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We have a great friend in Massachusetts, Bob Lessard. He recently was a guest speaker at Wheaton College in MA. His topic. . . Marketing, circus style.

 

Some of the students attending Bob's lecture, appropriately displaying the proper facial adornments.

HAMID CIRCUS 2013



Hamid Circus Inc.--Amazing! David Conner !!
 

 

As she hangs by her toes and her toes alone!! — with Tina Winn.

Cake and ice cream with the Adam Forepaugh Barry Lubin tent on World Circus Day....

 

 

Angela Martin, Judy Troxell and Kim Sue Valla

Angela & Billy Martin,
With Benito Aguilar and Barry Lubin.

 

 

Barry Lubin






Tepa Hall

Culpepper & Merriweather Circus hits Thatcher

The circus is in town
 David Bell Photo/Eastern Arizona Courier
Crews raise the big top for the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus in the Bashas’ Shopping Center parking lot, Saturday morning. The circus will stage two performances Saturday, at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
from:  eacourier.com
By David Bell
April 20, 2013
THATCHER — Step right up! And see what’s under the big top!
Crews began erecting the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus big top in the Bashas’ Shopping Center parking lot, at about 9:30 a.m. Saturday, in preparation for Saturday’s two Gila Valley performances.
“Everyone here has multiple jobs,” said Nathan Holguin. “The guys putting up the tent will then assemble the rigging, put up the lighting and get the stands in place. Then after lunch and a small nap, they’ll be the ones working concessions and serving the patrons.”
Plus they start disassembling the production just as the lights come down on the last act. That’s because Culpepper & Merriweather Circus has a lot of miles to cover. The circus runs from March to October each year, playing at least one show — usually two — per day, seven days a week across the country.
“We’ll log over 14,000 miles and put on well over 400 shows,” Holguin said.
The circus has about 30 cast and crew and brings its own food and electricity. The only utility they use at each stop is local water.
“But we also spend about $1,000 in each city we do a show — for supplies, animal food and repairs,” Holguin said. “It’s a very symbiotic relationship we have with the communities we serve.”

 

David Bell Photo/Eastern Arizona Courier
Looking in on the big cats
Gila Valley residents tour the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus Saturday morning, as crews clean the tiger cages in preparation of Saturday’s two performances at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Culpepper & Merriweather Circus will have two shows Saturday, at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
The all-star group of performers and entertainers include Miss Simone and her amazing single trapeze, Miss Paulina’s proud prancing ponies, The Arlise Troupe on their wild and crazy unicycles, Natilie’s American Eskimo Escapades, The Ayala’s with unforgettable foot juggling, a ridiculous Rola Bola, a hair raising Hair Hang, and the performing Jungle Cats, Soloman, Delilah & Francis, all presented by Mr. Trey Key.
Also performing are the clowns — Judy and Punchy of San Francisco.
“Judy is the boss,” said Punchy (Holguin).
Tickets are $13 for adults and $7 for children ages 2 to 12 and children

Congradulations

Dick Garden & Jacqueline Zerbini

Photo from Facebook post by Tiff Garden

 

 

Circus tiger briefly escapes during Kansas show

The Associated Press

Sunday, Apr. 21, 2013

SALINA, Kan. --

A circus tiger gets loose behind the scenes during a show in Kansas but is quickly captured by handlers before many spectators knew what was going on.

The Salina Journal (http://bit.ly/15xRgWq) reports the big cat escaped backstage during an Isus Shrine Circus show at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Salina Bicentennial Center.

Staff members blocked off all entrances where the public could come into contact with the tiger to minimize risk. That included a public restroom, where workers had to turn people away until the tiger was back in custody.

Bicentennial manager Chris Bird says most people, other than those who couldn't get into the restroom, had no idea a dangerous animal had briefly escaped.

The circus had one more show scheduled for Sunday afternoon.

from you tube---

Ellie W.

Published on Apr 20, 2013

This video was uploaded from an Android phone.

A DAY LATE!

 

Published on Apr 20, 2013

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus celebrates World Circus Day! Saturday, April 20th is the 4th annual World Circus Day, a holiday established by Princess Stephanie of Monaco through the World Circus Federation, that encourages people all over the world to celebrate the magic of the circus. Here at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, The Greatest Show On Earth, we proudly celebrate circus arts everyday and are happy to extend that excitement out to our customers.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is a 143-year tradition that combines the classics -- extraordinary animal performances, captivating clown escapades and daring high-wire acts -- with contemporary surprises and thrills to make the circus-going experience memorably unique and a family tradition handed down from generation to generation With three independent units, Red, Blue and Gold, Ringling Bros. hosts millions of visitors and travels to more than 90 cities in North America each year.

