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...George Gershwin and John Philip Sousa. He choreographed dances for Hollywood movies (notably the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue sequence in On Your Toes, 1936) and Broadway musicals (including The Boys from Syracuse, 1938). He even famously devised a polka for the elephants in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Balancing Balanchine | 3/26/2004 | See Source »

...When I was little, I had nothing to do but practice,” Marsh says. Apparently, idle children make for great circus sideshows...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flipping Out | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

Marsh did his best to turn in papers and finish assignments in high school, but minor technicalities like calculus homework couldn’t stifle his blossoming circus career...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flipping Out | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

Most of Marsh’s friends and blockmates know about his forays into the “oftentimes embarrassing” world of the circus, but he’s not one to gloat. Modesty kept him from telling his freshman year roommate, who only discovered Jack’s talents after Googling him. “That was kind of weird,” says Marsh...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flipping Out | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

...Jack is rightly proud of his circus career, though he’s a tad embarrassed by some of his costumes. “I do a tumbling and juggling act with kids from the inner-city,” says Jack. As part of this act, Jack sports a leotard and a sequined do-rag. “It looks good on the kids,” he says, “but I just look ridiculous...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flipping Out | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

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