Author: William L. Slout
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809513048
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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This is the story of the survival of American circuses throughout one of the most perilous periods in our nation's history: 1860-1865. This was a period of transition for traveling exhibitions. The size of equipment and personnel had leveled off, performances were fixed, and the number of proprietors had reached a peak that would not be exceeded until the early 1870s. But still the show had to go on! Complete with notes, index, bibliography, and contemporaneous illustrations.
Author: William Lawrence Slout
Publisher: Millefleurs
ISBN: 9780809503049
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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This is the story of the survival of American circuses throughout one of the most perilous periods in our nation's history: 1860-1865. This was a period of transition for traveling exhibitions. The size of equipment and personnel had leveled off, performances were fixed, and the number of proprietors had reached a peak that would not be exceeded until the early 1870s. But still the show had to go on! Complete with notes, index, bibliography, and contemporaneous illustrations.
Author: Marc Tyler Nobleman
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 1410939197
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Describes how circuses got their start and what is happening under the big top today.
Author: Jason Cannon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781956672114
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In his world premiere, one-man show "Clowns Like Me," Sarasota actor and storyteller Scott Ehrenpreis tells his humorous yet profound story of living with mental illness. "Clowns Like Me" reveals the fascinating, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting true story of Scott's personal journey as he struggles against OCD, bipolar disorder, Asperger's Syndrome, social anxiety and depression. Ultimately, Scott discovers that being on stage gives him the power, even for just a couple hours, to step into the light and leave the shadows of his mental health struggles behind. Audiences are in for a show that will make them laugh, cry and leave thinking differently about the stigmas tied to mental health.
Author: Christopher Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781987880175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Gregory J. Renoff
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820344370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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For many people, the circus, with its clowns, exotic beasts, and other colorful iconography, is lighthearted entertainment. Yet for Greg Renoff and other scholars, the circus and its social context also provide a richly suggestive repository of changing attitudes about race, class, religion, and consumerism. In the South during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, traveling circuses fostered social spaces where people of all classes and colors could grapple with the region’s upheavals. The Big Tent relates the circus experience from the perspectives of its diverse audiences, telling what locals might have seen and done while the show was in town. Renoff digs deeper, too. He points out, for instance, that the performances of these itinerant outfits in Jim Crow-era Georgia allowed boisterous, unrestrained interaction between blacks and whites on show lots and on city streets on Circus Day. Renoff also looks at encounters between southerners and the largely northern population of circus owners, promoters, and performers, who were frequently accused of inciting public disorder and purveying lowbrow prurience, in part due to residual anger over the Civil War. By recasting itself as a showcase of athleticism, equestrian skill, and God’s wondrous animal creations, the circus appeased community leaders, many of whose businesses prospered during circus visits. Ranging across a changing social, cultural, and economic landscape, The Big Tent tells a new history of what happened when the circus came to town, from the time it traveled by wagon and river barge through its heyday during the railroad era and into its initial decline in the age of the automobile and mass consumerism.
Author: Clowns of America International
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1596520736
Category : Clowns
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Author: George Speaight
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780283001109
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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This history of clowns is documented in this generously illustrated volume, tracing the evolution of clowns and clowning from the entertaining rituals of the American Indians to the worldwide clown costumes and routines of today
Author: George Speaight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Beryl Hugill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clowns
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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"Down the ages clowns have captured the laughter of adult and child alike with their absurd dress, bizarre antics and a brand of humor whose universality has stood the test of centuries. In this extensive study of clowns and clowning, Beryl Hugill draws the parallels between ancient and modern clowns and traces the story of clowning from its origins in the ancient world of Egypt, China and India, through the padded buffoons of Greek drama and the dwarfed and deformed figures that populated royal households, to the era of court jesters, and describes their function and role in society and the form of their entertainment. Here in one major performance are all the world's clowns - carpet and run-in clowns of the circuses, the splendidly dressed white-faced clowns, the hobo clowns; Beryl Hugill reveals the secrets of their techniques, tells why they use the dress, make-up and props they do, and describes the great individual acts of the international world of the clowns."--Amazon.
