Circus Identities: Life in Circus Families
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Circus Arts / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2017 July 02
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2017, Item SFF2017_0702_Circus_Arts_Circus_Stories_0007
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Dolly Jacobs (presenter); Rafael Palacios; Dolly Jacobs; Luis Garcia; Joseph Dominic Bauer; Jr. Today, schools such as Florida State and Illinois State University offer training to improve students' skills in acrobatics, hand balancing, and trapeze. Intensive training helps to prepare students for a career not only in the circus but also in many other theater productions.