Circus skills
Circus skills are a group of pursuits that have been performed as entertainment in circus, sideshow, busking or variety/vaudeville/music hall shows. Most circus skills are still being performed today. Many are also practiced by non-performers as a hobby.
Circus schools and instructors have developed a variety of pedagogical classification systems for circus skills. Systems that have attempted to formally organize circus skills into pragmatic teaching groupings include the Gurevich system (the basis of the Russian Circus School's curriculum) and the Hovey Burgess system.
Circus skills
- Acrobalance
- Acrobatics
- Acro dance
- Adagio
- Aerial hoop (lyra, cerceaux)
- Aerial silk (tissu, fabric, ribbon, silks, aerial contortion)
- Aerial straps
- Animal training
- Artistic cycling
- Balancing
- Banquine
- Baton twirling
- Buffoonery
- Bullwhip
- Bungee trapeze
- Chinese pole
- Chinese yo-yo
- Chair balancing
- Cigar box juggling
- Cloud swing
- Clowning
- Club swinging
- Contact juggling
- Contortion
- Corde lisse (vertical rope, smooth rope)
- Cradle
- Cyr wheel (roue Cyr)
- Danish pole
- Devil sticks
- Diabolo
- Electric act
- Fire dancing (fire twirling, fire spinning, fire manipulation)
- Flag spinning
- Flying trapeze
- Freestanding ladder
- German wheel (Rhönrad, gym wheel)
- Globe of death
- Hair hang (hair suspension, hair hanging)
- Handbalancing (équilibre)
- Hand walking
- Hat manipulation
- Hoop diving
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Circus and sideshow attractions