Product Description: This book takes its starting point in a rare experiment, that of an academic researcher attempting to learn to do circus. What happens to the knowledge of the performance theoretician when physically engaging with the circus arts? One of the (im)material outcomes of this experiment is what the author calls "homemade academic circus” - a series of lecture-performances on performance-related academic questions, presented and discussed through circus disciplines...read more

Product Description: Milwaukee was home to the Great Circus Parade for almost 30 years. Beginning in 1963 and continuing until 1972, the parade became an annual tradition, except in 1967 when the event was cancelled because of civil unrest. Revived on a smaller scale in 1980, the parade traveled between Baraboo and Chicago until it returned to Milwaukee in 1985...read more

Product Description: The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings together the work of over 30 scholars in this discipline, including Janet Davis, Helen Stoddart and Peta Tait, to highlight and address the field’s key historical, critical and theoretical issues...read more

Product Description: Flying Trapeze has exploded in popularity as a recreational activity in recent years with over 200 schools, clubs and resorts now open on six continents. Whether you are a complete beginner or a regular flyer, this book will accompany you from your very first swing, through a series of skill progressions (including over 50 different tricks and catches), right up to advanced somersaulting tricks and flying out-of-lines...read more

Product Description: One of the world's most influential photographers, Bruce Davidson takes readers inside three midcentury big tops in images that are poetic, realistic and profound. He reveals not only the swiftly vanishing cultural phenomenon of the circus, but what might be called the eternal human circus...read more

Product Description: Venetian Masks Coloring Book A COLORING BOOK EVERY ‘DRESSING UP’ LOVER SHOULD OWN :) Venetian Masks Coloring Book is an awesome way to relieve stress, aid relaxation and create beauty that you can be proud of hang up in your home...read more

Product Description: The Tiny Circus was first performed in Grand Rapids, MI. This book includes photos taken at live performances. Simple narration makes it easy for young children to explore the Tiny Circus themselves, while the stunning pictures will appeal to everyone who picks up the book.

Product Description: Go-Go The Clown has been making children smile for 15 years. An accomplished face-painter, balloon artist and juggler, he has become one of the busiest children’s entertainers in America. In this book, Go-Go shares his secrets to earning in excess of $50,000 annually as a facepainter...read more

Product Description: The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life...read more

Product Description: PERFOMING BASIC CIRCUS SKILLS is a complete guide to performing circus skills, including juggling, balancing, devil stick, diabolo, stilts, unicycling, tumbling, acrobatic balancing, ladders, pyramids, and clowning. THIS BOOK is based on the author’s actual experiences as a performer from the seventh to twelfth grades in the Fresno YMCA Gym Circus; as a competitive tumbler from the seventh grade to the end of college; and as a teacher of circus skills when he was a YMCA Physical Director...read more

Product Description: Left in the wild, Billie the elephant would have spent her life surrounded by her family, free to wander the jungles of Asia. Instead, she was captured as a baby and shipped to America where she arrived in the mid 1950s, long before circus and zoo-goers worried about animal living conditions...read more

Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters is a groundbreaking collection of conversations with 20 of the greatest clowns on earth. In discussion with clown aficionados Ezra LeBank and David Bridel, these legends of comedy reveal the origins, inspirations, techniques, and philosophies that underpin their remarkable odysseys. Featuring incomparable artists, including Slava Polunin, Bill Irwin, David Shiner, Oleg Popov, Dimitri, Nola Rae, and many more, Clowns is a unique and definitive study on the art of clowning. In Clowns, these 20 master artists speak candidly about their first encounters with clowning and circus, the crucial decisions that carved out the foundations of their style, and the role of teachers and mentors who shaped their development. Follow the twists and turns that changed the direction of their art and careers, explore the role of failure and originality in their lives and performances, and examine the development and evolution of the signature routines that became each clown’s trademark. The discussions culminate in meditations on the role of clowning in the modern world, as these great practitioners share their perspectives on the mysterious, elusive art of the clown.

Product Description: Since its inception in 1872, the Greatest Show on Earth has continually transformed itself to meet changing tastes and cultural shifts. Over the course of its long existence, it has been at various times a biblical spectacle and historical pageant, a ceremonial introduction to the peoples and cultures of the world, and a fairy tale masque...read more

Product Description: Living in a time when it was scandalous even to show a bit of ankle, a small number of courageous women covered their bodies in tattoos and traveled the country, performing nearly nude on carnival stages. These gutsy women spun amazing stories for captivated audiences about abductions and forced tattooing at the hands of savages, but little has been shared of their real lives...read more

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Product Description: We've recently seen Supergirl on the small screen in the CW's Smallville when the characters was portrayed by Laura Vandervoort. Obviously it's too early to think about casting so we'll have to wait for more information. We'll also have to wait to see how exactly the show will work without directly involving Kara's cousin, Superman...read more

Product Description: Monotheism and Monodiabolism, both originating simultaneously in the monistic tendencies of man's mental evolution, together constitute a Dualism which to many is still the most acceptable world-conception. Nevertheless, it is not the final goal of human philosophy...read more

Product Description: This reality was very similar to Earth-616, except that in this universe, the Watcher was named Atau instead of Uatu. Until the run-up to the Siege of Asgard, Ares, distrustful of Norman Osborn, tried to kill him, but was murdered by the Sentry...read more