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the, the circus is an amazing world. full of laughter, fun and excitement. and it's a whole lot more generations of circus artist to keep the art of life moving forward and preserving traditions at the same time. this is one of the oldest circuses in russia, the moscow circus on february boulevard. some of the greatest acts in the business, and some of the most impress taking action happens right here, the to learn more about the philosophy. that's been the attitude towards it as an art form spoken with. and what about the circus school? cuz i think that answers your question,

what was the 1st one you just mentioned film a 2nd ago, which is a type of technology which makes me ask, has technology changed how the circus operates? and if so, how? so, to the last, as with any hard form, there has to be a balance of what we use. we want new technologies, new tools, and new techniques to enhance the circuits experience. and we have to like not replacing this. are you sometimes behind all the sets and props are scenes and equipment, soft lights and sounds so you can lose sight of the surface itself and all of the performers. and there are. so you have to look and the performers are at the heart and soul of any circus. let me slip. so that's why i'm not a big fan of say, the circus. so they like to me. it feels like they're impersonating a real circus. me, unless you could argue that it's a circus like show. it's not the real deal. remember not in the classical sense. it was and you said to me, which the surface it's one of the oldest in russia,

and it's also now named after using the cooling your father, which makes you part of the dynasty. talk to me more about what that means and why are there so many circus dynasties in the business? so this is a reset. so that depends that argument, if you compare modern circuits with the 19 sixty's, who used to be a whole lot different facts that are available to people who are born into the circus, or as we like to say born and saw, does this work, do they hardly ever had a chance to make anything else of their lives was it goes to a little you would see a boy or a girl learn to walk on their hands before actually walking. you can go before and you know, immediately what their life was going to look like. what's on families has moved from place to place, always on the road, just thought you, meaning there was no proper school education or no. so these young men and women would stay in the circus a theme, and that was their whole life. and he's just no trouble nowadays. there are a lot more opportunities to start in. my young performers are already gearing themselves up for their future life outside the circus, what they prepare themselves for the reality that the professional life of an

acrobat, a gymnast, or an harry list, which is rather short, which of the work for 35 years or so and then you retire out, so not only that, but you often retire with a disability run east of you to, to our meniscus will you ruptures. achilles tendon isn't always right, damages find the shift. that's the price you pay less young swan honestly, she want to do this. i still don't get why people choose that sort of like the i'm not a performer myself is so upset. so it's all very confusing to me. personally, i can understand what drives a person's situation, matters to pay one of the things you need to risk their life several times a day every day because the they climb, they fall, they break their bodies and he doesn't play your things, and doctors put them back together, but just as soon as they've recovered, when they go back, like that's how circus performers are. so one thing about the circus, this is often associated with force or before we don't wanna say

a negative connotation. but there is an idea about the surface. is there any truth behind that or is there more to it? it may have to may have close up. this notion bothers me a lot due to it and you're calling someone a clown used to be an insult. that's what's going. okay. so when my mother told her parents, she didn't have it for a former and wanted to introduce them to the family. they said to her forehead, which theater does he perform? work was? she said he was a circus clown just but despite her mother was so shocked she fainted. who turned out for the last time she cedar clown was before the revolution at a circus showing serrato and the clan was drunk with red hair and kept taller. and yeah, so this is the time to change you because it, everything changes in life varies with, with some of these outdated perceptions and obsolete attitudes. unfortunately, persistence, though it's just like, it's still part of the language to stop clowning around, it cetera. so there's a nice area, it really is a problem for us as showing that because when you start explaining this to people

who, because of their busy lives, haven't been to the surface in a long time. they go to started, we had no idea what the surfaces actually like today, or they thought it was the same as when they were kids. but it really has changed to all things change for a living in a different world. now we have the was, this is the surface of the other planet for you. and what i mean by that is i've heard you say that children have to grow up fast here. people take care of each other. talk to me a little bit more about that culture for you. and uh, what is your window? there was an amazing friend circus promoter. you know, the friend of mine. sheryl be done so that we can proceed with any, said fleming. i wanted to make people understand that we live on 2 planets where one is the normal planet for people. you know, i don't, and the other is our own little circus search, the regression on the big planet. there's all kinds of crazy stuff happening all the time. the wars went, murders, cheating, floods, well, earthquakes,

and armies. people die there. you know, the, the head on the small surface planet use. there's none of that, right? sometimes it's not to romanticize the circus. you see, that's just how it is given to the circus. you can have conflicts based on the new city, your nationality. there's only one nationality here, still some of the performers. so all that matters is what you're worth. as a performer, we should, you won't be judge by the color of your skin or your religion. the only god here's the read are still most of the read is the god you pray to get us to the new, really your left or in a circus. you will hardly ever see a drug addict or an alcohol or towards that lifestyle is simply incompatible with the profession. whether you know, cuz you won't be able to work with you and that's it. just one of those relationships between people are different here. when you grow up in the circus environment, the circus becomes part of your life, and you have to follow certain unwritten rules. so those rules that have emerged fontaine easily, naturally, and one of those left which to me and then there's honesty. there's no lips

