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A Review of Circus Classification Systems

Circus: Arts, Life & Sciences
Classification systems allow for detailed and organized study of related items. The expansive and contradictory nature of circus makes it difficult to agree on one coherent, holistic classification system that constitutes “circus.” However, a well ...
Amanda K. Gatewood, LaReina Hingson
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Circus Tentmen Photograph

, 2018
Photograph of a group of men behind the scenes at a circus (probably tentmen), with a car and circus ...

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A Rhythm of Bodies: Making the Impossible Plausible Through Physicality, Risk and Trust in A Simple Space

Circus: Arts, Life & Sciences
Circus artists embrace the desire to achieve the impossible through exploration of the possibilities of the body. In the Australian milieu, contemporary circus performers put their bodies, their creativity and often their political agendas on the line ...
Kristy Seymour
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Paulo Family Act Photograph

, 2018
Photographic print of circus performers (left to right) Harry Paulo (Harry Butcher), Cicine Paulo (Cicine Butcher, nee Bohm), Betty Paulo (Mary Butcher, nee McCandless), Ted. The card has 'With Love Betty and Harry 1945' written on the reverse.
Victory Studio Limited
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“That’s What Makes Somebody Circus”: The Collaborative Process of Transforming the Meaning of Pain Through Discourse in Circus Organizations

Circus: Arts, Life & Sciences
  Drawing from a larger, in-depth qualitative study of thirteen circus acrobats, this study analyzes four excerpts with underlying narratives regarding pain in performing aerial acrobatics. Using Labov and Waletzky’s (1967) guiding framework
Laura V Martinez
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Participação social no campo da cultura e disputas simbólicas nas políticas culturais para o circo em Fortaleza (CE)

Ciências Sociais Unisinos, 2016
The article seeks to understand the dynamics of social participation in the field of culture. It seeks to reflect about the plurality of identities and self-representations present in the circus segment, realizing how these are articulated, integrated or
Jocastra Holanda Bezerra, José Márcio Barros   +1 more
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THE OLYMPIC CIRCUS AS A PROPAGATOR OF GYMNASTICS IN THE GRAND DUCHY OF POSEN DURING THE TURNSPERRE

Science of Gymnastics Journal
In the wake of socio-political upheaval and controversies surrounding the political activities of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn—regarded as the father of German gymnastics—a ban on gymnastic exercises by Turner unions, known as the Turnsperre, was enacted in ...
Mateusz Rozmiarek, Arkadiusz Włodarczyk
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(In)visibilities of the Body in the Circus:

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
The research analyzes the (in)visibilities, spaces and temporalities of the body in the circus in university extension initiatives of Brazilian Universities.
Rita de Cassia Fernandes, Terezinha Petrucia da Nóbrega   +1 more
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Circus Scene Photograph

, 2018
Photograph of two boys painting a low wire or tightrope stand behind the scenes at a circus.

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CorpoBrasilities in the Circus Ring:

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
This article discusses how Afro-Brazilian cultural ancestry should be a fundamental creative pedagogical assumption in the training of Brazilian circus artists in contemporary times, in an anti-colonial aesthetic-political positioning.
Lau Santos
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