UniVerSoul Circus, DC

~~~BACK  IN THE DAY~~~
From Retronaut.com

 

 

 

 

1890's

Blackpool honours star circus clown Charlie Caroli

 

The statue immortalises Charlie Caroli who is pictured with his son, Charlie Caroli junior
from: bbc.co.uk
One of Blackpool's legendary clowns who starred at the Tower Circus for 40 years, is being honoured later.
A six feet high (1.75m) glass fibre statue of Charlie Caroli will be unveiled at 14:00 BST in Blackpool's Stanley Park.
Mr Caroli, who died aged 70 in 1980, performed at the circus from 1939 until 1979.
Councillor Graham Cain, Cabinet Member for Tourism and Culture said the clown was synonymous with the town.
The statue has been created by local artist Brian Nicholson.
His son Charlie Caroli junior said it was fitting that the statue has been placed in the park's rose garden which his father liked to visit.
"It's been set up so that my dad's statue can still face towards the tower too, which is a nice touch," he said.
Mr Caroli junior added: "We actually did a lot of filming in the park for the BBC programme 'Right Charlie', and one day me and ringmaster Norman Barrett both fell in the lake. My dad thought it was hilarious."
Born in Italy to a circus family of French origin, Mr Caroli was performing in Blackpool when the Second World War broke out and never left the resort.
Reputedly he threw a watch, that had been given to him by Adolf Hitler when he performed in Munich, off one of the resort's piers when war broke out.
Charlie Caroli has been immortalised by rock groups including Chumbawamba whose song Just Desserts names the clown alongside 19th century Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin.

Funderland Cork Fun Fair 2013

Published on Mar 29, 2013

Family Day Out with Paras Family...kids having fun enjoying their easter break.

3 Stuntmen Injured during Rehearsal of Balkanski Circus
from:  novinite.com
April 20, 2013
SOFIA, BULGARIA--Three stuntmen  have been hospitalized after an incident during a rehersal at Circus Balkanski in Sofia.

The artists were performing a stunt called "The Globe of Death" where the performers ride motorcycles inside a mesh sphere simultaneously.

During a rehearsal of the stunt at noon on Saturday, the performers crashed into each other, according to a signal of the owners of the circus, as cited by the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).

During the stunt, the chain of one of the motorcycles tore and the vehicle fell to the ground, dragging the others with it.

All three stuntmen have been hospitalized and according to initial reports the injuries are not life-threatening.

The Balkanski Circus has been stationed at its traditional site in the Mladost 3 residential district in Sofia.


Circus goes indoors, entertainers keep the show alive

 

Sunday, Apr 21, 2013, 10:04 IST | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA
Omkar Rege 
Anand Dhotre of Rambo Circus has launched www.damoodhotre.com to spread legacy of Indian circus greats
A movable fair that toured villages and cities, the circus is now only a vague reminder of the visual spectacle it once was. As the circus fraternity celebrated World Circus Day on Saturday, Anand Dhotre of Rambo Circus, speaks to dna about the changing face of this popular form of entertainment.
Anand, who is the great-grandson of famous ringmaster and animal trainer Damoo Dhotre, was part of an event held on the account of World Circus Day in the city on Saturday. The event consisted of a rally by the artists from Rambo Circus along with students of Anath Hindu Mahilashram. It was an attempt to spread awareness about circus, which is a withering form.
“Vishnupant Chhatre, who started India’s first circus in 1883, was indeed a great man. Also, Damoo Dhotre, who was a world renowned animal trainer, has made great contribution to the world of circus. But people are oblivious to their existence,” Anand said. The event also felicitated the descendants of these circus greats.
 To mark this very occasion, the Rambo Circus will be performing at the Prithvi theatre in Mumbai.
This is the second time that the circus is being held at that venue. Explaining the shift of the circus from tents to enclosed auditoriums, Anand said, “The circus has been in danger of complete oblivion due to lack of grounds in the city. There is no place to set up such huge entourages anymore. The private grounds that are available are too expensive.”
He said, “Wild animals, which were an attraction, have been banned from being used in the performances.”
The shift of venue has presented itself with newer challenges and newer opportunities. “First of all, animals are out of the question when it is indoors. The stage area is limited and the audience is only seated on one side rather than sitting around you,” Anand pointed out. However, this has allowed for some experimentation.
