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Helen Kreis Wallenda (December 11, 1910 – May 9, 1996) was a German-born trapeze artist and aerialist, best known as a key member of the original four-member Great Wallendas high-wire troupe. [1] She was the wife of the high-wire artist Karl Wallenda, and together they performed daring acts without a safety net. Kreis was often the pinnacle ...
James "Jimmy" Cavaretta (born 1949) is an American circus performer, trapeze artist, actor, and model, best known for his work in the famed trapeze act "The Flying Cavarettas," his regular television appearances in the 1960s and 1970s, and his performances as an original headliner at the Circus, Circus hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Trapeze artists, in lithograph by Calvert Litho. Co., 1890. A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes, metal straps, or chains, from a ceiling support. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances. Trapeze acts may be static, spinning (rigged from a single point), swinging or flying, and may be performed solo, double ...
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Alfredo Codona (October 7, 1893 – July 30, 1937) was a Mexican trapeze artist who was a member of the world-famous "Flying Codonas" and was the first aerialist to continually perform the triple somersault. Alfredo came from an itinerant performing family whose origins lie with the Codoni family in the Italian speaking area of Canton Ticino in ...
"The Flying Cavarettas" are best remembered for their role in popularizing trapeze acts among a broader audience, particularly in Las Vegas, where acrobatic circus shows, such as those produced by Cirque du Soleil, now make up the bulk of headline offerings on the Las Vegas Strip. [15]
Luisita Leers was born in into a family of circus artists: her mother Gertrude was an acrobat, and her adoptive father Guido Krökel was a ring specialist. [1] She was trained by Krökel from the age of six. She made her debut in his troupe in March 1920, aged only eleven.
Rezső Seress lived most of his life in poverty in Budapest, from where, being Jewish, he was taken to a labor camp by the Nazis during the Second World War.He survived the camp and after employment in the theatre and the circus, where he was a trapeze artist, he concentrated on songwriting and singing after an injury.