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March 9 under the big top at Nathan Benderson Park, where Joseph Baugher Jr. will once again serve as ringmaster, introducing eight different acts, ranging from acrobats, dogs, tightwire and hand ...

Circus traditions have been embedded in Sarasota history since the Ringling brothers set up their winter quarters in the community nearly a century ago, attracting locals and tourists who wanted close ...

It was 1867 when British singer George Leybourne wrote of “that daring young man on the flying trapeze,” a paean to the great 19th-century French trapeze artist Jules Léotard, who’s been credited as ...

Before TikTok challenges and Netflix binging, entertainment rolled into town via a traveling circus. A circus show of yore might feature jesters powdered in clown make-up, lions alongside their daring ...

The circus is coming to town, but the shenanigans happening under this big top aren’t the typical clown, juggler and trapeze acts. The traveling Paranormal Cirque II, playing Friday through Monday in ...

Estefani Evans is a fifth-generation circus performer starring in Cirque du Soleil's Alegría. She began trapeze at 10 years old. Her husband works alongside her, and their kids travel with them. "I ...

Lulu, an Asian elephant, is getting a good soaking in this 90-degree heat in the Almeda Mall parking lot. She opens her mouth and gets a sprayful as the sun glistens off the damp, fine hair sticking ...

Flying Gravity Circus will present their annual performance of "Starburst Circus" at Pine Hill at High Mowing School on ...

CHEYENNE — In 2017, Shana Carroll, a former trapeze artist, and partner Sebastien Soldevila took the cirque game to a whole new level when they adapted 11 traditional circus acts into Cirque du Soleil ...