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  • ....|Rolf Knie]]'s group of African elephants at the [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Cirque Medrano]] in Paris. The following year, he presented the liberty horse-act ===The Cirque Jean Richard===
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  • ===From The Streets of Europe to The Nouveau Cirque de Paris=== ...together? Would they like to be part of the first tour of their [[Nouveau Cirque de Paris]]? "Yes, why not?" was the answer to these questions.
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  • ...in Paris and was well on her way to launching her own circus, the Nouveau Cirque de Paris. She offered Paul and Michael the opportunity to join her and her ...a, Paul Binder, and Barry Lubin (1997)]]Paul came to view the circus as an art form, and he was hooked. He returned to New York with one idea: creating th
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  • ...e Muchachos, and went on a French tour with Annie Fratellini’s [[Nouveau Cirque de Paris]]. The following year, he created his own risley act, ''Los Pancra ...r the [[The Bouglione Family|Bougliones]], and appearing in Paris with the Cirque [[Diana Moreno]]. He then went on to teach acrobatics and clowning at the C
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  • ...raced their ring. The world’s oldest extant circus building, Paris’s [[Cirque d’Hiver]], where [[Jules Léotard]] originated the flying trapeze in 1859 ...l, and began when the French equestrian [[Jacques Tourniaire]] built the ''Cirque Olympique'', Russia’s first circus, in 1827 near the Fontanka canal, on t
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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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  • This was before World War I, and he was working for the old [[Cirque Pinder]], then still under the management of Arthur Pinder; his contract re ...o & Carletto replaced the Fratellinis, who had just left Medrano for the [[Cirque d’Hiver]].
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  • ...e central Soviet circus agency, replaced it with a brand new, state-of-the-art building, erected in a different part of the city. This latter circus, whic ...l—in the manner of Paris’s famous [[Nouveau Cirque (Paris)|Nouveau Cirque]]—and which allowed the presentation of water pantomimes. Inaugurated
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  • ...riety theaters, which they frequented assiduously every week. Their unique art production constitutes perhaps the most remarkable visual documentation exi ...sed his artistic talents on to his daughters, and was not only their first art teacher, but he also taught them how to do precise and accurate renderings
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  • ...sburg. The building, designed by the architect Smaragd Shustov and named ''Cirque Olympique'', was located near the Fontanka canal, practically where St. Pet ...s before, in 1847, by the newly created [[Russia%27s_First_National_Circus|Cirque de la Compagnie des Théâtres Impériaux]] (in short, the Imperial Circus)
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  • ...ed woodcarvings in the new and fashionable ''Jugenstil'', the German ''Art Nouveau''—a harbinger of things to come. Initially the only animals were hors ...ially strong enough to achieve his ambition: To have his own, state-of-the-art circus building. He first set his views on Berlin, where [[Circus Busch]] (
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  • ...be attributed (and perhaps more rightly so) to their rivals at the Nouveau Cirque, [[Pierantoni & Saltamontès]]. Yet, Foottit & Chocolat were instrumental i ...ttit reverted to his first area of expertise: He debuted as a clown at the Cirque Continental in Bordeaux, France, where he had already been working as a bar
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  • ...rs.jpg|thumb|left|400px|Patrick, Bella, and Alexis Gruss, Jr. at the Grand Cirque de France (1964)]]Alexis Jacques André Gruss was born in his parents' livi ...o-Circus'', ''Medrano Voyageur'', ''Cirque-Zoo Jean Richard'', and ''Grand Cirque de France''. There, Alexis, his brother [[The Gruss Dynasty|Patrick]] (b.19
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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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  • ...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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  • ...xt engagement was with Erfords' Whirling Sensation—"Climax of Aerial Art", said their advertising—a vaudeville novelty act. There are two know Located rue de Malte, near the Place de la République and the [[Cirque d'Hiver]], the now defunct Alhambra Music-Hall had been created by the Brit
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  • ...met if they shared his interest for (or worked in) his favorite performing art, had many friends in the circus world. He was also fascinated by the world ...dio shows, ''Panorama des Variétés'', ''Les Jeux du Cirque'', ''Jeudi au Cirque'', ''Gens du Voyage'', ''Circoradio'', etc., and his inimitable style (writ
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