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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 ...
Clarence Chesterfield Howerton (February 9, 1913 – November 18, 1975), also known as Major Mite, was an American circus performer who starred in the sideshow for over 25 years, 20 of which were with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was 2 ft 4 in (0.71 m) tall and performed with several groups from the early 1920s through the ...
John Andrew ‘Jack’ Lepiarz (born July 11, 1988), better known by his stage names Jack the Whipper and Jacques Ze Whipper, is an American circus performer and social media personality. He is best known for his whip cracking stage show which he performs at several Renaissance festivals and posts on social media, where he has over 3 million ...
Dixiana Caldwell and her friends, Peewee and Ginger, are circus performers in the antebellum Southern United States.When Dixiana falls in love with a young Southern aristocrat, Carl Van Horn, she leaves the circus where she is employed and, with Peewee and Ginger, accompanies Carl to his family's plantation in order to meet Van Horn's family.
He was raised in an American circus family of Irish background. He is known for his work in U.S circus scenes between 1866 and 1869, but from 1872 he worked at Cirkus Myers in Central Europe. [ 2 ] To this circus, the Swedish-Norwegian circus artist Eleonora Olsen, later known as Laura Madigan (mother of Elvira Madigan ) came to work in 1875 ...
This article is about cast and characters from the Critical Role actual play web series. For characters from the Critical Role animated series, see List of The Legend of Vox Machina characters. The main cast of Critical Role at WonderCon in 2017. Critical Role (sometimes abbreviated as CR) is an American actual play web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons ...
Fictional circus performers. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. C. Fictional clowns (5 C, 44 P) F.
Born in Sarasota, Florida, Nock is a seventh-generation circus performer, a descendant of the family that founded Switzerland's famous Circus Nock in the 18th century. [3] He was a star attraction for the Big Apple Circus and for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus before pursuing an independent career as a performer.