1,423円 In the late 1860s, as America was recovering from Lincoln’s assassination, a man named P. T. Barnum opened a museum in New York City. Filled with oddities from around the world, it also hosted a number of sideshow freaks – including Bartholomew Fortuno, the Human Skeleton. When a new act arrives ...

777円 The extraordinary story of a young man’s plunge into the unique and wonderful world of the circusーtaking readers deep into circus history and its renaissance as a contemporary art form, and behind the (tented) walls of France’s most prestigious circus school. When Duncan Wall visited his first n...

630円 Überraschen und beeindrucken Sie Ihre Freunde, Verwandte und Bekannte mit verblüffenden HypnoTricks. Die Tricksammlung umfasst 28 verschiedene hochimponierende Hypnosetricks, die Ihre Zuschauer und auch Ihre Medien (Versuchpersonen) für echte Hypnose-Experimente halten. Ihre anwesenden Gäste denk...

1,399円 THEY’RE COMING FOR YOU Coulrophobia--the fear of clowns--is very real and for good reason. You might think these red-nosed jokers are creepy, sure, but certainly not dangerous. You’d be wrong. Clowns never reveal their real names, and dress to obscure their identities. The rules of civilized soci...

10,016円 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 performe...

3,980円 During the masquerades common during carnival time, jumbies (ghosts or ancestral spirits) are set free to roam the streets of Caribbean nations, turning the world topsy-turvy. Modern carnivals, which evolved from earlier ritual celebrations featuring disguised performers, are important cultural a...

3,000円 Das Gleichgewicht zu halten, sowohl den eigenen Körper als auch andere Körper in ungewöhnlichen Lagen, Haltungen und Situationen zu balancieren, ist das Charakteristische und Faszinierende der Partnerakrobatik sowie des Menschenbilder- und Pyramidenbaus. Erstmals werden durch das vorliegende Buch...

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1,601円 In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves. George and Willie Muse were just six and nine years old, but they worked the fields from dawn to dark. Until a white man offered them candy and stole them away to become c...

4,227円 A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyone could go to the show. In this entertaining and provocative book, Janet Davis links the flowering...

6,210円 Contemporary Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia brings to light the emergence of new kinds of clowning in everyday life in Colombia, focusing particularly on the pervasive presence of clowns in the urban landscape of Bogotá. In doing so it brings a fresh and updated perspective on what cl...

1,050円 Partez à la découverte du cirque avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Tel qu'il fut à ses débuts, tel qu'il demeure dans sa forme, indépendamment des valeurs de spectacle qu'il propose, le cirque est le centre où viennent se cristalliser les émotions des spectateurs en quête d'exceptionnel, de fan...