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  ==Circus Websites== '''Eden Brothers''' Circus [http://www.edencircus.com/ www.edencircus.com]
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• Uzeyir Novruzov
  ...p, quite unnaturally, in a cooking institute. Yet Uzeyir never gave up his circus ambitions and continued his acrobatic training. He showed a natural gift fo ...vel of circus training in Russia—one of the world’s most difficult circus competitions.
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• Aniskin Troupe
  ...ailey]] in 2003-2004. Oleg's wife, Yana, also a graduate of Moscow's State Circus and Variety College, appeared with [[The Firebirds]]. ...d in Ankara, Turkey. In 2002, when they were featured with the [[Big Apple Circus]] in the United States, the troupe included Oleg Aniskin (principal catcher
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• Bolshoi Circus
  == Moscow's "New Circus" == ...ого'' in Russian), better known as Moscow's ''Bolshoi Circus'' ("Grand Circus") was built under the tenure of Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary of the C
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• Valdis Yanovskis
  ...for Circus and Variety Arts (Moscow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow, where, under the tutelage of [[Tamara Babayan]], he specialize ...] from 1995-97, and appeared for the last time together at the [[Big Apple Circus]] in 1999, before parting ways.
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• Virgile Peyramaure
  ...teen, entered the [[Centre National des Arts du Cirque]], the French state circus college in Châlons-en-Champagne. There, he developed a hand-to-hand balanc ...n]] in Paris. They first performed their remarkable act at the [[Big Apple Circus]] in the U.S. in 1996-97 and returned there in 2000-01 for their farewell s
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• Big Apple Circus
  ...cus Arts. Its enormous success soon put the school in the shadows, and the circus took over as the principal activity of the organization. It became one of t ...’s prestigious Lincoln Center for The Performing Arts. The new Big Apple Circus quickly abandoned its spring-summer tours of the northeast United States an
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• Plotnikovi Bears Video (2014)
  ...ar act/attraction, at the International Youth Festival of Circus Arts at [[Circus Nukulin]] in Moscow (2014)
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• Philip Astley
  ==Circus Owner, Equestrian== Philip Astley (1742-1814) is considered the creator of the modern circus. He was born January 8, 1742 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the West Midlands,
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• Paul Binder
  ==Juggler, Clown, Ringmaster, Circus Director== ...n, he spent a short time at Boston University's School of Fine and Applied Arts, then he worked as the stage manager for Julia Child's TV show, ''The Frenc
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• Duo Adamo
  ...or Circus and Variety Arts]], and Chimgee Haltarhu, of the Mongolian State Circus. He developed skills in aerial straps, Chinese pole, and juggling. ...childhood, Erika graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in dance. Prior to meeting Andrew, she had danced at the Kenn
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• International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo
  ==Monte Carlo, Circus Capital of the World== ...ival was held from December 26 to 30, 1974 under the big top of the French circus [[The Bouglione Family|Bouglione]], installed on what was then the Esplanad
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• Miss Mara
  ...939, in Cartagena, where she performed a small trapeze act in her father's circus, Circo Florida. A very strong girl, both physically and psychologically, Ma ...Florida was performing. Three years later, when Miro Papadopoulos sold his circus to his brother, Cristóforo Cristo, Mara was free to strike out on her own.
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• Pancracio
  ...a clown—an auguste to be specific—even before he saw his first circus. This dream was ingrained in him as a child; as he would say later, reflect ...e Southern tip of Spain—a city famous worldwide for its sherry wine. Circus in Spain, during Fernando’s childhood, was at a peak, and it produced an
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• Michael Christensen
  ==Clown, Juggler, Circus Director== ...he San Francisco Mime Troupe, a political street-theater company that used circus techniques to create visual metaphors. As a member of the Mime Troupe, Mich
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• Wozniak Troupe
  ...urthered their training at Moscow's [[State College for Circus and Variety Arts]], where Tady created his teeterboard act in 1975. His troupe, composed ex ...rsatile performers, Tady and Teresa Wozniak also appeared at the Big Apple Circus in a bareback riding act in 1984.
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• Dynamotion Jugglers
  ...later, he appeared for the first time in a circus ring, at the [[Big Apple Circus]]. He performed a juggling duet he had created with Jim Strinka, called Dyn ...eer as a street performer. He honed his performance skills with the Circus Arts Troupe, a group with which he performed in schools and shopping malls in 19
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• Dolly Jacobs
  Dolly Jacobs was born to a circus family: her father, the celebrated clown [[Lou Jacobs]] (1903-1992), was fo ...orate costumes, and participating in ensemble aerial presentations. Jean's circus career was short-lived. On May 5, 1948, a few days after her debut at Madis
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• Moscow Circus
  ...rcus troupes that traveled abroad, in shows produced by the Soviet central circus organization, [[SoyuzGosTsirk]]. ...ow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in 1927, the world's first circus university.
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• Paulina Schumann
  ...circus, ''Circo Reina Victoria''; Paulina was, therefore, thrown into the circus world from the very moment she first opened her eyes. In the 1930s, the Rivels toured Europe, appearing in virtually every circus and variety house on the Continent. Then Charlie Rivel, who had performed h
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• Svetlana Gololobova
  ...ool closest to her hometown. Although she received general training in all circus disciplines, Svetlana demonstrated exceptional talent for hand-balancing. ...nd balancing acts in the history of the Soviet circus—indeed, of the circus anywhere.)