thinking, no special effects, and no 3 d graphically assistance. you can't fake tightrope walking or doing somersaults in the air. if the, if everything is real popular, ok, everything's in plain sight too. but reality of it all is palpable. suggesting certainly you can feel the performer giving is all in front of you. it's to doing it for you. it's giving up everything go to the way we lacked that sense of honesty in everyday life, which is very little love is well, just like with love, loyalty and other things that are always in short supply easily. perfect. thank you for the taking the time. it's been incredible, a pleasure talking to you, an interesting conversation that you're welcome to pop up for me. the

thank you very much for taking the time to show us what you do. it's incredibly interesting. every single show, every single practice. you're putting your life on the line. it's dangerous. um, what's in it for you as the artist put something last night and what we do is more like a life style is something we do all the time. let's say it's not a hobby, so it's both a job and a lifestyle. and i'm what i've been doing this since my early childhood, which i was born into a circus family. the my dad was involved when i was still a child and i knew what i wanted to do when i grew up with the most. and so it was more than worth it though because it was a way of life in a nutshell. so there's a sense of danger and what you do, we know that you put your life on the line. what is, what's in it for the audience? what does the audience get? is it a sense of adrenalin that keeps them coming to watch a show?

and the was me typically people come to the circus to see danger and tricks. our job is to give them emotions as a transition, feel satisfied, and emotional level adrenalin comes into it. well, there's what our main goal is to blend athletic routines and wrapped them into this static some of the performance is we need to pull this, make sure it's not just an adrenalin bodies, but also a way to discover something in this genre that matters. and if it's a couple of years now, no one else can do it. you do a triple wide trap is act on how do you face the fear in doing this? i mean, everyone is afraid. yeah, there's less, no fear is impossible. but we managed by focusing on our work to see there's a trick, he must perform dukes and a little bit of a general and helps keep fear down in some way as during rehearsal. so if there's more time to think about these things and maybe fear begins to bubble up, if you do something so many times you get used to it as taking the soap, the fears of science, actually, it's still there because accidents can happen. what's the physical?

it's impossible for each performance to be identical. it's me in terms of how we link hands. sometimes you do it with too much force or not at all. seen this before . you can break something if you're positioning us wrong or left us a lot. so you feel some anxiety every day before work because they didn't fit every day. bring something new. no, it's not like you just keep doing the same thing over and over again. enough every day before we go on stage is what we focus and prepare ourselves to mentally for something new. and you never know how it's going to end this time. when we go to work, we don't know if we'll be able to link our hands name of i guess the catch will go right. see any, but this is our everyday use id or stress. then you will, you get used to have someone look at the stress and pleasure at the same time stressed pleasure with the results. what's good, that's almost a bullshit. so you mentioned this just briefly right now about what you have to really work together to make sure that um you get rid of that fear element, but there's a lot of trust that is needed in what you do. how long do you, how, how do you build that trust with the people you're working with?

the bill or what's your trust is really key. such a person in the air has to have absolute confidence in the capture, which is, or can you trust them with your life, just the place of your safety depends on the person who catches you have to go over it. and if they catch you and they let go, but you can break some things to catch your must be a professional by what you will if you see that there are professional and just you trust them more, it's a kind of you've worked with them for a long time still, he trusts not only with the with but it takes time after a new person joins our team, which you get used to them. we'll say we get used to how they grip your hands before they catch you. so it surprised says, the longer you've worked together, the better for those mistakes happen. it doesn't matter how careful you are. it doesn't matter how much practice you've done. what goes to your mind when you've missed a catch or you, you start to fall. so that how, how do you deal with that? is that artists who do some good in virginia or different kinds of falls somewhere extreme with virginia when you're spinning, but did not knowing which way you're going to model name. in this case,

all you're thinking about is landing safely in that. so mostly ideally, you want to land in your back, but it is very dangerous to land on your head with less people. so, so you're thinking about how to avoid landing on your necklace. 4 feet, and i really wish you don't know where you are and then you're focused on turning in time for a safe landing. in other words, it's not really thinking it's more of an instinct, but the link or it can be a simpler case equipment. say you weren't con during the show, then you dropped into the net. in this case, you're a little frustrated because you're spectators would like to see an immaculate performance conceptual so it does happen that you fall during a shell. the 6 always a little frustrating like a face. i mean, i know that in theater there are a lot of superstitions. are there any superstitions in the circus about good luck or bad luck? things that you have to do to have a good show and do you believe any of them or follow any of them? well, cool. i can't say our team has any specific superstitions, either more general circus superstitions looking for instance, you to, you can't sit with your back to the arena, someone,

