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Next I met with two of the contortionists from the show.

The parties featured such amusements as a limbo contest and professional contortionists.

I comment on a cute dog, and the Explore page offers circus contortionists.

You'll get contortionists, aerialists, jugglers and plenty of other circus mainstays — and no scary clowns.

Another features Chinese acrobat contortionists who pop joints and run their bodies through tennis rackets.

Out of total fairness, we sure hope these contortionists switch roles every now and then.

My friends and I are going to a drop-in life drawing class that promises contortionists.

Then I started researching contortionism and contortionists and digging deeper into the twisting and bending of the body.

Instead, the director lets his acrobats, divers and contortionists showcase their skills and then molds the story around their talents.

He grew up listening to Gorillaz—themselves genre-contortionists—alongside all forms of rap, as well as metal and emo.

Adam Schwarz spent the better part of a decade establishing himself as one of the best contortionists of East coast club music.

There's this fetishization when an audience sees a female body bending; if you Google "women contortionists" you'll see a lot of pornography.

Don't miss the spectacular Friday night Bazaar when dinner is served along with a decadent performance show featuring fire dancers, contortionists, and acrobats.

Other works feature human pincushions, contortionists, a young boy clutching a toy hand grenade and people with tattoos covering every inch of their skin.

If we were talking about weight-lifters or contortionists, it would be simple—and your stylised bell-curve diagram would be the whole story.

As the bassist and electronics wrangler for the Baltimore band of rhythmic contortionists Horse Lords, Max Eilbacher does his share of limber, legible instrumental work.

Many contortionists, acrobats, and clowns come from families that have worked in the three rings for generations; all have honed skills only useful to the circus.

Keep a sharp eye out for cameos from A$APs Rocky, Illz, and Ant, Flatbush Zombies, Black Dave, Krondon, a team of talented contortionists, and more.

Most 300-pound men running at top speed and about to make a tackle are not as nimble as contortionists as they topple to the ground afterward.

" On Wednesday evening's episode, audiences will see a variation "talents" performed in hopes of taking away the first place tiara, including "great contortionists, lovely singers and great dancers.

Along with the acrobats, contortionists, jugglers and animal acts, guest celebrities also appeared with the circus at its famed arena and sometimes in shows under the Eiffel Tower.

Then, navigating through a clutter of contortionists and tightrope walkers, the group makes its way to the trapeze, which hangs nearly 20 feet above a generous lattice of ropes.

A handful of tiny contortionists dressed in reptilian catsuits — literally a handful, since they perform on a giant mechanical hand — pretzel their entwined bodies into beautiful lotus-like shapes.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nepal's first contemporary circus is not just remarkable for its gravity-defying acts, but for its artists - the contortionists, aerialists and jugglers are former child slaves.

Although the backdrop is awesome to see in La Verità, the show also has plenty of gasp-inducing feats by the acrobats, contortionists, and aerialists who move over its stage.

It was Dame Vivienne Westwood, who filled her runway with rappers, dancers, contortionists and clowns, and stuck garbage to her models to make a point about climate change and recycling.

Over the course of about 52003 minutes, they will present a show that's simultaneously a world music concert, a dance performance and a one-ring circus, whose highlights include acrobats and contortionists.

Working most recently as Cirque du Soleil's director of performance medicine, Mellette led 20 sports medicine teams assisting 1,300 athletes, including Mongolian contortionists, South American aerialists, Scandinavian tumblers and Chinese martial arts experts.

The warped vocal sampling and body-heaving kick drums of the London bass contortionists Born Dirty's "Daddy," for example, mostly just feel reminiscent of the barbeque-ready jams of the Dirtybird stable (for whom Born Dirty has also released).

Terence Hannum—the Baltimore based musician and visual artist—may be best known as one-third of the experimental metal contortionists in Locrian, but his work outside that band over the last few years has offered a steady stream more quiet, contemplative pleasures.

Of course, for this French Canadian entertainment behemoth — this production is its 35th since 1984 — the basics are elaborate: a dazzling parade of acrobats and gymnasts, jelly-limbed contortionists, singers warbling in indecipherable tongues and sets that swamp those of most Broadway shows.

The last model had barely stepped off the runway when a troupe of acrobats and contortionists came spinning down ropes from high above the crowd, turning attention from the collection to the grand finale: an energetic performance by the band The Chainsmokers.

