Circus show Attention... Motor... Action! (classical circus performance) Nikulin State Classical Moscow Circus (established 1880)
Schedule for Attention... Motor... Action! (classical circus performance) 2022
CAMERA! LIGHTS! ACTION!
Retro, Luxury, Glitter!
The best black-and-white motion pictures come to life in the bright colours of the circus.
Live orchestra, sprechstahlmeister and ballet.
I.
Prologue (the number "Cord-de-pareille")
Wheel of Death (duet "Risk")
All tricks are performed without any safety devices. At a 10 meter height the circus actors do somersaults, turnovers constantly changing their position - inside and outside the wheel. To maintain the equilibrium, they cannot stop for a moment, they must keep running with rhe revolving construction. The triumph of the show is performing the same trick blindfolded, when the acrobats' eyes are covered with a bandage.
Reprise (under the direction of A. Yemelin)
Rhine Wheel (L. Kaminsky)
An eccentric and amusing number with complex tricks, like a somersault forward from the wheel and a triple somersault on the wheel. Debut of the number.
"Arrival of the Train" (reprise-miniature). Ballet, reprise "Spools", snakes and crocodiles under the direction of V. Goncharov
Caoutchouc (М. Yefremkina)
Silver medal winner on the International Circus Youth Festival in Moscow, silver medal winner on the International Circus Festival in North Korea.
The new number which was premiered on the last Moscow Circus Festival. In the image of a legendary Marilyn Monroe, the actress demonstrates her astonishing plasticity.
Caoutchouc is a circus genre, where the performer demonstrates flexibility at the body muscles and joints. An old name of this genre one may come across on circus posters is a "woman-snake".
Reprise " Roosters " (clown group under the direction of A. Yemelin)
"Sailors" (P. Kolybin, K. Zimin)
The new number, created especially for this programme. Clowns-acrobats brought together the most complicated elements of the circus acrobatics.
Hoops (V. Bagrova)
This circus genre is considered an "easy" one, because it initially involves no dangerous tricks. However, it demands a very special approach in the sphere of creativity. Its pivot is aesthetics. Let every spectator decide which associations this number evokes in his/her mind.
"Aviator", air gymnasts J. Volkova and A. Volkov
Silver prize-winners of the the International Circus Youth Festival in Moscow
Airplane, pilot, stewardess… Adagio in the air… The air gymnasts on the belts create this image and perform complicated tricks without any safety devices.
P. Prostetsov
"Trained dogs "
People's Artist of Russia, Laureate of the International Circus Festivals, winner of the "CIRCUS" National Prize ".
Created in 1975, the number has been a great success ever since, and it has been constantly perfected. Lovely white poodles amuse the audience with their funny tricks, which they willingly perform. They stand on their forepaws on the thainer's palm, do somersaults and tumbles, jump. The actor appears in the image of the famous Frank Sinatra.
Reprise "Skis" (clown group under the direction of A. Yemelin)
Group vaulting under the direction of Y. Tyukin
A unique acrobatic number with 8 participants, created deliberately for this programme. The acrobats perform complicated exsercises, do spiral somersaults.
II.
Overture
V. Goncharov
Attraction "ALONE AMONG THE LIONS"
The young trainer V. Goncharov's attraction is a star turn of the show: the predators are not fed with pieces of meat throughout the performance, all tricks are based on synchronised performing which is rather difficult in itself, the trainer fearlessly sits down on the lions lying on the arena. And for the first time since long the trainer performs the trick "the head of the trainer in the lion's jaws"!
* Besides, V. Goncharov appears with crocodiles and snakes. Traditionally, performance with these exotic animals is showing them on the arena.
Reprise "Champagne " (clown group under the direction of A. Yemelin)
Ballet "Pearls"
"Pas-de-deux on horsebacks"
Winner of the "CIRCUS" National Prize " Y. Shanikova, T. Utyashev
The number for this programme was created in an old circus genre which was considered forgotten for a long time. The combination of ballet with complicated supports and beauty of the horses is fascinating.
Group jugglers under the direction of Y. Drogaleva
Silver prize-winners of the International Festival in Massy (France)
Marlene Dietrich and her men. The new version of the number can be described this way. An exceptional composition and complicated tricks are intensified by the final accord - the actors throw the record number of objects - 17 clubs.
M. Yefremkina, a gymnast in the ring
Silver medal winner on the International Circus Youth Festival in Moscow
Ssilver medal winner on the International Circus Festival in North Korea.
Another debut. Alongside with elegant plasticity, the actress performs a variety of moves and demonstrates highly complicated elements!
Reprise "So-la-mia" (clown group under the direction of A. Yemelin)
Acrobats on counter swings under the direction of D. Zhukov
One of the most dangerous genres, rarely seen today on the circus arena. It was prepared especially for this performance. 7 acrobats create not only the visual impression of risk, but they really perform highly complicated elements.
Epilogue
Сlown group under the direction of A. Yemelin
Laureate of the International Festival in Paris "Circus of Tomorrow " (bronze medal, 1996), First prize winner of the Variety Performers Festival (St. Petersburg, 1996), Laureate of the International Prize "Golden Ostap", Silver medal on the All-Russian Circus Actors' Festival (1997), Laureate of the International Circus Festival in Rome (bronze medal, 2001), Laureate of the International Monte-Carlo Circus Festival (special prize, 2002)
A. Yemelin is a true comic circus actor. His every reprise includes eccentricity, plasticity, dancing, a circus trick and it always is a sample of brilliant acting technique. His every number possesses style and originality. And the group owes its success to his partners I. Prostetsova and T. Svirid.
In this programme A. Yemelin presents a completely new repertoire!
Directors - O. Druzhinina, F. Mikhailov
Conductor - P. Dranovsky
Choreographers - L. Shevchenko, L. Korzhenko
Composers - D. Garnizov, L. Zemlinsky
Designer - Y. Kotova
Stylist - O. Pozdnyakov
Press Review: Angelica Zaozernaya, "Trud".
IN THE JAWS OF A LION
Playing with the public, the circus actors on Tsvetnoi Bulvar very often play with death.
The audience of the famous Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoi Bulvar got accustomed to tricks with high danger factor. However, the premiere programme "Lights! Camera! Action!" surpassed all expectations. Opening the evening, its director Maxim Nikulin said, "This has never happened before..."
The stage directors were captured with the idea to recreate the atmosphere of the Hollywood of the 1930ies. There were no stuntmen then, and the actors had to perform the most risky numbers by themselves. It was in Hollywood, where the "wheel of death" was invented, and the new programme opened with this number. A construction like a ferris wheel from an amusement park was set up on the arena, but instead of the suspended seats it had two rotating drums. Two gymnasts kept running on their inner and outer surface and performed highly complicated somersaults and tumbles without any safety devices. In the end of the number they performed blindfolded! If the acrobats had lost the equilibrium, they would have fallen from the 10 meter height…
Then, to stir up the audience, a giant snake was thrown to the public. Fortunately, it stayed still and quiet, it must have been fed very well before. And the real star turn of the show was an attraction of a 30 year old Vladislav Goncharov - "Alone Among the Lions". Unlike Mstislav Zapashny in his world-famous attraction, the animal trainer does not use fire in this number. But it is beyond comparison in the degree of risk and tension. Vladislav opens the lion's jaws, puts his head there and lets his hands down. This trick is performed for the first time during the last decades. Until very recently, there existed just two attractions with lions in the world circus, now there are three.
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Schedule for Attention... Motor... Action! (classical circus performance) 2022
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