yeah just about five years. ago i did ok thank you. guys we need to buy cloths. when you two meet all the guests and think about their accommodation like everyone should be comfortable. then we should finish the staging and rehearse it's a pity we don't have thirty six hours in a day then we have plenty of time for everything that kills. 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 service something to make people eager to work till midnight painting the

building and solving administrative problems across a festival seemed a good idea so well but also it was 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 to anyone they mad on the role and. that would 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 the self-esteem is usually love and they don't have any relevant physical skills. i've almost done three because some of these guys sniff glue but they were very 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 to begin with one more time. your bell is sticking out.

this wasn't my idea it was a berlin university student as to it sure and who brought it to st petersburg actually the concept behind the absolute circus was a 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 our ward social workers bring them to us sometimes our friends call and say we know who he got and he's just what he need company at him one popcorn to be right it's just minutes the police brought me here i played football in tennis at first 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 but it will. not be to put look at the audience sees my life is pointless. mourning sure it's fine it's fine as our play on don't ruin your own act. not them you guys remember you're places i've got and are you running like a little rat like a rat if you want to go back 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 alone

bomb bomb bomb. and the more expressive. that you are is facing the 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 and the excellent 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 i allowed myself to be weak. will 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 i asked around 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 horrid idea since the kids enter this room they turn into actors he's got but they're not children anymore but professionals who play a role in the performance i always tell them they should leave their problems behind that door kids during rehearsals we work with me talk about what's happening in their lives after the rehearsal 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 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 imagine 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 they looked into her eyes plucked up the courage and spoke to her it's like 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 much 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 dollars acrobatic things. but. i came here for the project and some assume first 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 want to learn recently.

my reading to say dumb cameron bianco you going to your back. there was there was. postman so sue something. i've worked with a lot before but they were all like normal kept or they are also normal there's kids here 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 or difficult family is when they hear it's a little more serious 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 it you can't if them to do things. that need. to lose and i want to be distressed homeowners show volunteers from germany have been coming here

almost since the beginning of the stream 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 me it's just. now we have two volunteers christina and evelyn and he's helping with smaller kids. during rehearsals. christina doesn't only help with classes but with 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 tunnel from france and our friends from finland and the moscow team will also be here we. will be there two. days will be very busy. we're getting ready for the festival like 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 but will you take down with the yes will try this well both clearly go yes they are let's get to work go let's stop filming. please. it was a. very hard to take i. want to get along here a lot have never had sex with her make her look.

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when they don't have anything to do put on street performances i do it all the guys and we perform together and i enjoy it. and sometimes they give money but it's not about. the no one thing. towards him something. anything happens to him or his family or he has financial difficulties here on the street with his. living with his act and they'll be no shame in. yes i believe everything you do comes back to you if you hurt someone or did something bad it will come back to. 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 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. so everything comes back like a boomerang it's. nothing done i think in two thousand and seven and then we have matt. gemini i'm no different places. every time we speak that we should do projects together.

i meant don't solicit this in london seven years ago and this is the sixth time i'm at the festival of me insane. you. can. keep. 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 the social service in general it's more like a circus being taken into a. hindu 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. because they ask what to do when you dig 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 to open a circus was to yell applies to almost every performance by explaining what kind of circus we are before the performance tomorrow i'll do the same goes with. the horse also thinking my best today i don't know i don't know it from home i did not from any other place and it's just to set up on the road so you. just like and you feel sort of free and i really love.

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 near them with a longer because i really got so long for the kids and. when i returned i would see children. yes it's only for training in the go home after training day. came to see chris and i speak with them i play with them i'm much closer to them. way they've been to me. yeah it's quite far away from the sick and that's what yeah annoys me the markets and i have such a long way to the six to the city center. police come here every day. every hour three police cars go around the block and pick up drug addicts. just the way in terms of drug trafficking.

people get 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 it's all moved away to sochi maybe with i'm sort of on the watch i'll have a rest then come back earn some money and go to europe for a good bit of what. we're little i just need to serve in the army and everything will work out fine i'm sure of it. show you a trick. used these guys already have some experience but the circus world introduces them to completely different experiences and values and they're tearing them apart. well today kids have had a taste of success. they've come to grips with their own body c.

ock that machine they had the energy and well developed muscles now if they suddenly realize that they are strong and can use the strength on the street. it was this mission i have that's what triggers an internal conflict in you which is 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 do you wish for and so what 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 is a set of postcards codes i woke 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 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 show 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 a trick. you don't call children and teenagers need adrenaline to do all it's crucial for them if they're to face danger possible. all more they can find it out on the street or hear the circus the choices they're saying. thank. you last call us and some of our graduates who know like cordwood have become skinheads and dogs will turn into great to look people eager to think and develop and make up most to tell us what some of our kids choose a different destiny is incredibly important to me to want to meet or.

hello i'm on my way back from the festival that just ended. i'm going into my apartment. that's asleep. say. i was at the festival. do you know how much you missed because they.

didn't you. my mums at work and dad's asleep ease 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. oh no it was cool. i was thinking somehow i had 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

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