Growing up in Vermont, seeing the circus was about as exotic as things could get. Full of picturesque towns and white churches and winding dirt roads and apple orchards, Vermont is pretty much the ...

It was early Sunday morning when I learned the news that stunned me. The circus that I had spent my Sarasota childhood surrounded by was folding its figurative tents permanently. I was shocked and ...

I hovered 30 feet off the ground, trying not to look down, a long loop of fabric my only support. How did I get here? My heart rate increased before I went to complete the drop—the most complicated ...

If January brought a shiver, February brings a smile. Not because of the weather, but because January in Birmingham means the circus is in town. And February - TGI February-- means it is gone. It's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cincinnati Circus Co. performer Stella Dionysiou performs on the "Spanish Web" at the Winter Blitz Indoor Carnival & Thrill Show ...

As I work to create this commentary for you I am comfortably seated in my room on the Autotrain speeding northward from Sanford, Fla. to the Autotrain station in Loreton, Va. My circus music ...

A costume designer at the Flying Fruit Fly Circus in Albury-Wodonga, she had brought me along to work with her. While she got busy, I started playing on the trapeze. “Would you like to audition?” one ...