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11. Veronica with her partner- she would catch her partner- "I was a strong girl"- Veronica 12. Trained w/ Jared [F. ] in Champagne, FR some French dude 13. "I had no idea I was a rarity [being African American]"- Veronica 14. VBW did research in Europe because they had book of circus history 15. 2010- Emmanuel Jr. [Ruffin]- CIRCUS SPACE- platform for the circus community 16. [ANKUS] elephant baton- JR's Iconic asset- VBW 17. UNIVERSOUL [[STRIKETHROUGH]] SAUL [[/STRIKETHROUGH]] CIRCUS 18. PAMELA HERNADEZ- first African American circus- VBW's mentor 19. Peter Striker- Pres. of the Museum for circus- only had a drawer of AA circus performers 20. 2011- start of doing documentary of African Americans circus performers 21. Onionhead- signature clown- became a clown at 50 y.o. after his mother died 22. ANNECDOTE- 2006- clyde [Beatty] cat trainer by [[STRIKETHROUGH]] Deborah [[/STRIKETHROUGH]] Janet Ruffin said how the audience would not accept him so he created a persona- Prince [Bogino]- Ethopian prince 23. "Finding Uncle Jr."- most likely the title of the documentary in order to tell the story of Jr., Veronica will need to talk about racism 24. [Kristen Finnely]- trapeze artist- actually in the trapeze 25. Audience mic- ques (00h46m)- why not ask NMAAHC for money 26. Audience mic- ques (00h47m)- curator from Folklife comments about research fellowship what is African Am. about UNIVERSOUL? Robert Houston turned his house CEDRIC WALKER - founder of UNIVERSOUL Circus - wanted to recreate rather than create African American Circus "the aesthestic - street performers - raw energy 1. training with Dolly Jacobs & Norma Fox - old school 2. being artistic in France 3. learned how to perform at UNIVERSOUL 27. Audience mic - ques (00h51m ) - what about the exoticism of the circus [obama] was a really tall woman having the Siamese twins 28. William Henry Johnson - [[STRIKETHROUGH]] bad for [[/STRIKETHROUGH]] thought he had [microsephly] - known as "what is it?" 29. Audience mic - (00h55m) - Dominique ANNECDOTE - Rufin was a great star in Europe - "the color didn't matter" - Dominique hi artistry wasn't acknowledged in the USA 30. VBW wanted/had this great desire to be an artist/performer - not just being African American 31. FRACTURED ATLAS 32. Ending so everyone can go see UNIVERSOUL at the BIG TOP 1:51 - 00h59m - end of session