Author: Dominique Jando
Publisher: Odyssey Books & Maps
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Big Apple Circus is one of the world's most celebrated circuses. Hundreds of thousands of fans fill the seats of its one-ring tent every year; they can see and smell and almost touch the sawdust, the trained animals, and the daring and frequently hila
Big Apple Circus
Author: Dominique Jando
Publisher: Odyssey Books & Maps
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Big Apple Circus is one of the world's most celebrated circuses. Hundreds of thousands of fans fill the seats of its one-ring tent every year; they can see and smell and almost touch the sawdust, the trained animals, and the daring and frequently hila
Publisher: Odyssey Books & Maps
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Big Apple Circus is one of the world's most celebrated circuses. Hundreds of thousands of fans fill the seats of its one-ring tent every year; they can see and smell and almost touch the sawdust, the trained animals, and the daring and frequently hila
Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion
Author: Paul Binder
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1481731904
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Memoirs of a circus owner and performer.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1481731904
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Memoirs of a circus owner and performer.
Big Apple Takedown
Author: Rudy Josephs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451604661
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
December 2001: Vince McMahon steps out of a snowy night into a diner in upstate New York for a meeting with old friend Phil Thomson, now a highly placed government official. Thomson has a strange proposition: creating a new covert black-ops group using the Superstars of World Wrestling Entertainment. The WWE's talented men and women are perfect. Highly skilled athletes with the ideal cover, they travel all across the country and the globe; no one would find it unusual to find them in a town one day and gone the next. The government would train and support the wrestlers in every way possible except one: no one must know the truth. March 2006: The Superstars have been handed their latest assignment -- take down a commercial-grade methyl-amphetamine plant that is bankrolling terrorist activities in Europe. Their mission seems simple and straightforward, until a member of their team is taken prisoner. Now all that they've worked so hard for is in jeopardy, and one of their own might be killed...
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451604661
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
December 2001: Vince McMahon steps out of a snowy night into a diner in upstate New York for a meeting with old friend Phil Thomson, now a highly placed government official. Thomson has a strange proposition: creating a new covert black-ops group using the Superstars of World Wrestling Entertainment. The WWE's talented men and women are perfect. Highly skilled athletes with the ideal cover, they travel all across the country and the globe; no one would find it unusual to find them in a town one day and gone the next. The government would train and support the wrestlers in every way possible except one: no one must know the truth. March 2006: The Superstars have been handed their latest assignment -- take down a commercial-grade methyl-amphetamine plant that is bankrolling terrorist activities in Europe. Their mission seems simple and straightforward, until a member of their team is taken prisoner. Now all that they've worked so hard for is in jeopardy, and one of their own might be killed...
Clowns
Author: Ezra LeBank
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317516931
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters is a groundbreaking collection of conversations with 20 of the greatest clowns on earth. In discussion with clown aficionados Ezra LeBank and David Bridel, these legends of comedy reveal the origins, inspirations, techniques, and philosophies that underpin their remarkable odysseys. Featuring incomparable artists, including Slava Polunin, Bill Irwin, David Shiner, Oleg Popov, Dimitri, Nola Rae, and many more, Clowns is a unique and definitive study on the art of clowning. In Clowns, these 20 master artists speak candidly about their first encounters with clowning and circus, the crucial decisions that carved out the foundations of their style, and the role of teachers and mentors who shaped their development. Follow the twists and turns that changed the direction of their art and careers, explore the role of failure and originality in their lives and performances, and examine the development and evolution of the signature routines that became each clown’s trademark. The discussions culminate in meditations on the role of clowning in the modern world, as these great practitioners share their perspectives on the mysterious, elusive art of the clown.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317516931
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters is a groundbreaking collection of conversations with 20 of the greatest clowns on earth. In discussion with clown aficionados Ezra LeBank and David Bridel, these legends of comedy reveal the origins, inspirations, techniques, and philosophies that underpin their remarkable odysseys. Featuring incomparable artists, including Slava Polunin, Bill Irwin, David Shiner, Oleg Popov, Dimitri, Nola Rae, and many more, Clowns is a unique and definitive study on the art of clowning. In Clowns, these 20 master artists speak candidly about their first encounters with clowning and circus, the crucial decisions that carved out the foundations of their style, and the role of teachers and mentors who shaped their development. Follow the twists and turns that changed the direction of their art and careers, explore the role of failure and originality in their lives and performances, and examine the development and evolution of the signature routines that became each clown’s trademark. The discussions culminate in meditations on the role of clowning in the modern world, as these great practitioners share their perspectives on the mysterious, elusive art of the clown.
