Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Big Apple Circus


Related Topics

In the News (Sat 26 Dec 09)

  
  Big Apple Circus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Big Apple Circus began the 1980s decade with a lot of media attention, having established a special holiday celebration in honor of the circus and its staff, and then appearing in a Hollywood film.
The Harlem Hospital Center, founded with funds that came from the Big Apple Circus, was opened that year, and the hospital's pedriatic area in particular became a headlining facility, as professional performers specially trained as "clown doctors" would visit perform for patients.
A new seating system was installed in the circus big top, and, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the circus opened its "Dreams of a City" show, which was dedicated to the City of New York.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Apple_Circus   (1821 words)

  
 Education Update - Paul Binder, Founder, Big Apple Circus
Instead of the huge three-ring Barnum and Bailey type presentation, this would be a circus of theatrical intimacy, a special kind of a performance where the audience would completely surround the artist.
“Circus is the original theater—and I feel that we were a major force in reviving the art form in the U.S. Now we are on our second generation of guests.” Each year, a half million “children of all ages” attend.
The Big Apple Circus also performs the famous “Circus of the Senses” (for children who are visually and hearing impaired), and sponsors a Clown Care Unit in pediatric hospitals around the nation.#
www.educationupdate.com /archives/2003/apr03/issue/car-circus.html   (713 words)

  
 Clown Care - For Patients and Families - Children's Hospital Boston
The Big Apple Circus Clown CareĀ® is a community outreach program of The Big Apple Circus that brings the joy and excitement of classical circus clowning to the bedsides of hospitalized children five days a week, 50 weeks a year.
In the circus ring, the ringmaster is the authority figure; therefore, the focus of clown parody.
The Big Apple CircusĀ® is America's preeminent performing arts organization devoted to classical circus acts.
www.childrenshospital.org /ccu   (701 words)

  
 Big Apple Circus - NY - New York City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The mission of the Big Apple Circus is to invigorate the communities we serve with the joy and wonder of classical circus, through a unique shared experience in our tent and through dedicated outreach programs in healthcare facilities and in the community.
Circus of the Senses is a specially designed circus performance that enables vision and hearing impaired children and their caregivers to enjoy the sounds, sights and smells of a circus performance in each of our five major tour cities.
Circus for All offers complimentary and subsidized tickets to more than 50,000 physically and economically disadvantaged youth in our major tour markets, and Beyond the Ring is an afterschool program that teaches the circus arts to underserved children helping them to build self-esteem.
www.volunteernyc.org /org/3842125-printer.html   (416 words)

  
 Education Update - The Big Apple Circus’ One-Room School
A visit to the 60-foot trailer known as the One Ring Schoolhouse, a place where children whose families are involved in the circus (and children who participate in the circus themselves) go to receive their education, proved that learning environments come in all shapes and sizes.
Before coming to the Big Apple Circus with his mother, Sergey and his family were involved in the circus in Moscow, occasionally traveling through Europe to perform.
Having made his circus debut at the age of five in an act with his father, he has had his current act in which he does tricks with his pet Chihuahua, Scooby, for roughly a year.
www.educationupdate.com /archives/2005/Nov/html/bigapple.html   (690 words)

  
 Wizard Events
By utilizing our combined talents and expertise, The Big Apple Circus and Wizard Events are able to bring you the finest in circus entertainment, decorations, complete ambiance and event support.
The Big Apple Circus has at 25 year tradition of bringing graceful circus magic to the world.
The circus travels the world to collect the greatest performers ever presented.
www.wizardevents.com /bigapplecircuscircustogo3.htm   (203 words)

  
 The Big Apple: Big Apple Circus
Above, a plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at west 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.
The Big Apple Circus began in 1977, during the 1970s revival of the "Big Apple" name.
Acts of all kinds and ages are invited to audition for the city's first resident sawdust company, the Big Apple Circus, which makes its debut the weekend of the Fourth of July in Battery Park.
www.barrypopik.com /index.php/new_york_city/entry/big_apple_circus   (397 words)

  
 New York Discount Car Rental and Big Apple Circus
In addition to their 325 scheduled performances each year, the Big Apple Circus also administers four exceptional community out-reach programs designed to help make life better for underprivileged families and severely handicapped children.
Founded in 1977 as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping unfortunate children, the Big Apple circus is currently one of the city’s most popular communal institutions.
Designed to help kids live life to the fullest, the Big Apple Circus is committed to bringing the joy of the circus outside the walls of the big top and into the hearts of economically troubled families and severely handicapped children.
www.nycexoticcarrentals.com /big-apple-circus.html   (606 words)

