used to take drugs and drink like a fish skip school and was a real hooligan they stayed out all night and well you know. listen to me watch superstar you come here sit down and have a chat alright 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. to my. right action. because not just play simple we're circus a klingon stunt and we break down stereotypes about kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. in school also the circus is a modern circus stuff by socially disadvantaged kids.

five years. ago i did ok thank you my. god guys we need to buy cloths. when you to meet all the guests and think about their accommodation like everyone should be comfortable. channels then we should finish the staging and we heard it all it's a pity we don't have thirty six hours in a day then we'd have plenty of time for everything that fills. our words 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 serious poker something to make people eager to work till midnight painting to work out the rebuilding and solving administrative problems across

a festival seemed a good idea so well but also just the 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 anyone they mad on the road and. all that would have to join 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. strain your legs. push with your arms. and your but it also works is made up of kids from socially disadvantaged groups of people that self-esteem is usually love when they don't have any relevant physical skills. i've almost done three because some of these guys sniff glue but they were very our child they are easy going boys and girls that's very assertive. to teach them from scratch you first have to start a shit report with them because if they're not willing to listen it will all be in vain to begin with one more time. your bell is 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 circus was created. our children come from disadvantaged backgrounds their children with various behavior problems and disorders. we take new students once every three years we find most of our kids in st petersburg crisis centers you know back now but it will get us inside there are what social workers bring them to us sometimes our friends call and say we know who are gun and he's just what you need come and get him on one popcorn get to be right it's just minutes of the police brought me here and i played football and tennis at first and then i heard about the circus because 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 they will. not be to look at the audience my life is pointless. for and sure it's fine it's fine as our play on don't ruin your own act. or you guys remember your places and that caused our you're 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 on bomb

bomb bomb. there's nothing more expressive. as there 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. hang it's not that i broke i think i wanted it myself. because we always choose what we identified this song 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. 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 that hurt i knew as soon as the kids enter this room they turn into actors that they're 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 but when you're on stage you have to work well there are certain rules and penalties because a kid might be banned from the next week her still 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 missed her stop and looked into her eyes plucked up the courage and spoke to our souls we've been going out for three months now. and the circus i've gained lots of experience that i couldn't get anywhere else and

never had that before. 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 my more time. and i was. 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 things. but. i came here for the project. because we met five years ago. you know superstitious about it and i was very controlled by the project by the children in the state and i own two or nursling.

my running to say dumb cameron. but. there was there was. so sue. i've worked with kids a lot before but they were all like normal kept more than also normal there's kids here but it's ok 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 or difficult family is when they hear it's a little more serious a moment sometimes you get to know it that they react different than other kids sometimes. oh if they don't want anything they really don't want to see if them to do things. and i don't want to be that but dished 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 often they take on a lot of responsibilities to be honest. and now we have two volunteers christina and evelyn and he's helping with smaller kids to. we heard. christina doesn't only help with classes but with a ration is for the festival and accommodation for the guests. will be playing the workshops and performances outside the various teams will perform inside the tent. there will be a team from france and friends from finland and the most good team will also be here we. will be there two. days will be very busy. 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 but let's stop filming. i was thinking somehow i have to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason we were so confident because we were going to get married officially after he came back how could he not come back because the mere thought of it never crossed her mind. when the militants decided to try and break through her new guinea screaming grenade. the explosion blew him all round his back toward. and it was all over all of us. we know that our comrades

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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 and i enjoy it people watch and in miami sometimes they give money but it's not about that. i know one thing i have told him something and if god forbid 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. yeah 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 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 beat me badly. sure everything comes. it's. done i think in two thousand and seven and then we have. the venue bench and i mean germany i'm no different places. every time we speak that yes we should meet

we should do projects together. i meant don't tell us. in london seven years ago and this is the sixth time i'm at the festival in st petersburg and. the biggest difference between cell 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 social circles in general it's more like. circus being taken in to. kindergarten into

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. because they asked what to do when you gave when i look at the audience i think the old look so nice to get an opinion i think about twenty percent of them have no idea what the oakleigh circus was for a whole to yell applies to almost every performance by explaining what kind of circus we are before the performance tomorrow i'll do the same thing that was goes with. the horse also the thing about the city codes i don't know i don't know it from home i did not from any other place i'm sorry it's just to set up on the roofs and say you're going to strike and you feel so free and i really love mom.

i'm going to go back to germany in africa waits and it's already like so close and i would really love to stay here one longer because i really got so long with the kids and the people. when i return i would see children. yes it's only for training in the new you go home after training day stained sucrose and so i speak with them i play with them i'm much closer to them. way in the van. yeah it's quite far away from the sick and that's what you're in noise made to mars than air and such a long way to the surface to the city center. but it does the least come here every day. every hour three police cars go around the

block and drug. the way in terms of drug trafficking. people here killed here you can't go outside after ten without a knife or a gun but i've got my friends so i'm not worried. i think after the army moves away to sochi maybe. i'll have a rest then come back earn some money and go to europe for a good bit of what. 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 and they're tearing them apart. the kids have had

a taste of success. they've come to grips with their own body see a player who is the machine they have the energy and well developed muscles now. suddenly realize that they are strong and can use the strength on the street so. it was this mission that's that's what triggers an internal conflict and you question getting through it is really difficult for them do you think you may have to make a choice one can you go and they can either go out with this experience and these muscles and become funds in the street or develop themselves as artists but 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 what do you wish they should love. what do you wish me good luck with your love yes indeed luck is what i need.

the morning once in winter in a small bookshop i run across postcards by alexander. a look through them and saw something gentle kind 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 cumin. you know that i was looking at the nephew thinking it 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 small 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 has lines in every bill for 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 and try to perform at. their own children and teenagers need adrenaline to do all it's crucial for them if they're to face danger. all more they can find it out on the street or hear the circus the choice is theirs. thank. rush some of our graduates who and all i could have become skinheads and dogs will turn into great to live 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 disney

has it what didn't you come. to z. visa like say. my mom's at work and dad's asleep is just back from work and mind. you can see that i. 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. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. for

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