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  • === From Ballet Dreams To Circus Challenges === ...other, Martha Avdeeva, was a scion of the old [[The Avdeev Family|Avdeev]] circus family. Martha and her sister, Svetlana, had inherited the legendary "giant
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  • ...the USSR) on February 18, 1972 in a family that was not connected with the circus: Both her parents worked for import-export companies. As a child, the mixtu ...there did: she enrolled in Kiev’s State Institute of Variety and Circus Arts in Ukraine (still part of the Soviet Union at the time). The year was 1987.
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  • ...oscow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]]—the famous Moscow Circus School. ...cus]]. In 1991, Kuznetsov left the Zemskov Troupe for Moscow’s [[Bolshoi Circus]], where he started working on a Russian Barre act of his own.
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  • ...nterline began her dance training at age three at the Enterline Performing Arts Center in Milton and with the Williamsport Civic Ballet, which were both ow ...estival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris, to represent the Big Apple Circus. To Brunn’s surprise and delight (and Nathalie’s), she won a Gold Medal
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  • When his circus contract was over, he returned to the stage, but didn’t abandon clowning: ...he was awarded the Silver Medal. That same year, he joined the [[Big Apple Circus]]’s celebrated Clown Care Unit®, bringing much needed comic relief to ho
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  • ...d a Russian one, Serguei Zenov. He also trained in Taiko drumming, martial arts, ballet, stage combat, magic, and break dancing. ...isco's [[Pickle Family Circus|New Pickle Circus]] and with Switzerland's [[Circus Monti]], among many other venues, before creating his acrobatic staff manip
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  • .... Over several millennia, its peoples have created many form of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have foll ...nd association with a Western circus was in 1988-1989 with the [[Big Apple Circus]], which also marked its first appearance in the United States.
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  • ...embers of the former Soviet Union have been the most inventive and skilled circus artists of the twentieth century, the Chinese, who come from a different, a ...lthough its artists perform acts of a similar genre and share with Western circus artists a similar background—that of the traveling fairground enterta
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  • ...[[Big Apple Circus]]. For over ten years he trained there in a variety of circus disciplines, including tumbling, foot juggling and risley, partnered acroba ...ngside some exceptional circus artists who were working with the Big Apple Circus: [[Francis Brunn]], [[Lottie Brunn]], [[Marie Pierre Benac]], [[David Dimit
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  • ==Acrobat, Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...the greatest wild animal trainers of all times—and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America.
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  • ...Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow in 1982, where he trained in all major circus disciplines, and specialized as an aerialist under the legendary team of [[ ...ween classical and "new" circus, and was instrumental in redefining circus arts for generations to come. Chelnokov was awarded a Silver Medal in this festi
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  • ...omedy on horseback, which was present in the very first days of the modern circus, is a very difficult genre—as is, actually, any act performed on hors ...e Fratellini’s school had acquired at various times the services of such circus equestrian luminaries as [[Chotachen Courtault]] and [[Francesco Caroli]].
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  • ...ирк/Circus.doc (Russian State Circus Company) [http://www.circus.ru www.circus.ru]''
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  • ...|Simeon Krachinov, juggler]], at Moscow's International Festival of Circus Arts (2007)
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  • ...y where the level of extreme poverty is still fairly high, a few traveling circus entrepreneurs may have resorted to methods that have fortunately vanished m [[File:Rambo_Circus_(2011).jpeg|thumb|right|375px|Rambo Circus (2011)]]
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  • ...no (Freddy, 1922-1988) was born in Brussels on December 18, 1922. Like all circus children, the two sons of Manrico Meschi, known as Bario (1888-1974), and L In 1938, the Dario-Barios were in England, at Blackpool’s [[Tower Circus]]. Nello took advantage of the occasion to learn tap-dancing, of which Engl
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  • ...Quiros Video (2002)|Los Quiros, high wire act]] at the 26th International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo (2002) ...)|Los Quiros, high wire act]], at the 2nd International Festival of Circus Arts in Moscow (2005)
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  • ...vacations training in circus arts, and performing on tour with the circus. Circus quickly became Sarah’s true passion. ...avant-garde [[Cirque de Barbarie]], at [[Circo da Madrugada]] in Brazil, [[Circus Roncalli]] in Germany, and Berlin’s WinterGarten varieté, among other ve
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  • ...ociation Team Championships, and they won a Bronze Medal and the Big Apple Circus Award at the 2003 [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris. After ...se to stay in show business, taking a managerial position at the Big Apple Circus. They have not turned their back to their performing career, however, and h
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  • ...ith their parents, when the Cortes Troupe were contracted by [[Hoxie Bros. Circus]] to perform their high wire and flying trapeze acts. Young Robinson perfor ...pyramid with the [[The Wallenda Family|Wallendas]] at the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 2004, along with his wife, Alida. (That year,
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