The five surviving Python members decided to stay away from Chapman's private funeral, to prevent its becoming a media circus and to give his family some privacy.

John Cage's Roaratorio: an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake combines a collage of sounds mentioned in Finnegans Wake, with Irish jigs and Cage reading his Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake, one of a series of five writings based on the Wake.

He recalled: " When I was five I wrote a song about the rain because I loved the San Francisco drizzles, and later I wrote about a dog because I couldn't have one, and a clown because my uncle was a circus performer, and when I was eight I wrote a song in the Saddle " about a cowboy in the desert watching the stars at night and thinking about God because I often looked at the stars and tried to picture Heaven ", inspired by seeing Roy Rogers and hearing Dale Evans give her testimony at the civic auditorium.

Because of the circus at Madison Square Gardens all five games were played at the Forum.

Nine of these theaters ( five state and four municipal theaters ), an art gallery, a philharmonic and organ hall, a circus, several museums, nineteen movie theaters, a municipal jazz center, and a contemporary art center are located in the capital.

In 1884, five of the seven Ringling brothers had started a small circus about the same time that Barnum & Bailey were at the peak of their popularity.

By that time, Charles Edward Ringling and John Nicholas Ringling were the only remaining brothers of the five who founded the circus.

By the time he was five he attracted the attention of a travelling circus who hired him as the star of their show, and his improvisations ( on tunes suggested by the audience ) were very successful.

The Ringling Brothers Circus was a circus founded in the United States in 1884 by five of the seven Ringling Brothers: Albert ( 1852 – 1916 ), August ( 1854 – 1907 ), Otto ( 1858 – 1911 ), Alfred T. ( 1862 – 1919 ), Charles ( 1863 – 1926 ), John ( 1866 – 1936 ), and Henry ( 1869 – 1918 ).

Riggs was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and joined the circus when he was five years old.

A large amount of violence starts between the protesters and government soldiers, which is stopped by the quints after they tell off all the groups on their shortcomings: their father for acting like he missed them when he in fact walked out on them five years ago, the Romanian Leaders for caring nothing about them and only wanted to make America look stupid, the protesters for having nothing better to do, and the boys ( whom they consider the worst of all ) for their ignorance about Romanian culture, arrogant assumptions about America's superiority, and only wanting to use the girls to perform in their circus.

His five minute act included an array of circus skills.

Already regulars at the European festival circus, Bauchklang first ventured into Asia in 2009, with the release of their first live album / DVD " Live In Mumbai ", and a five city club tour through India, which also earned them the Indiecision Award for " Best International Live Act ".

The main unit began two days later with the circus train sequence at Alamosa, Colorado.

No longer a main attraction, he was given a cage on the outskirts of the circus, near the animal cages.

While he does not play a role in the main plot or subplot, the " Emcee " ( Joel Grey ) serves in the role of storyteller throughout the film, acting as a sort of voyeur in the circus atmosphere.

He reappears in Disney's sequel film The Hunchback of Notre Dame II ( 2002 ) once again as the main protagonist, where he is described as independent and finds a love interest, a circus girl named Madellaine.

In 2011 the NPRA hosted a street party around the main circus on the day of the Royal Wedding.

In the 1950s, some of the well-known films with artistic sensibilities include La Strada ( 1954 ), a film about a young woman who is forced to go to work for a cruel and inhumane circus performer in order to support her family and eventually coming to terms with her situation, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet ( 1956 ), centering around family with a lack of faith amongst it but with a son who believes that he is Jesus Christ and convinced that he is capable of performing miracles, Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 ), which deals with a prostitute's failed attempts to find love, and her suffering and rejections, and Wild Strawberries ( 1957 ), by Ingmar Bergman, whose narrative concerns an elderly medical doctor and professor whose nightmares lead him to re-evaluate his life, and The 400 Blows ( 1959 ) by François Truffaut, whose main character is a young man trying to come of age despite the abuse from his parents, schoolteachers, and society in general.

The main character, a young man named Clem ( Philip Proctor ), boards and takes a seat next to his soon-to-be companion, Barney, who is one of many circus clowns ( called bozos ) who are already on the bus.

Although Circus was abandoned, the old traditions were carried through by architect Eystein Michaelsen ; Storsalen ( the main concert hall ) still looks very much like a circus.

Ludwig von Tökkentäkker's Big Top-An immense circus tent that serves as the main attraction of CarnEvil.

* Touch Detective ( 2006 ), in episode 4 of this mystery adventure video game for the Nintendo DS, the main character, Penelope, claims that a murder happened at the flea circus in town

In Alban Berg's opera " Lulu " a circus director introduces the opera's characters and in special the main character as animals in a menagerie.

