Circus

Circus

A public entertainment consisting performances by acrobats, clowns, and trained animals, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented performers.

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Russian bar

Entertainment; Circus

Russian bar consists of two porters and at least one flyer and one Russian bar. The porters rest the ends of the bar on their shoulders while the flyer stands atop the bar. By utilising the ...

Russian swing is a pendulum device that hurls performers high into the air. Inertia is the key to the swings power. One performer, known as the booster, pushes the swing, while the other performers ...

Jump rope

Entertainment; Circus

Jump Rope is the ultimate extension of the children's sport, combining complex rhythms, large groups, and even jump roping within jump roping.

Silks

Entertainment; Circus

Silks are great lengths of loosely wrapped wide fabric. Often used in pairs, sometimes used in one continuous long loop called a hammock. Some variations also known as Straps.

Perch pole

Entertainment; Circus

Perch Pole is the precarious art of the perch pole puts one performer perilously at the top of a perch balanced on the shoulders of a partner.

Chapiteau

Entertainment; Circus

A collapsible mobile circus; in the simplest case it is a fire-proof rubber-impregnated tarpaulin tent. It is stretched on two ship-like masts to form a marquee inside which ring-shaped rows for ...

Carpet clown

Entertainment; Circus

A line of clown, of whom prototype was the line of Auguste. This name is connected with specific performance of these acts: they took place in breaks between the acts while the ring cover was being ...