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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A line of clown, of whom prototype was the line of Auguste. This name is connected with specific performance of these acts: they took place in breaks between the acts while the ring cover was being ...

catcher

Entertainment; Circus

A gymnast performing in an aerial act (mainly in flight act) who, having arranged himself on apparatus (e.g. trapeze), grasps it with his legs (by its side ropes) or hangs on elbow support (in loping ...

center pole

Entertainment; Circus

The tallest pole holding the tent up, located in the center of the tent.

chambarrier

Entertainment; Circus

A ring whip for horses. Its pole is up to 5. 5 m in length.

chapiteau

Entertainment; Circus

A collapsible mobile circus; in the simplest case it is a fire-proof rubber-impregnated tarpaulin tent. It is stretched on two ship-like masts to form a marquee inside which ring-shaped rows for ...

charee-varie

Entertainment; Circus

Literally "various jokes", an act, which usually took place at the beginning of the performance. It was a fancy-dress cavalcade of performers headed by clowns, and they performed various jumps on ...

circus act

Entertainment; Circus

A set of similar tricks that are carried out by one performer or a group of human or animal performers in certain sequence within a given period; the said tricks are designed to implement any idea, ...