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		+	* [[Nery_Video_(2015)|The Nery Brothers]], clowns (2015)
	* [[Molinario_Video_(2022)|Anaëlle Molinario]], comedy contortion (2022)		* [[Molinario_Video_(2022)|Anaëlle Molinario]], comedy contortion (2022)
	* [[Aleksandrov_Video_(2015)|Yuriy & Natalya Aleksandrov]], bear act (2015)		* [[Aleksandrov_Video_(2015)|Yuriy & Natalya Aleksandrov]], bear act (2015)
	* [[Duo_Romance_Video_(2022)|Duo Romance]], strap act (2022)		* [[Duo_Romance_Video_(2022)|Duo Romance]], strap act (2022)
	* [[Oksana_Ackward_Video_(2020)|Oksana Ackward]], clown entrée (2020)		* [[Oksana_Ackward_Video_(2020)|Oksana Ackward]], clown entrée (2020)
−	* [[Grushin_Video_(2022)|The Grushin Troupe]], trampoline and Risley act (2022)
	==New Oral Histories==		==New Oral Histories==

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Revision as of 20:58, 3 September 2022

Welcome! ✫ Bienvenue! ✫ Willkommen! ✫ Добро Пожаловать! Bienvenida! ✫ Benvenuto! ✫ 歡迎 ! ✫ Vítejte! ✫ Καλώς ήρθατ ε! Üdvözöljük! ✫ Добре Дошли! ✫ Welkom! ✫ Ласкаво Просимо! Velkommen! ✫ Tervetuloa! ✫ Дабро Запрашаем! ✫ Välkommen! Circopedia was originally inspired and funded by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.

In The Spotlight

GIUSEPPE CHIARINI

Giuseppe Chiarini (1823-1897) was perhaps the most influential circus director of the nineteenth century: During a professional career that spanned fifty-eight years, his extensive and incessant international tours led him from Europe to North and South America, to India and Asia, and down to Australia. In many places that had not yet been exposed to the circus, Chiarini’s was the first circus the locals had ever seen—and this exposure sometimes triggered there the creation of an indigenous circus inspired by Chiarini’s shows.

Over the years, Chiarini performed for Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, Emperors Maximilian I of Mexico, Dom Pedro of Brazil, and Mitsuhito of Japan, King Rama V of Siam, an assortment of Indian Rajahs, and for various government officials and politicians. His Royal Italian Circus—which could become Royal Spanish Circus when needed—was in fact an American enterprise based in California. A true circus man, Chiarini was indubitably a citizen of the world.

Giuseppe Chiarini came from a large and ancient Italian family of traveling entertainers, whose first recorded appearance was at the Foire Saint-Laurent, one of France’s oldest fairs, in 1580. Many Chiarinis, more or less directly related to Giuseppe, have since been chronicled in popular entertainment and circus history—a very diverse crowd of acrobats, ropedancers, puppeteers, ballet dancers, and equestrians.

In his novel, Die Vagabunden (1895), the German poet Karl von Holtei immortalized one of them, Francesco Chiarini; in the 1780s, this Chiarini managed a company of acrobats and puppeteers, and ran a very successful Théâtre d’Ombres Chinoises (shadow puppet theater). His daughter, Angélique, a celebrated equestrienneA female equestrian, or horse trainer, horse presenter, or acrobat on horseback., had been featured in 1793 at the Amphithéâtre Franconi—the former Amphithéâtre Astley—in Paris, and later in the troupe of Jacques Tourniaire.... (more...)

New Essays and Biographies

• Guangzhou Acrobatic Troupe, History
• Irina Bugrimova, Lion Trainer
• Mikhail Shuydin, Clown
• Yury Nikulin, Clown, Actor, Circus Director
• Serge, Circus Chronicler and Illustrator

New Videos

• The Nery Brothers, clowns (2015)
• Anaëlle Molinario, comedy contortion (2022)
• Yuriy & Natalya Aleksandrov, bear act (2015)
• Duo Romance, strap actAerial act performed hanging from a pair of fabric or leather straps. (See Aerial Straps.) (2022)
• Oksana Ackward, clown entrée(French) Clown piece with a dramatic structure, generally in the form of a short story or scene. (2020)

New Oral Histories

• For A Moment You Fly, The First Season of The Big Apple Circus (1977)
• Vladimir Durov Documentary on Russian Television (c.2000)
• Dolly Jacobs Interview at The Ringling (2018)
• Pinito del Oro's Interview on Spanish Television (1970)
• Gia Eradze's Interview on SSU TV (2015)

Circopedia Books

• Philip Astley & The Horsemen who invented the Circus, by Dominique Jando (2018)

A Message from the Founder

CIRCOPEDIA is a constantly evolving and expanding archive of the international circus. New videos, biographies, essays, and documents are added to the site on a weekly—and sometimes daily—basis. Keep visiting us: even if today you don't find what you're looking for, it may well be here tomorrow! And if you are a serious circus scholar and spot a factual or historical inaccuracy, do not hesitate to contact us: we will definitely consider your remarks and suggestions.

Dominique Jando

Founder and Curator