style of presentation that has remained by and large unchanged.
 Ali belonged to a poor family of thirteen children, and he and his siblings were often left to their own devices to scrap 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, Ali, who was seven at the time, was abducted by the acrobats, who saw him as an ideal "top mounter"&mdash;the light acrobat who stood at the top of their human pyramids.

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