Circus performance in Moscow
Elisa, my American friend, invited me to go to this circus with her, so I decided to go and invited my friend Shirly also!
One never knows what to expect with this sort of thing, so it was another adventure. First, Shirly & I met Elisa & Kaya at the metro and then we walked to the chain restaurant called Yakitoria. Thanks to Elisa for navigating and getting us both to the restaurant and the circus venue!
The venue itself was not that impressive...kind of run down and tired, but we arrived just in time for the show to begin. 4 ladies were in our seats, so we had to kick them out.
The show begins with some clowns who do a silly little skit (in Russian, of course) and because it's meant for children, I actually understood most of it! lol I was a little concerned about it containing animals as I feel very sad for animals thinking that they will be treated badly. Unfortunately, there were some monkeys and some dogs and the dog trainer, in particular, was cruel to the dogs who weren't performing the way he wanted them to...he was choking them with a wire leash to get them to do what he wanted them to do...I didn't like it one bit. I loved seeing the monkeys and dogs, but don't want to see them having to perform because they don't seem to want to do it and don't seem happy. Ok, enough of that...the rest of the show was interesting. They switched back and forth between an ice rink with skaters to a mat for other performers such as a high wire act, acrobats, jugglers, magic, etc. They were very good at what they do and the show was enjoyable (although kind of long at 2.5 hours because of a long intermission - 35 min.- there were games, cotton candy, pony rides, etc. during the intermission, so it's understandable, but if you don't have young children, it's just a long intermission).
Overall, it was a very enjoyable evening. I left the apartment at 4:50 pm and returned home at 10:20 pm to my sleeping husband.
My photos did not turn out as I had hoped, kind of blurry, so forgive me for that, but you get the idea.
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| The silly clowns that the children loved. I enjoyed hearing the children giggle over these two characters. |
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| This seemed like a family of jugglers. They were simply amazing how coordinated they were and never dropped one single baton. |
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| A good view of the fountains and some of the costumes |
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| The "monkeys"... I know, there are different species, but I don't know what they're called. You can just barely see their little leash to keep them from running off into the audience I guess! |
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| This little guy was good and the trainer seemed to be good with them. |
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| A monkey playing the drums.... not a sight you see ever day. |
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| This acrobatic lady was wonderful. No safety net for her! |
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| This trapeze artist was talented. She went from the swinging bar directly to the loops with just her feet! So daring, coordinated and strong! |
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| For this dude I didn't capture the "before" because I was just too disturbed by it! He got the usual at first with his hand chained and then chains wrapped around him and locked, but THEN they wrapped him in saran wrap! His entire body and even his face/head! I forgot to take a picture. They then put him in this bag and dumped him head-first into the water. After what seemed like at least 5 minutes from the time they wrapped his face in saran wrap, he broke free, thankfully! |
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| Breaking free... |
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| Here's the evil dog trainer...doesn't he even look a little deranged? The dogs were very good staying in their "school desks" and dancing, counting, erasing the chalk board, but I don't like to see this sort of thing unless the dog is treated really well and likes doing it ... but in this case, dogs were scared of the trainer. |
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| This is a cute picture. Is that dog at the back of the class dyed orange or is it his natural colour?? Not sure. |
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