"Circus skills are a group of disciplines that have been performed as entertainment in circus, carnival, sideshow, busking, variety, vaudeville, or music hall shows."
A list of the various physical and performance skills required in circus, including acrobatics, trapeze, juggling, contortionism, clowning, and more. This topic covers the techniques and training necessary to master these skills.
Juggling: Juggling is the skill of throwing and catching objects such as balls, clubs, and rings.
Object manipulation: Object manipulation involves manipulating objects such as poi, devil sticks, and diabolos.
Balancing: Balancing is the skill of maintaining stability while standing or walking on an object such as a tightrope or balance ball.
Acrobatics: Acrobatics involve performing gymnastics-style movements such as flips, cartwheels, and handstands.
Aerials: Aerials involve performing acrobatic maneuvers while suspended in the air from an aerial apparatus such as a trapeze or aerial silks.
Clowning: Clowning involves using humor and physical comedy to entertain an audience.
Fire performance: Fire performance involves the manipulation of objects such as poi or staffs that have been set on fire.
Stilt walking: Stilt walking involves being on stilts and walking or performing various movements.
Unicycle riding: Unicycle riding involves balancing and performing tricks on a unicycle.
Tightrope walking: Tightrope walking involves walking on a tightrope or high wire.
Mime: Mime involves using body movements and facial expressions to communicate without speaking.
Magic: Magic involves performing illusions and tricks to entertain an audience.
Contortion: Contortion involves extreme flexibility and the ability to bend and twist the body into very unusual positions.
Street performing: Street performing involves performing circus skills in public spaces such as parks, streets, or festivals.
Stage production: Stage production involves creating and designing circus performances for a stage setting.
Rigging: Rigging involves the proper setup and safety measures used to secure aerial apparatuses.
Costuming and makeup: Costuming and makeup involves creating costumes and makeup designs for performers.
Music composition and sound design: Music composition and sound design involve creating original music and sound effects for circus performances.
Juggling: A circus skill that involves manipulating objects in the air, such as balls, clubs, rings, or knives.
Acrobatics: A type of circus skill that involves physical feats performed with flexibility, balance, and agility, such as handstands, flipping, tumbling, and contortions.
Aerial skills: A circus skill that involves performing high above the ground, either on a trapeze, aerial silk, aerial hoop, or other aerial apparatus.
Clowning: The art of clowning involves performing comic routines, slapstick humor, and entertaining the audience through character acting, miming, and physical comedy.
Tightwire walking: A circus skill that involves walking across a thin wire suspended high above the ground, often while performing balancing acts or juggling.
Unicycling: Riding a one-wheeled bicycle is a circus skill that requires balance, coordination, and a bit of daring.
Fire performer: A circus skill that involves manipulating fire, such as breathing flames, spinning fire poi, or juggling torches.
Stilt walking: A circus skill that involves walking on stilts, lifted several feet above the ground, with a variety of possible tricks, including juggling or balloon twisting.
Knife throwing: A circus skill that involves throwing knives accurately and with precision, aiming for a target often woman that is human.
Hula-hooping: A circus skill that involves spinning a hula-hoop around the waist, hips, or hands, often with multiple hoops or choreographed routines.
Diablo: A circus skill that involves manipulating a spinning top on a string, creating dynamic and impressive moves.
Balancing acts: A circus skill that involves balancing objects, such as chairs, ladders, or tables, in unusual ways, sometimes also involving danger, such as standing on a board atop rolling barrels.
Cyr wheel: A circus skill that involves climbing inside a metal hoop and performing acrobatic moves while rolling along the ground.
Hand balancing: A circus skill that involves performing acrobatic moves on your hands, such as handstands, cartwheels, and one-handed balances.
Human pyramids: A circus skill that involves stacking several people on top of each other to form a pyramid, often incorporating acrobatics, balancing, and strength.
Trapeze: This circus skill involves performing swings, flips, and poses on a horizontal bar suspended from a height.
Chinese pole/ Vertical pole: This circus skill involves climbing and performing acrobatics on a vertical pole.
Roue Cyr: A circus skill that involves performing acrobatics on a spinning single wheel apparatus.
Slack-line: A circus skill that involves walking, bouncing, or performing acrobatic moves on a slackened line that is tensioned between two anchor points.
Foot Juggling: A circus skill that involves juggling or manipulating objects using the feet, often balancing the objects on the feet while performing tricks.
Risley/Adagio: A type of circus skill that involves acrobatics and strength routine where the base lies on their back and use their feet to propel the other acrobat using their hands, juggling or balancing them while performing tricks.
Cloud swing: A circus skill that involves performing acrobatic moves on a swinging apparatus that takes the form of a curtain, often suspended from a height.
Parkour: A circus skill that involves jumping, vaulting, rolling, and running, often performed in urban environments, using the environment as obstacles and challenges.
"They have been performed as entertainment in circus, carnival, sideshow, busking, variety, vaudeville, or 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 use various systems of categorization to group circus skills by type."
"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."
"The basis of the Russian Circus School's curriculum."
"Circus, carnival, sideshow, busking, variety, vaudeville, or music hall shows."
"Many are also practiced by non-performers as a hobby."
"Various disciplines make up circus skills, including juggling, acrobatics, trapeze, contortion, tightrope walking, fire breathing, and clowning. The list goes on!" (not a direct quote from the paragraph, but derived from the given information)
"Circus skills have been performed as entertainment for many years."
"Circus schools have different systems of categorization to group circus skills by type."
"Circus skills have been performed in circus, carnival, sideshow, busking, variety, vaudeville, or music hall shows."
"Systems like the Gurevich system and the Hovey Burgess system have attempted to formally organize circus skills into pragmatic teaching groupings."
"Most circus skills are still being performed today."
"Many are also practiced by non-performers as a hobby."
"Circus schools and instructors use various systems of categorization to group circus skills by type."
"Systems that have attempted to formally organize circus skills into pragmatic teaching groupings include the Gurevich system."
"The Russian Circus School's curriculum is based on the Gurevich system."
"Circus, carnival, sideshow, busking, variety, vaudeville, or music hall shows."