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LIFE AND ME – part 6 & 7
My run in the Whitehall theatre came to an end in early October and I went to Malta for a months work in a wonderful night club run by an old friend, I took my […]
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Le site pour les amoureux du cirque traditionnel
Nous avons le plaisir de vous présenter le site de l’ASBL la la clé du chapiteau , dont l’objectif est la promotion et la diffusion de la culture du cirque traditionnel. Alors, place au cirque […]
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LIFE AND ME – part 3, 4 & 5
Life the Universe and Me Ternary Segment.( part three) We ended part two on a cliffhanger , not really but anyone who reads this in the wrong order will be confused, try to […]
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Life, the universe and me. Part 2 !
By David Konyot. It’s February 1962 I’m 15½ and I’m in London , since I last saw my mother she has remarried, my stepfather is Ron Beadle, (stage name -Ron Rowlands ) a comedian […]
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A Circus Memoir – My Life, My Universe, and a Few Other Things
By David Konyot PART THE FIRST it’s said that the first sentence of a book should grab you and force you to keep on reading so here it goes: IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY […]
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Independent UK Covid Crisis Response Summary of EU Commission Report on ‘The situation of circus in the EU Member States’ (Jan 2020)
Prepared by Katharine Kavanagh Cardiff University Introduction In a time of crisis it is essential to have data on those affected in order to know how best to ensure their survival and support their […]
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Not Losing Hope
The French family circus Romane Ritz under Covid-19 confinement: practicing for future shows and taking care of the animals.
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REFLECTION ON CIRCUS FESTIVALS IN FRANCE
In France there are about thirty circus festivals annually. In my humble opinion, there are twenty-five too many. Do these festivals reflect a positive image for circus, in general? Three or four of them reflect […]
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A REMARKABLE BOOK
This extraordinary book was published in French in 2019. Let us hope it will be translated in other languages. It is a gripping first-person account of the life of the celebrated Rios Brothers who set […]
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Introducing a new website devoted to circus animals by Quentin Hinfray and Benigne Tainturier
All circus animals belong to social species. As soon as their young can move around, they are instinctively driven to play in the form of mock-chasing, catching, and wrestling with each other and with things […]
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An alternative view of ‘Circus 250’
By David Konyot Prologue My family, like many others, have plied the circus trade for centuries. From my mother I descend from the Blumenfelds whose ancestry can be traced back to the mid-17th century where […]
