you come here sent down and have a chat all right guys i don't know what we can do about this scene it hasn't come together yet and full of holes please let's rehearse the final scene. right action. the concept is pretty simple we're circus the clintons and we break down stereotypes about kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. and still also the circus is a modern circus stuff by socially disadvantaged kids. at five so. the go i did ok thank you my book.

guys we need to buy cloths. when you to meet all the guests and think about their accommodation like everyone should be comfortable. then we should finish the staging and rehearse it all is a pity we don't have thirty six hours in a day then we have plenty of time for everything that fills. our words so we're putting on the flying kids festival for the sixth time i thought we needed an event that would stir everyone up a bit of service or something to make people eager to work till midnight painting the building and solving administrative problems across a festival seemed a good idea well but also just one.

life conditions were tough that life was hard because a man's life was worthless murder and violence were considered very good things have you ever heard the word. so you know what that is they wrote to anyone they mad on the road. or will that will after i had joined my school i was skipping classes for six months. i was dating a girl then and had no desire at all to study i just wanted to go out with her. so i had to repeat a year then i came here i think i'll finish this year and then try to join a circus school.

push with your arms. and your but it also works is made up of kids from socially disadvantaged groups of people but the self-esteem is usually love and they don't have any relevant physical skills. i've almost done three before even to some of these guys sniff glue but they were very agile the most they are easy going boys and girls the very assertive. to teach them from scratch you first have to stab a report with them because if they're not willing to listen it will all be in vain and you wish to begin with. i'm. sticking out. this wasn't my idea it was a berlin university student asked it sure and who brought it to st petersburg actually the concept behind the absolute circus was her graduation project. and the university students can go anywhere in the world to set up

a project that was how the opal a circus was created. our children come from disadvantaged backgrounds their children with various behavior problems the disorders. we take new students once every three years we find most of our kids in st petersburg crisis centers. you know i'm back now but it will get to subside and then i want social workers bring them to us sometimes our friends call and say we know who he got and he's just what you need come in he had him on one pop or dip is a bit right it's just minutes the police brought me here and i played football and tennis at first and then i heard about the circus a quibble i didn't take it seriously but came to have a look anyway. i saw kids who were really doing something so i decided to try and i really liked it even brought my sister and two friends here but that's just. not beating it was look at the audience sees my life is pointless.

florins you it's fine it's fine as a play on don't ruin your own act. see how poor you guys remember your places i've got and are you running like a little rat like a rat if you want to grab it and it should be like this this girl has just turned my life upside down and you're like hey dude should we go somewhere watch grown bomb bomb bomb. there's nothing more expressive. that you've done or is facing a dilemma now i think you'll struggle with it for a couple of years he has to choose between behaviors it's.

own will be what's typical in street culture isn't acceptable at the xcel a circus and the other is fine for us but wouldn't be tolerated on the street he has to adopt one of them it's a difficult choice but it's important for him to make it. and it's not that i broke i think i wanted it myself. because we always choose what we identified this i allowed myself to be weak. would be more. of a i'm talking about drugs. i took the wrong road and i thought i could leave it just as easily for them go i was a fool. then i made a choice because i saw that these people really wanted to help and i was turning my back on them it's bad. or bad about acim is the kids end to

this room they turn into actors that he's not children anymore the professionals who play a role in the performance i always tell them they should leave their problems behind that door did some way during rehearsals we were when we talk about what's happening in their lives after the rehearsal these but when you're on stage you have to work there are certain rules and penalties because it's like a kid might be banned from the next week her so as a punishment if he steals from other kids it's most likely he'll be excluded from the circus. if he starts taking drugs again and comes here while he's high then the door will be closed to him. i play a street cleaner who's in love with a waitress. in one of the scenes i imagined that my dream is the girl i'm in love with. it was different

in real life i was writing on the metro and so a girl and we were just looking at each other for half an hour she mr stop him looked into her eyes plucked up the courage and spoke to her so we've been going out for three months now. at the circus i've gained lots of experience that i couldn't get anywhere else and never had that before. with people offer you a lot and you choose whether or not you accept it you just have to listen to older people who work with you then everything will be fine.

no i should one more time. and. i really wanted to go to russia and get to know what's happening here and i really wanted to help the kids because. i really like gymnastics and circus and the last acrobatic things. i came here for the project some assume. because we met five years ago. you know superstitious about it and i was very impressed by the project by the children on the stage and i own two or nursling. my running to say done cameron vo code in crimea your butts in seats and there was there were. those moves so.

i've worked with a lot before but they were all like normal kept more than also normal there are. yeah but it's r.k. sometimes it's difficult but in the meantime when they're here you don't really know that they're different that they come from i don't know are difficult family is when they hear it's a little different in the moment sometimes you get to know it that they react different than other kids sometimes. oh they don't want anything they really don't want to take on if them to do things. that. she loves and i. just saw on our show volunteers from germany have been coming here almost since the beginning of st me helpful because every time they bring a breath of fresh air and new stories the stories often they take on a lot of responsibilities to. now we have two volunteers

christina and evelyn and he's helping with smaller kids to. rehearsal's. christina doesn't only help with classes but with the ration is for the festival and accommodation for the guests. who will be playing the workshops and performances outside the various teams will perform inside the tent. there will be a team from france and i know friends from finland and the most good team will also be here we. will be there two. days will be very busy. we're getting ready for the festival look we have cool new t. shirts let's go to the tent now. are you taking pictures let me see so are you afraid. just a little of course to. take down with the event yes well try. calling us yes they are let's get to work out but let's stop filming.

