Technically, she is a whiz without any vulgar circus tricks.

"It'll sort of be like a circus trick with acrobats."

"I've always felt that throwing a knife was more of a circus trick," Tarrant said.

In addition to dancing, her routines often included circus tricks and even rapping.

Think of elegant circus tricks executed in the wrong place at precisely the wrong time.

Silas shows circus tricks and Godik works as a carver.

Nor did she perform them as a circus trick, isolated from the rest of the choreography.

There's an old circus trick in which a skimpily clad young woman is strapped to a bed.

Yet no one turned its exuberant passages into mere circus tricks.

Like the best circus tricks, these were not to be scorned for their lack of subtlety.