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  • During a family engagement at Paris's [[Empire Music-Hall Cirque]] in November 1926, five-year-old Paulina performed a parody of Josephine B
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  • ==Cirque Napoléon, Cirque National, Cirque d'Hiver== ...opens onto the Boulevard du Temple through the small Place Pasdeloup: The Cirque d’Hiver is therefore quite noticeable, practically "on the Boulevards."
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  • ...me: Society amateur circuses were flourishing then—like the famous [[Cirque Molier]] in Paris—and these were also the times when another sports e ...perform successfully all over Europe and finally with the popular circus [[Cirque Pinder|Pinder]], with which they toured the French provinces from 1905 to19
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  • ...ys later, he made his professional debut as the act’s top mounter at the Empire Music Hall in Middlesbrough. It was also the beginning of his apprenticeshi ...the Moss Empires from 1949 to 1956, including an engagement at the Glasgow Empire with Judy Garland in 1951.
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  • ...ng of Paris’s two circuses, [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Medrano]] and the [[Cirque d’Hiver]]. ...y claimed independence from their family: They debuted alone at the Bobino Music-Hall, a famous Parisian variety theatre. From then on, they would pursue their o
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  • ===Guerra’s Cirque Olympique=== ...med his company recently, choosing the name (fashionable at the time) of ''Cirque Olympique'', which had a French flavor, perfectly suitable for that mostly
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  • ...who was born in Paris on December 2, 1923 when the family was working at [[Cirque Medrano]], soon showed a particular talent for music and a passion for clow ...them was [[Rolph Zavatta]] (who performed with the Rastellis at Paris’s Cirque Medrano in 1937). Zavatta would soon be replaced by José Gabastou.
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  • ...successful traveling circus—she was surrounded by the dancers of the Empire ballet in a piece titled ''Symphonie en Bleu'' ("Symphony in Blue"), choreo ...ndary Casino de Paris (he had also created, in 1924, the Empire Music-Hall Cirque) decided to revive for his new show a tableau that had had a great success
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  • ...odrome de la Place Clichy]] from 1900 to 1907; and the [[Empire Music-Hall Cirque]] from 1924 to 1937. ...a]], which gave its last performance in November 1892, and the legendary [[Cirque des Champs-Elysées]], which closed in 1898. To this list, one must add the
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  • ...ed in his father's risley act. Then the family went on to perform with the Cirque Caignac, where little José appeared in a parody of a strong-man act and in ...ncing, perch-pole balancing, and a hand-balancing—before joining the Cirque Caron in Grenoble. There, the Andreu siblings learned trick riding and bega
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  • ...ldingen in German), the capital of the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire, a city that had an important Jewish population. Emil was the eldest son of ...n surprised the Odeon’s company in Kiev (Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire) in the middle of a tour. They immediately tried to organize a safer engage
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  • ...ped it all. National recognition came in Berlin, the capital of the German Empire, where Sarrasani erected a wooden construction on Schönhauser Allee for th ...a water basin, on the model of Paris’s [[Nouveau Cirque (Paris)|Nouveau Cirque]]. There was also a fully equipped stage behind the ring, approximately 10
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  • ...the Parisian cultural fabric and in circus history. From its beginnings as Cirque Fernando, in 1873, until the end of [[Jérôme Medrano]]’s management in ...e eleven Ferdinand "ran away and joined the circus"—in this case the Cirque Gauthiez, which was touring in Belgium. There, as the story goes, Ferdinand
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  • ...March 13, 1910, in Kharkov in Ukraine, which was then part of the Russian Empire. Her father, Nikolai Bugrimov, was a professor of veterinary medicine. Her ...es of several European circus festivals, notably the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris. She died of a heart attack on February 20, 2001, at t
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  • ...: In spite of its French title, French audiences quickly discovered that ''Cirque Charles'' was actually a German enterprise. The Franco-German war of 1870 a ...ng in Ljubjana (in Slovenia, which was then part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire), Austria declared war to Serbia, and four days later, Europe was at war. M
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  • ...it was sometimes referred to as a "bonbonniere"), but in time, the Nouveau Cirque’s limited capacity made it difficult to manage. It began to lose its prom ...use whose rich and often glorious life had lasted forty years, the Nouveau Cirque finally called it quits.
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  • In 1934, following a winter season at Paris' [[Cirque d'Hiver]] with his family’s equestrian acts, Dominik passed the direction For the winter 1937-38, they were back with their horses at Paris' Cirque d'Hiver, where Franz (and Carola) started a long friendship with the circus
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  • ...hington Myers]] in England, and then at Paris’s [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Cirque Fernando]], where he revealed his outstanding abilities as a horse trainer ...Renz secured the lease of Brussel’s brand-new [[Cirque Royal (Brussels)|Cirque Royal]], on the rue de l’Université, for the 1878 season. The circus was
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  • ...ians. Then, the William Morris Agency gave him a contract for the Alhambra Music-Hall in Paris. ...ace de la République and the [[Cirque d'Hiver]], the now defunct Alhambra Music-Hall had been created by the British impresario Tom Barrasford, who ran a major
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  • ...hey starred in the "Temple of Clowns", the famous [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Cirque Medrano]], for four consecutive years, from 1910 to 1914. They were acrobat ...ccess. In 1910, Rico & Alex arrived at the fabled [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Cirque Medrano]] in Paris, where they quickly became the French capital's favorite
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