but that's common for everyone. they say it's a bad luck if someone crosses your path when you're going on stage. if i deal with these things are mostly remnants of earlier errors. so that's to keep them in the modern worlds. no, cuz we don't think about these things so much. but we do observe those older rituals, like you don't whistle in the circus, doesn't mean that don't sit with your back to the arena, etc. music. but it's not because we think too deeply about these things with them. it's just like a unwritten rules stuck. but i love wish that's good. do you love what you do? i mean, what isn't it? what is it about the circus? what is it about flying severe? the drives you to come and do this every day? no, no, no. because of the deal with 1st and foremost, this is my job and it gets to the, for the people who've been part of the circus for a long time. and so this is more than just work a keyboard. it's a way of life. and as i said before, and we have an unusually long break when we're eager to get back to training and you might, if you've been away for too long, do you feel the physical urge to go back to your routine? said if you want to do this all the time, that's what the key even after an injury,

would you people want to recover and get back even though they realize the danger is equal to. so this is more than just work. and if it's up to stairs, love for what you do, and they say the surface pulls you in and doesn't let you go. it's hard to leave. there's a lot of stress, it's not always pleasant when we do sort of still the people keep coming back with you to a performance is of course are rewarding. it's kind of people are clapping and they see their reactions and they have to slip to up and makes all the work you've put in, worthwhile, the stick a thread. and i thought, i think it's very interesting what you do flying through the air. thank you for sharing this time for me. appreciate the the 1st law. thank you for bringing us here to the arena. this is here. pretty intense us down

through generations. i'll continue calling. yeah. and i was listening the basic modeling. cool. you'll see a baby, tiny guy, usa, mama, she's only 3 months old. those are both her mother and father are here to see stuff . so there's a dentist do you like us to, i guess i'll just stick it up there in the wild tag as happy as lift off. now i can . now i have to ask, there's a lot of controversy surrounding animals in the circus. um, what kind of a job is this for tiger? what do they feel when they come out? they are, they go against their instincts, your firm is finding it, but the thing is they've done suppressed their instincts that push them get that off. you notice for example, that need to yeah, you to is always rolling the star instincts. as mentioned, some of these are not wild animals, their 3rd or 4th generation. so concerning most of what my father used to be pretty recently the hustle, like the one we had right now the maybe there's a work out for the not so really like going to the gym level,

what kind of the fitness group they run the jump. you're good through exercises and so on a little past noon. yeah. well they didn't put it during the show thing. play that part. got it. yeah. i can to santa what the total not. he's match of all along the tough guy. yeah. phenomenon, this lady, there was a sleepy head. it'd be that there's every tiger has a unique power to play or full and telling. each one has their own skills that they show off and on a slip it shows them the book of i'd store on your mobile. yes. mm hm. did you feel attachment to these animals? did they feel attachment to you? do they recognize you as a trainer or the head of the pack or something along those lines? if the boys should demo like cats like a get, they don't feel the kind of attachment dogs did uncle. somebody can to get the keys near that printer to see that on so either not attached to a human. so tool and you probably will. they're not going to rush to protect anyone like and i've talked to and when jasmine had a, have you try go to go to protected house? yeah, i think i've seen a, this is

a predator. hold on. we don't need to be capped at a certain distance cross though with that, with those give me that i'm on what you can just look up to a competitor in even though you've said well with them. um, an animal is a predator. um, do you ever feel afraid? is there fear at all in your work? no. national the sure. yeah, it's fine to have better so huge. died that the 5 liter capacity. what about the what the i put that on and had to look at bedroom was that i sure am set but yes, of course. and you smart develop even though this is animals they still have coolest you. they have long shell tc. they're massive, but i never know how your show is going to end with a threshold. if you recall the story of siegfried and roy, they were working in las vegas with those nice white, i guess the thing that i've seemed to come animals, but then something happened between these are what it's like, a busy me in the neck. you'll know the same here, so it doesn't really have to be a lot of people stay on the floor by standing here. karina's inside the reno. you

sound like your destination if she leaves, they'll be, may have been like, oh, i can never turn your back on or tell you. i wish it though. i've never shown on what the slip i did. if i turn my back on him now, did you see that? did you see how he looked at me? yeah, it's interesting. there's didn't even a baby tiger know that his mom and dad never lived in the world knows from the earliest age of national merit. it should jump to you from behind to get you in your neck. interesting, because it doesn't matter how safe you are. accidents happen. um. first of all, how do you deal with that? and has anything ever happen to you? the slowing in the soul, and i mean you're unable to go, there was a kelly's. he attacked me during the show and it all could suggest. no, no, it was. seems that huh. he was lying down there with that. but it says it just happened during the show. so we'll switch you is that guy that you'll never fully protected and ethics to my it's a dangerous job. we never know how the next performance is marital good,

