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April 6, 2015 Prachi Gupta

A troupe of Brooklyn circus performers is hosting an interactive variety show inspired by the 10 plagues of Egypt in the tradition of Jewish vaudeville, the Brooklyn Paper reports. According to the website for the Super Fun Variety Show: Audience members should be prepared to perform in a Seder Plate pageant, participate in call-and-response readings […]

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May 2, 2014 Marina Galperina

Julinek was once the Juilliard of the circus. For more than 40 years, 1500 teachers, artists, technicians, clowns, gymnasts, and jugglers lived in a “circus city” in the middle of Kampinoski National Park, 18 miles from Warsaw, Poland. Julinek closed over a decade ago and the circus city started to dwindle and die. Photographer Rafal Milach took […]

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March 20, 2013 Joseph Schulhoff

Today, PETA and other animal rights activist groups held a small but vocal anti-cruelty demonstration just a block from the Ringling Bros Circus’ Elephant “Dance Party,” the event that is substituting for the usual elephant parade. While elephants in circus attire stood deliberately arranged in the street, eating fruit in front of spectators, the protestors spread the […]

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March 18, 2013 Andy Cush

Every year since 1981, a parade of elephants has walked through the Midtown tunnel from Queens to Manhattan before slowly traversing 34th street and entering Madison Square Garden for the start of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus. It’s a spectacle that brings out a childlike sense of wonder in some and disgust […]

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