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 ...

Julia Ruth's job takes a lot of strength, a lot of balance, and a surprising amount of physics. She's a circus artist — and has performed her acrobatic Cyr wheel routine around the world. But before ...

Don’t worry about Rachel Salzman’s hands as she spins around the Orpheum Theatre stage during “A Magical Cirque Christmas.” “It’s more likely I’ll injure my toes or my shins,” the Cyr wheel performer ...