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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sweltering rays of heat greeted me as I took the first step out of my car toward the radiant red and yellow tent that awaited me. Automatically upon arrival, my entire body was cooled down by Power ...