Take his EP Testigo for example—released this August by fellow dancefloor contortionists N.A.A.F.I.—he offers five tracks that take the component parts of contemporary electronic music (the scuffed synth work, stomach-churning sub bass) and present them in a format that feels non-linear, otherworldly, and imagistic.

I think subconsciously that is why I was gravitating towards these images of contortionists, because I would feel that [pain], and ultimately, within all of my work there's this sense of repair and mending, of mending this colonial wound, of being othered [as] a refugee-cum-immigrant, and having to survive those extreme places.

Since 2014, Scott McNiece and David Allen have quickly developed the imprint as a refuge for curious listeners of all stripes, releasing, as you might expect, bleating and unpredictable jazz pieces, but also all sorts of other elastic experimenters—from droney composers to arty rock contortionists to cumbia revisionists and a whole lot of others too.

But it also has plenty to appeal to die-hard Cirque fans: contortionists, jugglers, trapeze artists and tumblers; trampolines and teeterboards; banquine (human pyramids) and hand to hand (partner acrobatics on the floor) and hand to trapeze (a woman travels between a male porter on the ground and one on a trapeze, representing the love triangle).

Mr. Valenz said he has performed on the subways, worked as a New York City parking ticket agent and delivered packages part time for U.P.S. Near him backstage during a rehearsal on Thursday, two contortionists — Jonathan Nosan, 49, of Hell's Kitchen, and Anna Venizelos, from the Upper West Side — limbered up by doing handstands, with their feet dangling over their head in a C shape.

This is a Marinelli bend in which the contortionist performs a Marinelli position with two other contortionists on their top so that the one in Marinelli bend is holding the weight of three persons only by their mouth. From all available documented records only one trio of contortionists have managed to do achieve it.

Designed in 2014 for Couples Cruise, Fantasy is an exotic interpretation on all that is sensual & erotic. This variety style show features contortionists, acro balancers, aerialists in acts that focus on the human experiences of love & lust.

Circurious is a cast of jugglers, singers, contortionists, singers, and dancers, which perform in various places in the United States, started in August 2008. They have been featured on several television shows such as Good Morning America, David Letterman, MTV, ESPN, and the New Year's Eve Party in Times Square. The acts include aerialists and acrobats, athletic performers, contortionists and other acts like singing and dancing. Herald Review, Circurious strives to be ultimate variety show, by Jim Vorel, Oct 31, 2013Southern Maryland News, Forty-Eight Hours of Non-Stop Fun, March 20, 2013trademarkia.

The series featured contortionists painted into a teapot, cup and saucer, and mug and cupcake. In July 2015, Fay was commissioned by UK Shark Week to create artwork featuring diver, Tom Daley, painted into a shark to raise awareness of ocean conservation.

This contortionist has used a frontbend to fit himself in this small trunk A frontbend is a contortion position where the body is curved forward at the hips and spine. In an extreme frontbend, some contortionists can place the backs of their knees behind their shoulders.

Actor Ed Harris auditioned twice in 1981 for the role of John Glenn. Originally, Kaufman wanted to use a troupe of contortionists to portray the press corps, but settled on the improvisational comedy troupe Fratelli Bologna, known for its sponsorship of "St. Stupid's Day" in San Francisco.Williams, Christian.

Conditions inside the house were similarly deranged. The "butler" was one of the contortionists, acrobats, midgets or other show-business people whom Joe had picked up his years in Vaudeville. Poor Mrs. Cook lived bravely in this cuckooland and struggled apologetically to bring some degree of common sense into the madhouse.

Lilia Stepanova (born 29 July 1987) is a contortionist. She was born in Chişinău, Moldova, to parents who were also contortionists. She started training with her mother at the age of five. , Stepanova is living in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she is known for performing at many NBA halftime shows.

It was staged in a tent with 1,600 seats at the Los Angeles State Historic Park . This first show was titled Beneath. It featured fire breathers, a nightmarish clown on stilts, contortionists and burlesque dancers. Bourque played the lead role as Death as he welcomed the audience into his gothic underworld.

Circus Kaput is an intimate theatrical circus based in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, that benefits non-profit social causes. It was started by Josh Routh in 2003. OMG JoshCircus Kaput performances have different type of acts: street performance, classic circus, dance, and comedy. Acts include: contortionists, jugglers, clowns, and aerialists.

