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Author: Alborozo
Publisher: Child's Play Library
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781846436345
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An acrobat leaves his job at the circus, where nobody notices him, and sets out to find an audience that will appreciate his best tricks.
Author: Anouck Boisrobert
Publisher: Little Gestalten
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783899558357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Count from one to ten as the circus acts reveal their acrobatic feats of skill and strength on the pages of this pop-up book."--
Author: Duncan Wall
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0307472264
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobats singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—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 École 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. Brimming with surprises, outsized personalities, and plenty of charm, this personal history of how the circus evolved into the thrilling experience it is today delivers all the excitement and pleasure of the circus ring itself.
Author: Michael Blume
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag
Published: 2013-09-25
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1782550135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Children and teenagers find acrobatics exciting. The challenge of risking their equilibrium together and building human formations is intriguing. Team spirit and the willingness to cooperate are required. Many of the spectacular human pyramids and partner balances are easy to learn and considerable progress can be made in a short period of time. This book provides a vivid and informative description of the principles of partner acrobatics with children and teenagers. It provides suggestions on how to begin and how to design meaningful training sessions, as well as different options for the structuring of performances. In addition to the many preparatory exercises, the practical portion of the book introduces simple acrobatic formations that have been tried and tested. The individual chapters include detailed written and visual descriptions of the many different techniques, from pyramid building to fantasy formations, from dynamic elements to elegant partner formations.
Author: Robin Scott-Elliot
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781911427148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Erin Morgenstern
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2011-09-13
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0385534647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
Author: Berry Fleming
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A play of fantasy involving Death at a carnival.
Author: Paul Bouissac
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 3110218291
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up strategy, which consists of considering first the objects and heuristically calling upon methodological resources in a broad theoretical array to come to grips with the problems that are encountered. Any circus act is a complex event that has cognitive and emotional dimensions. It is also a part of a history and an institution, and cannot be abstracted from its cultural and sociological contexts. Thus the range of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches must include structural semiotics, biosemiotics, pragmatics, socio-semiotics, cultural anthropology, the cognitive sciences, the psychology and sociology of emotions, to name only the most important. But the ultimate focus of this book is to enable the readers to better understand the meaning of circus performances and to appreciate the skills and creativity of this traditional popular art, which constantly renews itself from generation to generation.
