时光飞逝。真不敢相信,从我第一次听说那具有欧洲风格的马戏团来到纽约市中心,已经过去了25年。尽管对于马戏业我向来是个乐观主义者,但我还是曾怀疑这支队伍的经营能否长久,因为这里毕竟是喜新厌旧的纽约。然而,出乎我和美国马戏界的意料,这支新兴的小队伍一开始就在纽约炮台公园成功演出10周,观众达5万人之多。它的存在不仅证明了规模大并不一定是好事,而且还重新赢得了人们在大篷里观看纯粹马戏的兴趣。在随后的几年里,我总是从东海岸的马戏迷那 time flies. I can not believe it, 25 years have passed since I first heard that the European-style circus came to downtown New York City. Although I have always been an optimist in the circus industry, I still doubt whether the team can operate for a long time, after all, because it is a New York-based city. However, contrary to what I and the circus community in the United States expected, this new small squad has been performing successfully in New York Battery Park for 10 weeks with a crowd of 50,000. Its existence not only proved that large-scale is not necessarily a good thing, but also regained the interest of people watching pure circus in the big cape. In the ensuing years, I was always a fan of the circus on the east coast