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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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  • ...i), aerial straps, at the International Youth Festival of Circus Arts at [[Circus Nikulin]] in Moscow (2013)
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  • ...ticipated in international gymnastics competitions before switching to the circus&madash;as many Russian gymnasts do when their competitive career comes to a ...r Nikolai Zemskov’s untimely and sudden death during the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1995, his act was taken over for some time by
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  • ...mnastics and ballet. But when her father heard of her intention to go to a circus school, he stopped talking to Cryzta for two years! To him, she had chosen ...irque et du Mime, France’s—and Western Europe’s—very first circus school, created in 1974.)
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  • ...us" held in his native country. This radically changed David’s life: The circus was [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], and David was hired to perform ...vid Martins made his debut with his spectacular new act in the [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Bello Is Back!''
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  • ...n [[Alessandro Guerra]] and his troupe gave their first performance in the circus they had just built on the old Place des Manèges—the "merry-go-round ...in Rimini, Italy, Guerra (1782-1862) had started his career at Vienna's [[Circus Gymnasticus]], under the management of the Latvian equestrian [[Christoph d
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  • ...Over several millennia, its peoples have created many forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have foll ...2005)|Anhui Acrobatic Troupe, Risley & Teeterboard Act]], in the Big Apple Circus production of ''Grandma Goes To Hollywood'' (2005)
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  • ==Circus Owner and Director== ...unced the "Death of Britain’s Nº 1 Showman" and the "King of the Modern Circus," indicating the unrivalled position in which the showman was revered.
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  • ...oscow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] (better known as Moscow Circus School), and graduated in 1970. He made his professional debut as a flyer w ...by Valentin Gneushev. The troupe also participated in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo]] in 1998.
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  • ...s (Moscow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] (the famous "Moscow Circus School") in 1980. There she specialized as a juggler, and graduated in 1987 ...medal at the All-Union Circus Competition—the old USSR’s ultimate circus competition. But in the turmoil of the post-Soviet era, it was not easy to
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  • ==Circus Owner and Director== ...break for National Service in the Royal Air Force. After the Bertram Mills Circus closed down in 1967, he and Cyril Mills remained close friends.''
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  • ...Russian pop music—among others. And Leonid Engibarov for the Russian circus. ...he ringmaster in the circus ring, or [[SoyuzGosTsirk]], the central Soviet circus organization, in real life. In this, he embodied the moods of a new Soviet
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  • ...(born October 17, 1972) met at the [[State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow, Russia, where both were students. They graduated in 1991 with ...agements at the [[Tower Circus]] in Blackpool, England, and [[Circus Krone|Circus Kronebau]] in Munich, Germany.
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  • ...when they were thirteen years old. As a child, Irina already worked in the circus; she had started training in gymnastics and ballet at age four. Andrey also ...for Circus and Variety Arts (Moscow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]], and she convinced Andrey to come with her. But if Irina, with her backgr
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  • Denis Lacombe in ''The Maestro'', comedy act, at the 1st International Circus Arts Festival of Moscow (1996)
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  • ...enis Lacombe in ''The Barber Shop'' with Bill Woodcock]], in the Big Apple Circus production of ''Carnival and Mardi Gras'' (1986) ..._Lacombe_BAC_Video_1986|Denis Lacombe, ''The Maestro'']], in the Big Apple Circus production of ''Carnival and Mardi Gras'' (1986)
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  • ...рк/Circus.doc (Russian State Circus Company) [http://www.circus.ru/ www.circus.ru]''
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  • ...Kristina Kokorina, Juggling Act]], at the International Festival of Circus Arts, Moscow (2005)
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  • ...for Circus and Variety Arts (Moscow)|State College for Circus and Variety Arts]] in Moscow, where he graduated in 1970 as an acrobat on perch pole. Four y ...ildan Yakubovi, Trained Baboons]], at the International Festival of Circus Arts in Moscow (2005)
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  • ...ирк/Circus.doc (Russian State Circus Company) [http://www.circus.ru www.circus.ru]
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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 ...al competition, notably winning a Silver Clown at the 11th [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] with a chair-balancing act in 1985.
