David Balding

There is a big-man-size hole in the heart of St. Louis’ Circus Flora, a vacancy left by the death of Ivor David Balding last month at 75. Balding was the…

The Big Top is back in Grand Center for Circus Flora’s 28th season with “The Pawn,” a show inspired by the venerable game of chess.“Chess is a nice way to…

The members of the Circus Flora family were stunned and saddened when their beloved patriarch David Balding passed away on Friday, May 9. One of the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 6, 2011 - Circuses are peripatetic beasts, roaming under cover of canvas from one town to the…

Posted 11:30 a.m. Mon., June 1 - This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 1, 2009 - While the horse trots around the…