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Enjoy the enthralling world of street performance, also known as busking. Packed with insights and inspiration for buskers, their fans, and people who are just curious about the many faces of street performance.
Covers musicians, circus routines (jugglers, fire dancers, tight-wire) and street theater (puppeteers, mime, cosplay, human statues).
Guitarists in the boisterous fish market of the Pacific Northwest; didgeridoo virtuosi on the Melbourne malls;...
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Carnivals are a fantastic way to spend a day. With popcorn, cotton candy, rides, and games, there's something for every person to enjoy. But younger kids might find the crowds, lights, and noise a little overwhelming. This book for beginning readers is the perfect way to prepare a new carnival goer for a super-fun day. Including full-color photographs that closely correlate to the text, it introduces carnival basics in language written especially...
65) Circus
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Discover Series Books for Babies,Toddlers Step Right Up! It's time to visit the Big Top in the latest book from Xist Publishing's Discover Series. CIRCUS features full,color photos and captions for your child's viewing pleasure. Babies and toddlers will enjoy flipping through the images while learning new words and preschool and older children can use the images as fuel for their imaginations. Used as a jumpstart for interaction, Discover Series Picture...
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This book takes its starting point in a rare experiment, that of an academic researcher attempting to learn to do circus. What happens to the knowledge of the performance theoretician when physically engaging with the circus arts? One of the (im)material outcomes of this experiment is what the author calls "homemade academic circus" - a series of lecture-performances on performance-related academic questions, presented and discussed through circus...
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This comprehensive comedy course will aid you in entertaining family audiences by increasing the humor in your variety act.
It provides:
The fundamentals of comedy
History of comedy
Specific techniques that have been identified as tending to generate laughter
Examples of how those techniques have been used
Thought-provoking questions to help you decide how you might use those techniques
Methods enabling you to connect more fully with your audience.
And...
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97 mystifying tricks done with ordinary objects that can be borrowed from the audience. Make coins appear or disappear; matchsticks jump into the air; classic cups and balls; pierce balloons without bursting them; plus tricks with dice, rubber bands, eggs, safety pins, pens and pencils, more. 185 illustrations.
70) The Clown Show
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The clown entertains us with tricks that surprise us, delights and deceives us and makes us wonder what makes the tricks work. Behind the funny clothes, pointy shoes and crooked hat, the clown is a real person who works very hard to bring fun into our lives, even if this is for a brief time. But who is this clown? Is the clown a he or a she, fat or thin, old or young, pink or brown?
This is a story for little children who are just starting to understand...
74) Zebra on the go
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[2017]
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When Zebra accidentally steps on Lion's toe, Lion gets angry and begins chasing Zebra in what turns out to be a remarkable show.
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Orphaned eleven-year-old Miles Wednesday and his companion, a Song Angel named Little, are helped by a talking tiger as they set off to find a missing Storm Angel and Miles's beloved stuffed bear, ending up in a peculiar circus where the audience cannot stop laughing
76) Circus Fun
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Read about the things you can find at the circus! Perfect for 1st grade students, this book teaches these 5 words from Fry's First 100 words list: see, we, will, a, and not. The short sentences and clear images support the text to help with memorization. The rebus pictures and simple text build grade 1 reading comprehension in a format that is appealing to children. Beginning readers will learn the essential sight words and gain confidence as they...
78) Tree ring circus
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c2006
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In this cumulative tale, a tree becomes a hiding place for various animals, a runaway circus clown, and even an elephant
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In 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, twelve-year-old Audrey dreams of being an aerialist like her heroes, the Flying Wallendas, and so she is excited to go to Ringling Brothers circus with her six-year-old twin sisters; but at the show a fire breaks out, and as the crowd starts to panic, Audrey struggles to reach her sisters--she gets Patty out, but Charlotte, afraid of heights, refuses to jump from the higher seats, and disappears as the big top comes...
80) Arte-sanos
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Arte-sanos vous présente un nouveau monde: celui des artisans latino-américains. Souvent méprisés, ces artistes de rue vivent pourtant de leurs créations. Par opposition au système, ils tentent d'inventer une nouvelle forme de vie remplie d'art et de liberté. Observez-les, découvrez leurs méthodes de travail ainsi que les matériaux utilisés; vous comprendrez alors mieux la dynamique dans laquelle ils s'inscrivent. C'est parti pour un bon...
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