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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Uniformists

Entertainment; Circus

Ring workers who instal and replace the circus props, prepare circus apparatuses and ring for circus acts. Uniformists are usually in two rows along the sides of vorgang during the performance. ...

A circus apparatus and name of relevant circus genre. The following two types of wire are used in wire-walker's acts: tightly stretched wire and free fastened wire (in the last case the wire tension ...

Vorgang

Entertainment; Circus

Curtain isolating the ring from internal engineering premises of the circus.

Voltige

Entertainment; Circus

Originally performed by beginners to open the circus show. It was an act where riders, standing on the backs of horses, struck various poses, jumped from horses and across barriers. Nowadays the ...

Animal training

Entertainment; Circus

Animal training for the purpose to provide animal performance before the audience. Although more than 120 years have passed since Wilhelm Hagenbeck created the animal training system, named "soft" ...

Advise

Entertainment; Circus

Official schedule, which is displayed behind the vorgang so that performers and other circus staff are advised about the time and sequence of the acts in circus ring, during either the performance or ...

Aerial flight

Entertainment; Circus

A circus act performed at a height under the circus cupola. It is performed above safety net and consists of numerous flights of gymnasts from one trapeze to another or to the hands of catcher who ...