Do you like the circus as children love it for festivity and carelessness, for beauty and courage, for fun music and an atmosphere of excitement? If so, hurry to the Big Moscow Circus on Vernadsky. Moscow is conquered by the premiere, which takes place on the famous arena of the country's largest circus .
Starring
The plot of the circus show “Messenger” is the dreams of a little girl in which she is surrounded by unusual people and funny, friendly animals. This role was the debut for the six-year-old Eva Zapashnaya, the representative of the fourth generation of the circus dynasty, the daughter of the artistic director of the Big Moscow State Circus on Vernadsky Avenue Askold Zapashny.
With the inherent immediacy of children, Eva admits that it is most difficult for her to sit on the neck of her uncle, Edgard, who is spinning a giant hula-hoop at this time. Obviously, being among African and sea lions, walking between cages with leopards or terrariums with crocodiles, a child who grew up in the family of famous predator tamers does not cause internal discomfort. The first entry has already been made in the artistic track record of Eva Zapashnaya: the circus on Vernadsky Avenue, the program “Messenger”.
Reviews of the second protagonist, the Messenger, the audience shared. The artist Boris Nikishkin, a clown and laureate of several circus festivals, brilliantly brought to life the director’s plan and became the unobtrusive guide of the Girl on a trip to the circus world. Young, charming, cheerful - he effortlessly accompanies the little heroine and the auditorium throughout the performance. However, the fastidious and sophisticated audience does not always positively evaluate his clown work, dividing the artist’s participation in the performance into two components - acting and circus.
A mixture of fiction and reality
Color dreams, traveling through uncharted lands and meeting incredible animals is an intriguing circus show, which was prepared by the Moscow circus on Vernadsky. The “Messenger” (reviews of the spectators more eloquent than newspaper reviews indicate the success of the new performance) was staged by the creative team of the Zapashny Brothers circus. The audience who visited the show expresses their impressions in enthusiastic tones. Although the dotted, as if deliberately circus untold plot makes the auditorium fantasize and seek its own interpretation of the events taking place in the arena.
In the center of the story is a little girl (Eva Zapashnaya), in whose life everyday everyday facelessness is replaced by vivid night dreams and walks, accompanied by a toy Plush Hare (Elsa Zapashnaya, Sonya Selnikhina). Before the dreamer appears a string of characters who engage her in a colorful kaleidoscope of events unfolding inside the circus ring.
The owners of lush manes are powerful African lions. Amazing sea lions - graceful and heavy inhabitants of distant and cold seas. Tropical boas, unpredictable alligators, leopards, wolves and huskies. Together with them, fearless trainers, brave tightrope walkers, clever acrobats and balancers - a motley company accompanies the dreams of the main character of the play. And she also meets Angela (Boris Nikishkin) - kind, cheerful and funny-clumsy. They travel together among dreams, and I don’t want the morning and parting to come. Because the Angel is a messenger that brings new joyful experiences. Such a fantasy was presented to the public by the circus on Vernadsky.
The audience’s reviews convey admiration for the trick in which the trainer raised the largest lion on his shoulders.
Head to Head with Lions
Vladislav Goncharov does not belong to the galaxy of hereditary trainers who, from childhood, comprehended the wisdom of communicating with predators. In 1997, he began working in a traveling circus with posting posters and distributing tickets, and worked as an administrator. When I decided to create my own number, I bought a lion cub, but I could not make an artist out of it, and I had to give the animal to the zoo. Then he tried again with another predator, and again failed. However, perseverance and patience yielded results. The young artist prepared an attraction with 12 adult lions.
By hard work and talent, he achieved recognition in the professional community and among the audience. Vladislav's attraction is an adornment of every circus program and a guarantee that tickets will be sold out long before the start of performances. Rehearsals and tours, frequent trips - the specifics of circus work. Today the address of Vladislav Goncharov: Moscow, the circus on Vernadsky, "Messenger".
Public reviews expressively describe the emotions of the twine made by the girl on the heads of two tightrope walkers under the circus dome - surprisingly and unforgettably.
Thin rope walks
The first girls whom the Girl saw in a dream were angels strolling under a circus dome along a barely visible path of a thin steel cable ghostly flickering in height. The original design of the props and complex combinations of performed tricks - like fake angel wings actually support fearless artists in the air. The sensation of soaring, weightlessness and lightness creates the illusion of free flight and the infinity of fantasies into which the young heroine of a circus performance plunged in a dream. The tightrope walkers, led by Roman Chizhov, managed to convey the light world of the airiness of a quiet childhood sleep and create an atmosphere of tangible magic, which was put into the plot of the show “Messenger” by the circus on Vernadsky.
The reviews are filled with excitement of the audience at the sight of a leopard riding on an air swing and a huge crocodile running through the arena a few meters from the audience.
