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Article: Join the "Bellobration": this year's circus truly is a clown's delight.(Entertainment)(Demetrius Alexandro Claudio)
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- USA TODAY
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- May 1, 2007
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DEMETRIUS ALEXANDRO CLAUDIO Amadeus Bello Nock, or just plain Bello, is anything but plain. "I never focused on being different," he maintains. "I'm just naturally a different person." And how! For starters, this is first time in the 137-year history of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that a production has been named after a performer.
However, Bello (a seventh-generation member of a Swiss circus dynasty) views his role in The Greatest Show On Earth's "Bellobration" not only as a performer, but as an artist, engineer, and creator--and with good reason. Like his father before him, he designs most of his own equipment, including the uniquely contrived ...