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Circus

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. The term "circus" also describes the field of…

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Ancestor arts
Drama
Types
Classical circus, new circus, contemporary circus, social circus

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related to Further reading · 60
Circus → Adams, America, American, American Circus, An Overview, Animal Agency, Archived, Assael, Bandwagon, Bob, Bob Brooke, Brenda, Business, Charlottesville ISBN, Chicago Press, Childress, Circus Life, Company, Dfening, Earth
related to New circus · 38
Circus → Animal, Archaos, Australia, Canada, Charlie Chaplin, Circus Oz, Cirque, Cirque Plume, Compared, Early, France, Le Cirque Imaginaire, Le Cirque Invisible, London, Montreal's Les, More, Music, New, New Circus, Nofit State Circus
related to Acts · 25
Circus → Acts, Aerial Hoop, Austin Miles, Australian, Bill Irwin, Century, Chayne Hultgren, Clowns, Common, Daredevil, Emmett Kelly, Famous, Fratellini Family, Fresnel, Grock, Juggling, Pinhead, Rusty Russell, Tesla, The
related to Origin · 22
Circus → After, Astley, Aventine, Circensian, Circus Flaminius, Circus Maximus, Circus Neronis, Constantinople, George Speaight, Greek, Hippodrome, In Ancient Rome, It, Maxentius, Nero, Next, Others, Palatine, Roman, Romans
related to Buildings · 20
Circus → AmiensHippodrome Circus, AshgabatRiga Circus, Blackpool Tower CircusBudapest CircusCircus, BucharestThe, Dingaling House, Globus, Great YarmouthLa Tohu, In, Krone Building, Loch Ness, Minsk, MontrealMoscow Circus, MoscowCiniselli Circus, MunichCirque, ParisCirque Jules Verne, RigaBelarus State Circus, Saint PetersburgShanghai Circus World, ShanghaiTurkmen State Circus, The, Tsvetnoy Boulevard
related to References · 12
Circus → Cambridge University Press, Chisholm, Encyclopædia Britannica, George, History, Hugh, ISBN, London, Speaight, Tantivy Press, This, Vol
related to Contemporary circus · 11
Circus → Arts, Caméléon, Cirque, CNAC, French, In, Joseph Nadj, Le Centre National, Le Cri, The, This
related to Etymology · 11
Circus → Ancient Greek, Christian, Circe, De, Greek, Helios, Homeric Greek, In, Latin, Tertullian, The
related to Animal acts · 8
Circus → American, Going, Isaac, Mabel Stark, North America, Soon, The, Van Amburgh
related to External links · 7
Circus → American, American Circuses, British/European, Circus Slang, Dictionary, History, SideshowsCircopedia

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circuses first acts century astley new performance often modern contemporary traditional history performers many also animals use entertainment american clown

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CircusAncestor artsDrama1.00infobox
CircusTypesClassical circus, new circus, contemporary circus, social circus1.00infobox
Circusis acompany of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns0.90text
acrobatsinstance ofnor was he first to introduce acts0.80text
clowns to the English publicinstance ofnor was he first to introduce acts0.80text
but he was the first to create a space where all these acts were brought together to perform a showinstance ofnor was he first to introduce acts0.80text
lionsinstance ofwhere wild animals0.80text
elephants from time to time appeared in the ringinstance ofwhere wild animals0.80text
and where convulsions of nature such as floodsinstance ofwhere wild animals0.80text
earthquakesinstance ofwhere wild animals0.80text
and volcanic eruptions were produced with an extraordinary wealth of realistic displayinstance ofwhere wild animals0.80text
the Vermont-based Circus Smirkusinstance ofThe genre includes other circus troupes0.80text

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