The Bloomington Normal Circus Legacy The Golden Age Of Aerialists

Author : Maureen Brunsdale,Mark Schmitt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625840073

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The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy: The Golden Age of Aerialists by Maureen Brunsdale,Mark Schmitt Pdf

Starting in the 1870s, the barns, icehouses, gymnasiums and empty theaters of central Illinois provided the practice sites for aerial performers whose names still command reverence in the annals of American circus history. Meet Fred Miltimore and the Green Brothers, runaways from the Fourth Ward School who became the first Bloomington-born flyers. Watch Art Concello, a ten-year-old truant, become first a world-class flyer, then a famous trapeze impresario and finally Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus's most successful general manager. The entire art of the trapeze--instruction, training, performance and management--became a Bloomington-Normal industry during the tented shows' golden age, when finding a circus flying act without a connection to this area would have been virtually impossible.

Author : Kate Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429594311

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Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s by Kate Holmes Pdf

Female solo aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s were internationally popular performers in the largest live performance mass entertainment of the period in the UK and USA. Yet these aerialists and this period in circus history have been largely forgotten despite the iconic image of ‘the’ female aerialist still flaring in the popular imagination. Kate Holmes uses insights gained as a practitioner to reconstruct in detail the British and American performances and public personae of key stars such as Lillian Leitzel, Luisita Leers, and the Flying Codonas, revealing what is performed and implicit in today’s practice. Using a wealth of original sources, this book considers the forgotten stars whose legacy of the cultural image of the female aerialist echoes. Locating performers within wider cultural histories of sport, glamour, and gender, this book asks important questions about their stardom, including: Why were female aerialists so alluring when their muscularity challenged conservative ideals of femininity and how did they participate in change? What was it about their movements and the spaces they performed in that activated such strong audience responses? This book is vital reading for students and practitioners of aerial performance, circus, gender, popular performance, and performance studies.

Author : Gillian Arrighi,Jim Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108485166

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The Cambridge Companion to the Circus by Gillian Arrighi,Jim Davis Pdf

An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus arts in major international festivals, educational environments, and social justice settings.

Author : Jennifer Guiliano
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813565569

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Indian Spectacle by Jennifer Guiliano Pdf

Amid controversies surrounding the team mascot and brand of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League and the use of mascots by K–12 schools, Americans demonstrate an expanding sensitivity to the pejorative use of references to Native Americans by sports organizations at all levels. In Indian Spectacle, Jennifer Guiliano exposes the anxiety of American middle-class masculinity in relation to the growing commercialization of collegiate sports and the indiscriminate use of Indian identity as mascots. Indian Spectacle explores the ways in which white, middle-class Americans have consumed narratives of masculinity, race, and collegiate athletics through the lens of Indian-themed athletic identities, mascots, and music. Drawing on a cross-section of American institutions of higher education, Guiliano investigates the role of sports mascots in the big business of twentieth-century American college football in order to connect mascotry to expressions of community identity, individual belonging, stereotyped imagery, and cultural hegemony. Against a backdrop of the current level of the commercialization of collegiate sports—where the collective revenue of the fifteen highest grossing teams in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has well surpassed one billion dollars—Guiliano recounts the history of the creation and spread of mascots and university identities as something bound up in the spectacle of halftime performance, the growth of collegiate competition, the influence of mass media, and how athletes, coaches, band members, spectators, university alumni, faculty, and administrators, artists, writers, and members of local communities all have contributed to the dissemination of ideas of Indianness that is rarely rooted in native people’s actual lives.

Author : Howard Loxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Circus
ISBN : 1840130202

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The Golden Age of the Circus by Howard Loxton Pdf

Author : Peta Tait
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134331208

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Circus Bodies by Peta Tait Pdf

This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies. Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the socially changing ideas of muscular action in relation to our understanding of gender and sexuality. She questions how spectators see and enjoy aerial actions, and what cultural identities are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement. Adeptly locating aerial performance within the wider cultural history of bodies and their identities, Circus Bodies explores this subject through a range of films such as Trapeze (1956) and Wings of Desire (1987) and Tait also examines live performances including: * the first trapeze performers: Léotard and the Hanlon Brothers * female celebrities; Azella, Sanyeah, black French aerialist LaLa, the infamous Leona Dare, and the female human cannonballs * twentieth-century gender benders; Barbette and Luisita Leers * the Codonas, Concellos, Gaonas, Vazquez and Pages troupes * imaginative aerial acts in Cirque de Soleil and Circus Oz productions. This book will prove an invaluable resource for all students and scholars interested in this fascinating field.

