Circus "Grotesk" : young students and dinosaurs

Времени до представлений остается всё меньше, график тренировок становится плотнее, к сожалению – работы и учебы тоже. Но, тем не менее,  жонглеры  жонглируют, моноциклисты катаются и оттачивают трюки, воздушные гимнастки учат новые трюки или пытаются восстановить старые. В то же время мы тоже решили провести опрос среди участников программы, как и наши финские товарищи – насколько они готовы к шоу? Чего они ожидают? Многие наши ребята были в своих ответах предельно краткими, но вот вопросы, которые мы им задали: 

There is not so much time left before the show, training schedule becomes more tight, but unfortunately so does the studing and working schedule.  But nevertheless the jugglers keep juggling, unicyclers keep cycle, air gymnasts learning new tricks or trying to restore something they new before. At the same time we decided to interview our students like our friends from circus "Tuikku" - are they are ready for the show ? What do they expect from this experience? Our students were extremely brief sometimes, but here are their answers: 

·         В каком номере принимаешь участие? In what act do you take part in the"Rajalla" show?

·         Как вы относитесь к тому, что мы будем проживать в семьях? What do you think about living in families?

·         Участвовали ли вы ранее в проектах с другими цирками/ездили ли вы за границу с нашим цирком? Have you ever took part in projects with other circus or have you been abroad with our circus?

·         Читаете ли вы блог проекта? Do you read the blog of our project?

·          Как вы относитесь к участию в этом проекте? What do you think about our international project?

·          Как вы относитесь к теме проекта? What do you think about theme of our project (racism)? 

Vlad, 15 years

• Juggling, acrobatics, unicycles, jumping ropes
• Neutral
• Yes, I took part in the show on the Sylt, Germany, and went to circus festival in Daugavpils, Latvia
• Yes, I do
• Neutral
• Closer to negative

 Dasha, 14 years

• Juggling, jumping ropes, footjuggling
• Positive, but I’m not sure about communicating with family, because I don’t know their language
• Yes, I’ve been in the show on the Sylt, Germany
• I look through it once a day
• I think it’s very interesting
• I’m against racism, I assume all nations are equal 

Olga, 16 years

• Juggling, acrobatics, diabolo, jumping ropes
• Neutral
• I haven’t took part in any projects, but I have been in the show we perform on the Sylt (Germany)
• Yes I do, twice a week
• I approve this collaboration and looking forward to something new.
• …

 Danya, 13 years

• Juggling, unicycling, jumping ropes
• Normally
• I’ve been in Daugavpils on the circus festival “Parad Alle!”
• I do, but seldom
• Normally
• Normally 

Nastya, 11 years

• Acrobatics, contortion on the table
• Normally
• Nope (but actually last year she was on the festival in Daugavpils and took the second place in the middle age group with her partner Uliana)
• Yes, a bit
• Good
• The theme of project is good and actual. 

 Andrey, 13 years

• Juggling, unicycling, jumping ropes
• Positive
• Yes, I’ve been to Latvia and Germany
• I read, but seldom
• I think it is very good
• Racism is bad  

 Ira, 14 years

• Juggling, acrobatics, aerial silks, jumping ropes, diabolo maybe
•  Depends on people
• Yes, yes
• Yes
• Positive, looking forward to good experience
• Negative 

Danya, Ira, Dasha, Andrey, Vlad

  Vika, 16 years

• Diabolo, hula hoops
• I like the idea of living in families
• Yes, I took part in the project “Talking tree”. It was great
• Yes, I do
• I think it’s’ going to be very interesting and exciting
• Neutral  

Vika

        And here the answers from our "dinosaurs" - the eldest students of our circus group 

           

            Tanya, 19 years

• Diabolo and jumping ropes
• Positive
• Yes, I have, I worked together with Finnish, Estonian  and Russian circus from Murmansk in project “Talking tree”, I’ve been to Germany, Latvia, Finland and Israel
• Yes, I regular looking through fresh news
• I wanted to come Lappeenranta and  to work again with circus “Tuikku” again for a long time, so I really like this project, can’t wait for this experience, it’s going to be a great adventure.
• The theme is very actual nowadays, very interesting how we will make it work on the stage. \

Tanya

              Nastya, 21 year 

• Contortion on the table – and it sounds proud!
• Good, especially if there will be WiFi :D
• Yes I have
• Yes I read but just Russian letters and photos
• I think making projects with other circuses is great! And Finns are cool!
• I can hardly imagine how we will show this theme with the circus art

             Vlada, 23 years 

•  Contortion on the table, aerial silks
•  Normally
• Yes, I have, it was really cool
•  I read the blog and I like it
• Good
•  I feel warily about it 

Vlada and Nastya

           Olga , 24 years (The eldest dinosaur and proud of it)

• Trapeze
•  Living in families is always the great experience (it will be my fifth), so don’t be afraid of it, it’s a best way to know each other, also it suits the theme of or project perfectly! For example, I’m still in contact with Karita, in who’s house I lived with Tanya in 2004 while doing show “Puzzles”
• Yep
• Yes, and  I write posts from Grotesk. Unfortunately, last days I hadn’t got time for it at all, sorry!
• I’m really excited with this collaboration and can’t wait meet our friends soon!
• The theme of the project is really actual these days, so we need to speak about it, we need to do something. I still can hardly imagine the whole picture of our show, but I’m sure we will make it work 

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