Borneo: exotic territory
Circus performance - a kaleidoscope of rapidly changing colorful miniatures. The circle of the arena turns into a fabulous kingdom of exotic animals. White pythons and crocodiles are witnesses of a thousand-year evolution. Graceful, alert and every second ready for a sudden leopard leap. The artist Marina Rudenko, the creator of the Borneo act, managed to consider artistic talents in her wards - in children's dreams, toothy actors look harmless and friendly.
Circus Twirl: Alaska
A carriage harnessed by a four of Siberian huskies carries a swirling whirlwind through the arena of Girl and Teddy Hare. After the tropical Borneo, fantasies transfer the heroine to the cold northern latitudes, to the expanses of the Alaska room (supervisor Yekaterina Korenkova). Alaskan Malamutes and black Canadian wolves live here. And, in contrast to the ferocious predators, ordinary domestic goats with silver horns - a truly fabulous neighborhood prepared for the Girl and the audience a circus on Vernadsky Avenue.
Muscovites liked the “Messenger” (reviews and photos about visiting the play by the audience generously publish on the net). Sophisticated connoisseurs admired the complexity and originality of the rooms with props unconventional for the circus - doors.
Doors: Circus Worldview
The small, by circus standards, number of paired equilibrists “Behind the door” (leader Roman Khapersky) struck the auditorium and caused a flurry of amazed responses. The breakdown of foundations - the fragile girl, who supports the male partner, who performs complex balancing stunts, got the role of the “lower” in the stalls. Unconventional props are a door, like an opening into an unknown world, beyond which human abilities rise to another level. Honed skill - it’s not without reason that Roman Khapersky became the owner of the Bronze Clown of the International Circus Festival in Monte Carlo (2011). Indeed, the multi-color circus performance is made up of a palette of bright numbers, which was brilliantly used by the circus on Vernadsky in his fantasy show.
"Messenger" reviews earned enthusiastic and grateful. The audience experienced a real sense of tenderness from the number of marine animals - a striking understanding between the artist and his pets.
Envoys of the Northern Seas
Steller sea lions are bulky and awkward gorges, lazily moving from flippers to flippers, and tracing their sides on the rocky shores of distant Kamchatka. The trainer Vasily Timchenko introduces the audience to the other side of the nature of these animals: swift, emotional, agile and amazingly graceful. The real artists: they mastered the triple balance and dancing, twist the hula-hoops and climb the stairs. And they do it easily, naturally and with visible desire. Steller sea lion is the most dangerous species among its relatives. But the hereditary trainer Vasily Timchenko managed to find mutual understanding with them. Although it is recognized that he is allergic to fish that sea lions adore. These are such noble people and talented animals in a dream a little girl saw from a good fairy tale, which was presented to the public by the circus on Vernadsky.
The “Messenger”, reviews of which illustrate the success of the production, was considered by the audience as the best circus performance of the Zapashny brothers this season. The program captured not only children, but also parents - this is the unanimous opinion of people who visited the circus.
Behind the curtains of the show
Spectators rarely manage to look behind the circus curtain (forgang). A wave is gathering movement and strength there, raising the charm of the uncomplicated story of the Girl and her fantastic dreams to the level of the upper ranks of the amphitheater. Acrobats are warming up on a Russian stick under the leadership of Maxim Selikhin - in a couple of minutes they will hit the audience with dizzying jumps. Soap bubbles that shimmer with rainbow colors in the rays of circus floodlights are still resting peacefully in plastic bathtubs. An acrobat with hula-hoops is preparing for release Alexey Chaynikov - his number is in the second part of the program. Long feathers gleam gently in the muted backstage. They, in the final issue of the program, will be raised by equilibrists under the leadership of Vadim Shagunin.
The positive impression of the audience is the best indicator of the success of the new program. Choosing a place for a Sunday family vacation, thousands of people are interested in what reviews the Circus receives on the Vernadsky Avenue "Messenger".
Ambassadors of circus art
When it comes to circus performances, the director and choreographer or costume designer are rarely mentioned. Although the names of the Zapashny brothers, who recently led the circus at Vernadsky, are well known to lovers of circus art. In building new performances, they moved away from the practice of demonstrating divertissement programs that were not connected by the storyline. Obviously, the audience liked the theatrical style and the reviews about the performance of the “Messenger” illustrate this clearly.
Together with Edgard and Askold Zapashny the following people worked on the program: the main director of the circus Yevgeny Shevtsov, the main choreographer Olga Poltarak, the sound engineer Jan Peterson and Yevgeny Bargman - the main conductor of the circus orchestra.
Performance continues
Today and every day - paying tribute to centuries-old foundations, the circus to this day continues to use the traditional formula of work. Although the audience is sometimes puzzled, because the performances do not pass every day. The front door opens on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The lobby is filled with talkative noises, echoing the voices of animals coming from behind the scenes and the muffled sounds of the orchestra. The third bell, the late spectators rush to find their places, the conductor’s knock on the music stand, the overture ... The lights go out and the performance begins, for which the audience came to the circus on Vernadsky - the “Messenger” show.
The audience’s reviews are comparable to emotional shock, and the program is recognized as one of the best among those that took place at the Moscow Big Circus in recent years.