MOSCOW -- Wandering backstage at the Great Moscow State Circus is like stepping into a strange childhood dream. The clown sneaks a cigarette. An elephant greets a visitor with a raised front leg and ...

The Great Moscow Circus returns to Toowoomba in the January school holidays, with international performers from six countries ...

It’s got all the fun of the circus – and none of those terrifying clowns. The Russian American Kids Circus will make its first-ever appearance at Centennial Hall on Sunday for an afternoon of ...

STARITSA, Russia (AP) — Clowns and street performers gather to attend the Karandash-Fest in the town of Staritsa in the region of Tver, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of Moscow. The ...

The arrival of the Russian State Circus in Argentina in 1966 was an unprecedented event. For the first time, Soviet artists crossed the Iron Curtain into Latin America. Their art was unsurpassed, ...

The Moscow State Circus returns to Tatton Park in Knutsford with its amazing new show Park Gorkogo (Gorky Park). The greatest circus artistes on earth use the title as a slim excuse to display their ...

The circus is in town and its 21-strong troupe kept the audience well entertained on opening night at the Town Moor in Newcastle with a mixture of jaw-dropping stunts and clowning. There is a new ...

A tiger cub that Russian troops took from Mariupol's zoo has died in a Moscow circus, authorities from the Ukrainian city have said. In a Telegram post on Friday, Mariupol City Council said that the ...

Ukrainian circus performer Anna Petrenko has staged a protest during her performance at the Salieri Circus Award International Circus Arts Festival in Italy. She expressed her disagreement with the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Once as highly regarded as cosmonauts, ballerinas and nuclear scientists, Russian circus stars have wowed generations. But the lure of high-wire acts, slapstick clowns, lion tamers, ...

Fifty-five years ago, Union writer Welton Jones used his journalistic skills to help to solve a mystery involving circus clowns and the missing grave of a Russian ballerina. Jones, the former arts ...

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