The book is illustrated with numerous monochrome photographs of yoga pioneers, asanas, and historic images which set modern yoga in its context. There are images of Indian fakirs, Western contortionists, bodybuilders in the physical culture tradition, and pioneers of modern asana-based yoga such as Krishnamacharya and B. K. S. Iyengar.

For example, the Nicholas Brothers used leaps and flips in their tap dance routines in the early 1930s at the Cotton Club. Flash dancers, who toured with big bands in the United States in the early twentieth century, performed acrobatic dances, often matched with tap dancers and contortionists in traveling shows.

Contortionist performing Contortionist Maria Efremkina performing in 2010. Contortion (sometimes contortionism) is a performance art in which performers called contortionists showcase their skills of extreme physical flexibility. Contortion acts often accompany acrobatics, circus acts, street performers and other live performing arts. Contortion acts are typically performed in front of a live audience.

In 2014, Fay created a series of animal-based artworks that are collectively known as The Marvels of Nature. The artworks combine her body painting technique with the physical practice of contortionism“Bodypainted contortionists – in pictures”, ‘’The Guardian’’, London, 12 November 2014. Retrieved on 10 March 2017. and explore the idea of evolution.

"Iverem, Esther. UniverSoul's Big Top Circus; Alligators and Contortionists And Lots of Notorious F.U.N., The Washington Post, July 4, 1998. Among the many gators he has wrestled in his career have been such scaly opponents as Jumpy, Bubba, and Suitcase. The venues he has wrestled his gators in have included the "Water Chamber of Doom.

Chinges is a performer and acrobat at Mongolian National Circus. Besides his professional career, Chinges appeared on "No Right to Die – Chinggis Khaan" in 2008, and "Above All /in mongolian: Бүхнээс дээгүүр" in 2017 Chinges will be performing at Cirque Phenix (Paris) in November 2019 among Mongolian jugglers, contortionists, acrobats, clowns, musicians, dancers and singers.

Through a series of surgeries, Rag Doll had his biological joints replaced with artificial ones. These joints allow him to bend, compress, and contort in ways even master contortionists cannot. Rag Doll requires a special emollient to keep his artificial joints from tearing through his skin. He often wields a knife and is an adequate hand-to-hand fighter.

In The Sunday Times, Stephen Armstrong writes: "Burlesque is striding into the mainstream, heels high, arms akimbo and nipple-tasselled chest thrust firmly forward. Although new burlesque started in America, it has been embraced with more fervour over here. La Soirée, for instance, brings together contortionists, male pole dancers, acrobats and comedy."Armstrong, Stephen (28 November 2010).

Cirque Calder is an artistic rendering of a circus created by the American artist Alexander Calder. It involves wire models rigged to perform the various functions of the circus performers they represent, from contortionists to sword eaters to lion tamers. The models are made of various items, generally wire and wood. Calder began improvising performances of this circus during his time in Paris.

Smith was born and raised in Meridian, Mississippi, United States. He has one sister and one brother. He was inspired by contortionists since the age of four, giving him the dream of becoming the world's best one. At this time, Daniel began to jump off the top bunk bed and land in a straddle split, much to the amazement of his family.

Retrieved January 4, 2010. Performers in Lucent's theatrical spectacles include singers, musicians, acrobats, aerial artists, stilt walkers, fire dancers, tribal belly dancers, a wide variety of other dancers (hip hop, burlesque, and Tahitian), spoken word poets, clowns, contortionists, elves, a bearded lady, a snake charmer/dancer, jugglers, and a sword swallower.Jenny Block. "Playing Off the Grid and Catching Lightning in a Bottle" HUFFINGTON POST.

As well as Doc, The Circus Insane larger shows feature guest artists. aerialists and contortionists from the world of circus. In 2008 a small UK theatre tour was advertised, however the show was deemed too extreme by venue owners and consequently banned just before the tour was due to start. The line up advertised for that tour featured ex-Sex Pistol and Tenpole Tudor frontman Edward Tudor-Pole.

There were contortionists, a DJ booth, as well as free food and drink for the assembled crowd. The event was to have been sponsored by American Express, however they backed out at the last moment failing to come to terms regarding ArtRave's production. Gaga performed a concert which was streamed live on Vevo and later rebroadcast through the website's syndication partners. The set list consisted of songs from Artpop.

