Circus

Circus is the sixth studio album by American singer Britney Spears. It was released on November 28, through Jive Records. Looking to transition from her.
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Spears commented of the album's title: You're never bored [ And you want to know what's going to happen next. Circus has been described as a sequel to Spears's fifth studio album Blackout. Circus opens with its lead single " Womanizer ". It features synth sirens with a repetitive chorus, [26] and lyrically discusses a cheating man; it was described by Spears as a girl anthem. Critics noted similarities to the works of Madonna [26] as well as Spears's own " Piece of Me ".

It has been compared to musical themes from the s and s, and has been noted as a "pulsating ballad", with the song also drawing comparisons to the "shimmering waterfall mood first popularized by Janet Jackson ". What'd we do last night? Despite its "fun" nature, it was criticized for appearing to "revisit the Lolita persona of " …Baby One More Time ". Circus was initially scheduled to be released worldwide on December 2, , Spears's twenty-seventh birthday. To promote the album, Jive Records set up a hotline where fans could leave a message for Spears, some of which received a return phone call from her.

For the Record on November 30, , documenting her return to her career. The winning story was based on the song " Kill the Lights "; the video premiered on July 27, Midway through the performance of " Human Nature ", Spears joined Madonna on stage. She first revealed the first leg of twenty-five dates in the United States and two in the United Kingdom.

Her longtime manager Larry Rudolph stated that the tour would "blow people's minds and promises to show Britney's fans something they will never forget", [54] later adding, "she goes full-speed the whole show — about an hour and a half. This is a full-blown, full-out Britney Spears show, It is everything everybody expects from her — and more! There were four legs of the tour, visiting North America twice, and others being Europe and Australia.

Fashion designers Dean and Dan Caten created the costumes.

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A giant cylinder screen was set above the stage to showcase videos and backdrops. Effects were provided by Solotech. The setlist was composed generally from her albums In the Zone , Blackout and Circus. In June , Britney announced she would tour Australia for the first time; she was also rumored to tour South America, though her manager Adam Leber denied this despite their efforts to do so. Controversy arose during the Australian leg of the tour after several fans walked out of the performances due to Spears's alleged lip-synching ; such claims were later denied by Spears's management and promoters.

The song was met with positive response from critics, who complimented its hook and empowering lyrics and deemed it as a return of form and a "comeback" single for Spears. The song broke the record for the largest leap to any position. It portrays Spears as a woman who disguises herself in different costumes and follows her boyfriend through his daily activities to expose him in the end.

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The video received positive reviews from critics, but was criticized for featuring "cruelly trained animals", however claims were dismissed. Sharon Dastur of Z stated that Spears had recorded a new version of the song and the new edit would be provided by Jive Records. However, its release was cancelled when Spears began work on Circus , and was instead released as a promotional single in The music video portrays Spears as an aristocrat at a polo mansion involved in a love triangle with two men who are polo players.

Upon its release, Circus received generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of hundred to reviews from mainstream critics, Circus received an average score of sixty-four, based on 22 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Club appreciated that Spears appeared to "put some real effort into her Circus performances", rather than seeming "flat-sounding" as she felt Blackout had. Robert Christgau gave Circus a two-star honorable mention, stating that it was "still fun more often than not".

Alexis Petridis of The Guardian gave a more mixed review, suggesting that Spears "frequently sounds disconnected, even a bit bored" throughout the record, whereas Blackout was a "relentless, risky album made by a woman whose obituary was apparently being prepared by Associated Press. Circus debuted at number one on the US Billboard , with first-week sales of over , copies.

I Did It Again , which spent twenty-three weeks in the top ten in I Did It Again , which sold 95, copies in May In Oceania, the album was a top-ten success, peaking at number three in Australia and number six in New Zealand, and was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association ARIA after three weeks for shipments of 70, units. Despite not being released as singles, several songs from "Circus" appeared on Billboard ' s component charts after the album's release. It stayed on the chart for five weeks.

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None of the animals was injured, Togneri said, and a veterinarian examined and cleared all the animals, including the camel, to return to the arena. It was the 69th year for the Pittsburgh Shrine Circus, an annual event that serves as a fundraiser for the Syria Shriners organization.

Shrine Circus Chairman Paul Leavy told the Associated Press then that the new law meant that the circus would have to become animal-free, leave Pittsburgh or shut down. We hope the Bullhook Plus Ban will be upheld in the future to keep animals and the public safe. Now it must pay. Barnum and William Cameron Coup , who launched the travelling P. Coup also introduced the first multiple ringed circuses, and was also the first circus entrepreneur to use circus trains to transport the circus between towns, a practice that continues today. In , the equestrian Thomas Taplin Cooke returned to England from the United States, bringing with him a circus tent.

William Batty 's circus, for example, between and , travelled from Newcastle to Edinburgh and then to Portsmouth and Southampton. Pablo Fanque , who is noteworthy as Britain's only black circus proprietor and who operated one of the most celebrated travelling circuses in Victorian England, erected temporary structures for his limited engagements or retrofitted existing structures.

Soullier was the first circus owner to introduce Chinese acrobatics to the European circus when he returned from his travels in and Tourniaire was the first to introduce the performing art to Ranga where it became extremely popular. This format was adopted by European circuses at the turn of the 20th century. The influence of the American circus brought about a considerable change in the character of the modern circus. In arenas too large for speech to be easily audible, the traditional comic dialog of the clown assumed a less prominent place than formerly, while the vastly increased wealth of stage properties relegated to the background the old-fashioned equestrian feats, which were replaced by more ambitious acrobatic performances, and by exhibitions of skill, strength and daring, requiring the employment of immense numbers of performers and often of complicated and expensive machinery.

