Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Canadians
ISBN : UOM:39015002717208
The Acrobats
Mordecai Richler
The Acrobats
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The Acrobats
Mordecai Richler
Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:19591567
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The Acrobat
Alborozo
Author : Alborozo
Publisher : Child's Play Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1846436346
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An acrobat leaves his job at the circus, where nobody notices him, and sets out to find an audience that will appreciate his best tricks.
The Acrobats
Berry Fleming
Author : Berry Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015030759172
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A play of fantasy involving Death at a carnival.
The Ordinary Acrobat
Duncan Wall
Author : Duncan Wall
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307472267
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobats singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—hooked him. Soon he was attending circuses two or three nights a week, and soon after that, he entered the intensively competitive training program at France’s École Nationale des Arts du Cirque. The Ordinary Acrobat is a magical, funny, sometimes scary story of what happens when one average American joins a host of gifted—and flexible—international students in a rigorous regimen of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Brimming with surprises, outsized personalities, and plenty of charm, this personal history of how the circus evolved into the thrilling experience it is today delivers all the excitement and pleasure of the circus ring itself.
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
Author : Erin Morgenstern
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385534642
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
The Acrobats of Agra
Robin Scott-Elliot
Author : Robin Scott-Elliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911427148
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The Greatest Shows on Earth
Linda Simon
Author : Linda Simon
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780233987
The Greatest Shows on Earth by Linda Simon Pdf
“Step right up!” and buy a ticket to the Greatest Show on Earth—the Big Top, containing death-defying stunts, dancing bears, roaring tigers, and trumpeting elephants. The circus has always been home to the dazzling and the exotic, the improbable and the impossible—a place of myth and romance, of reinvention, rebirth, second acts, and new identities. Asking why we long to soar on flying trapezes, ride bareback on spangled horses, and parade through the streets in costumes of glitter and gold, this captivating book illuminates the history of the circus and the claim it has on the imaginations of artists, writers, and people around the world. Traveling back to the circus’s early days, Linda Simon takes us to eighteenth-century hippodromes in Great Britain and intimate one-ring circuses in nineteenth-century Paris, where Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso became enchanted with aerialists and clowns. She introduces us to P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, and the enterprising Ringling Brothers and reveals how they created the golden age of American circuses. Moving forward to the whimsical Circus Oz in Australia and to New York City’s Big Apple Circus and the grand spectacle of Cirque du Soleil, she shows how the circus has transformed in recent years. At the center of the story are the people—trick riders and tightrope walkers, sword swallowers and animal trainers, contortionists and clowns—that created the sensational, raucous, and sometimes titillating world of the circus. Beautifully illustrated and filled with rich historical detail and colorful anecdotes, The Greatest Shows on Earth is a vibrant history for all those who have ever dreamed of running away to the circus.
The Circus Train
Amita Parikh
Author : Amita Parikh
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443465007
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the World of Wonders, Europe’s most magnificent travelling circus, every moment is full of magic, and nothing is as it seems—especially for the people who put on the show Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo. Brilliant and curious, Lena yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, despite her father’s overprotectiveness and the limitations of her wheelchair. Lena’s unconventional life takes an exciting turn when she rescues Alexandre, an orphan with his own secrets and a mysterious past. Over several years, as their friendship flourishes and Alexandre trains as the illusionist’s apprentice, World War II escalates around them. When Theo and Alexandre are contracted to work and perform in a model town for Jews set up by the Nazis, Lena becomes separated from everything she knows. Forced to make her own way, she must confront her doubts and dare to believe in the impossible—herself. A must-read for fans of The Night Circus and Water for Elephants, The Circus Train will take readers on a heart-rending and spectacular two-decade journey across Europe. When all is lost, how do you find the courage to keep moving forward?
Semiotics at the Circus
Paul Bouissac
Author : Paul Bouissac
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110218299
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Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up strategy, which consists of considering first the objects and heuristically calling upon methodological resources in a broad theoretical array to come to grips with the problems that are encountered. Any circus act is a complex event that has cognitive and emotional dimensions. It is also a part of a history and an institution, and cannot be abstracted from its cultural and sociological contexts. Thus the range of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches must include structural semiotics, biosemiotics, pragmatics, socio-semiotics, cultural anthropology, the cognitive sciences, the psychology and sociology of emotions, to name only the most important. But the ultimate focus of this book is to enable the readers to better understand the meaning of circus performances and to appreciate the skills and creativity of this traditional popular art, which constantly renews itself from generation to generation.
