By Duncan Wall
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When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a school scholar in Paris, every thing approximately it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobats making a song Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—hooked him. quickly he was once attending circuses or 3 nights every week, and shortly after that, he entered the intensively aggressive education application at France’s École Nationale des Arts du Cirque. The traditional Acrobat is a paranormal, humorous, occasionally frightening tale of what occurs whilst one typical American joins a bunch of gifted—and flexible—international scholars in a rigorous routine of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Brimming with surprises, oversized personalities, and lots of appeal, this own historical past of ways the circus advanced into the exciting adventure it really is at the present time grants the entire pleasure and enjoyment of the circus ring itself.
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