SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. >> Tickets go on sale Monday, May 1 for Circus Smirkus, which has shows scheduled for July 11 and 12 in Saratoga Springs. Shows will be held under the “Big Top Tent” on outdoor ...

Rachel Schiffer is no stranger to the circus. Her grandmother trained as a clown, and her grandfather took her to her first Circus Smirkus show when she was just 7 years old. During the show, Smirkus ...

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Twenty-nine young performers are headed onto the road over the next few days as part of the Circus Smirkus summer tour that this year is going to be based on the theme of newsgathering. The performers ...

While scanning the crowd under a big top tent, Gina Michelin has thought on more than one occasion, “who doesn’t love a circus?” “To look around the crowd and see very young children with much older ...

In the middle of Madonna's Super Bowl halftime show, a man dressed in a Greek toga and shiny, gold knee-high sneakers flies and back flips along a slack line. With shiny lights flashing behind him ...

Circus Smirkus is coming to town, and three of its athletes are from Flying Gravity Circus of Wilton.The shows will take place at Hampshire Hills in Milford July 30 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and July 31 at ...

Cameron Zweir of Holyoke performs with members of the Vermont based Circus Smirkus in 2014. (DAVE ROBACK / THE REPUBLICAN). Cameron Zweir of Holyoke is spending his summer days clowning around before ...

Cameron Zweir of Holyoke at past Circus Smirkus performs "Anchors Away For Atlantis." Sixteen-year-old Cameron Zweir didn't quite run away and join the circus, but he's done the next best thing. For ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Circus Smirkus, the acclaimed international youth circus, will return to Saratoga Race Course on Union Avenue with shows at 7 p.m. Friday and 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.