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Many are also practiced by non-performers as a hobby. Circus schools and instructors use various systems of categorization to group circus skills by type. Systems that have attempted to formally organize circus skills into pragmatic teaching groupings include the Gurevich system [ 1 ] (the basis of the Russian Circus School's curriculum) and ...
Individuals who dropped their last name and substituted their middle name as their last name are listed. Those with a one-word stage name are listed in a separate article. In many cases, performers have legally changed their name to their stage name. [1] Note: Many cultures have their own naming customs and systems, some rather intricate.
Zhao Liang (circus performer) This page was last edited on 11 May 2024, at 17:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...
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After seeing an aerialist in a circus, Vander Clyde or Van der Clyde (his real name) desired to become one. He responded to an ad in Billboard for the Alfaretta Sisters, an aerial act, who were looking for a replacement member. He began dressing as a female on their encouragement and continued to do so after leaving the act.
W.C. Fields – Actor and vaudeville performer [9] The Flying Karamazov Brothers – juggling and comedy troupe who have been performing since 1973; Jason Garfield – president of the World Juggling Federation; Anthony Gatto – holds various world records for numbers of balls juggled, considered by many to be the world's greatest juggler.
On Saturday June 16, 2014, Brian Miser etched his name in the Guinness Book of World Records, as the first "Human Fuse". [9] Hosted at the Peru Amateur Circus building on North Broadway Street, this stunt consisted of Miser launching himself from his custom-made human crossbow 104 feet, 7 inches into the air and covering a distance of 31.87 ...
Josephine-Joseph (c. 1896/1897) [1] [2] was the stage name of an American performer who was prominent in circus sideshows and the carnival circuits during the early 20th century. Biography [ edit ]