A shocking tragedy unfolded inside a circus big top in Bautzen, Germany, when trapeze artist Marina Barceló, 27, lost her life after a fall during a daring solo performance. Nearly 100 spectators, ...

In the backyard of their home, Renato Fernandes and his twin 8-year-old daughters spend their evenings flying through the air on a trapeze as the sun sets. But now, Fernandes has begun dismantling the ...

A circus acrobat plunged to her death on Saturday while performing on the trapeze apparatus in front of a horrified crowd, police have said. The young woman was performing at Circus Paul Busch in ...

The sun is the only spotlight for the circus performers who bound onto a ramshackle raft, docked in Parkersburg, West Virginia just across the river from Belpre, Ohio. A crowd of more than a hundred ...

The world of the circus is one where beauty, surprises, and danger ride side by side. Performers hang themselves into the air by sheets of satin and ropes, by striking the correct balance between ...

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