The Life of P.T. Barnum
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century... In 1834, desperate to create a better life for his family, small-time Connecticut businessman P. T. Barn...
Modoc
"e;Once I started this incomparable story, I couldn't put it down, and I cannot get it out of my mindnor will I ever. The message of what can be accomplished by training through affection and joy will thrill all animal lovers."e; B...
The Blacks: a Clown Show
An English translation of Genet's symbolic drama which was first performed in Paris in 1959.
Homemade Academic Circus
This book takes its starting point in a rare experiment, that of an academic researcher attempting to learn to do circus. What happens to the knowledge of the performance theoretician when physically engaging with the circus arts? One of the (im)m...
Giffords Circus Cookbook
This book is a stunningly beautiful and passionate evocation of Nells final season do not skip a word of it its a work of art and an ace cookbook as well!' Emma Bridgewater CBE Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 20...
Julia Pastrana
In a dusty corner at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Norway lie the remains of Julia Pastrana, half hidden in a black plastic sack, all but forgotten. Yet in the middle of the nineteenth century, this 'ape woman' was renown...
Homemade Academic Circus Idiosyncratically Embodied Explorations into Artistic Research and Circus Performance
This book takes its starting point in a rare experiment, that of an academic researcher attempting to learn to do circus. What happens to the knowledge of the performance theoretician when physically engaging with the circus arts? One of the (im)m...
Serious Play
Clowns' slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform. This innovative book, focussing on contemporary practice in the USA and Europe over the last 50 years, investigates the ...
Circus Girl
Circuses provide surreal, fantastic entertainment. At times magical and at others chilling, the circus is a world of fantasy and spectacle for the viewer, but for the performer, a career in the circus often brings with it a nomadic, lonely life. I...
Kysais Animal Circus
The Japanese artist Kawanabe Kysai (18311889) delighted in the depiction of animals crows with strong personalities, frogs in the schoolroom, rats on trapezes, catfish in procession, elephants performing tricks and frequently used them to satirise...
Circesque
Circesque is a celebration of an idea Christian Tagliavini had in 2008 and resulted in his photographic series of the same title produced in 2019. Exploring the world of the circus, this specially crafted book is a unique invitation for the reader...
Juggling
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Josser
JOSSER is the powerful and moving account of Oxford-educated Nell Stroud's life in the circus. It is also the story of the people of the circus: the trapeze artists, the clowns, the high-wire acts, the grooms, the llamas, the elephants - their com...
Contemporary Circus
In this volume, twenty-four creators come together with three scholars to discuss Contemporary Circus, bridging the divide between practice and theory. Lavers, Leroux, and Burtt offer conversations across four key themes: Apparatus, Politics, Perf...
Contemporary Circus
In this volume, twenty-four creators come together with three scholars to discuss Contemporary Circus, bridging the divide between practice and theory. Lavers, Leroux, and Burtt offer conversations across four key themes: Apparatus, Politics, Perf...
Masking Unmasked
Acting with masks is one of the most ancient stage techniques still in use today. Masking Unmasked is a basic guide to using this ancient art to develop character and movement in four sections that correspond to mask size: Full-Face Masks, Clownin...
Sagan om Nanuk
Jag hade inte kommit för att träffa Kalinka. Jag skulle träffa Sultan, hennes ståtliga pappa som kunde allt inom cirkus. Men inför Kalinkas envisa strävan att nå fram samt hennes oemotståndliga charm kapitulerade jag. Vi «flyttade ih...
Dhammapada
Dhammapada [Bok / Pocket]
Europas Idéhistoria. 1900-talet, Framstegets Arvtagare
Europas Idéhistoria. 1900-talet, Framstegets Arvtagare [Bok / Häftad]
Falun Gong
Kinesiska myndigheter uppskattade 1999 antalet Falun Gong-utövare i Kina till 70-100 miljoner. Falun Gongs enorma popularitet inom alla samhällsskikt uppfattades av regimen som ett hot, och metoden förbjöds i Kina i juli -99, varpå en grym förfölj...
Circus as Multimodal Discourse
Now available in paperback, this volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a method to analyze its performances as multimodal discourse. The book's chapters cover the range of circus specialties (magic, domestic and...
Semiotics at the Circus
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 ...
Routledge Circus Studies Reader
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...
Send in the Clowns
Send in the Clowns presents interviews with twenty-four pioneering humanitarian and activist clowns and thought leaders working in hospitals, refugee camps, orphanages and war zones, and at the sites of street protests and locations of social unre...
On the High Wire
In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe Petit offers a window into the world of his craft. Petit masterfully explains how preparation and self-control contributed to such feats as ...
När Cirkusen Kommer Till Stan
En dokumentär i bilder om en företeelse som var vanlig varje sommar i gårdagens Sverige. Idag har detta dukat under till följd av byråkratiska bestämmelser och och andra opinionsintressen. Cirkus är inte politiskt korrekt i alla sammanhang. Detta skapar problem och sämre lönsamhet och därmed en upplevelseförlust för många.
Freak Show
From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and oth...
Clown Manifesto
Part clown manual, part storytelling and part rant - The Clown Manifesto covers the experiences, philosophies and methods of the clown performer/director/teacher Nalleslavski. A book for clowns, physical comedians, actors, musicians, jugglers, pup...
Serious Play
Clowns' slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform. This innovative book, focussing on contemporary practice in the USA and Europe over the last 50 years, investigates the ...
Clown Training
This comprehensive guide to clown training invites you into the clown workshop and leads you through a complete clown syllabus - from the first steps in playfulness to the work of devising and creating performable numbers and shows.
A Girl and Five Brave Horses
2009 Reprint edition of 1961. Sonora Carver was an American entertainer, most notable as one of the first female horse divers. Carver answered an ad placed by "Doc" William Frank Carver in 1923 for a diving girl and soon earned a...
A Girl and Five Brave Horses
2011 Reprint edition of 1961. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Sonora Carver was an American entertainer, most notable as one of the first female horse divers. Carver answered an ad placed b...