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Circus skills
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Circus skills are a group of pursuits that were traditionally used as a form of entertainment in circus, sideshow, busking or variety/vaudeville/music hall shows. While most circus skills are still being performed today, many are practiced by non-performers as a hobby.
Many pedagogies or classification systems exist for circus skills. Virtually every circus school in the world - and to a lesser extent every circus arts teacher in the world - has, over time, developed their own pedagogies for teaching circus arts. While most of these pedagogies evolved to fit the needs, strengths and teaching styles of the individual school or teacher, some pedagogies evolved from more pragmatic approaches, with categories being based more on objectively defined criteria, and less on how the individual school or teacher approaches the teaching of the skills.
- Acrobalance
- acrobatics
- adagio
- Aerial Hoop (Lyra, circeaux)
- Animal training
- Artistic cycling
- Balancing
- Banquine
- Bearded Lady
- Bed of nails
- Blade box
- Buffoonery
- Bullwhip
- Bungee trapeze
- Casting
- Chinese poles
- Cigar box (juggling)
- Cloud swing (Mexican cloud swing)
- Clowning
- Flag Spinning
- Contact juggling
- Contortion
- Corde lisse (vertical rope, smooth rope)
- Cradle
- Danish pole
- Devilstick
- Diabolo
- Electric act
- Fat lady
- Fire breathing
- Fire dancing
- Fire eater
- Fire-twirling
- Flea circus
- Flying trapeze
- Free standing ladder
- Freak show
- German Wheel (Rhonrad, Gym Wheel)
- Glass eating
- Glass walking
- Globe of death
- Group pyramids
- Gurner
- Hair Hang (Hair suspension, hairhang, hair hanging)
- Handstand
- Hand walking
- Hat manipulation
- Heshe
- Hoop diving
- Hula hoop and other hoop spinning
- Human blockhead
- Human cannonball
- Icarian Games
- Impalement arts
- Knife throwing
- Iron tongue
- Jitter rings
- Juggling (balls, clubs, rings, etc)
- Jump Rope / Double Dutch
- Lasso
- Magic acts
- Mental flossing
- Midgets
- Mime
- Multiple trapeze
- Museum
- Parkour
- Pedal go
- Perch (Equilibristic)
- Physical comedy
- Pickled punks
- Piercing acts
- Plate spinning
- Poi Swinging
- Powertrack / Tumbletrak
- Puppetry
- Rebound straps
- Rola Bola
- Rolling globe
- Roman Ladders
- Russian bar
- Russian swing
- Shaker Cup Manipulation
- Silks (tissues)
- Snake charmer
- Spanish web
- Springboard
- Stage combat
- Static trapeze
- Stilt walking
- Strongman
- Suspension act (AKA Hook Hang act)
- Sword swallowing
- Teeterboard/Korean Plank
- Tight-rope (tight or slack rope walking)
- Trampoline
- Trapeze
- Trick riding
- Tumbling
- Unbreakable hands
- Unicycle
- Ventriloquism
- Voltge
- Wire (harness)
- Wheel of Death