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Historia del CircoModerno



El circo moderno

Diseña una pista circular (similar al picaderodonde se adiestran los caballos) rodeadade tribunas de madera, la instala al aire

libre en un terreno baldío y allí suma a los jinetes otra compañía de equilibristas yacróbatas, mientras su esposa toca eltambor a la entrada para atraer al público.

Así nace en Londres en 1770 el primercirco moderno

Seibel Beatriz 1993.12.Historia del circo. Ediciones del Sol. Bs. As



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La Pantomima es el arte

de concebir una historia

sólo con movimientoscorporales

Las pantomimas

constituyen unacostumbre en

Londres,

especialmente para

las fiestas de

Navidad. Allí se pone

de moda un géneroheredado de la

Comedia del Arte la

“arlequinada”; el

célebre clown de

teatro Joey Grimaldi

obtiene su primergran triunfo en 1806

con Arlequín y la

Madre Oca.



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En USA, un artista

ecuestre John Bill Rickets,

quien construye en 1790

locales permanentes en

Filadelfia y Nueva York. Si

Astley pasa de la pista al

aire libre al anfiteatro bajo

techo, en USA es donde

surge la idea de pasar a

las carpas de lona.

Beatríz Seibel. 1993.14.

Historia del Circo

Ediciones del Sol Bs. As.



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The Queen's London : a Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets,

Buildings, Parks and Scenery of the Great Metropolis, 1896 - Shaftesbury

Avenue.

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Piccadilly Circus, 1896. From The Queen's London : a Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the

Streets, Buildings, Parks and Scenery of the Great Metropolis, 1896. Towards Leicester Squre.

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This photo shows the joeys of the 1914 Sells-Floto Circus. Photo from the Eddie

Jackson Collection. Bandwagon , Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jan-Feb), 1961, p. 17.



Left: Estella Hobson.Right: Berta Beeson.Lithographs gatheredby Karl K. Knecht from

the advanceadvertising cars thattoured ahead ofcircuses in the early1920s. PfeningCollection.Bandwagon , Vol. 5,

No. 2 (Mar-Apr), 1961,pp. 12-13.



Ernesto Sisters, high-wire artists."Lithographs of the 1890s,"Bandwagon , Vol. 7, No. 4 (Jul-Aug),

1963, p. 9



Famous Great Wallace Ticket Wagon as it appeared in 1932. Most of the Hagenbeck-Wallacewagons that season carried the show's slogan, "The Highest Class Circus in the World." Photo by

Charlie Kitto. Bandwagon , Vol. 9, No. 2 (Mar-Apr), p. 24.



The A. H. Fulford & Co. New London Shows toured as a mud show in 1890. The parade is shownlined up in front of the midway. Original cabinet photo from Harold Dunn Collection. Bandwagon ,

Vol. 11, No. 5 (Sep-Oct), 1967, back cover



Ringling Bros. parade line-up on the lot at Beloit,Wisconsin in 1899. Photo courtesy of Fred PfeningIII. Correction: photo is parade line-up at Rockford,

Illinois - Fred Dahlinger.



The full lot of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show is shownduring the final tour of Europe. This photo was taken on April 24, 1905 in Paris, France. Harold Dunn Collection.Bandwagon , Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan-Feb), 1967, back cover



Stereoview cards of the Cooper, Bailey & Co. Circus, Ottawa, Illinois. The photos were by W. E. Bowman ofOttawa, IL and the date was listed as June 5, 1876. Route book shows that the circus was in Ottawa, IL on

that date. From the stereoview collection of Ron Erickson

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