Okay all you fire-loving performers out there – prepare to get inspired! Jezebel recently unearthed a vintage photo featuring a pretty unique swimsuit: Dated July of 1955, the caption states: An international beauty queen models the latest swimwear. This piece includes circles on which to strike matches to light your cigarette on the beach. After [...]
What better way to kick off the weekend than with a little vintage burlesque? Here to send you off with your heart all a flutter is Rosita Royce’s Bird Dance:
Huang Ming-cheng (黃明正) has set out to show the world that anyone can follow their dreams, no matter how unusual they may be. The renowned Taiwanese circus performer, stuntman and dancer is demonstrating this message to international audiences with an unlikely talent: handstands. According to the Taipei Times, Huang stated, “I have dreamed about standing on [...]
Many have a grossly romanticized idea of what circus life must have been like around the turn of the century, traversing the country by train, living amongst an oddball assortment of performers, freaks and roustabouts. The truth is, operations such as the Ringling Bros. made fortunes by running a tight ship, creating a highly hierarchical [...]
We’ve all heard of the Ringlings and the Wallendas, but not everyone’s name is remembered in the circus tradition. Despite the fact that you are undoubtedly familiar with his career, here’s a name you may not have heard: Larry Griswold. Today I’d like to pay homage to the eccentric and noteworthy body of work from [...]
This past week, the Williamsburg Bridge tower became the stage for a brief, guerilla-style display of daring circus feats, all of which culminated in the arrest of the two performers involved. According to a recent Gawker article, Shortly before 7 p.m., aerialist Seanna Sharpe and her lovely assistant Savage Skinner scaled the tower and gave [...]
This month, a ban on wild animals in traveling circuses is expected to go into affect in the UK. According to a recent BBC report, the ban: Will affect the UK’s three remaining travelling circuses that use wild animals. Performers at Circus Mondao, which is being staged in Prescot until Sunday, claim their animals are [...]
Warning coulrophobes: There’s a new clown-centric movie on the scene and it promises to heighten your discomfort with clowns if you’re already so inclined. I present to you, the trailer for The Last Circus: Here’s the official plot synopsis: 1937, Spain is in the midst of the brutal Spanish Civil War. A “Happy” circus [...]
Back in April, Lucky the Painproof Man won the grand prize of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square‘s Unbelievable Talent Contest. Today, Lucky takes a moment to tell us about his experiences as a sideshow performer, the Ripley’s experience and more: Q. Let’s talk about your name, Lucky: A. For many years, in my [...]