Scot Nery's Boobie Trap is a long-running weekly live performance variety arts show in Hollywood, California. Performances are every Wednesday, featuring an average of 15 acts each week, with much adult content. Performers include musicians, ventriloquists, comedians, knife throwers, dancers, Magic Castle magicians, jugglers, acrobats and contortionists, circus acts, and other variety entertainers. Nery founded the show in 2015, and it is co-produced by Meranda Carter.

The film was made at Heller's request. Heller explains in the film that he sent several colleagues throughout India to find performers for the show, including dancers, musicians, contortionists, and magicians. About 10,000 performers were located, and of these about 2,000 were chosen to appear in the show, which lasted several hours on a single day. Herzog's footage was filmed at the actual show, with some segments filmed in the rehearsals in the previous days.

Ernestine Rosa Cooke – Weir Collection George Ernest Cooke – Weir Collection Thomas Cooke was born in 1752. He founded Cooke's Circus around 1780 which was in Ayrshire in 1784 as a travelling show seen at Mauchline by Robert Burns. Cooke's Circus travelled around cities and large towns in England and Scotland, specialising in equestrian acts, acrobats, strongmen and contortionists, many of whom were from Cooke's extended family. They were one of the more famous "circus families".

In circus shows such as Le Rêve or Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, hand to hand acrobatics have featured as an important part of the show. Often the circus will recruit gymnasts from sports such as acrobatic gymnastics because hand to hand acrobatics is such a big part of that sport. Hand to hand acrobatics also appears within other disciplines in the circus arts. Aerialists, trapeze flyers, and contortionists often use hand to hand acrobatics.

This is a Marinelli bend in which the contortionist performs a Marinelli position with another contortionist doing a handstand on their top so that the former is holding the weight of two persons only by their mouth. This is considered to be an extremely difficult contortion act, and is exclusively performed by Mongolian or sometimes Chinese contortionists. The bend normally lasts for 5–6 seconds from the moment the Marinelli bend contortionist releases their hands from the floor.

The song's music video, directed by Piper Ferguson, depicts the band performing "Burn" in a circus setting accompanied by acrobats, contortionists, and other performers. As the song progresses fire is introduced into the performers' acts, and they dance and perform amidst the flames. Bassist Dan Andriano is depicted playing a double bass, though the song is actually performed using a standard bass guitar, and drummer Derek Grant is depicted playing a makeshift drum kit composed of pots, pans, and other objects.

The song may be most familiar as the title theme of My Man Godfrey (1936), and as the music orchestrating Corleone family consigliere Tom Hagen's flight to Los Angeles in the 1972 classic The Godfather. Scott Bradley based his score for Mouse in Manhattan (a Tom and Jerry cartoon released in 1945) on this tune. Also featured in Vertigo when John 'Scottie' Ferguson is dancing with Judy. Also featured in 1940 musical Broadway Rhythm to back a routine by dancers/contortionists the Ross Sisters.

From 2004 to 2010, Juliano taught art at the Music and Arts Center for Humanity in Bridgeport, Connecticut and the 21st century in Orange, Connecticut. Tony Juliano's artwork has been in magazines and books such as Direct Art, Juxtapoz, ISM quarterly, Art Buzz, and The Book of SPAM. In 2007, Juliano started producing, Forgot to Laugh: Sideshow and Animation Festival. A combination of live circus performances that include fire acts, world ranked yo-yo performers, magicians, contortionists, burlesque, knife throwers, sword swallowers and other acts.

Global Winter Wonderland features large lantern replicas of a selection of the world's most famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, China's Temple of Heaven, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and many more! The festival also features The Circus of Light with various circus acts from around the world. This performance incorporates multiple cultures showcasing their talents and entertainment. World famous flying acrobats, jugglers, fire dancers and contortionists are just a few of the acts featured in Global Winter Wonderlands Circus of Light.

Big Dipper are an American indie rock band who formed in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in 1985 by former members of Volcano Suns and the Embarrassment.Strong, Martin C: "The Great Alternative & Indie Discography", 1999, Canongate, They released four studio albums between 1987 and 1990, before splitting up. The band reunited in 2008. They were described in a New York Times article as "musical contortionists: they love to toy with extremes, juxtaposing ferocious guitar noise with celestial vocal harmonies or planting a delicate melody in jagged rhythm".