One of the main purposes of the menagerie was to act as a breeding and training centre for the animals used in the travelling circus.

Guttorm Hansen, who was the President of the Parliament of Norway when Lange was a Member of Parliament, once said that he believed Lange's apparent goal was to " make into a political circus with himself as the main clown.

Alienated by her failed attempt, Sora leaves for Japan, but then Kalos reconsiders, and lets Layla know that someday Sora's performance will be the main draw at the circus.

Centrally located, its main attractions are on the seashore, where many facilities have been built, such as multiple-activity sports courts, a bike lane, a band shell, the “ Folias da Gabriela ” circus, and the Luís Eduardo Magalhães Conventions Center.

For a few years afterwards the circus continued in the car park, then in a marquee on wasteland directly opposite the gardens ' main gates on Hyde Road.

Grosowsky and Ellington were fascinated with wirewalking history and circus culture, and in 1981 performed leashless on a 30 ' highline strung 25 ' over a concrete floor as part of a project to recreate a traditional one-ring circus in The Evergreen State College's main performance auditorium.

The main arena seats 6, 176 for ice hockey and arena football, 8, 362 for basketball, 7, 184 for the circus, 7, 380 for ice shows, 8, 582 for wrestling and 9, 440 for concerts.

Then, the title page cuts out, and the music starts, with a clown, that is part of the setting of a circus, at which the video hails as its main character.

* 1931, The American Mercury: " Marquee, the canopy at the main entrance a circus.

Torches as described are commercially available from all the main juggling / circus skills manufacturers such as Renegade Juggling ( as pictured above ), Dubé, Beard, Flames ' N Games, Mister Babache, Henrys, Play, Infinite Illusions and cost anywhere from around 15GBP to around 25GBP each.

Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling and ventriloquism.

Astley's Amphitheatre in Lambeth, London, featuring equestrian acts in a 42-foot wide circus ring, was the epicentre of the 19th century circus.

Its storyline is supported by lavish production values, actual circus acts, and documentary, behind-the-rings looks at the massive logistics effort which made big top circuses possible.

The actors learned their respective circus roles and participated in the acts.

: Sprawling across a mammoth canvas, crammed with the real-life acts and thrills, as well as the vast backstage minutiae, that make the circus the glamorous thing it is and glittering in marvelous Technicolor — truly marvelous color, we repeat — this huge motion picture of the big-top is the dandiest ever put upon the screen.

In 1952, Time magazine called it a " mammoth merger of two masters of malarkey for the masses: P. T. Barnum and Cecil B. de Mille " as well as a film that " fills the screen with pageants and parades finds a spot for 60-odd circus acts " with a plot that " does not quite hold all this pageantry together.

The International Exhibitions of the early 1960s drew attractions from around the world, including circus and folkloric dance acts, arts and crafts, and international cuisine.

As theatrical booths, circus acts and menageries were once a common part of European fairs it is likely that the roots of Polari / Parlyaree lie in the period before both theatre and circus became independent of the fairgrounds.

As the entries below tend to testify, Pierrot is most visible ( as in the 18th century ) in unapologetically popular genres — in circus acts and street-mime sketches, TV programs and Japanese anime, comic books and graphic novels, children's books and " young adult " fiction ( especially fantasy and, in particular, vampire fiction ), Hollywood films, and pop and rock music.

A circus is a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts.

* Circus, a Canadian television series consisting of circus acts that aired on CTV from 1978 to 1985

The marches played were often a special variety of the march known descriptively as “ Screamers ,” “ Two-Steps ,” and “ Cakewalks .” These marches served the purpose of exciting the crowd while circus acts were taking place.

Today circus acts from Izhevsk and other Russian and European cities entertain visitors at the Izhevsk Circus.

) Virtually every type of entertainment appeared on the show ; opera singers, popular artists, songwriters, comedians, ballet dancers, dramatic actors performing monologues from plays, and circus acts were regularly featured.

In the early 20th century, leotards were mainly confined to circus and acrobatic shows, worn by the specialists who performed these acts.

A circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists.

Paez is nicknamed " El Maromero ", in honor of the acts he performs at the circus.

Scenery grew lavish and expensive, and specialty acts like Japanese acrobats or circus freaks sometimes appeared.

Contortion is often part of acrobatics and circus acts.

Though the term initially applied to tightrope walking, in the 19th century, a form of performance art including circus acts began to use the term as well.

Some were so religiously oriented that they were essentially church camps, while more secular Chautauquas resembled summer school and competed with vaudeville in theaters and circus tent shows with their animal acts and trapeze acrobats.

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