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 Big Apple Circus continues through Monday in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center; (888) 541-3750, bigapplecircus.org. ... “We train, we do shows,” he added.

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 ...

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 ...

For them, the circus is a family, a career, and a way of life. In mid-January, one of the most acclaimed circuses on earth, the Big Apple Circus , took down its tents at Manhattan's Lincoln Center ...

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.