Smiling children with their bellies full of cotton candy clapped as acrobats flew through the air Thursday as the Piccadilly Circus performed at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. Tina Lowe of ...

Children practice circus tricks this summer at youth camps hosted at COCA and at the Circus Harmony acrobat camp at City Museum. Dylan Schwartz, 10, performs a “star-jump” off a trampoline on ...

The circus is hard to categorize and easy to overlook as an art form. But author Duncan Wall decided to take a closer look at circus history —... Whenever I think of the circus (which, admittedly, is ...

As the young acrobats of the Sailor Circus Academy prepare for their annual holiday show, one longtime student is set to dazzle in what will be one of her final performances before she leaves the ...

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