  
 Big Apple Circus - New York - JimsDeli NYC Guide
The Big Apple Circus was founded in 1977 by Paul Binder and Michael Christensen.
Grandma Goes Hollywood is the 28th production of the Big Apple Circus and celebrates the great silver screen spectacles of Hollywood's golden years.
Can't have a circus without animals and the Big Apple variety include Yasmine Smart and her Arabian stallions and the dogs trained by Olate Family.
www.jimsdeli.com /events/big-apple-circus/default.htm   (204 words)

  
 French culture | performing arts: french circus in new york dec 2000
December is circus month in New York City, with Barnum's Kaleidoscape in Bryant Park and the Big Apple Circus in Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center.
In five short years the Bogino Troupe made its mark in the circus world, performing in such respected European circuses as Circus Bouglione and Cirque D'Hiver, and winning awards for charivari at Monaco's Premier Rampe, Cirque de Demain in Paris, and the Big Apple Circus Award.
The Big Apple Circus in New York welcomes the French balancing act / acrobatic duo Sophie et Virgile, winners of a Gold Medal at the World Festival of the Circus of Tomorrow in Paris.
www.info-france-usa.org /culture/perfo/events/nycircus.html   (834 words)

  
 Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit - Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital knows how hard it is for children and their families to deal with an illness and hospitalization.
Three days a week, a team of two professionally-trained clowns come to Yale-New Haven Hospital and offer their own special type of medicine to the children, their families and the staff.
The Clown Care Unit® is a community outreach program of the Big Apple Circus, whose co-founder established the clown program in 1986 in New York after losing a brother to cancer.
www.ynhh.org /pediatrics/support/clown_care_unit.html   (370 words)

  
 Big Apple Circus 2006
Get ready to roll with the 28th, all-new Big Apple Circus, when Grandma the Clown leads an international celebrity cast in this splendiferous circus of movie mayhem.
The Big Apple Band strikes up the music as acrobats flip, balance and twirl with superhero derring-do, launching off the teeterboard, lifting a man with the palm of a hand.
Big Apple Circus was founded by Dartmouth alum Paul Binder.
hop.dartmouth.edu /2006-07/060719-circus.html   (213 words)

  
 Big Apple Circus | Boston Central
The Big Apple Circus comes to Boston each year in April and May. This years performance will be at the Bayside Expo Center.
Inspired in Europe, founded in America in 1977 by Paul Binder and Michael Christensen, the Big Apple Circus introduced American audiences to the intimate and interactive environment of a one-ring circus under the Big Top.
That vision is still the beating heart of the Big Apple Circus, making us who they are, and guiding all they have done in their Brief History.
www.bostoncentral.com /events/theater/p890.php   (540 words)

  
 Time Out NY Kids | caughtoncamera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
TONY Kids celebrated the release of its winter issue at Big Apple Circus at Lincoln Center on November 20, 2004.
The 1,100 guests in attendance were treated to a rockin' celebration under the big top by The Deedle Deedle Dees, the featured band in the winter issue of TONY Kids.
Big Apple Circus' Picturesque awed guests with high flying art on the trapeze, 13 person gravity defying acrobatics, hand balancing and Chinese jar juggling feats.
www.tonykids.com /caughtoncamera/bigapplecircus   (307 words)

  
 cMarket - Online Fundraising Auction Services for Nonprofits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
For 27 years the Big Apple Circus, New York's original one--ring circus, has been delighting audiences of all ages under its Big Top by presenting the finest in live family entertainment featuring world--class circus artistry.
The Big Apple Circus is a not-for-profit performing arts and community outreach institution committed to children and their families.
This limited edition of 13 impressions from the Big Apple Circus's all-new 27th season production, Picturesque, capture the joyful palette of movement, rhythm, color, and light that comprise this lavish production, each reflecting the spirit that has long drawn the world's greatest artists to the emotional immediacy of the circus.
www.cmarket.com /catalog/landingPage.do?vhost=bigapplecircus&aalias=bigapplecircus   (360 words)

  
 The Big Apple Circus: They're back!(but they never really left) (NY Metro Parents Magazine)
While more than half a million people see the Big Apple Circus each year, most don't realize what this non-profit circus does behind the scenes to extend its commitment to kids and their families.
For starters, the circus distributes thousands of complimentary tickets through its "Circus for All!" program - enabling economically disadvantaged children and senior citizens and physically challenged persons to share the magic of the circus experience.
Tickets for Big Apple Circus performances are available through Centercharge and Ticketmaster and at Big Apple Circus box offices located in Comedy Nation restaurant in Times Square and in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center.
www.parentsknow.com /newarticle.cfm?colid=6688   (639 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Best of the Big Apple Circus, Vol. 1: Music: Big Apple Circus Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Big Apple Circus Step Right up Tickets — Still great seats left.
Big Apple Circus in NYC — Experience the joy and wonder of the circus.
Big Apple Circus Tickets — We have a wide selection of Big Apple Circus Tickets.
www.amazon.com /Best-Big-Apple-Circus-Vol/dp/B000005TT5   (576 words)

