Circuba
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Circuba is Cuba
's national circus
and is associated with the Cuban National Circus School founded on June 6, 1968.
Members of the Circuba company have to first complete the normal academic course work required of all Cuban students before they can hope to be accepted for the four-year program of rigorous training in the circus arts
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It consists of about twenty artists, aged between 19 and 30. Twenty-one artists graduated in 1979.
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
's national circus
Circus
A circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...
and is associated with the Cuban National Circus School founded on June 6, 1968.
Members of the Circuba company have to first complete the normal academic course work required of all Cuban students before they can hope to be accepted for the four-year program of rigorous training in the circus arts
Circus skills
Circus skills are a group of pursuits that have been performed as entertainment in circus, sideshow, busking or variety/vaudeville/music hall shows. Most circus skills are still being performed today. Many are also practiced by non-performers as a hobby....
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It consists of about twenty artists, aged between 19 and 30. Twenty-one artists graduated in 1979.
External links
- Video interview of Roberto Pérez Morell on Havana-Cultura
- Havana-Cultura
- http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?&secc=11&c=2&item=3063
- http://listas.cult.cu/pipermail/cubart/2007-August/000055.html
- http://www.circoteatro.it/tesoro_eng.asp