Circus skills
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Circus skills is a group of pursuits that were traditionally used as a form of entertainment in circus, sideshow, busking or variety/vaudeville/music hall shows. While most circus skills are still being performed today, many are practiced by non-performers as a hobby.
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[edit] Prop Manipulation Circus Skills
- Balancing (circus act)
- Ball spinning
- Bullwhip
- Cigar box
- Club swinging
- Contact juggling
- Devilstick
- Diabolo
- Fire-twirling
- Flag Spinning
- Hat manipulation
- Jitter rings
- Juggling (balls, clubs, rings, etc)
- Knife throwing
- Lasso
- Plate spinning
- Poi Swinging
- Shaker Cup Manipulation
[edit] Balancing/Equilibristic Circus Skills
- Bicycle acrobatics
- Chair acrobatics
- Chinese poles
- Danish pole
- Free standing ladder
- Handstands and hand walking
- Pedal go
- Perch (Equilibristic)
- Rola Bola
- Rolling globe
- Roman Ladders
- Russian bar
- Stilt walking
- Teeterboard (aka "Korean board")
- Tight-rope (tight or slack rope walking)
- Unicycle
- Wheel gymnastics
[edit] Aerial Circus Skills
- Aerial Rigging
- Bungee
- Cloud swing (Mexican cloud swing)
- Corde lisse (rope, Smooth Rope)
- Cradle
- Hair Hang (aka Hair Suspension / Hairhang / hair hanging)
- Aerial Hoop(Lyra, Circeaux)
- Rebound straps
- Russian swing
- Shoot-Thru sadder
- Silks (tissues)
- Spanish web
- Trapeze
- Static trapeze
- Swinging trapeze
- Flying trapeze
- Multiple trapeze
- Double trapeze
- Triple trapeze
- French trapeze
- Bungee trapeze
- Washington trapeze
- Wire (harness)
[edit] Acrobatic Circus Skills
- Acrobalance includes all of the acrobatic balancing done in the circus. It includes partner acrobatics, adagio, multiple person hand-balancing, and large group pyramids. The performers at the bottom of the pyramid are known as bases and those who are balanced above the ground are known as fliers ado.
- Acrobatics
- Hand balancing
- Tumbling
- Hoop diving
- Teeterboard
- Trampoline / Mini-tramp
- Contortion
- Jump rope
- Hula hoop
[edit] Clowning
- Clowning
- Clown make-up
- Magic
- Mime
- Physical comedy
- Puppetry
- Stage combat
- Ventriloquism
[edit] Dare Devil Skills
- Human cannonball
- Globe of death
[edit] Side Show Skills
- Working Acts
- Bed of nails
- Blade box
- Contortion
- Electric act
- Fire breathing
- Fire eater
- Fire dancing
- Geek
- Glass eating
- Glass walking
- Human blockhead
- Human Chopping Block
- Knife throwing
- Magic acts
- Mental flossing
- Peircing acts
- Iron tongue
- Human pincushion
- Suspension act (AKA Hook Hang act)
- Strongman
- Sword swallowing
- Unbreakable hands
- Human oddity (Natural) Acts
- Bearded Lady
- Fat lady
- Gurner
- Heshe
- Human freaks
- Midgets
- Painted people
- Animal Acts
- Museum shows
- Pickled punks
- Abnormal Animals