As a teenager, Ralph Dibny was fascinated by contortionists, or people who displayed feats of agility and suppleness. He learned that all of the body- benders he spoke with drank a popular soda called "Gingold". Ralph set to work learning chemistry and developed a super-concentrated extract of the rare "gingo" fruit of the Yucatan, which gave him his elasticity. In his first appearance, the Flash suspects the Elongated Man is behind several crimes, but the Elongated Man helps capture the criminals, who reveal they used a helicopter to frame him.

Each monthly Hubba Hubba Revue show at DNA Lounge has a different theme, reflected in the burlesque acts, the opening skit, the go-go dancers' costumes and the flyer art. The rotating cast of characters includes female and male burlesque performers, as well as acrobats, aerialists, comedians, contortionists, magicians, vocalists, and other such variety performers. Although many of the acts are from the San Francisco Bay Area, a large and growing number of visiting performers from cities across the country and around the world have performed with Hubba Hubba Revue shows.

Wanderlust Circus is a theatrical circus troupe based in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2006 by creative partners Noah Mickens and Nick "The Creature" Harbar. Since 2006, Wanderlust Circus has grown from a small band of creatives to a full-fledged circus troupe, and non-profit organization. The organization presently comprises a team of acrobats, a 10-piece swing band, a trick-roping cowboy clown; and several aerialists, contortionists, hand balancers, jugglers, and dancers. Their most popular recurring shows have been The White Album Christmas, A Circus Carol, and the dance party series MegaBounce.

There are times when aerialists and contortionists perform alone, but when performing in pairs or groups, simple hand to hand acrobatics is often incorporated. For example, this may involve one person hanging from a hoop or curtain while holding another person in the air below them. In the case of trapeze artists, many of the throws and catches are hand to hand grabs, and handstands are often performed between throws to not only show strength but to give the flyer a short amount of time to collect themselves before being thrown across the stage again.

Throughout the video, there are interspersed scenes of different circus performers, including ribbon dancers, contortionists, clowns and a mime on stilts. There are also scenes of Spears singing with the top hat, wearing a nude body stocking in front of a red curtain, with a spotlight on her. This is followed by a group dance scene in the middle of a circus ring, where Spears wears the ringmaster jacket, sequined hot pants and a feathered top hat. In the second verse, she dances with a chair and a whip wearing a nude bra covered in leaves.

In an abandoned parking lot in a Rio de Janeiro favela sits a circus tent—an incongruous sight, but no more unusual than its motley crew of young performers, searching for a life apart from the drug-related violence around them. As chronicled by first-time feature filmmaker Kelly J Richardson, putting on a show takes rigor and resourcefulness in their impoverished community, and even this modest production of acrobats and contortionists isn't free of injuries and ego clashes. But the big top is their oasis, and the human drama of hope and ambition the greatest show on earth.

Booth babe wearing a spandex costume at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Spandex fetishism is a fetishistic attraction to people wearing any forms of a fitting stretch fabric or to the wearing of items of clothing made of such material. Spandex garments are often worn by swimmers, ballet dancers, wrestlers, rowers, cyclists, contortionists and circus performers, and spandex fetishists may incorporate fantasies about these activities into their particular fetish. Spandex Zentai suit One reason spandex and other tight fabrics may be fetishized is that the garment forms a "second skin", acting as a surrogate for the wearer's own skin.

These kinds of feats were pressuring those within the circuses and traveling show environments to explore new and exciting ways to bring the audiences back to the round. Side shows provided the audiences with curious fascination or “human oddities” dwarves, giants, bearded ladies, Siamese twins and other unusual acts of which included contortionists and strongmen. One of Allissa's and Otto's acts was titled "The Russian Doll", a performance in which Otto presented a life scaled, three tiered Russian doll on stage and juggled the set to have finally revealed his wife contorted within the smallest of the dolls. After the success of this performance the pair were keen to develop their skills further.

Talentadong Pinoy (also known as Bangon Talentadong Pinoy, for its eighth season) is a Philippine reality talent show broadcast by TV5. Hosted initially by Ryan Agoncillo in its first five seasons, within exception of seasons 6 and 7, the show is handled formerly by Robin Padilla and Mariel Rodriguez, it displays performances from singers, dancers, actors, musicians and comedians, to contortionists, impressionists, jugglers, ventriloquists and magicians. Contestants are allowed to perform any act they want. One difference to the Got Talent series is that the judges give their opinions on the performance of the performer and grades only 50% of the final score while the jury also grades 50% of the score to determine the winner.

