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Quincy House resident Jack M. Marsh ’06 could probably tell you a lot about concentrating in economics, growing up in New York City—and starring under the big top as a bona fide circus performer. Since the age of two, Marsh has trained as an acrobat and juggler in Circus Flora, a one-ring circus production operating out of St. Louis...
...Marsh is a seasoned performer, and a member of what he calls the “inner world” of circus performance (and no, that doesn’t mean he hangs out with bearded ladies and ape boys...
Marsh’s mother, Circus Flora’s co-founder and artistic director, immediately immersed her son in the “totally different lifestyle” of circus performance, says Marsh. By 7, he regularly starred in his own juggling and tumbling act. And, adds Marsh’s mom, “by the time he was 11, he was juggling fire and under the mentorship of Hovey, the juggling master...
...This is Harvard,” Nowinski said. “We can’t bring out the full circus. You have to have a little respect...
...buffoons, jesters, jugglers, acrobats and clowns. At least, that's the premise of The Grand Parade, Portrait of the Artist as Clown at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (March 11-May 31). With 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures, film clips and installations, the show covers two centuries of this circus lineup, as envisioned by 83 artists including Goya, Ensor, Klee, Beckmann, Dix, Picasso, Bonnard, Hopper, Freud, Robert Capa and Diane Arbus. It's a perilous leap from Chardin's delightful The Monkey Painter and Toulouse-Lautrec's bitter yellow La Clownesse Cha-U-Kao to video artist Pierrick Sorin...