  
 Big Apple Circus
Discover what the big screen looks like under the big top when the circus performers bring you their adaptation of movies and films from times past to today.
This talented group of circus performers from around the world is sure to entertain you.
Proceeds from ticket sales are used to fund various Big Apple Circus programs including an education program and a program to bring joy to terminally ill children.
www.bostonkids.net /news/apple_circus.htm   (245 words)

  
 GoCityKids New York City | The Big Apple Circus
Circus is dark on most Mondays and Tuesdays, except holidays, when it's open.
Run away to the Circus - the big tent's flaps are open for the 29th annual production behind Lincoln Center, October 19, 2006 through January 7, 2007.
Tickets are available through CenterCharge (212.721.6500), or in person at the Circus Box Office, which is open in front of the Big Top in Damrosch Park when the circus is in session, Sun-Mon 10am-6pm; Tue-Sat 10am-8pm.
www.gocitykids.com /browse/attraction.jsp?id=2664   (138 words)

  
 Big Apple Circus Tickets - Great Source for Big Apple Circus Tickets!
You can order Big Apple Circus tickets either online or by just picking up the phone.
As ticket brokers, we specialize in premium Big Apple Circus tickets as well as tickets to some of the the biggest events in the world.
We are not affiliated with Big Apple Circus, Ticketmaster® or any box office.
www.tickco.com /Shows/big_apple_circus_tickets.htm   (199 words)

  
 Mommy Life: Big Apple Circus
The Big Apple Circus is a traveling circus from New York that comes and sets up shop here for a couple weeks in the fall.
This is a perfect size circus for little children - based more on feats of human skill and humor than on wild animals.
I never really liked going to the big circus because I always had a sense of sadness for the animals.
www.mommylife.net /archives/2005/09/big_apple_circu.html   (428 words)

  
 Ned Batchelder: April 2005
I got to learn the hard way how to use SSH from Windows (PuTTY is your friend), I fixed a few bugs in the way python.org is generated when using Windows, and as an unexpected side-benefit, I am now ned at org of python.
I saw the Big Apple Circus today with two of the three boys, and my dad and step-mother.
So the Big Apple is better in that you can really see what's being shown, but I wish it weren't shrinking further before my eyes.
www.nedbatchelder.com /blog/200504.html   (3498 words)

  
 Observer Online | Big Apple Circus Comes to Town
From the United States is circus hostess Kathy Halenda and Barry "Grandma the Clown" Lubin, who is both the star icon of the show and the director of clowning.
The Russian juggling group Elena and Her Gentlemen present their act and Big Apple Circus Company performs floor and aerial acrobatics to complete the experience.
In addition to the daily circus shows, the Big Apple Circus also provides a unique performance for vision or hearing impaired children called "Circus of the Senses." After the performance, children are welcomed into the ring to touch the animals and costumes.
www.observernews.com /stories/current/news/092305/circus.shtml   (235 words)

  
 REVIEW: Big Apple Circus
One of the most welcome signs of Spring is The Big Apple Circus.
And as much as I love the Big Apple, themes are sometimes just a reason for a new look in the ads.
The Big Apple Circus is at Bayside Expo in Boston through May 8.
www.onstageboston.com /Articles/2005/04/April/reviewapple.html   (527 words)

  
 UW Alumni Association - Big Apple Circus
American entertainers and Big Apple Circus co-founders Paul Binder and Michael Christensen, '70, started as jugglers on the street corners of Europe.
Over the past twenty-seven years, the Circus has grown from the artistic vision of the founders to be one of the world's premier circuses with performances delighting audiences in New York and around the East and South during tours.
The Big Apple Circus tent is in Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, 62nd Street (between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues).
www.washington.edu /alumni/clubs/nyc/2005nycircus.html   (569 words)

  
 Circus
Email your teacher to tell them something special you've learned about the circus and tell why you decided this part of the circus was special.
- A special dramatic mix of the circus arts and street entertainment, featuring wild, outrageous costumes, staged under magical lighting and set to original music - all without a single animal in the ring.
Learn about the performers, read some circus jokes and take a circus quiz.
www.dowslane.org /circus.html   (359 words)

  
 Playbill News: PHOTO CALL: Big Stars Go Under the Big Top for Unveiling of Big Apple Circus
There were enough stars from the entertainment world to fill three rings at the opening night of the Big Apple Circus on Nov. 6.
A crowd favorite that is making a return engagement to city from which it culls its name, the Big Apple Circus attracted a bevy of film and stage personalities to its welcome back peformance.
Below, Michael Imperioli of “The Sopranos” is seen with performers at the opening night gala benefit of the Big Apple Circus at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park in New York City.
www.playbill.com /news/article/96117.html   (360 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.