it's also a circus is a modern circus stuff by socially disadvantaged kids. at five years. ago i did ok thank you. 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 we heard it all could somebody we don't have thirty six hours in a day then we 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 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 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 recog so you know what that is they wrote a new one they mad on the role and. yeah well that would have 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. 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 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 our child they are easy going boys and girls that's 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 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. at 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 back nobody would get excited that i worked social workers bring them to us sometimes our friends call and say we know who he done and he's just what you need come and get him on one popcorn dip be 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 i didn't take it seriously but came to have a look anyway until i saw kids who were really doing something so i decided to try and i really liked it even brought my sister into friends here that's just. not beating it was look at the audience sees my life is pointless. it's morning sure 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 go back and it should be like. this girl has just turned my life upside down and you're like hey dude should we go somewhere watch alone 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 its. 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. and 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 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 during rehearsals we work when we 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 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 saw a girl and we were just looking at each other for half an hour she mr stop and say looked into her eyes plucked up the courage and spoke to her so 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. why should my more time. than that. 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 all the things. that. 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 in the state and i want to learn recently. my writing to say dumb cameron to your but. there was there were. those moves so sue. i've worked with a lot before but they were all like normal kept more than also normal they are here but it's hard 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 more serious moments 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 see you can't if them to do things. that. you know the notion that you lose

and i want to be distressed homeowners volunteers from germany have been coming here almost since the beginning strangely 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. 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 oracle ration is for the festival an 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 tunnel from france and friends from finland and the last 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 on the let's start filming. so you know if you're confident that the irish people won't be asked and down to stab in the face why do you buy the private banks that he and any costs and start after hopkins doesn't it be fun not economically down what always happens as a regulator its central bank and its politicians they say this will never ever happen again and it keeps on happening but we have to ensure is that if this stuff

company can doesn't cause such a classic please make an all full cost for tots. until me the people in my gun are. bringing good stuff for ukraine. because to be in but equal yugoslavia each should probably. be a blue greets memory of the powers that be. we need much better before that even though this is a hoax a little known in europe we don't know. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. or a factual standard of living.

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 with. me and sometimes they give money but it's not about.

the no one thing i have told him something and 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 hurt someone or did something bad it will come back. i caused a lot of trouble i broke into apartments and stole things from people. so 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 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. met

in london i think in two thousand and seven and then we have met the venue beds and mean germany 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. and it. 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 circles in general it's more like a circus being taken in so. 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. there are various what to do when i look at the audience i think the old look so nice so much been given to me i think about twenty percent of them have no idea what the circus was sold to yell applies to almost every performance by explaining

what kind of circus we are before the performance tomorrow i'll do the same to the . forced also thank my guests today i don't know i don't know it from home i did not from any other place sorry minds just to set up on the roof and see everything just like you feel sort of 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 one longer because i really got so long the kids and. the mob people when i retire with children. yes 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. way in the van. 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 fucking every hour three police cars go around the block and pick up drug addicts. you know leads 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 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. here's a quick show you a trick. about 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. what they kids have had a taste of success they've come to grips with their own body c. ock. they have the energy and well developed muscles now so if they 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 in you which is getting through it is really difficult for them they have to make a choice can you go and they can either go out with this experience and these

muscles and become fugs in the street or develop themselves as artists which. this is my audience you know i'll tell you one thing i'm very scared whatever you may think i'm actually very scared are you scared. but that's a good luck to everyone. so what do you wish me luck think so what do you wish for and so what they should love. what do you wish me this lack of love yes

indeed luck is what i need. good morning once in winter in a small bookshop i run across postcards by alexander it's. a look through them and so something gentle kind open to everyone. is 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 where will i get such a boy no one in the group will match it to be a very strange character and that's when we 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 than he's now national he wore a cap with ears like a bear skin 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 and everywhere 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 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. almost they can find it out on the street or hear the circus the choice is theirs.

thank. you. much but some of our graduates who know like cordwood have become skinheads and dogs will turn into regular people eager to think and develop seven 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 because the. didn't you come. to z's alexei. my mom's at work and dad's asleep is 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 wishing. all in all it was cool. normally. i mean people name me as. a mobile forty. seven i've got no other family no. i'm still looking for my calling it life. so my place in the world. i literally have no place to live. to sit there chewing on the bread that you bowl with the last money you were able

to beg and all i can say is get out of here. there are only two possible outcomes to the situation you have a hug you go to miami and it's all about fancy cars hot chicks the other option you die in the ring breathe deep breathe deeply. put it on your full strong arm and watch n.b.c. news all the face you know. the pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure.

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