Culture : All Eyes On Miss La La, Star of the Barber Institute ; Reunited: Degas and Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando Space Versus Surface: Illusionism and Abstraction in Art Barber Institute, Birmingham University

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While the Cirque du Soleil have been delighting Birmingham audiences with their acrobatic skills at Star City, another distinguished circus artist has quietly taken up residence at the Barber Institute.

Miss La La was a 19th century acrobat of mixed European and African parentage who performed all over Europe. In January 1879 she caused a sensation while appearing with her troupe, Kaira, at the Cirque Fernando in Paris.

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Culture : All Eyes On Miss La La, Star of the Barber Institute ; Reunited: Degas and Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando Space Versus Surface: Illusionism and Abstraction in Art Barber Institute, Birmingham University

A month later she would repeat her remarkable performance, which included being suspended high in the air by her teeth, in London. But it was the Paris appearance which was immortalised, because it attr...

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