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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fire fan

Entertainment; Circus

A fire fan is a fan, constructed out of welded metal and Kevlar wicking. They are used for fire dancing and performance.

Equilibristics is a blanket term for a number of circus skills which involve balancing or maintaining equilibrium. The term applies equally to acts in which the performer balances on a prop, and acts ...

devil sticks

Entertainment; Circus

The manipulation of devil sticks (also devilsticks, devil stixx, flower sticks, devil-sticks, rhythm sticks, gravity sticks, or juggling sticks) is a form of gyroscopic juggling or equilibristics, ...

contact juggling

Entertainment; Circus

Contact juggling is a form of object manipulation that focuses on the movement of objects such as balls in contact with the body. Although often used in conjunction with "toss juggling", it differs ...

college of magic

Entertainment; Circus

The College of Magic is a non-profit organization (007-517 NPO/NGO) based in Cape Town, South Africa that teaches Magic (illusion) to people from various levels of society with the goal of creating ...

cigar box

Entertainment; Circus

Cigar boxes are popular juggling props. Their rectangular shape resembles that of its namesake; they are sometimes padded on the ends and/or the sides with a felt-like material. Routines performed ...

chinese yo-yo

Entertainment; Circus

The Chinese yo-yo is a toy from China consisting of two equally-sized discs connected with a long axle. The Chinese yo-yo is kept spinning on a string tied to two sticks at its ends. Each stick is ...