The Circus Age
Janet M. Davis
Author : Janet M. Davis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780807861493
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A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyone could go to the show. In this entertaining and provocative book, Janet Davis links the flowering of the early-twentieth-century American railroad circus to such broader historical developments as the rise of big business, the breakdown of separate spheres for men and women, and the genesis of the United States' overseas empire. In the process, she casts the circus as a powerful force in consolidating the nation's identity as a modern industrial society and world power. Davis explores the multiple "shows" that took place under the big top, from scripted performances to exhibitions of laborers assembling and tearing down tents to impromptu spectacles of audiences brawling, acrobats falling, and animals rampaging. Turning Victorian notions of gender, race, and nationhood topsy-turvy, the circus brought its vision of a rapidly changing world to spectators--rural as well as urban--across the nation. Even today, Davis contends, the influence of the circus continues to resonate in popular representations of gender, race, and the wider world.
Acrobats and Mountebanks
Hugues Le Roux,Jules Garnier
Author : Hugues Le Roux,Jules Garnier
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547245414
Acrobats and Mountebanks by Hugues Le Roux,Jules Garnier Pdf
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Acrobats and Mountebanks" by Hugues Le Roux, Jules Garnier. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Ordinary Acrobat
Duncan Wall
Author : Duncan Wall
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307962294
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The extraordinary story of a young man’s plunge into the unique and wonderful world of the circus—taking readers deep into circus history and its renaissance as a contemporary art form, and behind the (tented) walls of France’s most prestigious circus school. When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobat singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—was captivating. Soon he was waiting outside stage doors, eagerly chatting with the stars, and attending circuses two or three nights a week. So great was his enthusiasm that a year later he applied on a whim to the training program at the École Nationale des Arts du Cirque—and was, to his surprise, accepted. Sometimes scary and often funny, The Ordinary Acrobat follows the (occasionally literal) collision of one American novice and a host of gifted international students in a rigorous regimen of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Along the way, Wall introduces readers to all the ambition, beauty, and thrills of the circus’s long history: from hardscrabble beginnings to Gilded Age treasures, and from twentieth-century artistic and economic struggles to its brilliant reemergence in the form of contemporary circus (most prominently through Cirque du Soleil). Readers meet figures past—the father of the circus, Philip Astley; the larger-than-life P. T. Barnum—and present, as Wall seeks lessons from innovative masters including juggler Jérôme Thomas and clown André Riot-Sarcey. As Wall learns, not everyone is destined to run away with the circus—but the institution fascinates just the same. Brimming with surprises, outsized personalities, and plenty of charm, The Ordinary Acrobat delivers all the excitement and pleasure of the circus ring itself.
Acrobat Family
Anouck Boisrobert,Louis Rigaud
Author : Anouck Boisrobert,Louis Rigaud
Publisher : Little Gestalten
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 3899558359
Acrobat Family by Anouck Boisrobert,Louis Rigaud Pdf
"Count from one to ten as the circus acts reveal their acrobatic feats of skill and strength on the pages of this pop-up book."--
The Routledge Circus Studies Reader
Peta Tait,Katie Lavers
Author : Peta Tait,Katie Lavers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000156058
The Routledge Circus Studies Reader by Peta Tait,Katie Lavers Pdf
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. It is organised into three accessible sections, Perspectives, Precedents and Presents, which approach historical aspects, current issues, and the future of circus performance. The chapters, grouped together into 13 theme-based sub-sections, provide a clear entry point into the field and emphasise the diversity of approaches available to students and scholars of circus studies. Classic accounts of performance, including pieces by Philippe Petit and Friedrich Nietzsche, are included alongside more recent scholarship in the field. Edited by two scholars whose work is strongly connected to the dynamic world of performance, The Routledge Circus Studies Reader is an essential teaching and study resource for the emerging discipline of circus studies. It also provides a stimulating introduction to the field for lovers of circus.
