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 In 1966, she was working in Shrine Circuses in Detroit and Cleveland, where she performed in the aerial ballet and learned to ride elephants under the tutelage of the great elephant trainer [[Rex Williams]]&mdash;and while in Cleveland, she finally debuted her balancing trapeze act professionally. She then went on to work with [[King Bros. Circus]], and with [[Carson & Barnes Circus]], where she premiered a rotating ladder act that Danny had created in the 1950s as ''The Aerial Chapmans''. Danny had suffered a serious fall with this act in Brussels in 1958, but it had survived with other performers. Sarah would perform it with various partners, among whom her stepdaughter, Deborah Chapman.
-Sarah’s daughter and first child, Ivy Anastasia Chapman, was born in 1966. She became a multi-talented child performer and gifted gymnast before turning to a horse breeding career. She now teaches elementary school in Iowa. Sarah’s son, Ives Winston Wheeler Chapman (Winston), born in 1972, was also a child performer, clowning alone and with his father, Danny. Although 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 Wisconsin.
+Sarah’s daughter and first child, Ivy, was born in 1966. She became a multi-talented child performer and gifted gymnast before turning to a horse breeding career. She now teaches elementary school in Iowa. Sarah’s son, Winston, born in 1972, was also a child performer, clowning alone and with his father, Danny. Although 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 Wisconsin.
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 After leaving Ringling, Sarah Chapman added a headstand to her balancing trapeze act, and the extended Chapman family (with Danny’s children from a first marriage) began to offer not only their revolving ladder act but also a group juggling act. However, Sarah had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a disorder that affects the way the brain and spinal cord process painful and nonpainful signals and results in symptoms that are not compatible with the performance of a relatively dangerous act. She performed her trapeze act for the last time in 1979 at a Sailor Circus reunion show, in her hometown of Sarasota&mdash;thus completing her career’s full circle.
-Sarah divorced Danny Chapman in 1980. After he died of heart failure three years later at age seventy, she published and marketed a novel he had written, ''Circus Buffoon''. In 1985, she moved to Europe and lived in and out of Sweden for a couple of years. A talented cook, she published in 1989 ''Simply Sarah – A Circus Girl’s Cookbook'', which became quite successful and enjoyed its fourth printing in 2019. In 1992, she got a B.A. degree in Humanistic Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay&mdash;for which she earned twenty-one degrees for her performing career!
+Sarah divorced Danny Chapman in 1980. After he died of heart failure three years later at age seventy, she published and marketed a novel he had written, ''Circus Buffoon''. In 1985, she moved to Europe and lived in and out of Sweden for a couple of years. A talented cook, she published in 1989 ''Simply Sarah – A Circus Girl’s Cookbook'', which became quite successful and enjoyed its fourth printing in 2019. In 1992, she got a B.A. degree in Humanistic Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay&mdash;for which she earned twenty-one credits for her performing career!
 Sarah Chapman has since been lecturing about the circus and circus life, and in 2014, she published her memoirs in a book titled ''Balancing Act – Secrets of A Circus Aerialist''. She lives in northern Minnesota and works occasionally as a cooking instructor and private chef.

