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class at the bands and at the same time pulling them out of poverty. this week and one on one east we go back stage into the lives of cambodian circus to. play. their song like the lower. part of our body of my heart but also. for the life go on but i love my family in the show when i played a part of the devil spirit that possesses the body of a despicable man who played a part on wonderfully in fact uplifting the man just wants to fit in and be a part of the community and he was above the village just to be checked and appease him for the fact that. the god son say his prayers and turn him into a beautiful woman a long hard look at. the beautiful woman and then take the bench and the holy just

. twenty five year old enough really is living out her childhood dream she's a star at far a cambodian so just to the. the study of young women when i first saw a circus performance in school when i was a little girl. it was amazing how they moved their bodies and their own way and after that i knew i wanted to be like them. based on the shelf until for tonight's performance is a story of rejection of friendship and reconciliation with a good dose of humor. truly is known for a contortionist skills and this movie never feels the take the crowd's breath away . the circus is one of the biggest attractions of the time but it doesn't just

entertain people it's a lifeline for these performers who have one thing in common they were once hungry street kids who had to work to stay alive. and in my view when i was seven. i spent half of my day in school and the other half said i takes with my mother five of them when i am alone i have found one in my family was very poor and then in the early years i trained and performed just to feed myself and we had so many siblings living together one of the seven boys and four girls sat. straight out grew up in the province of bottom born three hours drive away. grinding poverty here drives countless children to work on the streets picking through trash to be sold for recycling. many families rely on everyone working hard to scrape by.

trillions father died of ill health when she was very young leaving her mother to raise eleven children. help came from a local school that provides free education and meals it became us. home force really have an older sister. i went to far so there will be fewer miles to feed at home. i study. funded by circus revenue and donations for the subjects you would find in the public school. but it's best known for its circus training. inside a gym there's no selection process it's restriction for the kids. anyone damn enough to take a tumble can. combine them into a corner i. was the most difficult for me and i'm not a natural talent i'm

a normal person but i loved it. and i trained long and hard to be a contortionist. and i often cried when my teacher benchmarks i met my back hurt my bones hurt whenever trying to bend my body to do splits. my training know how and where to bend me safely but it was so painful i was left in tears. that. surely it's mother has been working in the school kitchen since the husband died ten years ago she's great for the school rescue the kids from a life on the streets can run off a map that got me on the school has helped poor people like me and my neighbor is just one free meal a day for the kids eases the good and some are wrong i have. songs over and there's

thousands of hungry children during our time here and watch them grow up she misses them when they leave none more than her daughter. i miss your a lot. we speak on the foreign but i hardly get to see her. i've never seen her show and she emory. when she was here in a better mon one i used to watch every single show she performed in school warner and every performance made me happy one minute. now there is another generation of a family here a ten year old granddaughter. mine and. she's very good with the trapeze and she banter with. everyone says she's very plain spoken. today chilled us teacher wants the kids to get used to performing in front of an audience. take

turns to perform for the class it's all pretty impressive but him food that's high standards. i ran high on my. i'm a good listener. but younger than a. ninety nine we are finally getting. to the right mom. my first i love what. i need some of the time i don't know if you just. don't know that i'm sorry. you don't take a supplement. doesn't it don't. you just want a man i mean i know you're not. so why not my love life is my map. and i was.

district for the kids love of god we're. going to have. a look around get over it oh ok. love understand i love me when i tell. you what. the fact that i'm all right oh i'm going to. tax us. now with that was to do with. it will take a few more years before the young ones can juggle like most teenagers screening in the schools because. sixteen year old male straight line is a specific image of an older sister playing on the left but my sister it's really about is the contortionists gang in ok i fell in love with this circus when she brought me here to watch her training now she's my room model.

is part of her you keep hearing up for the first public performance in a few days time they've been training together every day for several months now conduit to show off what they can do for. those who do well here eventually become professional foremost in syria they even get to travel the scenes . way i want to be a professional i hope to perform in some route and all over the world like my sister the story line is a female lead for the student show it's reflected cambodia's changing society. in the story her characters love a returns home after working in the city. she doesn't like how he's turned from a humble farm boy to

a flashy city slicker. and yes to try and win her heart again. the male lead is nineteen year old. his friends call him long long and straight line grew up together their friends tease them about how realistic the spiritual man. we. live our lives ok we don't really. care. less whether they will get back together in the future.

is better known by his nickname brandy. he's one of the stars i'm sorry but he's taking a break. here in. performing days are over. motivated and no one. granny discussed it with the teachers and to form a team for the show. guided us to the level we're at today. but he still takes time to care for. their

first big performance for the first time the team completes a full rehearsal that lasts over an hour with hot and stuffy. because i don't have a. right not that i have no idea of the. brandy gives a pep talk to lift their confidence and reminds them to focus on safety. what worries me was how they rushed when they became tired. i always tell them when you're tired what focus on your breathing. and how it helps their acting concentration and makes them ok. they need to understand the rhythm of breathing and how to follow it.

