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Behind the scenes at the Big Top

Posted by Jennifer Nerad
from: nwsource.com
April 8, 2012
The Jordan World Circus performed this weekend in Puyallup. The North American traveling circus features a wide variety of entertainers, many of them traveling as couples or families. Their next stops will be Helena, Bozeman and Butte, Montana.
All photos by ERIKA SCHULTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES


 

Ringleader George Hanneford III addresses the audience during the Jordan World Circus in Puyallup, Wash. Sunday, April 8, 2012.

Ana Rosa Gotlib, 51, originally from Argentina, waits to perform at the Jordan World Circus in Puyallup, Wash. Sunday, April 8, 2012.

Mychelle Omar, a fifth generation circus performer, stretches and waits before her aerial routine at the Jordan World Circus in Puyallup, Wash. Sunday, April 8, 2012. Omar is an aerialist, juggler, and hula hooper and performs with her husband, an elephant trainer.

Tess Emerson, Anna Thomas-Henry, and Xan Kapla prepare to perform in an aerial act at the Jordan World Circus in Puyallup, Wash. Sunday, April 8, 2012. Thomas-Henry grew up in Seattle, and is working out of New York as a performer

Angelica Gonzalez, of Columbia, prepares for the grand finale of the Jordan World Circus in Puyallup, Wash. Sunday, April 8, 2012.

Mychelle Omar, a fifth generation circus performer, talks with her husband Habib Omar, an elephant trainer of 20 years, at the Jordan World Circus in Puyallup, Wash. Sunday, April 8, 2012.

Tickets are sold for face painting, as well as pony and elephant rides at the Jordan World Circus in Puyallup, Wash. Sunday, April 8, 2012. 
To see more photos from the circus, please check out our photo gallery AT:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/photogalleries/localnews2017939312/