Knopf Publishing Group | ISBN:0307271722 | File Type: PDF, 336 pages | File size: 24.Mb | Feb. 26th, 2013
French History: A Journey Into the Wondrous World of the Circus Past and Present An utterly charming account of the author s novice plunge into the strange and wonderf world of contemporary circus and a nostalgic look back at circus history and inside the current Cirque du Soleil fueled phenomenon When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in aris everything about it the monochromatic costumes the acrobats singing Simon and Garfunkel the juggler reciting roust 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 ecole 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 This is an appealing richly evocative history of how the circus evolved into the dynamic thrilling experience it is today
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