A 26-year-old trapeze artist crashed to the ground while attempting a new circus dangerous act when she failed to grasp her husband's hand.

COLLETTE Mc Geer has been in the circus all her life. At 52, she no longer performs as a member of a renowned circus, as she did throughout her childhood life and most of her adult life. Instead, the ...

Trains 60 or 70 cars long hauling trapeze artists, horses, elephants, zebras, polar bears, snaked through towns before the circus would set up for performances.

A trapeze artist with the Do Portugal Circus rides a bicycle on a tight rope. But in a spectacle filled with showstopping acts, Portugal said the most death-defying stunt involves three ...

In 1948, Shankaran joined a circus in Calcutta as a trapeze artist. Three years later, he and a partner bought a small circus called Vijaya, which only had one elephant and two lions at the time.