Circus and the City
Author: Matthew Wittmann
Publisher: Bard Graduate Center
ISBN: 9780300187472
Category : ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring archival photography, this text documents a wide variety of ephemera, images and artefacts relating to the history of the circus in New York City, from the seminal equestrian displays of the 18th century to the iconic American railroad circus advertisements of the late 19th century and beyond.
Publisher: Bard Graduate Center
ISBN: 9780300187472
Category : ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring archival photography, this text documents a wide variety of ephemera, images and artefacts relating to the history of the circus in New York City, from the seminal equestrian displays of the 18th century to the iconic American railroad circus advertisements of the late 19th century and beyond.
Big Apple Circus
Author:
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Greatest Shows on Earth
Author: Linda Simon
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780233981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Beautifully illustrated and filled with rich historical detail and colorful anecdotes, this is a vibrant history for all those who have ever dreamed of running away to the circus, now in paperback. “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.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780233981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Beautifully illustrated and filled with rich historical detail and colorful anecdotes, this is a vibrant history for all those who have ever dreamed of running away to the circus, now in paperback. “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.
New York, New York!
Author: Laura Krauss Melmed
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060548746
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Welcome to New York City, the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, the crossroads of the world! This city has something to offer everyone, from A to Z. Come visit the American Museum of Natural History and see prehistoric Animals, get a Bird's-eye view of the Brooklyn Bridge, and Check out Central Park in this alphabetical tour from best-selling duo Laura Krauss Melmed and Frané Lessac, who brought us Capital! Washington D.C. from A to Z. Fascinating details about the many neighborhoods and historic places of New York City accompany Melmed's lively, informative verse, and Lessac's vibrant folk-art paintings capture the essence of this unique and rich place that was once called the melting pot of America.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060548746
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Welcome to New York City, the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, the crossroads of the world! This city has something to offer everyone, from A to Z. Come visit the American Museum of Natural History and see prehistoric Animals, get a Bird's-eye view of the Brooklyn Bridge, and Check out Central Park in this alphabetical tour from best-selling duo Laura Krauss Melmed and Frané Lessac, who brought us Capital! Washington D.C. from A to Z. Fascinating details about the many neighborhoods and historic places of New York City accompany Melmed's lively, informative verse, and Lessac's vibrant folk-art paintings capture the essence of this unique and rich place that was once called the melting pot of America.
Moses Goes to the Circus
Author:
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374350642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Moses, who is deaf, has a good time with his family at the circus, where they communicate using sign language, in a tale that includes illustrations of some of the signs they use. Jr Lib Guild.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374350642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Moses, who is deaf, has a good time with his family at the circus, where they communicate using sign language, in a tale that includes illustrations of some of the signs they use. Jr Lib Guild.
Circus Jerks
Author: Aaron Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781790585816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
When I was a teenage metalhead in the 1980s, I ran away (walked, actually, 2,150 miles from Georgia to Maine) from home and joined the circus. Two of them, actually: Ringling Brothers and the Big Apple. I lived on the train, which caught on fire in the middle of the night while rolling from town to town. An alligator escaped during a live show. An elephant tried to trunk me from a moving train. The adventures go on and on. Read all about them in Circus Jerks.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781790585816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
When I was a teenage metalhead in the 1980s, I ran away (walked, actually, 2,150 miles from Georgia to Maine) from home and joined the circus. Two of them, actually: Ringling Brothers and the Big Apple. I lived on the train, which caught on fire in the middle of the night while rolling from town to town. An alligator escaped during a live show. An elephant tried to trunk me from a moving train. The adventures go on and on. Read all about them in Circus Jerks.