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Download or read book Explore!: Circuses written by Liz Gogerly and published by Wayland. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roll up, roll up! Discover the fantastical world of the circus! Learn about the beginnings of the circus, circuses around the world and their incredibly skilled performers. Learn how to juggle, read an interview with an underwater performer and find out amazing circus facts and stats.
Book Synopsis Circus of Wonders by : Elizabeth Macneal
Download or read book Circus of Wonders written by Elizabeth Macneal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the “lush, evocative Gothic” (The New York Times Book Review) The Doll Factory comes an atmospheric and spectacular novel about a woman transformed by the arrival of a Victorian circus of wonders—“as moving as it is deeply entertaining” (Daniel Mason, New York Times bestselling author). Step up, step up! In 1860s England, circus mania is sweeping the nation. Crowds jostle for a glimpse of the lion-tamers, the dazzling trapeze artists and, most thrilling of all, the so-called “human wonders.” When Jasper Jupiter’s Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as a “leopard girl” because of the birthmarks that cover her body, Nell is utterly devastated. But as she grows close to the other performers, she finds herself enchanted by the glittering freedom of the circus, and by her own role as the Queen of the Moon and Stars. Before long, Nell’s fame spreads across the world—and with it, a chance for Jasper Jupiter to grow his own name and fortune. But what happens when her fame begins to eclipse his own, when even Jasper’s loyal brother Toby becomes captivated by Nell? No longer the quiet flower-picker, Nell knows her own place in the world, and she will fight for it. Circus of Wonders is a beautiful story about the “complex dance between exploitation and empowerment, and the question of what it really means to have control over your own life” (Naomi Ishiguro, author of Escape Routes).
Book Synopsis All Aboard the Circus Train! by : Laura Driscoll
Download or read book All Aboard the Circus Train! written by Laura Driscoll and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dora and Boots go on a train journey to find their way to the circus. Little explorers can unfold the pages and peek under the flaps to discover all the animals on board the train. A perfect interactive adventure including twelve Spanish words.
Book Synopsis The Greatest Shows on Earth by : Linda Simon
Download or read book The Greatest Shows on Earth written by Linda Simon and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Contemporary Circus by : Ernest Albrecht
Download or read book The Contemporary Circus written by Ernest Albrecht and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fun, energy, and hard work integral to the exciting world of the circus is lovingly captured in The Contemporary Circus: Art of the Spectacular, an in depth look at the creative process of today's circuses. Through numerous personal interviews with directors, designers, composers and performers, author Ernest Albrecht provides a unique inside view of the journey through which the most innovative and exciting modern circuses are produced, from the director and production team to the performers, and from designing the circus to setting it to music. Case studies of specific productions by the Big Apple Circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, and Cirque du Soleil illuminate the artistic give-and-take necessary in such a collaborative process, proving the circus a true art form, one as artistic as theatre or dance. A variety of performers such as animal trainers, dancers, and clowns discuss their approach to their individual specialties, and the text concludes with an examination of the world's circuses and schools and their methods for training circus artists. A full photo spread of 30 beautiful photos will help inspire and enlighten artists and fans alike.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Circus Studies Reader by : Peta Tait
Download or read book The Routledge Circus Studies Reader written by Peta Tait and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and address the field’s key historical, critical and theoretical issues. It is organised into three accessible sections, Perspectives, Precedents and Presents, which approach historical aspects, current issues, and the future of circus performance. The chapters, grouped together into 13 theme-based sub-sections, provide a clear entry point into the field and emphasise the diversity of approaches available to students and scholars of circus studies. Classic accounts of performance, including pieces by Philippe Petit and Friedrich Nietzsche, are included alongside more recent scholarship in the field. Edited by two scholars whose work is strongly connected to the dynamic world of performance, The Routledge Circus Studies Reader is an essential teaching and study resource for the emerging discipline of circus studies. It also provides a stimulating introduction to the field for lovers of circus.
Book Synopsis The Night Circus by : Erin Morgenstern
Download or read book The Night Circus written by Erin Morgenstern and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
Book Synopsis The Big Top on the Big Screen by : Teresa Cutler-Broyles
Download or read book The Big Top on the Big Screen written by Teresa Cutler-Broyles and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment have often worked together to create a spectacle of onscreen alchemy. The films discussed herein are an eclectic group, ranging from early silent comedies to animated, 21st century examples, in which circuses serve as liminal or carnivalesque spaces wherein characters--and by extension audience members--can confront issues as far-reaching as labor relations, sensuality, identity, ethics, and more. The circus as discussed in these essays encompasses the big top, the midway, the sideshow and the freak show; it becomes backdrop, character, catalyst and setting; and it is welcoming, malicious or terrifying. Circus performers are family, friends, foe or all of the above. And film is the medium that brings it all together. This volume starts the conversation about how circuses and film can combine to form productive, exciting spaces where almost anything can happen.
Book Synopsis Fire-Breathing, Sword-Swallowing, and Other Death-Defying Circus Science by : Wil Mara
Download or read book Fire-Breathing, Sword-Swallowing, and Other Death-Defying Circus Science written by Wil Mara and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever watch the circus and wonder, "how do they do that?" Find the answers in this book! Readers will learn about some of the most death-defying circus acts, from human cannonballs to high wire walkers, and the science that makes them possible. Short, simple activities help demonstrate the science for readers.
