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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