The black bear named Xiong Xiong could be seen pinning a performer to the ground before colleagues rushed to help break the man free during a show in the city of Huzhou last Tuesday. According to ...

On July 6, 1944, 168 people died when fire broke out at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus performance in Hartford. More than seventy-five years later, five of the victims remain ...

“Sacre,” a performance put on by Circa Contemporary Circus on Feb. 10, provided a unique, modernist perspective on the ways in which Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” can be portrayed both in ...

Miss Penny visits a circus camp to spend a day with a circus coach. Miss Penny visits a circus camp to spend a day with a circus coach. She finds out what a circus coach does, what a circus is, what ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey announced earlier this month that it would "remove" elephants from the circus over the next three years and retire them to the Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant ...

The 7 Fingers ensemble performs "Reversible." (Courtesy Alexandre Galliez/ArtsEmerson) Today’s circuses don’t look like they used to. A contemporary blend of circus and theater surpassed the ...