Circus Acts and Performances

Acts and Performance

Ballantine, Bill. Horses & Their Bosses, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1964.

Brunsdale, Maureen and Mark Schmitt. The Bloomington – Normal Circus Legacy: The Golden Age of Aerialists. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013.

Burgess, Hovey. Circus Techniques. New York: Drama Book Specialist, 1976.

Coxe, Antony Hippisley. A Seat at the Circus. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1980. An update of the original 1951 publication.

Gossard, Steve. A Reckless Era of Aerial Performance; The Evolution of Trapeze. Author, 1994.

Pfening, Fred D., Jr. “Human Cannonballs.” 2 parts. Bandwagon, Vol. 20, No. 6, 1976, pt. 1, pp. 4 – 15. Bandwagon, Vol. 22, No. 6, 1978, pt. 2, pp. 4 – 14.

Spec

Thayer, Stuart. The Performers. Seattle, WA: Dauven & Thayer, 2005. History of the best-known circus acts. When they started, who performed them, what they looked like.

Thayer, Stuart. “Jackley Drops.” Bandwagon, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2002, pp. 20 – 22.

Clown History

Ballantine, Bill. Clown Alley. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1982.

Bratton, Jacky and Ann Featherstone. The Victorian Clown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Huey, Rodney A. “Social Construction of the American Clown: Production of Clowning in the United States from 19668 to 1997.” Dissertation. George Mason University, 2005.

Johnson, Bruce – Charlie the Juggling Clown.  Clown History. 

LeBank, Ezra and David Bridel.  Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters. London and New York: Routledge, 2015.

Speaight, George. The Book of Clowns. New York: Macmillan, 1980.