1.   At home, Cirque is seeking to turn this city into the world capital of circus arts.

2.   Conceived as a marriage of circus arts with dance and live classical music, it, too, is now making its way to Manhattan.

3.   For her part, Serreau studied music extensively in her teens, as well as theater, circus arts and acting.

4.   Pendleton, who as co-founder of Pilobolus and director of Momix almost single-handedly brought circus art to dance.

5.   Rosgoscirk proposed a weeklong international competition to demonstrate that Russia was the center of circus art.

6.   The French-Canadian troupe Cirque du Soleil is renowned for conjuring visual magic that fuses dance and the circus arts in scenarios that often carry a mythical and spiritual charge.

7.   The man was Moses Pendleton, who as co-founder of Pilobolus and director of Momix almost single-handedly brought circus art to dance.

8.   Two other veterans of the troupe, Marvin Novogrodski and Walter Ferrero, are also actors specializing in circus art.

9.   Each production is created from scratch, blending circus arts with other artistic genres, enhanced with eccentric costumes, exotic choreographies and sets, and original music.

10.   The Big Apple Circus, established to bring classical European-style circus arts to the United States, now is internationally acclaimed.