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  • ...an acrobat and a clown, before becoming ringmaster of Moscow’s [[Bolshoi Circus]] from 1971 to 1986. ...in Moscow (the Russian Academy of Theatrical Arts), where he graduated as circus "regisseur" (director) in 1995. It is at that time that he met his wife, Ol
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  • Beijing Acrobatic Troupe, Chinese Poles, at the International Circus Arts Festival of Moscow (2007)
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  • ...Over several millennia, its peoples have created many forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have foll ...in 2007 for its remarkable Chinese Pole act, which was also feratured at [[Circus Krone]] in Munich in 2011.
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  • [[File:Circus_Nikitin_in_Moscow.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Circus Nikitin in Moscow (c.1915)]] ==Circus Entrepreneurs==
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  • ...Over several millennia, its peoples have created many forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have foll ...including three ''Prix du Président de la République''), [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo|Monte Carlo]] (two Gold Clowns), Italy and Sweden,
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  • [[File:Circus_Gymnasticus_1815.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The Circus Gymnasticus on the Prater (1815)]] ...ristoph de Bach]] (1768-1834), who had settled in Austria around 1805. The Circus Gymnasticus’s elegant building was erected in 1808 on the Prater—th
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  • ==Juggler, Magician, Circus Owner== ...gedy. He might also be considered the man who launched the [[Bertram Mills Circus]] on its first tour, having had a short connection with [[Bertram Mills|Ber
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  • ...Over several millennia, its peoples have created many forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have foll ...of [[International Circus Festival of Budapest|Budapest]], [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo|Monte Carlo]], Russia, Poland, and [[Festival Mondi
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  • ...Over several millennia, its peoples have created many forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have foll ...l du Cirque de Demain]] in Paris, two Silver Clowns at the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] and the First Prize and the Grand Prize at the [[
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  • ...tinue her art education, and she applied for the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Unfortunately, she was not accepted. This dramatically changed th ...elaxed place to consider her future. Toulouse was the seat of a well-known circus school, the Lido, which had shown over the years a remarkable talent for cr
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  • ...ipated in the [[Festival Première Rampe]], Monaco’s international youth circus festival, where she obtained a Silver Medal. It was evident that Stephanie ...er: Immediately afterwards, in 1999, she was featured at the prestigious [[Circus Knie]], in her native Switzerland.
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  • ...and when he was about thirteen years old, Miguel "ran away and joined the circus," as they say. ...eras, with Miguel as their main flyer, participated in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1977.
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  • ==Circus Director and Impresario== ...evements were the introduction of theatrical aesthetics into the traveling circus performance, a modern approach to public relations and marketing, his fores
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  • ...e of its famous name) with the legendary [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Parisian circus]]. ...sartelli family managed to become in just a few decades one of the largest circus families in Europe; it counts today about one hundred members.
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  • .... The name of that circus was homonymous to that of the legendary Parisian circus, but had no connection with it. It was “the other Medrano”—and st ...t and although they didn’t come from a circus family, they owned a small circus that traveled in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They always called Ludwig, wh
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  • ==Circus Memorialists== ...perhaps the most remarkable visual documentation existing on the European circus of the first half of the twentieth century.
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  • ...ited States, she has been featured as a solo performer in the [[Big Apple Circus]] production of ''Happy On!'' (1998). ...xin_BAC_Video_1998|Wang Lixin, cup and saucer juggling]], in the Big Apple Circus production of ''Happy On!'' (1998)
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  • ...Over several millennia, its peoples have created many forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have foll ...globe. The Changchun Acrobatic Troupe participated in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1987, where it was awarded the ''City of Monac
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  • ...Over several millennia, its peoples have created many forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have foll ...y]]. The Liaoning Acrobatic Troupe won a Gold Medal at the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1987 with a hoop diving act. One of its artist
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  • ...Over several millennia, its peoples have created many forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have foll ...1990 for its juggling on unicycles act, and the Gold Prize at the [[Golden Circus]] Festival in Italy in 2007. The troupe was awarded again at the Festival M
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