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 In 1966, she was working in Shrine Circuses in Detroit and Cleveland, where she performed in the aerial ballet and learned to ride elephants under the tutelage of the great elephant trainer [[Rex Williams]]&mdash;and while in Cleveland, she finally debuted her balancing trapeze act professionally. She then went on to work with [[King Bros. Circus]], and with [[Carson & Barnes Circus]], where she premiered a rotating ladder act that Danny had created in the 1950s as ''The Aerial Chapmans''. Danny had suffered a serious fall with this act in Brussels in 1958, but it had survived with other performers. Sarah would perform it with various partners, among whom her stepdaughter, Deborah Chapman.
-Sarah’s daughter and first child, Ivy Anastasia Chapman, was born in 1966. She became a multi-talented child performer and gifted gymnast before turning to a horse breeding career. She now teaches elementary school in Iowa. Sarah’s son, Ives Winston Wheeler Chapman (Winston), born in 1972, was also a child performer, clowning alone and with his father, Danny. Although 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 young children in Wisconsin.
+Sarah’s daughter and first child, Ivy Anastasia Chapman, was born in 1966. She became a multi-talented child performer and gifted gymnast before turning to a horse breeding career. She now teaches elementary school in Iowa. Sarah’s son, Ives Winston Wheeler Chapman (Winston), born in 1972, was also a child performer, clowning alone and with his father, Danny. Although 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 Wisconsin.
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 In 1966, she was working in Shrine Circuses in Detroit and Cleveland, where she performed in the aerial ballet and learned to ride elephants under the tutelage of the great elephant trainer [[Rex Williams]]&mdash;and while in Cleveland, she finally debuted her balancing trapeze act professionally. She then went on to work with [[King Bros. Circus]], and with [[Carson & Barnes Circus]], where she premiered a rotating ladder act that Danny had created in the 1950s as ''The Aerial Chapmans''. Danny had suffered a serious fall with this act in Brussels in 1958, but it had survived with other performers. Sarah would perform it with various partners, among whom her stepdaughter, Deborah Chapman.
-Sarah’s daughter and first child, Ivy Anastasia Chapman, was born on October 12, 1966. She became a multi-talented child performer and gifted gymnast before turning to a horse breeding career. She now teaches elementary school in Iowa. Sarah’s son, Ives Winston Wheeler Chapman (Winston), born September 7, 1972, was also a child performer, clowning alone and with his father, Danny. Although 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 young children in Wisconsin.
+Sarah’s daughter and first child, Ivy Anastasia Chapman, was born in 1966. She became a multi-talented child performer and gifted gymnast before turning to a horse breeding career. She now teaches elementary school in Iowa. Sarah’s son, Ives Winston Wheeler Chapman (Winston), born in 1972, was also a child performer, clowning alone and with his father, Danny. Although 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 young children in Wisconsin.
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 File:Chapman_1973.jpg|Sarah Chapman at Madison Square Garden (1973)
 File:Sarah_Chapman_1973.jpg|Sarah Chapman (1973)
-File:Chapmans_1975.jpg|Sarah, Danny & Deborah Chapman (1975)
+File:Chapmans_1975.jpg|Sarah, Danny & Deborah Chapman (1974)
 File:Aerial_Chapmans_1975.jpg|The Aerial Chapmans (1975)
 File:Chapman_Headsand.jpg|Sarah Chapman (1975)
 File:Chapman_Book_Cover.png|Book Cover for Sarah Chapman's Memoirs (2014)
-File:Sarah_Chapman_Cook.jpg|Sarah Chapman as a cook (c.2015)
+File:Sarah_Chapman_Cook.jpg|Sarah Chapman as a cook (2017)
 File:Chapman_Cookbook_2017.png|Cover for Sarah Chapman's cookbook (2017)
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-[[File:Chapman_1973.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Sarah on the Balancing Trapeze (1973)]]In 1969, Sarah joined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s new Blue Unit, where she performed her trapeze act and participated in the aerial ballet and in [[Hugo Schmitt]]’s impressive elephant act (riding Siam, its star elephant, in the center ring), and the following year, she appeared on NBC Television’s ''The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson'' with her web act. In 1971, she moved to the Red Unit, where she remained until !974. There, Ringling’s music director [[Bill Pruyn]] (1927-1997) wrote an arrangement of ''Bess, You is My Woman Now'', from Gershwin’s opera ''Porgy and Bess'', to accompany Sarah’s trapeze act; it perfectly set the mood and would become thereafter her preferred music for her act.
+[[File:Chapman_1973.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Sarah on the Balancing Trapeze (1973)]]In 1969, Sarah joined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s new Blue Unit, where she performed her trapeze act and participated in the aerial ballet and in [[Hugo Schmitt]]’s impressive elephant act (riding Siam, its star elephant, in the center ring), and the following year, she appeared on NBC Television’s ''The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson'' with her web act. In 1971, she moved to the Red Unit, where she remained until 1974. There, Ringling’s music director [[Bill Pruyn]] (1927-1997) wrote an arrangement of ''Bess, You is My Woman Now'', from Gershwin’s opera ''Porgy and Bess'', to accompany Sarah’s trapeze act; it perfectly set the mood and would become thereafter her preferred music for her act.
 After leaving Ringling, Sarah Chapman added a headstand to her balancing trapeze act, and the extended Chapman family (with Danny’s children from a first marriage) began to offer not only their revolving ladder act but also a group juggling act. However, Sarah had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a disorder that affects the way the brain and spinal cord process painful and nonpainful signals and results in symptoms that are not compatible with the performance of a relatively dangerous act. She performed her trapeze act for the last time in 1979 at a Sailor Circus reunion show, in her hometown of Sarasota&mdash;thus completing her career’s full circle.

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-Meanwhile, the Wheelers’ five-acre domain enabled Sarah’s prolific climbing and playing in oak trees, preparing her for future aerial work…  She joined Sailor Circus in 1957, at age twelve, doing aerial acts. Two years later, she began practicing balancing (Washington) trapeze at home at the suggestion and under the tutelage of [[Danny Chapman]] (1913-1983), a flying trapeze artist, aerialist and clown, who would eventually teach at [[Clown College]] and be his first headmaster.
+Meanwhile, the Wheelers’ five-acre domain enabled Sarah’s prolific climbing and playing in oak trees, preparing her for future aerial work…  She joined Sailor Circus in 1957, at age twelve, doing aerial acts. Two years later, she began practicing balancing (Washington) trapeze at home at the suggestion and under the tutelage of [[Danny Chapman]] (1913-1983), a flying trapeze artist, aerialist and clown, who would eventually teach at [[Clown College]] and be its first headmaster.
 At Sailor Circus, Raul Segura, 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 her father had built for her and made her training more efficient. Balancing trapeze is a difficult and relatively rare specialty; said Sarah: "I picked a trapeze act that few people performed. It is a hard act to learn because of the hours spent practicing on the bar. I was a natural performer, but my balance was a gift."[[File:Aerial_Chapmans_1975.jpg|thumb|left|400px|The Aerial Chapmans: Sarah and Deborah Chapman (1975)]]

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