francisco mime troupe where i was juggling and my partner and i went on a tour of europe. we started in london working on the streets, worked our way all the way to istanbul, made our living that way. and along the way, we got discovered, and we were put into a french circus, the nuevo cirque de paris, and from that, the vision of how to bring a circus to america based in new york came to us. there it was, this sudden, child-like dream of being in the circus and having this wonderful sense that it brought a sense of joy and relief to an audience every day. >> did you have any idea it was going to get as big as it is and become just this incredible, you know, journey that's been featured on "sesame street" -- >> well, i imagined it full blown, you know? here it was! of course, then it took ten years just to establish it, and now, of course, we're in our 35th year. so, this year we open at lincoln center in the third week in october, new show, "luminosity,"