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Monday, 22 April 2024

When Circus Stunts Go Wrong

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A YouTube video of Gandeys Circus ' latest production, Hollywood , has captured a moment when a flying trapeze act went wrong. A flyer...
Sunday, 21 April 2024

Circus Girl Power!

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What an iconic picture this is, capturing the strength, pride, optimism and exhilaration of the circus performer and the circus itself! It l...
Friday, 19 April 2024

Happy World Circus Day!

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To me, this picture of British Cirque du Soleil star Lucie Colebeck (taken by Ollie Colebeck on stage at the Royal Albert Hall this Janu...
Thursday, 18 April 2024

The Circus Funtasia Story

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From knife-thrower's assistant to ringmaster, Tracy Jones reveals how she ran away with the circus as a teenager and set up her own Big ...
Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Alexis Gruss, 1944 - 2024 - Farewell to a Knight of the French Circus

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Alexis Gruss and wife Gipsy in one of his final visits to the ring The death of French showman Alexis Gruss on 6 April highlights the diff...
Saturday, 23 March 2024

Big Kid Circus presents Europe's only all-female Globe of Death

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"For the first time ever, in any circus in the UK..." Those are the words you want to hear, bellowed through the air in a big top ...
Thursday, 21 March 2024

RIP Fred Van Buren and Greta

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Fred Van Buren  and his wife and assistant Connie Greta  (pictured above) put the magic in the circus - literally. Performing in the circu...
Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Philip Astley Centre opens in Newcastle-under-Lyme to celebrate the Father of the Circus.

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More than 250 years ago, Philip Astley invented the circus as we know it today. Two and a half centuries later, on 9 March , a Philip Astl...
Sunday, 18 February 2024

Cirque du Soleil breaks world records in London

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Setting world records has long been a way for circuses to gain publicity, whether it was the Chinese State Circus balancing the most perfor...
Thursday, 28 December 2023

10 Best Circus Acts of 2023

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From big stunts to quirky moments, and the funny to the thrilling, here are the ten best things that I saw in a British big top in 2023.  10...