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dancers Nowadays, the skill shows that we watch in circus,
musicals were very developed in Ottomans. These skillful people
called as hokkabaz, tasbaz, şadırvanbaz, matrakbaz, zürbaz,
kasebaz, perendebaz, kuklabaz, canbaz. Canbaz means a person
who plays with his life. In the Ottoman state especially the
rope dancing was very developed. |
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showed very interesting exhibitions like sitting cross-legged
on the rope, walking on the rope without a trial balance, showing
their skills by the ropes strained between minarets, walking
on the ropes with knives on their feet, playing some games with
the help of various tools, laying a boiler on the rope and getting
in it, climbing on the obelisks and oily columns. On the wedding
book of Surname-i Humayun of 1582, Nakkaş Osman mentions about
the rope dancers. |
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