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The Ordinary Acrobat
Author | : Duncan Wall |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780307472267 |
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobats singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—hooked him. Soon he was attending circuses two or three nights a week, and soon after that, he entered the intensively competitive training program at France’s École Nationale des Arts du Cirque. The Ordinary Acrobat is a magical, funny, sometimes scary story of what happens when one average American joins a host of gifted—and flexible—international students in a rigorous regimen of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Brimming with surprises, outsized personalities, and plenty of charm, this personal history of how the circus evolved into the thrilling experience it is today delivers all the excitement and pleasure of the circus ring itself.
Acrobat
Author | : Nabaneeta Dev Sen |
Publsiher | : Archipelago |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781939810809 |
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A deeply humane new collection by a luminary of Bengali literature A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. When she warns, "know that blood can be easily drawn by lips," her words tune to the fierce and biting depths of language, to the "treachery that lingers on tongue tips." At once compassionate and unsparing, conversational and symphonic, these poems tell of a rope shivering beneath an acrobat's nimble feet or of a twisted, blood-soaked umbilical cord -- they pluck the invisible threads that bind us together.
The Greatest Shows on Earth
Author | : Linda Simon |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781780233987 |
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“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. Beautifully illustrated and filled with rich historical detail and colorful anecdotes, The Greatest Shows on Earth is a vibrant history for all those who have ever dreamed of running away to the circus.
Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe
Author | : Frederik L. Schodt |
Publsiher | : Stone Bridge Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-12-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781611725254 |
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The unlikely history of early cross-cultural encounters between the West and Japan, featuring acrobats, jugglers, and a colorful American impresario.
Madame Saqui
Author | : Lisa Robinson |
Publsiher | : Schwartz & Wade |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780525579991 |
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A stunning picture book biography about the tightrope walker who dazzled Paris as she danced across the sky with impeccable balance and unparalleled skill during the French Revolution. In revolutionary France, a girl named Marguerite Lalanne longed to perform above large crowds on a tightrope, just like her acrobatic parents. Sneaking off to the fairgrounds for secret tightrope walking lessons, Marguerite finessed her performance skills, ultimately performing for crowds as a young rope dancer. And eventually, Marguerite would perform as Madame Saqui, waltzing and pirouetting across- and never falling off- countless ropes above adoring crowds. A nouvelle chérie de Paris, Madame Saqui cemented her place in circus history, winning the adoration of the French people and royalty alike, including Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. This remarkable biography unveils the inspiring story of a trailblazing woman who revolutionized the circus world-- without ever missing a step.
Ruling Cases
Author | : Robert Campbell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 954 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Annotations and citations (Law) |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105062841882 |
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The American State Reports
Author | : Abraham Clark Freeman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1038 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN | : PSU:000033915470 |
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The Central Law Journal
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : OSU:32437010780357 |
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Vols. 64-96 include "Central law journal's international law list".