Sep 24, 2018

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Steve Smith, clown name TJ Tatters, is in the Clown Hall of Fame, won 5 Emmy Awards, served as Dean of The Ringling Clown College, and directed for Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey, The Big Apple Circus, and many other notable productions. In part...

Sep 17, 2018

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My guest today is contortionist and contortion instructor Serchmaa Byamba.

As a young girl, Serchmaa was inspired by a Contortion act she watched on Mongolian National TV. She began her performance career as a state sponsored artist in 1989 when...

Sep 10, 2018

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Terry Crane is an acrobat, dancer, and default circus director. After years of having a solo career as a vertical rope artist, Terry wanted to start making his own work. This eventually led him to Seattle, where he currently serves as artistic...

Sep 3, 2018

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There’s a chill in the air, friends, fans and enemies and that means it is time to go back to school- circus school that is! Shannon interviews to Ron Oppenheimer, who is currently going in to his third year at The National Circus in Montreal...