Ashgabat applauds Russian circus performers
If the theater begins with a hanger, which means a decent, primly atmosphere, which the viewer should already feel at the entrance, then the circus - from the foyer, where there is no kindness and silence, on the contrary. The kids are running around here, there is a lively trade of all sorts of “magic” things and sparkling, noisy trinkets, the animators are walking around in realistic animal costumes, amusing the shrieking children.
Anyone wishes can be photographed with a huge living crocodile, which is meeting guests with a cold look. But you can arrange a photo session with more friendly creatures, two glamorous dogs, one of them is painted in pink, the other is painted in blue color, and they are very popular among visitors of the capital's circus these days...
The audience is already in the hall. While the visitors are seated in their places, the eye is attracted by an old woman.... She is wandering around the arena and a little strange is looking around... The spectators began to see her with surprise: it is interesting, what will she do?
Then it becomes clear that the show has already begun. The old woman disappears, and a fragile girl appears in the arena.
Kristina Adrova, as presented by her entertainer, an air gymnast, who works on belts. She rises under the big top of the circus, and the audience with astonishment watches for her dizzying acrobatic stunts at altitude.
Christina is in the circus from childhood. As often happens with the children of circus performers, she followed in the footsteps of her parents, admiring her mother, an air gymnast. Kristina was watching the numbers performed by her mother, and dreamed of hovering under the big top of the circus and catching the audience's rapturous looks. And she succeeded. Her performance was greeted with a storm of applause.
The dogs run out on the arena of the circus. Dachshunds - like sausages with legs. They move miraculously and sit down at their specific places. Then two huge, white, bear-like dogs appear. And then the Basset Hounds come out. Grazina Zabukaite, their mistress and trainer, are with them.
Grazina since childhood adores dogs and therefore she did not have any special questions with the choice of profession. She worked with different breeds, but was especially attached to bassets and dachshunds. They both have short paws, which make them seem a little awkward, but it does not prevent them from deftly jumping and tumbling.
The audience was also impressed by the cycling figure Alexander Vitkovsky, the successor of another circus dynasty. Alexander first appeared on the arena of the circus at the age of 4, and since that time he has been more than 30 years on the arena. Rides on one wheel, sitting astride the steering wheel, or twists the pedals with his hands, and kicks on the special footsteps on the wheels. In the last part of the performance Vitkovsky rolled on a miniature bicycle.
Well, an old lady, already familiar to us, appeared again. This time, she was accompanied by a personage in shoes with long noses and propellers behind his shoulders, with a balloon in his hands.
Grandma offers him to climb a couple of stools in the arena. He climbs on them. Grandmother with a meaningful look and a lingering “Pleaseeee” take him another small stool on which one foot will hardly fit... But, staggering, neatly, the personage climbs up onto it... Grandmother again comes up with a smaller stool and again in a jingling voice says “Pleaseeee”… The personage was embarrassed, because on this stool, the size of a palm, it is impossible to keep the balance. But he did it. Climbing the stool, he is letting go the balloon into the air.
But then the light goes out and the arena is painted in blood-red tones, a wolf howl is heard. A man enters the arena carrying a girl in his arms... Thus, the “Vampire Tango” performance begins. Christina and Sergei Chuzhie is performing. Christina performs a complex trick “cor-de-parel”, in translation into Russian - a dangerous rope. Christina came to the circus from the ballet school at the age of 18. The performance, represented by them, was created for the American circus and won the silver of Germany. But we will not tell the readers the idea of the circus performance.
There are joyful seamen in the performance of acrobats from the collective “Rusichi”,...
... as well as leopards, snakes and even crocodiles under Marina Rudenko.
In addition to exotic animals, there are quite ordinary ... goats in the performance.
Goats gracefully dance, jump through the hoop. An afghan wolf, jumping over goats and performing tricks, surprised the audience in the performance with goats.
A mass of exciting emotions is presented to adults and children by equilibrists on the perches Sergei Eftode and Kristina Adrova, gymnasts Alexander and Natalia Gerasimenko, power juggler Sergei Chuzhoy.
