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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Apachi

Entertainment; Circus

This means false clap the clowns pass to one another.

Da-capo

Entertainment; Circus

Reprises performed by trained animals, usually horses, in the finale of act, when an animal trainer returns with applause.

This term was used on circus posters in former times to designate the performance of cyclists or motor-cyclists who drove on inner side of a high bottom-less grid basket with almost vertical walls. ...

Doors!

Entertainment; Circus

Order used to open the gates and let the public enter the big top.

Drei-man-hoch

Entertainment; Circus

The simplest form of the acrobats-in-column genre; broken German wording to designate three acrobats standing on each other's shoulders.

Dwarfs

Entertainment; Circus

They are common to circuses in the world. These 'little people' are represented in all the genres of circus art; they often perform in separated circus programs.