Author : Janet M. Davis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780807861493

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The Circus Age by Janet M. Davis Pdf

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.

Author : Dean N. Jensen
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307986580

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Queen of the Air by Dean N. Jensen Pdf

A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed love affair with Alfredo Codona, of the famous Flying Codona Brothers. Like today's Beyonce, Madonna, and Cher, she was known to her vast public by just one name, Leitzel. There may have been some regions on earth where her name was not a household expression, but if so, they were likely on polar ice caps or in the darkest, deepest jungles. Leitzel was born into Dickensian circumstances, and became a princess and then a queen. She was not much bigger than a good size fairy, just four-foot-ten and less than 100 pounds. In the first part of the 20th century, she presided over a sawdust fiefdom of never-ending magic. She was the biggest star ever of the biggest circus ever, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Greatest Show on Earth. In her life, Leitzel had many suitors (and three husbands), but only one man ever fully captured her heart. He was the handsome Alfredo Codona, the greatest trapeze flyer that had ever lived, the only one in his time who, night after night, executed the deadliest of all big-top feats, The Triple--three somersaults in midair while traveling at 60 m.p.h. The Triple, the salto mortale, as the Italians called it, took the lives of more daredevils than any other circus stunt.

Author : Jane Pritchard,Christopher Bruce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Ghost dances (Choreographic work : Bruce)
ISBN : 0950547867

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"Ghost Dances" Study Notes by Jane Pritchard,Christopher Bruce Pdf

Author : Robert F. Moss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231059841

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The Films of Carol Reed by Robert F. Moss Pdf

Once enthroned as a major international filmmaker, Carol Reed has long since been banished to a musty corner of movie history. To dust off his work, however, is to discover a dazzling body of films, a canon as remarkable for its diversity as its quality. Building his case, film by film, Robert Moss argues persuasively for a reassessment of this gifted artist, claiming a place for him in the ranks of the world's greatest directors.

Author : Joseph Tabbi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501717642

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Postmodern Sublime by Joseph Tabbi Pdf

Focusing on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology has produced a powerful new mode of modern writing—the technological sublime.

Author : Melanie Guile
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1420281097

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Charles Perkins and the Freedom Ride by Melanie Guile Pdf

Part of a unique, bestselling series that tells the stories of some defining moments in Australia's history. Combining conventional presentation and graphic-style re-enactments, and incorporating a variety of text types including profiles, letters, newspaper extracts and quotes. Ages 10+.

Author : George Speaight
Publisher : London : Tantivy Press ; San Diego : A.S. Barnes
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UVA:X000557938

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A History of the Circus by George Speaight Pdf

Author : Jacky Bratton,Jacqueline S. Bratton,Ann Featherstone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521816663

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The Victorian Clown by Jacky Bratton,Jacqueline S. Bratton,Ann Featherstone Pdf

The Victorian Clown is a micro-history of mid-Victorian comedy, spun out of the life and work of two professional clowns. Their previously unpublished manuscripts - James Frowde's account of his young life with the famous Henglers' circus in the 1850s and Thomas Lawrence's 1871 gag book - offer unique, unmediated access to the grass roots of popular entertainment. Through them this book explores the role of the circus clown at the height of equestrian entertainment in Britain, when the comic managed audience attention for the riders and acrobats, parodying their skills in his own tumbling and contortionism, and also offered a running commentary on the times through his own 'wheezes' - stand-up comedy sets. Plays in the ring connect the circus to the stage, and both these men were also comic singers, giving a sharp insight into popular music just as it was being transformed by the new institution of music hall.

Author : Sam Beale
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030479411

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The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920 by Sam Beale Pdf

This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880–1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British comic traditions. Focusing on the under-researched female ‘serio-comic’, the study includes six micro-histories detailing the acts of Ada Lundberg, Bessie Bellwood, Maidie Scott, Vesta Victoria, Marie Lloyd and Nellie Wallace. Uniquely for women in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, these pioneering performers had public voices. The extent to which their comedy challenged Victorian and Edwardian perceptions of women is revealed through explorations of how they connected with popular audiences while also avoiding censorship. Their use of techniques such as comic irony and stereotyping, self-deprecation, and comic innuendo are considered alongside the work of contemporary stand-up comedians and performance artists including Bridget Christie, Bryony Kimmings, Sara Pascoe, Shazia Mirza and Sarah Silverman.