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when i don't have anything to do i often put on street performances i do it alone or call the guys and we perform together i enjoy it people watch an inspired me and sometimes they give money but it's not about. the no one thing i have told him something and if anything happens to him his family or he has financial difficulties here he can go on the street with his hands on a living with his act and they'll be no shame in. yes i believe everything you do comes back to you if you heard someone or did something bad it will come back to me

i caused a lot of trouble i broke into apartments and stole things from people. i was once going home from school when a guy approached me and ordered me to give him my phone when i refused and he hit me in the face i hit him back and we started fighting then two of his friends joined the fight and i just stood up every time so that they could knock me down of course they didn't me and beat me badly. so everything comes back like a boomerang it's.

just my thing and i think. the constant. and seven and then we have magazine and the venue bench and main germany on novak in different places and. every time we speak that yes we should meet we should do projects together. i meant don't sell a circus in london seven years ago and this is the sixth time i'm at the festival of union st petersburg. can. keep. the biggest difference between saw service and the ones that i know in europe

is the fact that they have a very tight group it's small and they're very committed to the project the social circles in general it's more like a circus being taken and so. to god and so different institutions but here it's different the children come here and they become like a family so in that way it's very different. than our day i want to do when i look at the audience i think the old look so nice so much to give them a bit of me i think about twenty percent of them have no idea what the oakland circus was so it's a yellow applies to almost every performance by explaining what kind of circus we are before the performance tomorrow i'll do the same in the us goes with. the horse also staying in the city. i don't know it from home i did not for any of

the plays and saw this. to sit up on the roof i think it's like i don't feel so free and i really love mom. i'm going to go back to germany in a free weights and it's already like so close and i would really love to stay here i'm going along because i really got so long the kids and. the my people when i retire with children in one piece it's only for training and then they go home to tear after training day stained suitcase and so i speak with them i play with them i'm much closer to them. the way they've been cooked and. yeah it's quite far away from the sick and that's what yeah annoys me the marist

and i have such a long way to the six to the city center. billy's come here every day because it's just like you know every hour three police cars go around the block and pick up drug addicts. leads the way in terms of drug trafficking. people here killed here you can't go outside after ten without a knife or a gun and i've got my friends so i'm not worried. i think after the army was on move away to sochi maybe with an said one or two i'll have a rest then come back earn some money and go to europe for good i want them to new york that's where you would hope and i just need to serve in the army and everything will work out fine i'm sure of it. show you a trick. these guys already have some experience

with the circus world introduces them to completely different experiences and values the world and they're tearing them apart. well today kids have had a taste of success they've come to grips with their own body see a player who is that machine they have the energy and well developed muscles now. suddenly realize that they are strong and can use the strength on the street. it was this mission that's that's what triggers an internal conflict and you getting through it is really difficult for them they have to make a choice they want can you go and they can either go out with this experience and these muscles and become flags in the street or develop themselves as artists which .

this is my audience. i'll tell you one thing i'm very scared whatever you may think i'm actually very scared are you scared. and that's a good luck to everyone. so what do you wish me luck think so than what you wish for and so they should love. what do you wish me good luck with love yes indeed luck is what i believe.

the morning once in winter in a small bookshop i run across postcards by alexander. a look through them and saw something gentle kind of open to everyone. who has a set of postcards called a walk with my nephew. my guy and i instantly decided that i would adapt it into an interesting absoute little story consisting of several episodes human. thought that i was looking at the nephew thinking of me but i will like get such a boy no one in the group will match it to be a very strange character and that's when he started working with a group of special kids something i came to our classes mostly children with down

syndrome. and one day the door opened and in came anton that was two years ago and he was even smaller then he's now national he wore a cute cap with ears like a bears and i think glasses still is the final piece of the puzzle. oh oh. i don't like to write on the star so i could see he would develop it's the most important thing for us at the moment but it's even more important than school. he spends nights and days here he knows every character his lines in every before

months and practices at home every day. right here my heart misses a beat when they discover they can actually do something when they've just learned a difficult trick shift and try to perform at. your own children and teenagers need adrenaline to do all it's crucial for them if they're to face danger plus. one more they can find it out on the street or hear the circus the choice is theirs. thanks.

much some of our graduates who and all i could would have become skinheads of fogs turn into great to look people eager to think and develop and make up most of what some of our kids choose a different destiny is incredibly important to me to want to meet or. thank. you. hello i'm on my way back from the festival that just ended.

i'm going into my apartment. ted to sleep alexei. i was at the festival. do you know how much you missed is that. didn't you come. to z's alexei. my mom's at work and dad's asleep ease just back from work and mind. you can see that i that i really enjoyed the festival. it was magic and for me it was much more than just a festival which. all in all it was cool.

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