let us know the next day they know their tricks one after another. it's a hike and i'm looking forward to you having a few dress rehearsal. like. the only way i know. randy is satisfied with technique the ones to express themselves better plan. to help him with that from the right to live. here i heard. from him or her. i never hear that but yeah like the old. man i have. yet to

train as actors so we're a little stiff and not quite there when we perform. they have a quick bite off the practice the pump up to such a good home. so let's realign those they've got to get it right each and every time . i'm nervous and excited but. even if you train every day you can still make mistakes go to know that i have a few. sure enough that evening the full dress rehearsal goes horribly wrong. they make one mistake after another the school stuff and some villages i feel for a preview it's a small organs but the team isn't usually. they slip up again and again struggling with moves that it put off so well in training. the tree line recovers as the show goes on but long is having

a nightmare. that is after hundreds of hours. they sold the audience and became nervous and frustrated long and the worst possible they performed so stiffly how did you have time. i just went step by step from here today until they lost the beautiful one but i don't. feel the heart i love of god i was exhausted so i lost control try to tell you my so nervous not like a microphone this doesn't grow on that i was much better yesterday. love your home i picked a noise what happens when a long time don't you love the look on my. back when i'm in bed thinking of all that objective i get there but oh man wait a bit to touch my love you. were going to join game of the hockey game. but you're making me from latin america but you may come home

a comet while you're on your habitat taking over. there's a lot of pressure riding along this family's getting the hopes on his circus career . here's a wooden hut in a rundown neighborhood near the school. long mother had fifteen children mine died from illnesses because they couldn't afford proper nutrition and medical treatment . from when they were very young every day now and his siblings collected garbage for recycling just to make ends meet. and. there are profound very poor. the children fell sick often and although was had as garbage collectors to help look after the family. their own money to buy medicine and rice.

went far south the school it off a course in the painting and circus. they let the kids choose a skill the oldest sister learned to paint and now has a job to help the family. long father earns an irregular income as a drummer at weddings and funerals. if he does well he can't help and poor family refused. especially who i don't. know. if he makes it as a pro long starting salary working more than four hundred dollars a month four times the average wage in rural cambodia. that's where he stopped collecting trash two years ago to focus on training. when i turned professional in the future i will help my. build a new house and buy have all the good food and i just. as

a. blanket i will practice hard every day until our team is so good that everyone cheers. thank you kyra. just the day of the teenager's first public performance that's a full house to impress as it take the first step to becoming a professional thanks for the cheers for the they grow in confidence turn on the style. audience to love a. laugh parents are very proud. for i've never taught my son could do all day long i'm excited that he has to show up. or come by yet but i'm happy to see my son perform i'm very happy.

after the show the team has an important visitor. debt and his friends founded a school in one thousand nine hundred four after returning home from a refugee camp following the fall of the camaro. they believe in using the arts to heal the wounds of the war and to empower the rural poor. while the far from our art scene flourished as far back as a twelve to thirteen century why. many musicians writers and c.d.'s blossomed especially in the sixty's. but in the seventy's the civil war wiped out the arts and to perform their commander would destroy everything and when it's still possible we want to use the arts as a recall for us to understand our national identity and the spirit represents.

that night straight line goes home to one of very few houses in the neighborhood with concrete walls and cable t.v. it was built thanks to the earnings of a two older sister performing. in one of the electric cars we used to. if in a rented wooden heart that leaked when it rained water came in from above and below we couldn't even find a dry spot to have a male one on her line i often pray for my children's happiness for my family to be safe and free from illness. and she has a prayer of trying to work. one day i would like to see my daughter straighten the act before. i hear a show in c.m. replace amazing. they have good music nice lighting and a big crowd. i was happy for her when i heard that.

i used to hear old people say make a wish when you see shooting stars so i did. and i wished very hard that one day i'll be able to ride in a plane and perform for the circus all over the world. but my childhood wish has come true. enough truly has traveled to europe and across asia with a circus. but she knows this won't last forever. injuries catch up with all circus performers in the end. an old injury on her. in two thousand and seven she broke her back during training and couldn't perform for a year. to thank him. every time i feel something there i worry and pray that it's ok because i want to keep performing. and not in pain the doctor

gave me the all clear but it's always at the back of my mind. to prepare for life after the circus really started english classes in theory a few months ago today a classmate is helping her with lessons she made. you to training yesterday. you saw to take. them down and i want to speak english because i want to communicate with forest. it will also help me find other jobs any job these days requires you to speak english. runs a small unit most far from the big talk to the husband richard a reserve performer and the stage manager at a circus. of my english is good enough i hope to work in communications at the

school but the children perform. if not i want to be a circus trainer because i love the craft the way. the couple are serving up to build a house and start a family in bottom boat they've already bought a piece of land yeah mother. but i think a lot about my mother i told her one day i will bring you to visit somebody but she said no. she's never been here i don't want to see the show but she always says she's busy with work. so much has been for a surprise we've arranged for special guests to visit from bottom ball that's the team gets ready for the next three looks and mother and sister make their way in. for mom will finally get to see her perform at the summary picked up. backstage i asked whom she hopes to see most in the stands tonight i'm not one hundred pound

that down done. wrong but she might like this surprise better her sister and mom are excited it hurts so much about this performance. the lights go out and it's. true that doesn't see them in the shadows. but one of her teammates got to mother until three between seeing. the secrets so this time it's true that executes a signature move it is extra special. i don't. know. i. don't know how they managed to break you want to say it but i brought your mom i do hope it's the end i surprised the company is heading to australia to build one of

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