In , Lenin , head of the USSR , expressed a wish for the circus to become 'the people's art-form', with facilities and status on par with theatre, opera and ballet. In , the State University of Circus and Variety Arts, better known as the Moscow Circus School, was established; performers were trained using methods developed from the Soviet gymnastics program. When the Moscow State Circus company began international tours in the s, its levels of originality and artistic skill were widely applauded.

Circuses from China, drawing on Chinese traditions of acrobatics , like the Chinese State Circus are also popular touring acts. The International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo [30] has been held in Monte Carlo since and was the first of many international awards for circus performers.

From the late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, travelling circuses were a major form of spectator entertainment in the US and attracted huge attention whenever they arrived in a city. After World War II, the popularity of the circus declined as new forms of entertainment such as television arrived and the public's tastes became more sophisticated.

From the s onward, circuses attracted growing criticism from animal rights activists. Many circuses went out of business or were forced to merge with other circus companies. Nonetheless, a good number of travelling circuses are still active in various parts of the world, ranging from small family enterprises to three-ring extravaganzas. Other companies found new ways to draw in the public with innovative new approaches to the circus form itself. Contemporary circus originally known as nouveau cirque is a recent performing arts movement that originated in the s in Australia, Canada, France, [31] the West Coast of the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Contemporary circus combines traditional circus skills and theatrical techniques to convey a story or theme. Compared with the traditional circus, the contemporary genre of circus tends to focus more attention on the overall aesthetic impact, on character and story development, and on the use of lighting design , original music, and costume design to convey thematic or narrative content.


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    8. For aesthetic or economic reasons, contemporary circus productions may sometimes be staged in theatres rather than in large outdoor tents. Music used in the production is often composed exclusively for that production, and aesthetic influences are drawn as much from contemporary culture as from circus history. Animal acts appear rarely in contemporary circus in contrast to traditional circus where animal acts have been a significant part of circus entertainment.

    Early examples of nouveau cirque companies include: More recent examples include: Company PURE Cirkus [36] was founded in the subgenre of "cirque noir" in , and in Northern England , United Kingdom , Skewed Circus [37] combines punk, rap, dance music, comedy, and stunts to deliver "pop-circus" entertainment to young urban audiences. A traditional circus performance is often led by a ringmaster who has a role similar to a Master of Ceremonies. The ringmaster presents performers, speaks to the audience, and generally keeps the show moving. The activity of the circus traditionally takes place within a ring; large circuses may have multiple rings, like the six-ringed Moscow State Circus.

    A circus often travels with its own band, whose instrumentation in the United States has traditionally included brass instruments , drums, glockenspiel , and sometimes the distinctive sound of the calliope. Common acts include a variety of acrobatics , gymnastics including tumbling and trampoline , aerial acts such as trapeze , aerial silk , corde lisse , contortion , stilts , and a variety of other routines.

    Juggling is one of the most common acts in a circus; the combination of juggling and gymnastics is called equilibristics and include acts like plate spinning and the rolling globe. Acts like these are some of the most common, and the most traditional. Clowns are common to most circuses and are typically skilled in many circus acts; "clowns getting into the act" is a very familiar theme in any circus. Daredevil stunt acts and sideshow acts are also parts of some circus acts, these activities may include human cannonball , chapeaugraphy , fire eating , breathing , and dancing , knife throwing , magic shows , sword swallowing , or strongman.

    A popular sideshow attraction from the early 19th century was the flea circus , where fleas were attached to props and viewed through a Fresnel lens. A variety of animals have historically been used in acts. While the types of animals used vary from circus to circus, big cats , camels , llamas , elephants , zebras , horses , birds , sea lions , bears , and domestic animals such as cats and dogs are the most common.

    The earliest involvement of animals in circus was just the display of exotic creatures in a menagerie. Going as far back as the early eighteenth century, exotic animals were transported to North America for display, and menageries were a popular form of entertainment. Soon elephants and big cats were displayed as well. Van Amburgh entered a cage with several big cats in , and is generally considered to be the first wild animal trainer in American circus history.

    Animal welfare groups have documented many cases of animal cruelty in the training of performing circus animals. According to PETA, although the US Animal Welfare Act does not permit any sort of punishment that puts the animals in discomfort, [46] trainers will still go against this law and use such things as electric rods and bull hooks. On behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands, Wageningen University conducted an investigation into the welfare of circus animals in Based on these findings, the researchers called for more stringent regulation regarding the welfare of circus animals.

    In , the Dutch government announced a ban on the use of wild circus animals. In testimony in U. District Court in , Ringling Bros. Feld stated that these practices are necessary to protect circus workers.

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    Feld also acknowledged that an elephant trainer was reprimanded for using an electric shock device, known as a hot shot or electric prod, on an elephant, which Feld also stated was appropriate practice. Feld denied that any of these practices harm elephants.

    A year litigation against the Ringling Bros. On February 1, at the Great American Circus in Palm Bay, Florida , an elephant named Janet — February 1, went out of control while giving a ride to a mother, her two children, and three other children. The elephant then stampeded through the circus grounds outside before being shot to death by police. Tyke then bolted from the arena and ran through the streets of Kakaako for more than thirty minutes.