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🍒 Miss Lala ☕️

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Miss Lala

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Olga Brown was born in present-day Poland to a African father and European mother. Best known by the stage name "Miss Lala," Brown worked in various circuses across Europe as an expert acrobat. Her death-defying signature act was being suspended from the rafters of the big top by her teeth. This is how Edgar Degas depicted her in his famous 1879 painting "Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando."

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LALA (OLGA) BROWN

The story of Miss LaLa, a 19th-century circus star who could lift three men simultaneously! Miss Lala was an African-Prussian circus artist from Szczecin in present-day Poland, a performer who found fame in Paris in the 1870’s performing trapeze, highwire, strength and other aerial acts.

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Storm In A Teacup

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[gwydionmisha]

The Black Aerialist Who Dazzled Gilded Age Paris

Edgar Degas' oil painting Miss Lala at the Cirque Fernando. A diminutive Black woman hung upside down from a trapeze as two men pushed and shoved a 200 pound cannon to the center of the circus ring. She grasped a chain on the cannon and hung it on a hook held between her teeth. At a signal, she

[thatchainsguy]

Very interesting information about an interesting performer, as well as an interesting act. Did I mention this was interesting?? I'm finding myself drawn to the female performers of old - how they dressed, what they performed, what their careers and publicity looked like. The circus arts are still largely shrouded in mystery, both vintage and modern, and I'm learning it takes an insider to know exactly what's going on both on stage and behind the scenes. I think it's probably better this way, because it supports the tradition by not being widely-disseminated information, and it supports the wonder (and often misinformation) that the general public has about the art.