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==Featured Essays and Videos==
 
==Featured Essays and Videos==
* Essay: [[New_York_Circuses|The Circus Buildings of New York]]
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* Essay: [[Philip Astley|Philip Astley, creator of the modern circus]]
* Video: [[Aniskin_Troupe_Trapeze_BAC_2002_Video|The Aniskin Troupe, Flying Trapeze (2002).]]
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* Video: [[Serge_Percelly_BAC_Video_2000|Serge Percelly, juggler (2000).]]
  
 
==A Message from the Editor==
 
==A Message from the Editor==

Revision as of 21:08, 16 January 2009

Welcome to Circopedia,
the free encyclopedia of the international circus.
A project of the Big Apple Circus,
inspired and funded by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.


Featured Performer

Anatoly Durov.jpg

ANATOLY DUROV

In Soviet circus lore, Anatoly and Vladimir Durov are often associated with the Bolshevik revolution. As clowns-satirists who took an anarchistic stance against the autocratic tsarist government, they became popular heroes in the waning decades of the Russian Empire. The Soviet regime, always eager to play the populist card, did not hesitate to claim them as its own. (more...)

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A Message from the Editor

CIRCOPEDIA is a constantly evolving and expanding encyclopedia 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 you don't find something today, it may well be here tomorrow!
Dominique Jando