… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. I found myself at the Royal Canadian International Circus (RCIC) last Thursday, ...

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 ...

Jul. 12—WATERTOWN — Alex Cortes is just one of about 10 people in the world who climbs into a dark cylinder and gets shot out of a cannon. He's the human cannonball with the Flying Cortes, the trapeze ...

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 sun is the only spotlight for the circus performers who bound onto a ramshackle raft, docked in Parkersburg, West Virginia just across the river from Belpre, Ohio. A crowd of more than a hundred ...

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 ...

The Circus Arts Conservatory will be sending acts up in the air and around the performance ring for the 2025 edition of Circus Sarasota. The show runs Wednesdays through Sundays Feb. 15-March 9 under ...

Art Concello's career from trapeze artist to manager, owner intersected with another North Dakotan known for his love of the circus Mayville native Maureen Brunsdale has written a biography of Art and ...