Circus skills are a group of pursuits that have been used as a form of entertainment in circus, sideshow, busking or variety/vaudeville/music hall shows. Most circus skills are still being performed today; additionally, many are practiced by non-performers as a hobby.
Alphabetical list of circus skills
- Acrobalance
- Acrobatics
- Acro dance
- Adagio
- Aerial hoop (lyra, cerceaux)
- Aerial silk (tissu, fabric, ribbon, silks, aerial contortion)
- Aerial straps
- Animal training
- Artistic cycling
- Balancing
- Banquine
- Buffoonery
- Bullwhip
- Bungee trapeze
- Chinese pole
- Chair balancing
- Cigar box (juggling)
- Cloud swing (Mexican cloud swing)
- Clowning
- Contact juggling
- Contortion
- Corde lisse (vertical rope, smooth rope)
- Cradle
- Cyr wheel (roue Cyr)
- Danish pole
- Devil sticks
- Diabolo
- Electric act
- Fire dancing (fire twirling, fire spinning, fire manipulation)
- Flag spinning
- Flying trapeze
- Freestanding ladder
- German wheel (Rhönrad, gym wheel)
- Globe of death
- Gyro Rings
- Hair hang (hair suspension, hair hanging)
- Handbalancing (équilibre)
- Hand walking
- Hat manipulation
- Hoop diving
- Hula hoop (hooping)
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Categorization of circus skills
Circus schools and instructors have developed a variety of pedagogical classification systems for circus skills. Systems that have attempted to formally organize circus skills into pragmatic teaching groupings include the Gurevich system (the basis of the Russian Circus School's curriculum) and the Hovey Burgess system.
Alphabetical list of circus and sideshow attractions
Categories: Circus skills | Busking