how it will end when they come out here, right? now there's no one out here in the audience, but for a show, this place is packed with kids and all sorts of distractions. how does an animal fight its natural instincts to go against these distractions? total summer, a human child is no different to a ton of good cub lincoln chalet, excuse me, know these tigers from a very young age. and so from that to any age, they get used to the life of style noises and you would have special effects to be applause and so on. who came to see it? at some point during rehearsal, of course they, we invite kids to sit in the front rows and clearly we see that our animals can get used to that as well. so now as you can see, the sleeping color when an animal sleeping mask like this one here, okay, do it. that means it's completely reassuring about what's going on in the room. the

printer, thank you for taking the time to speak with us. this is fantastic, and so i have to ask, how are you perceived by the animals when you come out as a trained, are you the boss, are you the, how does a pack, how does they look at you got a minute and you have to us as you've noticed, no, they've receive us differently to send you. they see me as a calmer and soft are kind of person. yeah. when i'm in the arena with them, they're relaxed and have them out of pointe. ours are approaches to because they turn more aggressive and more actively ma'am. so we have different roles that created isley. roland. so when an animal obeys at your command, it's not about the strength because clearly the tiger is stronger than you are. is it about psychology? is it about trust? how do you get them to do what they do, what you want, and they build, there's

a long and for through the process of getting used to each other allows you to be building a relationship? well, just some building trust building through, and of course there's love that knows no bounds. the thing you know, if you don't love this job, but if you don't love the animals or she'll never succeed, which will not good. what we do is, 1st one of us, these cops play, i mean we observe them playing assistance, see what qualities they have. we need some are better jumper's easiest guys. i'm can do a beautiful turn. good. others for me just look splendid ones sitting or lying down . i see was 1st and this continues until we are 2 years old and a few years to think about it. okay, that's how long it takes for a tiger. to turn into an artist, your assess threatening adult would be much quicker, so on. but it's different with the type varies to sit out. and when they reach in hubert e at around 3 years of age and they may refuse to do what they have been doing before what the last thing is, we have a tigris ledger, it's a very l, as it looks, she's lying over there on all the other tigers are in the arena clear, but she won't go let's step through because she could perform anything until she

was 3 blends. and then all of a sudden she went to prima done on us and me and said, i'm done. she won't, i don't want to. that's it. i can warn you that you can't do anything about her. you can't force her. it's only when she feels like it isn't what the use to me. it is great if an animal likes a good meal that such animals are a breeze to trade, that some animals don't care about the food that much i need. so i use different texas, so i have this wrong brush and i use that liquid, the cat going to be today, kitty kitty kitty joys good to edit tops along following the brush. if i can make this routine 6 light cost since we train animal when it's young diagram, of course this is in their head. so in their muscle memory on you, and that's what makes them professional artist news, then there's a percentage and that's just kind of weird question. but do you speak tiger, how do you communicate with them? uh, do you have your own language with them or what's been, you know, there's, this is a special kind of snort arthur showed you and you what that when they're snorting

like this, which means they're happy to see that. so they are really fond of yours. polezza, sometimes you see them flattening their ears, they've come jerking their tails and raising their hackles, let you live. that's a sure sign to leave them alone or send you, but they're angry right now and don't want to do what you want them to do. it can you and surely, you know, after all these years for fresh and we've been doing this for 35 years now. it's essentially a, that's most of our lives that no get a boy when you have been around animals for so long as you understand them. so if you feel them to dump us some magical, subconscious level, feel that you know what they want to watch. these animals are majestic, they're grands, very dignified. they even have taken deal 5 names. can you tell me about the most? just for the, you mean i'm with, you're right. we always choose beautiful names. i mean it's, and we have tigers called armoire armoire, all. and by co named us there is the great depression, rivers, the and the great lake was it on that? i'm not sure. i'm not sure. i see if there might empower are reflected in these

names. yes. and i think we have hector, you know, the great where you're not used to have accurately. sonya said that, but we also have boots. i have no idea why he is called that way. and this is the only silly name we have card. we have a car so i can put together the tigris auction car so you wouldn't call them fluffy or a total. would you more likely inside of your car? do you love what you do? that which for yes, very much so. yeah, i love it very much. if the 1000 and let me tell you that was the name is sandra when i'm in there was the tigers. i feel more at ease than with people. that's true for symmetric even when i'm not feeling well. we're in a bad mood. i walk into their enclosures and i'm in good spirits again. you know me, i feel restored. i am fine. again. there are moving source of positive energy, unlike people. she knew tigers don't have and be or hatred yet. they don't feel, hilton. i literally don't have the negative qualities we have got is that as a result and the other energy is pure, so it's, i mean you,

when you're close to the store of this energy loss and you feel great step is one that gives you the current. i thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us in the

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