Some 8,000 people and over 3,000 animals contribute to the spectacle that's known as the Bolshoi Circus. The greatest show in the world – well, one of them, at least – has been coming to Japan since ...

“About 1800 artistes tour all year round; 51 Russians and a troupe of six Chinese acrobats are entertaining audiences in South Africa,” said juggler Mikhail Ivanov. He forms a double act with his wife ...

Absolutely not! The only reason I would go is to join any protest against the use of animals for entertainment. The training is cruel, the treatment only makes for stressed, broken animals, and it ...

Yuri Grigorovich at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in 1985 during a Bolshoi tour - Robert Pearce/Fairfax Media via Getty Images Yuri Grigorovich, the Russian choreographer, who has died aged 98, was ...

STAMFORD -- Circus performers are famous for accomplishing feats that ordinary mortals can only stare and wonder at -- perfect midair splits, folding bodies through tubes, flipping across the empty ...

The representative of the famous circus dynasty Zapashny in the fourth generation. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2012). General Director of the Bolshoi Moscow State Circus on Vernadsky ...

MOSCOW – I guess you had to be there. The eight of us, bouncing along the road in a van with shocks that hadn’t been changed since the end of the Cold War. My wife and I, my mother-in-law and aunt, my ...