Her great grandparents 'Loch & Lomond' were renowned Variety and Vaudevillian performers, as were her grandparents who met whilst performing for the judges and diplomats at the Nuremberg War Trials (introduced by their mutual agent and her godfather - the late Lord Lew Grade ). Siobhan's grandmother was the last remaining captain of the Bluebell girls - the high kicking can can troupe who danced her way from Ireland around Europe and South America in the 20's and 30's, working with Mistinguett, Josephine Baker Maurice Chevalier and Jacques Tati. Her Grandfather, was a celebrated knock about comic whose act involved multiple back flips off walls. Her Great Aunt's Karina and sister the world famous Eve - were renowned contortionists.

The Times They Are a-Changin' is a dance musical featuring the songs of Bob Dylan, conceived, directed and choreographed by Twyla Tharp. The show takes place in a setting described as "somewhere between awake and asleep," a dreamlike circus environment in which a coming-of-age conflict between a tyrannical circus master, Captain Ahrab, his idealistic son, Coyote, and a circus performer, Cleo, is told among a choreographed world of clowns, contortionists and Big Tops. Premiering in San Francisco in February 2006, the show eventually moved to Broadway, opening on October 26, 2006. The show received uniformly negative reviews, and closed on November 19, 2006 after 35 previews and 28 performances.

In between her spread legs, Koons' characteristic blue gazing ball was placed; the statue was photographed and used in the album cover design for Artpop. Between the stage and the Gaga sculpture stood four other statues created by Koons In flagrante delicto, as well as the open bars where contortionists performed their intricate moves. The area was surrounded by large video screens which displayed Gaga's work with Abramović (showing the singer stumbling through a forest naked), Inez and Vinoodh, as well as with Wilson. Adjacent to the main space, there was a side area which featured an art installation called Binary Room, by artist Benjamin Rollins Caldwell, consisting of a room with all the furniture and flooring made up of old computer parts.

The Langrishe Company's benefit performance October 14, 1876 donated receipts totaling over $73 to Deadwood's hospital kitty. Calamity Jane would appear at the Langrishe Theatre in 1876 along with noted attractions such as Jenny Lind Burlesque. Legitimate Deadwood actors and actresses, Fanny B. Price, Augusta Chambers, Belle Gilbert, Jim Gilbert, Frank Perkins, Jimmy J.M. Martin, W. J. Gross, Viola Porter, J.P. Clark and Emma Whittle performed nightly to packed houses while other forms of Deadwood entertainment and amusement drew equally large variety audiences at the Gem and Bella Union Theatres where Negro Minstrels, Clog Dancers, Acrobats, Child Contortionists, Double Trapeze, Brass Bands and Serio-comic Song and Character Sketch Artists Charles Vincent and Georgie Morrell Vincent were at the top of the bill.

In 1945, at the end of the conflict, Alberti immediately resumes his artistic activity: in that same year he participates in a collective exhibition at the Trieste art gallery, and in 1946, only a year later, at the first exhibition of National League art, in the same gallery. Also in 1946, he moves with his wife to an attic in via Crispi, which will become his new studio. Year 1948 sees him participating, with three sculptures ('Deposition', 'Saint George fighting the dragon', and the 'Lamentation of Women') in the II Giuliana Sacred Art Exhibition. Subsequently, other appearances of his works will follow at exhibitions on a religious theme, also internationally. In addition to the animal-themed chalks and bronzes, the artist, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, devoted himself to the representation of acrobats and contortionists.

The steamboat Frolic entertained visitors at Manhattan Beach after the park was rebuilt (in 1908) as Luna Park. Manhattan Beach was a former amusement park in Denver, USA, (1881-1914). It was built near Denver on the shore of Sloan's Lake in Edgewater, Colorado, and was the first amusement park created west of the Mississippi River.A Brief History of Sloan's Lake - Sloan's Century Open to the public for the first time on 27 June 1881,Pam Grout, Colorado Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Globe Pequot 2006) it had a roller coaster, a dance hall, a Ferris wheel, boating attractions, hot air balloon rides, wrestling bears, contortionists, aerial acts (including a human cannonball), a man who walked on ceilings, and exhibits displaying more than 40 species of animals, but its primary draw was Roger the Elephant (real name: Rajah), who was a popular children's ride.