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Circus traditions have been embedded in Sarasota history since the Ringling brothers set up their winter quarters in the community nearly a century ago, attracting locals and tourists who wanted close ...

The circus is coming to town, but the shenanigans happening under this big top aren’t the typical clown, juggler and trapeze acts. The traveling Paranormal Cirque II, playing Friday through Monday in ...

It was 1867 when British singer George Leybourne wrote of “that daring young man on the flying trapeze,” a paean to the great 19th-century French trapeze artist Jules Léotard, who’s been credited as ...

Jul. 12—WATERTOWN — Alex Cortes is just one of about 10 people in the world who climbs into a dark cylinder and gets shot out of a cannon. He's the human cannonball with the Flying Cortes, the trapeze ...

The Circus Arts Conservatory will be sending acts up in the air and around the performance ring for the 2025 edition of Circus Sarasota. The show runs Wednesdays through Sundays Feb. 15-March 9 under ...

Estefani Evans is a fifth-generation circus performer starring in Cirque du Soleil's Alegría. She began trapeze at 10 years old. Her husband works alongside her, and their kids travel with them. "I ...

A popular traveling circus is getting ready to set up their big top in Brooklyn for the first time ever. After runs in Queens and the Bronx, Flip Circus is setting up shop in McCarren Park for a ...

Lulu, an Asian elephant, is getting a good soaking in this 90-degree heat in the Almeda Mall parking lot. She opens her mouth and gets a sprayful as the sun glistens off the damp, fine hair sticking ...

It was 75 years ago that the circus came to town. This wasn't just any circus. It was THE circus. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus – America's circus – arrived in the city in 1947 amid ...

NORMAL — You might say a three-ring circus is coming to Normal this week. In the first ring is Illinois State University's Gamma Phi Circus, the oldest collegiate circus in the nation, with ...

Video shows the Ventura Circus in Lamont. The Ventura Circus is a family-run circus that began as a dream. The circus will be in Lamont until November 13th. It’s all about the performers at the ...