{"id":1078,"date":"2015-04-24T15:13:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2015-04-11T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T15:18:54","slug":"spring-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/spring-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

With spring is well and truly upon us and with the circus<\/a> being a visual performing art and tents popping up over this period\u00a0<\/span>Red Masque will be looking at the history of circus….<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Bailey & Cooper\u00a0circus\u00a0was well known across Australia and New Zealand, touring to various islands around Oceania between 1876 and 1878. James Anthony Bailey then teamed up with P.T. Barnum to bring \u2018the Greatest Show on Earth\u2019 to Europe. Barnum died before being able to see the European reaction to the huge tents so well-known in his homeland; although impressed, many were bewildered and the venture was met with only muted enthusiasm<\/span><\/p>\n

Menagerie owners were the main people to react to \u2018the Greatest Show on Earth\u2019 most favourably, sensing an opportunity to enhance their fading businesses. With this \u2018new\u2019 idea of combining animals with circus acts, they enjoyed renewed success for a few more decades, with the equestrian circus falling by the wayside and the travelling circus reaching the peak of its popularity between the two World Wars, most notably in Germany. With the larger cities still housing permanent circuses \u2013 Paris still had four \u2013\u00a0circus manufacturers strived to create comfortable seating that could attract the city folk away from the furnishings and production<\/a> values to which they had become so accustomed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The biggest innovation in the 1900s occurred within Russia after Lenin nationalised the Russian circuses in 1919, leading to an exodus of the country by many western performers. With the Russian performers needing to be trained, the government established the Moscow circus school, which developed training methods that incorporated gymnastics. The result was a free-flowing, innovative performance that proved to be a hit with crowds abroad, where any Russian-based circus was known as the Moscow Circus (a generic name adopted by travelling Russian circuses to this day).<\/span><\/p>\n

Resistance to the changes of the modern world led to a decline in the industry throughout the 1960s, but by the 1970s and 1980s, circuses such as Cirque du Soleil\u00a0had restored the flamboyance and spectacle to proceedings, ushering in the idea of circuses as performance art to sit alongside the more traditional travelling circuses, which continue to endure great popularity across Europe. A surge in teaching has also led to a circus revival in recent years and it remains to be seen quite where this interest shall lead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why not hire<\/a> your own circus and have your very own \u2018front seats\u2019 the possibilities are endless for example if you would like to learn a few \u2018circus skills\u2019 then let Red Masque introduce you to some fantastic acrobats, aerial performers, and circus artists<\/a> that are advertised on our website.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With spring is well and truly upon us and with the circus being a visual performing art and tents popping up over this period\u00a0Red Masque will be looking at the history of circus…. The Bailey & Cooper\u00a0circus\u00a0was well known across … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[351,370,352,20,547,338],"tags":[36,348,15,291,26,297,350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}