This year marks 250 years since the start of modern circus. It was in 1768 that Philip Astley began his circus entertainment in Waterloo in London. To celebrate, this new feature series has circus ...

Meet a physicist who ran away to join the circus. In a recent presentation, circus performer Julia Ruth played a reel of clips from her acts, which featured her spinning on a rope hanging from the ...

Sophie Bohlsen spun 3,399 times in a Cyr wheel for 1 hour 3 seconds, breaking the world record at Melbourne's circus arts ...