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June 29-July 4: July 6-9, 2017
Log Sheet #6 
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Audio/ Video Log Sheet 
Logger/videographer: Lorena Ramirez- Lopez
Recorder number (main): CFCH 5
File Name: CIRSTR_0059.wav
Recorder Number (backup): CFCH 6
File Name: CIRST2_0061.wav
Presenter: 
Date/time: 6/30 2:45 
Program: Circus Arts 
Stage: Circus Stories
Group Name: 
Session title: Circus Dreams: Running Away to the Circus
[[2 columned table]]
| Participants | Instrument/Occupation |
| Janet Davis Osborne | | Prof. of Univ. of Texas in Austin |
| Elena Panova | | Russian circus performer/teacher |
| Lavahn Hoh | | Professor at  Univ. of Virginia - history of circus |
| Linda Simon | |College English professor author of "The greatest shows on earth" |

Contents/notes (continue on back):
1. 01h 55m (CIRCSTR_0059) - session begins - 14:51
2. S. - circus college in Moscow - swinging trapeze act
3. Lavahn Hoh - taught only class of history of circus
4. Linda Simon - runaway to join the circus
5. Selena - must be [[strikethrough]] circus [[strikethrough]] privileged to become circus performer, ballet dancer, strong competition - must be selected - you can't runaway
6. in Russia - take test for physical ability
7. Distinctions between USA and Russia - in USA it was more fluid
8. Circus world museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin
9. Janet's anecdote how she "ran away" to the circus - intellectually → way to understand history, book about animals
10. Newspaper stories of people running away