When the Big Apple Circus ends in June, Vibdel and her animals will return to the farm. The rest of the performers will pack up, take some much-needed vacation time, and find the next gig.

In the past decade, the Big Apple Circus has undergone a few contortions of its own. It filed for bankruptcy in 2016 and re-emerged a year later as a for-profit enterprise.

NEW YORK – A beloved circus performer known as Grandma the clown has resigned from the Big Apple Circus following accusations that he pressured a 16-year-old aerialist to pose for pornographic ...

Big Apple Circus: No Lions but Lots of Laughs. September 27, 2000. By Pamela Sommers. After days of watching stone-faced gymnasts summoning up their steely best in Sydney, it was a genuine delight ...

The Gingerb3ardMen/Courtesy of Big Apple Circus I've owned cats my entire life. But it never occurred to me, until I went to the Big Apple Circus, that you could train them to do tricks.

The specialty of his one-man circus, starting June 27 at Strathmore in North Bethesda, is high wire, and Dimitri, 56, does a lot of that, just as he did for years in the Big Apple Circus and ...

At The Big Apple Circus, animals are not harmed, ... Big Apple gives her “plenty of space and time” to train and play with the animals to keep their quality of life top-notch.

STAMFORD -- A five-girl Mongolian contortionist group twisted and bent their bodies on a tight, circular stage, giving a cheering lunchtime audience at Columbus Park a sneak peak into the Big ...

He had recently left Big Apple, and a circus official told her they recognized the seriousness of her allegations, but that there was little they could do. The circus changed hands in early 2017.