“We have acts like juggling; knife throwing and we are doing our best to keep these art forms alive by promoting them,” Anand revealed. In an attempt to protect what is left and grow from there, Anand has also started a movement on the social media. With a website called www.damoodhotre.com, which provides valuable information on the history and legacy of Indian circus’ greats, and a Facebook page titled Circus Fan Club India, Anand is trying to spread the word.

Clown Dog Show Act

 

JOHN KENNEDY KANE
RINGMASTER
BIG APPLE CIRCUS

 

STAR MAGAZINE
Circus past, history present in Paola

 

From the Tibbals Digital Collection/ Ringling Collection.
 This poster would have been distributed in the 1920s for James Patterson’s third and last version of his circus.
from: kansascity.com
By DARRYL LEVINGS The Kansas City Star
April 19, 2013
It was about this time of year that the elephants began their migration out of Paola.
The “thunderous herd,” perhaps of Modoc, Daisy, Queen, Pinto and Jumbo, of course, might head south to Texas. One year they did quite well up in Canada.
A few times, Lotus the hippo waddled along, too, with the camels and trained ponies, dogs and monkeys.
Oh, this was back in the heyday of traveling shows, when “Patterson’s Big 4-Ring Wild Animal Circus” wintered just outside the prosperous little Kansas burg fed by the Katy, Frisco and MoPac rail lines.
This was before the Great Depression, even before the Great War, when a circus locomotive bleeding steam on a local railroad siding ranked up there for excitement with the mercantile burning down or a twister hitting the tent revival.
All the kids and the loafers would go down to the station to watch the sweating workers called razorbacks unload the gaudy and gilded wagons off the flatcars. And before you knew it, a parade was heading down Main Street toward the fairgrounds
White horses might draw the mirrored bandwagon first, and then came the big cats in their cages, elephants, pancake-faced clowns, women in tights, camels, a whole herd of trick ponies, maybe monkeys, barking dogs and the good Lord knows what else the show had that year, all with the steam calliope tooting and dooting away in the rear, signaling that the parade was over and it was time for kids to run home and beg the parents for money.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/19/4187393/circus-past-history-present-in.html#storylink=cpy

ALOHA!

Review: ‘Live’ shows promise
Produced by Tuffy Nicholas


Dancers Abby Resulta, Anthony Borengasser, Nalini Gauthier and Manarii Gauthier perform a Tahitian dance during "Aloha Live" on the pool deck of the Queen Kapiolani Hotel. The show features a mix of Polynesian dance and Cirque du Soleil-inspired performances.
(Star-Advertiser photo by Bruce Asato)
from: honolulupulse.com
REVIEW BY JOHN BERGER
Apr 18, 2013
Three world-class specialty acts and Hawaii’s home-grown Polynesian character actor Vili “Vili the Warrior” Fehoko are the attractions — for Hawaii residents, anyway — at “Aloha Live,” a dinner/variety show that opened April 12 on the third floor pool deck at the Queen Kapiolani Hotel.
The cast performs with Kapiolani Park and Diamond Head as its backdrop. A small but adequate stage is the performance area; a scaffold around the stage is hung with stage lights and gear used by two aerialists, whose Cirque de Soleil-quality routines give the show much of its “wow” factor.

Geddy Pavlovicius performs a feat requiring the utmost balance, standing on a stack of steel cylinders.
(Star-Advertiser photo by Bruce Asato)
The duo, husband-and-wife team David and Angela Saucedo, goes aerial first for a series of show-stopping acrobatics performed on, and while hanging from, a large steel hoop — think trapeze artists, but the hoop replacing the old-style trapeze bars. They return for a show-stopping “aerial silk” routine in which two long strips of cloth replace the hoop as the support for their aerial acrobatics. Each pose, each combination of graceful movement and sudden motion, is more dramatic than the one before.

 

Cory Rothwell works magic with balloons, fitting balloon hats on Tanoah Kauhi, 3, and Tahaiah Kauhi, 7.
(Star-Advertiser photo by Bruce Asato)
Watching Angela hang, head down, with only the strength of her husband’s legs keeping her from falling head-first to the floor, is not for the faint-hearted — even with the knowledge that are both trained professionals with the strength, flexibility and grace required.
The term “Cirque-like” has been overused in Hawaii in recent years, but the couple lives up to the expectations created by that phrase. They would certainly not be out of place in a Cirque de Soleil show.
read more:
http://www.honolulupulse.com/stage/review-aloha-live