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By COLLETTE CAPRARA
FOR THE FREE LANCEâSTAR
With a burst of joyful celebration, the UniverSoul Circus will elicit laughter, dancing and awe from families who take the opportunity to see its world-class performers under its hallmark big-top tent at National Harbor, where it will be featured throughout July.
Now in its 28th year, the UniverSoul Circus mesmerizes audiences as it showcases the talent and skills honed by agile and athletic performers who hail from 14 countries, including Trinidad Tobago, Cuba, Guinea, Mexico, Gabon, Ethiopia, Brazil, Colombia, Guinea and Mongolia. The internationally acclaimed circus was created through the ingenuity, imagination and hard work of its founder Cedric Walker. The uplifting music that runs throughout the showâincluding gospel, Latin, pop, hip-hop and classic R&Bâechoes his earlier career as a music promoter.
Blackall celebrates pivotal role in story of Australia s circus industry with life-size elephant
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Jumbo the elephant, donated by Robert Perry, was transported from Geelong, Victoria to Blackall.
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Perry Bros would go on to become the first circus to circumnavigate Australia
A life-size fibreglass elephant named Jumbo has been erected in Blackall in tribute to the troupe
But for a 12-year-old girl in outback Queensland, that snap decision would end up altering the course of history and put her on the way to arguably becoming the brains behind Australia s circus industry.
It was on the banks of the Barcoo River near Blackall that the Perry Bros Circus started in 1889.