Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

Performing arts
Circus
Circus is created when a number of some different entertainment forms are presented together in one
package. Already in the Roman Empire they had circus performances including trained animals, jugglers and
acrobats. The circus of Rome is thought to have been Influenced by the Greeks, with chariot racing and the
exhibition of animals as traditional attractions. Afterwards circus disapeared until Briton Philip Astley in
1768 erected a show in London with the, nowadays, traditional circus content tightrope walkers, jugglers,
dogs, and a clown. Thus he (re-) established almost the whole concept, except that the American circus
director Joshuah Purdy Brown introduced the circus tent 1825 th . Thereafter circus nothing really happened.
Until in the 1970s in France, as an attempt to renew the traditional circus, they removed the animals and
instead mixed theater into the show. The whole idea was to have a certain theme, such as camping holiday,
which was illustrated by elements of juggling, clowning, acrobatics, fire-eating and more.
This beautiful building was built in Stockholm during the late 1800s as an arena for circuses. Suggesting that
the circus was a much more common form of entertainment 100 years ago compared to today.
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