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• Yasmine Smart
  ...She was tutored in horse and animal training by [[John Gindl]], who was at the time Billy Smart's Circus's head trainer. ...tmas Spectacular, a BBC Holiday special that aired for several years after the Billy Smart's Circus had ceased touring.
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• Links
  '''Golden Circus''' (Liana Orfei) [http://goldencircusfestival.it/ goldencircusfestival.it] Circo '''Greca Orfei''' [https://circogrecaorfei.it/ circogrecaorfei.it]
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• Fumagalli
  ...was related to two other famous Italian circus families, [[The Canastrelli Family|Canestrelli]] and Larible. Gianni's uncle, [[Francesco "Nené" Huesca]], wa ...all sorts of balancing feats with teeterboard on the wire. For many years, the Feller Boys enjoyed a brilliant international career. Gianni, however, had
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• Francesco
  ...the Ecole Nationale du Cirque (today the [[Académie Fratellini]], one of the western world's very first circus schools, which [[Annie Fratellini]] had j ...e, Africa, South America, and Asia. He was invited twice to participate in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo]], in 1990 (Tristan Rémy aw
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• International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo
  [[File:Gold_Clown.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The original version of the Gold Clown Award]] ==Monte Carlo, Circus Capital of the World==
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• Pancracio
  ...s in their own right: [[Pompoff y Thedy]], [[Emy, Goti y Cañamon]], the [[The Andreu-Rivels|Andreu Rivels]], [[Ramper]], [[Popey]], [[Los Hermanos Tonett ...he Circo de los Muchachos was an emanation of his Ciudad de los Muchachos (the Children’s City), which he had established in Benposta, near Orense in Ga
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• Moira Orfei
  ...ch coincided with the golden age of Italian cinema. But it was also due to the quality of her circus. ...nally successful Italian productions based on mythological themes, such as the ''Hercules'', ''Ursus'', and ''Samson'' series.
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• The Togni Family
  ...he 1970s), and the round-cupola, quarterpole-free "Florilegio" big top (in the 1990s). ...to be the granddaughter of a French nobleman who had fled to Italy during the French revolution.
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• Darix Togni
  ...with his cousins Wally and Angly. At age fourteen, he was included in the family’s perch-pole act. ...nd acting as a whiteface clown in a clown act with his brother Wioris, and the circus's midget clown, Checco Medori: ''I Sorellini''.
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• Cirkus Benneweis
  ...activity—until its "temporary" closure in 2015 for a "revamping" of the organization that never materialized. ...xample of many North-German traveling merchants and performers who crossed the border at that time.
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• Alberto Zoppé
  ...he major circuses of the [[The Togni Family|Togni]] and [[The Orfei Family|Orfei]] families, for example. Yet their companies often contained true gems, and ...Why eloping to Italy instead of France? The story doesn’t tell—but the Zoppé circus dynasty became an Italian one.
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• David Larible
  ...rn Europe. His is by far the most famous (and most copied) circus clown in the world. ...g, and the street-rooted audience participation that appeared in Europe in the early 1980s.
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• Ursula Böttcher
  ...chose to present, and which made her a circus star all over Europe and in the United States. ...in ruins in Soviet-controlled East Germany; her brother had been killed on the Russian Front, and Ursula desperately needed to make a living by herself.
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• The Casartelli Family
  ...tria, and which had no connection (beside the use of its famous name) with the legendary [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Parisian circus]]. ...ties, the Casartelli family managed to become in just a few decades one of the largest circus families in Europe; it counts today about one hundred member
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• Circus Medrano-Swoboda
  ...and belongs now (2011) to the Italian [[The Casartelli Family|Casartelli]] family. ...dwig, who was born in the family’s horse-drawn living wagon, Lajos—the Hungarian equivalent of his German name.
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• Dmitry Chernov
  ...er, when he shared the ring with [[Oleg Popov]], as a miniature version of the legendary Russian clown. ...burg)|"Circus on the Fontanka"]] in St. Petersburg. That same year, he won the "Best Young Juggler Award" at Moscow's Juggling Convention. This was follow
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• Walter Nones
  ...and built true circus empires in their own countries equating in strength the circus empires of yore. ...erative was novelty, for which he was faithful to the style and methods of the great Italian variety entrepreneurs.
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• William Vos
  ...ly interested in the circus as such, but he was fascinated by its animals. The process of training them would become his passion. ...where [[Jos Uyterlinde]]—another of Klant’s pupils—presented the act. At that time, Wim also took care of all sorts of animals.
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• Nell Gifford
  ...ted an amazingly faithful and enthusiastic following in the countryside of the south of England—not a large territory, but Nell Gifford wanted hers ...y moved from Oxford to a farm in a village called Minety, in Wiltshire. In the English countryside, horse riding is an integral part of life and Nell beca
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• Oskar Hoppe
  ...his attempts to revive great names of the past by taking good advantage of the struggle of some old circus luminaries to stage a comeback. ...circuses of [[Alfred Schneider]] and [[Willy Hagenbeck]], and by 1935, for the new [[Circus Barlay]] of Harry Barlay and his wife [[Carola Williams|Carola
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