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• Marie-Pierre Bénac
  ...exis Gruss]]Marie-Pierre Bénac was not born into the circus. Yet during a circus career that spanned twelve years and two continents, she proved herself a v ...xis Gruss]]. Founded in 1974, the Conservatoire was the first professional circus school in Western Europe.
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• Tunga
  ...public of Mongolia (Outer Mongolia) to a family that did not belong to the circus. Her father was a construction manager, her mother a housewife who raised t Tunga joined the State Circus School of Ulan-Bator when she was twelve years old. She specialized in the
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• Les Casaly
  ...oned a promising career—in his case as an engineer—to join the circus. ...ould remain until 1990, performing their cradle act and, as members of the circus's resident company, a short-distance flying trapeze act.
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• Cirkus Benneweis
  Cirkus Benneweis was, until 2015, Denmark's premier circus, and one of Europe's oldest circuses still in the hands of the same family: ...ed a license to perform as "artist and musician" and began to give outdoor circus performances in Denmark. Gottfried was the son of August Wilhelm Binneweitz
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• Yelena Larkina
  ...Moscow’s [[State College of Circus and Variety Arts]] (a.k.a. the Moscow Circus School) in 1987, where the famous Russian act director [[Valentin Gneushev] ...[[Circus Knie]] and [[Circus Conelli]] in Switzerland; and, in Germany, [[Circus Krone]], Frankfurt’s TigerPalast, Düsseldorf’s Apollo Varieté, and Be
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• Picaso Jr.
  ...dary juggler [[El Gran Picaso]] (Francisco Tébar Picazo), who was a major circus star in Europe in the 1960s and '70s, and popularized "mouth juggling" with ...Realizing that he couldn't escape his circus heritage, he returned to the circus and made his debut at the Benidorm Palace Dinner-Show in Spain on May 5, 19
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• Olivier and Melinda
  ...nciennes, France, Olivier Merlier was not, it seemed, destined to become a circus performer. He worked as a welder on nuclear power plant construction sites, ...cepted the invitation. Thus, in 1985, he began training in all the classic circus disciplines. At the same time, he began to study Hungarian—and to pay
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• Circus Flora
  ...r David Balding established Circus Flora in 1987 as a permanent performing arts organization in St. Louis. ...ica killed her mother. For fifteen years, Flora was a beloved star of the circus that bears her name. In 2000, she retired in the elephant sanctuary in Hohe
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• Ivor David Balding
  ==Circus Producer and Artistic Director== ...famous Parisian circus. There, David had an invaluable initiation into the circus world.
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• Sophie and Virgile
  ...om one to five days a week. Eventually she decided to pursue a career as a circus artist. ...e in 1986, at age fifteen. He came from the circus: His father ran a small circus company.
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• Elena Panova
  ...developed quite by accident at the [[State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow along with her teachers, [[The Durov Dynasty|Tereza Durova]] an ...his wife, Klavdia, née Kazanskaya. Her parents had nothing to do with the circus: they came from peasant stock and both worked in a local factory.
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• Oleg Izossimov
  ...was twelve years old, he saw the Russian hand balancer Nikolai Kasse in a circus performance, and he was so impressed that he decided then and there that th ...te College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow, the celebrated "Moscow Circus School". He was refused three years in a row, and was finally accepted in 1
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• Duo Mouvance
  ...f Quebec, Canada. Since her middle-class family had no connection with the circus world, Hélène went through a traditional schooling, graduating in 1982 wi ...still a fledging school—albeit already making its mark in the “New Circus” community. At the same time, she studied acrobatic dance with Michel Jod
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• Circus Nikulin
  == The Circus On Tsvetnoy Boulevard == ...cus, is another one. And in Moscow, there is Circus Nikulin—"the Old Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard."
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• Cirque d'Hiver
  ...e world’s oldest extant circus building. It is also the world’s oldest circus still in activity: It opened its doors in 1852. Its address, at 110 rue Ame ...e (Paris)|Cirque Olympique]], located some five hundred yards from his new circus, on the portion of the Boulevard du Temple that disappeared in 1862, during
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• Valentin Gneushev
  ...eth century, and the creator of some of the most innovative and celebrated circus acts of the 1990s. ...g original acts for them, he eventually influenced the style of many young circus artists and companies, including [[Cirque du Soleil]].
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• Vladimir Tsarkov
  ...scow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]]—the famous "Moscow Circus School"—where he was accepted in 1978, at age fifteen. After the usual basic training in all classic circus disciplines, Vladimir went on to specialize in juggling under Firs Petrovic
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• Circus Oz
  ...al base upon which Circus Oz was founded. Many of the original members of Circus Oz were active in the new wave of Australian performance and brought to the === From "New Circus" To "Circus Oz" ===
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• Elena Borodina
  === 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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• Elena Serafimovich
  ...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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• Kuznetsov Troupe
  ...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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• Nathalie Enterline
  ...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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• Tom Dougherty
  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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• Simon Chaban
  ...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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• Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe
  .... 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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• The Chinese Acrobatic Theater
  ...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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• Carlos Guity
  ...[[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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• Alfred Court
  ==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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• Nikolai Chelnokov
  ...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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