Question of the Week of October 4, 2021*
What is your favorite TYPE of circus act? Tell us why you like that particular type of act.
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Cat acts. But not what I call furniture mover acts. If the act is 8 minutes long and 5 minutes is spent moving props you've lost me.
Any time that extraordinary people do even more extraordinary things. Aerialists, animal trainers and even jugglers who - through practice and innovation - thrill the audience…
The beautiful ELEPHANTS
It's a tie between the elephants and the arial trapeze.
Additional responses from other circus-related Facebook Groups as of 10/07/2021:
David Martin -Elephants
Harry Kingston - Mr. Circus Clyde Beatty in the steel arena in center ring.
Barb Martiny - Big cats
Roger Ellis Estill - Elephants
James Cole - I love them all, but, at the moment, my main focus is on Flying Trapeze.
Rodney Mushero- Yeah me too. Love the rigging and netting layout schemes.
Carl Anthony Bly - Flyers
Michael S. Wynne - Elephants
James Cole - On this page, it's most likely FLYING TRAPEZE!
Barbara Hague - The most exciting for me to watch are flying trapeze, silks, duo trapeze, and cradle. So hard to pick just one!
Juliana Martinez - Flying act!
Robert Cantwell - The elephants
David Hislop - Trapeze. High Wire, Teeter Board, Wheel of Death, Russian Swing, Cannon Ball Shot, Globe of Death. Clown Car.
Chris Huizenga - The clowns.
Keith Trout - The cats!
Brad Hampton - Clowns
Sherman Hatch - Clowns globe of steel ringmaster elephants
Floyd Degnan - Elephants
Joseph Reidy - Everything about the circus, the clowns, the animals, different acts. I miss that now.
Perry Choltco - The flyers and the horses.
Louise Bergeron - Tigers act
Tommy Moore - Clowns.
Thomas Horman - The clowns
Janet Boyd - Animals!
Karen DeVries - I love it all!
Robert Killebrew - The Elephants and Cats.
Chelsea Smith - Acrobat Jumping from horse team through hoop of fire in air
Jerome Frye - Lions
Paul Hill - Elephants
Elizabeth Gruppioni - The showgirls.
Rick Burch - Love the clowns
Chris Madero - Clowns or Trapeze
Sandra K. Campbell Holman - Clowns and flyers
Dolores Crowell - Can’t choose one / from set up to tear down!
David Euler - Big cats and the wheel
Joanna Kerr - Clowns
Paul Hill - Elephants.
Andrew Barrette - Trapeze.
Louise Bergeron- Tigers act
Dwayne Cunningham- Animal Acts and Jugglers.
Frank Ybarra - I always loved the teeter board acts. And yes of course the wire walkers. Such skill.
Additional responses from other circus-related Facebook
Groups as of 10/08/2021:
Phil Haburn - Elephant acts
Maria Flynn– Elephants
Angie Allen- One ring tent show!!
David Rowell- Horse acts at liberty and big cats also....
Tammy Javier- Pretty much any aerial act. I really used to love the production with the single trapeze and the webs all around. Those were so beautiful.
Roy Gould- Not picking all of them
Charlie Myrick- Is that Ringling? How wonderful.
Gary Payne- I can't pick! Elephants, Big Cats, the Human Cannonball, anything unusual! SPEC!
Charlie Myrick- Gary Payne those were the days
Gary Payne - Charlie Myrick Sure was!
Donna Paul- Gary Payne trapeze
Jan Biggerstaff- Opening spec - that means a whole lot of circus to come!
Nancy Hills- All circus acts can't get enough of any of them
Kari Boomer - Flying Trapeze
Bonnie Phillips - Elephants
William Loter - Mine
Timothy Rossiter- Just about any animal act, but especially elephants
Larry Rich - Clowns
Teresa A Conley - My Uncle Dave Hoover's act and the elephants
Steve Myron Armstrong- They're all great. but elephants are my fav!
Chris Connors- A live Circus band, elephants and flying trapeze
Royce Voigt - Aerial roller skating.
Harry Muller - Long mount!!!
William Taggart - bare back riding act
Joel Poes - The most exciting circus act ever was Clyde Beatty's big cage full of lions and tigers. Have seen it live and in movies.
Charlie Myrick - Joel Poes. I agree it was spectacular!
Eric Zander Hussey - The wheel
Roy Gould- All of them
Mary Larson- The Flyers.
Paul Hill- Elephants.
Doug Puthoff- Clowns!
Sam Cooper- Group Trapeze and traditional style clowns. Great photo. Love the old-style tents.
Armando Mondo Gaona- Trapeze
Toto Johnson - As a clown... well...clowns, of course... but... a VERY close
second... elephants!
Jeffrey Loseff- THE GIANT (fill in the blank) OF DEATH!!!!!
Pedro Gomez - Beautiful picture
Terry Albert – Elephants
Barbara Moore - Plate spinning
Rose Surace - Teeter boards
Top of Form
Clown
Groups as of10/08/2021:
Olivia Snyder-Martinez - The size of those big tops The elephants in a top this huge would be awesome
Ross Hartzell- Snow cones
Arturo Sanchez - Trapeze!!!!!!
Darlene Diano Guynup – Elephants
Sara Leanne Allred - The Elephants!
Dave Letterfly Knoderer- Liberty horses
Robert Cline - A Cage act, but then I could watch Duo Fusion over and over again.
Randy Jackson- Seeing this...and trying to imagine the 1944 Hartford, Connecticut circus fire...it's overwhelming!
Jim Lavender- Big cats & elephants together.
Chuck Werner - A live act under a big top! Not a movie, not on tv, not in a building.
Betsy Golden Kellem - Juggling!
Michele Malvern - Big cats...Oh, may I choose two? Dressage!
Linda Heath - The clown bit where the little dog is in a elephant costume.
Charlie Branam - Trapeze
Nicole Zimmerman - Flying act!
Warren Chivers - Highwire.
Bill Schreiber - The Riding Cristianis bareback riding act
Charlie Myrick- I remember as a kid when this show
came to our town. 1956 Chillicothe Missouri I was 6 years old. We set next to the
band their uniforms were in green. It was Spectacular. Oh for those days again
Dale Summer- I miss the circus. All the horse acts and the elephants.
Rusty Thomas - Always the clowns!
Michael Newton-Brown- Cloud Swing.
Robin Eurich - Good Clowns.
Michele Malvern- Big cats . . . Oh, may I choose two? Dressage!
Richard Snyder - Trapeze!
Juan Chapa- Tightrope!
Dorothy Mize - I like to see the circus trainers that train the youth to do the things they used to do in the circus.
· Donald Parker Dorothy Mize Sailor Circus Sarasota
William Carroll – Management . . . Specifically, Barnum, Bailey, John Ringling, and Jay Gould. Those were Great Acts!!!
Cindy Weidley Potter - Elephants!!!
Betty Piddington- Elephants!
David Orr- Elephants
Rick R Gallelli - Los domadores de animales
Sheri L. King- Showgirl and elephants
Charlie Myrick - Joel Poes I agree it was spectacular
Matt Rey - Spec is always exciting but the one act that always got my heart racing is sway pole act... Yikes!!!!
William J Cooper - The Flying Trapeze.
Sharon Rossi Russell Ensminger - The clowns!
James Cole - On this page it's most likely FLYING TRAPEZE!
David Frederick Pugh - James Cole ..great "guess"
Deon Aumaier - Polar Bears 1978'-80' Circus World
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