Book Synopsis Exploring America's Highways by : Michael Heim
Download or read book Exploring America's Highways written by Michael Heim and published by Exploring America's Highway. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're planning a trip, it's relatively easy to find the fastest route by visiting Yahoo or MapQuest internet web sites or if you're hopelessly old-fashioned- unfolding a map. But how do you choose the most interesting route, and create a trip that is more than just a blur of mile markers and exit signs? Exploring America's Highways: Wisconsin Trip Trivia may have the answer!Exploring America's Highways: Wisconsin Trip Trivia provides travelers a guided tour along specific routes throughout the state. Travelers will obtain a wide range of interesting information along the highway including:? Place Name? Historical Markers? Local Landmarks? Prominent People? Industry and Inventions? Geological? General TriviaDid you know that: Jesse James and his gang were chased out of Northfield trying to rob their first bank? The first woman ever to reach the North Pole came from Ely, or Mountain Lake was originally named Midway because it was midway between the railroad line that travels from St. Paul to Sioux City, Iowa. These are just a few of the fun things revealed in this book.There is no reason anybody needs to dread long hours of driving time anyway. Just find your route (highlighted in the table of contents) and read along, city by city. It's that simple.
Book Synopsis The Circus Ship by : Chris Van Dusen
Download or read book The Circus Ship written by Chris Van Dusen and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After courageously swimming to shore when the ship that they are traveling on sinks and the wretched captain does nothing to rescue them, circus animals find a way to become a valued part of a coastal community.
Book Synopsis Explorer's Guide Wisconsin (Explorer's Complete) by : Mollie Boutell-Butler
Download or read book Explorer's Guide Wisconsin (Explorer's Complete) written by Mollie Boutell-Butler and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features recommendations for dining, lodging, transportation, shopping, recreational activities, landmarks, and cultural opportunities.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Circus by : Gillian Arrighi
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Circus written by Gillian Arrighi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus arts in major international festivals, educational environments, and social justice settings.
Book Synopsis Circus Is Fun For Everyone: - Explore Art and Help Animals in this Brave, Mindful and Creative Adventure (A Day In The Life Of A Kid Interdiscipli by : Anetta Kotowicz
Download or read book Circus Is Fun For Everyone: - Explore Art and Help Animals in this Brave, Mindful and Creative Adventure (A Day In The Life Of A Kid Interdiscipli written by Anetta Kotowicz and published by Day in the Life of a Kid. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative circus adventure picture book promotes circus arts, mindful play, and animal protection! The artwork is stunning and colorful, the rhyming verses are clever and musical, but the concept is what sets it apart from all other books! Great gift for all boys and girls. Ellie, the stuffed-elephant, invites you to his favorite show in his dreamland, where performers are applauded by children's favorites: squirrels, hedgehogs, parrots, snakes, giraffe, monkeys, bears, rhinoceros, and more! But what happens when someone starts acting unkind to others? Join Ellie and his friend in this active listening and decision-making adventure. ⭐ Promotes cooperation, multiculturalism, empathy; ⭐ Introduces conversation about the mindful play; ⭐ Inspires and encourages focus through performance-related movement activity; ⭐ Great gift for circus and summer-themed birthday parties for boys and girls; "If Dr. Seuss's classic rhyming picture-book tale of young Morris McGurk's big circus was your favorite childhood story, you'll love Kotowicz's Circus Is Fun For Everyone twice as much!" This is the new era of circus adventure! A great and highly recommended picture book for girls and boys. Preschoolers to 3rd graders will learn to appreciate animal cruelty-free performances. Collaboration, multiculturalism, social skills, mindfulness, problem-solving, and support, animal protection with a dose of magic, a must-have picture book in the classroom, and school libraries. For more information visit www.ArtsKindred.com and check all of the books in the awarded A Day In The Life Of A Kid interdisciplinary picture book series. Subjects: animal protection, Social skills, problem-solving movement, and music creativity, performing arts Birthdays, Party, interactive library reading preschool, kindergarten, kindergarten, early elementary primary graders
Book Synopsis Discover the Circus by : Amanda Trane
Download or read book Discover the Circus written by Amanda Trane and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Circus in this Beginning Reader Have you ever been to the circus? There are lots of things to see at the circus. Beginning readers will learn all about the circus in this short, leveled reader. Here is an example of the text level: The circus travels and puts on a show in a big tent. This is called the big top. Discover Reading series books from Xist Publishing are created with digital and print reading in mind. Each page features a photograph with descriptive text leveled for early readers.
Book Synopsis Trapeze, Perch Poles, and Other High-Flying Circus Science by : Marcia Amidon Lusted
Download or read book Trapeze, Perch Poles, and Other High-Flying Circus Science written by Marcia Amidon Lusted and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever watch the circus and wonder, "how do they do that?" Find the answers in this book! Readers will learn about some of the most high-flying circus acts, from silks and ropes to trapeze, and the science that makes them possible. Short, simple activities help demonstrate the science for readers.
Book Synopsis Circus, Science and Technology by : Anna-Sophie Jürgens
Download or read book Circus, Science and Technology written by Anna-Sophie Jürgens and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the circus as a site in and through which science and technology are represented in popular culture. Across eight chapters written by leading scholars – from fields as varied as performance and circus studies, art, media and cultural history, and engineering – the book discusses to what extent the engineering of circus and performing bodies can be understood as a strategy to promote awe, how technological inventions have shaped circus and the cultures it helps constitute, and how much of a mutual shaping this is. What kind of cultural and aesthetic effects does engineering in circus contexts achieve? How do technological inventions and innovations impact on the circus? How does the link between circus and technology manifest in representations and interpretations – imaginaries – of the circus in other media and popular culture? Circus, Science and Technology examines the ways circus can provide a versatile frame for interpreting our relationship with technology.
