{"id":221960,"date":"2025-11-11T16:35:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/?p=221960"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:35:52","slug":"this-wild-arkansas-circus-has-deep-roots-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/articles\/this-wild-arkansas-circus-has-deep-roots-in-europe","title":{"rendered":"This Wild Arkansas Circus Has Deep Roots in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By its nature, the circus is transportive, a candy-colored window into a world of whimsy, the unexpected, the wild, the colorful. In many respects, <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.piccolozoppe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Piccolo Zopp\u00e9<\/a>, which began its season last week, upholds all of that. Where the Arkansas-based circus differs from its three-ringed, big-budget compatriots, however, lies in the nature of that transportiveness. After all, Piccolo Zopp\u00e9 doesn\u2019t just tickle your senses in the present\u2014it pulls you back a few years as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<!-- Promo shortcode start --><div id=\"nlf-1c\" class=\"gg-promo topic-weddings weddings-nov25\"><div class=\"weddings-grid\"><div class=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/order.emags.com\/gg_weddings?source=inline\" aria-label=\"Click to get your copy.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/promos\/weddings-snowy-cover-nov25.gif\" width=\"648\" height=\"782\" alt=\"G&amp;G Weddings digital edition cover\"><\/a><\/div><div class=\"right\"><div class=\"flex\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"big-title\"><span class=\"nowrap\">G&amp;G Weddings<\/span> <span class=\"nowrap\">Now Available!<\/span><\/div><div class=\"dek\">Get our special digital issue and celebrate the big day in Southern style<\/div><div><a href=\"https:\/\/order.emags.com\/gg_weddings?source=inline\" class=\"button button-primary\">Get Your Copy<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- Promo shortcode end -->\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe show that we present now is not much different than a show that my family would have done in the 1800s\u2014very small, very intimate,\u201d says Tosca Zopp\u00e9, a sixth-generation circus performer and equestrian artist who rode her first elephant when she was&nbsp;just three days old. \u201cIt\u2019s different. It\u2019s more of a performing arts circus, and it goes back to our roots. It\u2019s very traditional, very classical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tent-big-lot-1100x733.jpg\" alt=\"archival circus tent\" class=\"wp-image-221962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tent-big-lot-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tent-big-lot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tent-big-lot-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tent-big-lot-1600x1067.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><div class=\"wp-caption\"><div class=\"image-credit\">Photo: Courtesy of Piccolo Zopp\u00e9<\/div><div class=\"caption\">An archival image of the Zopp\u00e9 circus tent.<\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the years since, those sprawling family roots have become the stuff of circus legend. They begin with Tosca\u2019s great-great-great-grandparents, a French clown and a Hungarian equestrian-ballerina, falling in love in Budapest in 1842 and eloping soon after to Venice, where they formed the first Zopp\u00e9 Circus. That legend continued with Tosca\u2019s father, Alberto, a legendary equestrian artist,&nbsp;making a deal with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus in 1948: He\u2019d come perform with them in the United States, but only if they agreed to ship an elephant back to Italy in his stead.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Alberto-Postcard-1100x733.jpg\" alt=\"an archival postcard\" class=\"wp-image-221964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Alberto-Postcard-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Alberto-Postcard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Alberto-Postcard-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><div class=\"wp-caption\"><div class=\"image-credit\">Photo: Courtesy of Piccolo Zopp\u00e9<\/div><div class=\"caption\">A postcard of Alberto Zopp\u00e9.<\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally, when Tosca\u2014along with a Mexican juggling family, Russian quick-change duo, and French aerialist\u2014first hoisted the tent for the Piccolo Zopp\u00e9 Winter Circus not far from the Zopp\u00e9 family home in Greenbrier, Arkansas, in December 2021, she reflected on all those seemingly larger-than-life origin stories. But she also sought to make something intimate that only a small, one-ring circus can bring. On any given night at Piccolo Zopp\u00e9, only eighteen feet separate the five-hundred-person audience from the performers galloping, prancing, and tumbling around the lone ring, allowing for a connection like none other to take hold between audience and performer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just about what skills these artists have\u2014whether they\u2019re on their trapeze, or whether I\u2019m standing on my horse,\u201d Tosca says. \u201cThat\u2019s all very important, because that\u2019s what circus is. But what\u2019s more important to us is that we connect.\u201d<\/p><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-8755928\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad mobile inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-4492312\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad tablet inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-5717922\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad desktop inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Arkansas-circus-collage-1100x697.jpg\" alt=\"a horse; an acrobat\" class=\"wp-image-221963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Arkansas-circus-collage-1100x697.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Arkansas-circus-collage-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Arkansas-circus-collage-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Arkansas-circus-collage-1600x1013.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><div class=\"wp-caption\"><div class=\"image-credit\">Photo: Courtesy of Piccolo Zopp\u00e9<\/div><div class=\"caption\">One of the Zopp\u00e9 horses; Joel Baker, an acrobatic clown. <\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Winter Circus\u201d has, over the years, added a few extra dates and locations across Arkansas, including stops in Russellville, North Little Rock, and Hot Springs. Tosca has added a new slate of performers cherry-picked from across the world, including a low-wire walker, performing dogs, an eight-person acrobatic troupe from Mongolia, and her niece, Chiara, a seventh-generation performer who\u2019s doing an aerial act. One thing yet remains: Piccolo Zopp\u00e9 is still much the same as it\u2019s always been. Including, Tosca notes, the way each performance ends. For decades, Tosca\u2019s mother closed each night with a short poem that she had written\u2014a tradition Tosca has carried on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As the theater lights dim and nostalgia is packed away.&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>It\u2019s packed in trunks labeled sweet memories of yesterday.&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>We hope our hearts have touched somewhere along the way&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>And that you have enjoyed our journey back to yesterday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find more information about the Piccolo Zopp\u00e9 circus <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.piccolozoppe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-6205877\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad mobile inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-6787162\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad tablet inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1399481\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad desktop inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piccolo Zopp\u00e9\u2019s joyous winter spectacle connects the audience with acrobats, wire walkers, and even performing pups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":221961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-11-11T21:35:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"d9849478-4c8a-4c6f-9850-a731f371d368","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-11-11T21:35:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2YSUeEyKTG-YUKcx83HTaA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784,2398,2401,1785],"tags":[223,30536,30280],"authors":[29604],"issue":[],"recipe-type":[],"class_list":["post-221960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-arts-entertainment","category-goings-on","category-travel","tag-arkansas","tag-arts-culture","tag-whats-new","authors-jordan-p-hickey"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.3 (Yoast SEO v26.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Wild Arkansas Circus Has Deep Roots in Europe &#8211; 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