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Circus skills are a group of disciplines that have been performed as entertainment in circus, carnival, sideshow, busking, variety, vaudeville, or music hall shows. Most circus skills are still being performed today. Many are also practiced by non-performers as a hobby.
Globe of death – Circus and carnival stunt where stunt riders ride motorcycles inside a mesh sphere ball. Figure skating – Sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. Freerunning – Way of expression by interacting with various obstacles and environment. May include flipping and spinning.
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclists as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.
When circus-goers witness acts like a triple somersault on the trapeze or spinning in a human hamster wheel without a harness, they see a fleeting moment that is said to have divine impact ...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents ... There were various types of strong-woman acts, but the most typical consisted of ...
Circus skills include a variety of acrobatic, manually dexterous and daring stunts. Subcategories This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total.
Circus music catered to the needs of the different acts. For example, a high-flying, nimble trapeze act could be characterized by a dizzying galop or a graceful waltz. An act containing ferocious wild animals, such as lions, would probably use a march.
Circus advertisement depicting a clown act, 1900. The American circus term for a clown's act is "gag"; Europeans refer to it as an "entrée", and amateur clowns sometimes refer to it as a "skit" or "sketch". Gags are the clown's written and rehearsed performances.