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Further, 1826 would seem to be the earliest he used anything. The earliest ad for a tented show appears in 1825. This was in Wilmington, Delaware, and appears, by geography, to be J. Purdy Brown’s circus. Brown used a tent in 1826, featured the facts in his ads and was, we believe, the first circus proprietor in the world to present tented ...
The exhibition was given on town meeting day, April, 1826. (2) Later in 1826, the third tent came into use, a fifty-foot round top on Fogg, Quick & Mead’s Washington Circus, which was playing in the southern states. (3) John Miller advertised “Pavilion Circus,” in Philadelphia.
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclists as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists. The term circus also describes the ...
- Philip Astley: The Father of The Modern Circus
- The Circus Is Born
- The American Traveling Circus
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- Evolution of The Circus Performance
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- Circus Today
In 1768, Astley settled in London and opened a riding-school near Westminster Bridge, where he taught in the morning and performed his "feats of horsemanship" in the afternoon. In London at this time, modern commercial theater (a word that encompassed all sorts of performing arts) was in the process of developing. Astley's building featured a circu...
Astley opened Paris's first circus, the Amphithéâtre Anglois, in 1782. That same year, his first competitor arose: equestrian Charles Hughes (1747-97), a former member of Astley's company. In association with Charles Dibdin, a prolific songwriter and author of pantomimes, Hughes opened a rival amphitheater and riding-school in London, the Royal Cir...
In the early nineteenth century, the United States was a new, developing country with few cities large enough to sustain long-term resident circuses. Furthermore, settlers were steadily pushing the American frontier westward, establishing new communities in a process of inexorable expansion. To reach their public, showmen had little choice but to t...
In 1836, the British equestrian Thomas Cooke visited the United States and brought back to England the American traveling-circus tent. This innovation was to ease the task of a group of European circus pioneers consumed by global ambitions. The most remarkable of these early touring companies was managed by the Italian equestrian Giuseppe Chiarini(...
From its inception, the core of the circus performance had been equestrian acts (trickAny specific exercise in a circus act.-riding, bareback acrobatics, dressage or High School, presentation of horses "at liberty"Liberty act", "Horses at liberty": Unmounted horses presented from the center of the ring by an equestrian directing his charges with hi...
The most consequential early-twentieth-century innovation in the circus, however, occurred in Russia. In 1919, Lenin nationalized the Russian circuses, and the vast majority of their performers, natives of Western Europe, fled the country. Faced with the task of training a core of uniquely Russian performers, the Soviet government established, in 1...
There was obviously a strong planetary need for a circus renaissance: That same year (1974), in Adelaide, Australia, a young company of clowns, acrobats and aerialists that called itself "New Circus" began to perform and attract attention. It was followed a year later by the Soapbox Circus; both companies merged in 1977, to become Circus Oz. Meanwh...
Richard Sands was an American circus owner as well as an acrobat, equestrian and 'ceiling walker'. His Sand's American Circus first visited England in 1842 with a stud of 35 horses and 25 equestrians. Sands presented his 'air walking' act, using rubber suction pads attached to his feet, at the Surrey Theatre and later at Drury Lane in 1853.
Apr 25, 2024 · The circus arrived in San Francisco in the fall of 1876, and Bailey charted a steamship at the re ported cost of 17,000 dollars to convey the circus across the Pacific.106 Cooper, Bailey & Co.’s Great International Allied Shows debuted in Sydney on December 18, 1876 under a massive main tent that was 500 feet long and 125 feet across and utilized a 150-foot main pole.
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May 26, 2024 · May 26, 2024. In the pantheon of great British innovators, the name Philip Astley may not ring a bell for most people today. But if you‘ve ever marveled at acrobats soaring under the big top, laughed at the antics of circus clowns, or held your breath as a trick rider vaults onto a galloping horse, then you‘ve experienced the enduring ...
