SAINT-PETERSBURG (AFP) – World-famous Russian mime Slava Polunin was just a few months into his appointment as head of Russia's oldest circus when an animal rights scandal laid bare his uneasy ...

In 1969, at age 19, Rob Mermin literally ran off and joined the circus. While his friends were wallowing in the mud at Woodstock, attending college and protesting the Vietnam War, Mermin was getting ...

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The hustle and bustle of the holidays can make the season feel like a three-ring circus, even for people who don’t identify with any particular religious tradition. San Francisco’s Bow & Arrow Circus ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Massed coloured deckchairs in the shade of the plane trees in the New Acton courtyard helped the audience embrace the heat of one of ...

Playhouses aren’t just for plays anymore. At least not if mime shows at two key Southland venues this summer are an indication. Geoff Hoyle’s “Feast of Fools” closed recently at the La Jolla Playhouse ...

French street dancers are getting ready for this year's annual hip-hop dance festival in the Parisian suburb of Suresnes. With street dance taking central stage in the French art world alongside ...

A circus performer can prompt amazement, laughter and joy. But for Jackie Davis, who grew up in Chelmsford, circus performance isn't just for spectators. Her own career in performing arts began in her ...

Challenging the notion that science isn't fun, the show will entertain everyone from children to high school chemistry flunkies to professors of astrophysics, said Laura Clavio, assistant director of ...