As it prepares for the 75th-anniversary celebration of the Sailor Circus and its own 27th season of Circus Sarasota, the Circus Arts Conservatory is making a long-planned change in leadership.

According to aerialist Dolly Jacobs, creating a circus act is “like making a cake.” A single performance’s many ingredients—the acrobatics skills, the entrance, the costume, the music, the drama—all ...

“People say I’m an aerialist, but I’m really a juggler,” says Dolly Jacobs of her multitasking life as wife to Circus Arts Conservatory co-founder Pedro Reis, associate director of the conservatory, ...

According to aerialist Dolly Jacobs, creating a circus act is “like making a cake.” A single performance’s many ingredients—the acrobatics skills, the entrance, the costume, the music, the drama—all ...

There hasn’t been much trash talk coming out of the Giants’ locker room this summer, and almost none has been directed across town at the Jets. Maybe that’s just because Brandon Jacobs isn’t in the ...

Earlier this month, the National Endowment for the Arts named Jacobs a National Heritage Fellow. The NEA has been giving the award to a handful of people, usually about a dozen or so, each year since ...