Showing posts with label circus. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017

"African Beasts" Circus

Back in February, while Spencer was at the conference in America, we decided to go to another circus show with our friends, the Stices. The circus was a traveling one, but I do not know where they were from. We usually get circuses from Moscow that have really good shows. This one was from somewhere else. The show was called “African Beasts”, so we thought that they would have some African animals but otherwise it would be the regular circus, meaning lots of cool acrobat acts. Well, we were wrong. It was mostly animals that weren't in the mood with just a couple of people acts in between. Had we known that beforehand, we would have avoided the show. All of us were very disappointed. Here are some of the pictures from the show.

Girls are having high expectations for the show.

They had a couple of tigers and a lion. One of the tigers and the lion were albinos. 

Jugglers. They were the only "people" act that was more or less interesting.

They brought this giraffe that just ran around the rink. Then some woman climbed on top of that giraffe and rode it a few times around the rink. They announced that she is the only woman in the world that did this act. That is probably because other women have better judgement. The act was really bizarre and ... poor giraffe!

Then this guy tried to make the goat walk on the poll. The poor goat did not want to do it.

Monkeys were a bit more willing but still weren't in the best mood.

This dog was the only enthusiastic participant of the show. He was jumping over running rhino. 

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Our October Visit to the Circus


The Astana Circus Building (not in October)

On October 25 we took the girls to the circus.  Astana, like most former Soviet cities has a permanent circus building and a circus.  Circuses travel around to other cities and so you get different programs throughout the year.  We took the girls to the circus in Krasnoyarsk when we were there visiting in summer 2012.  The program for the circus in Astana was The Moscow Circus.  Yulia got tickets for Saturday afternoon - we had to take Lina out of school for her to attend, but it was worth it.

It was already getting cold in October, so our trip to the circus on the bus was cold (waiting at the bus stop) and then hot (riding in the full bus).  We arrived  in time to check our coats and get our seats and to wait for about twenty minutes.

 The program was a great mix of danger acts, funny acts (with clowns that were actually funny), and animal acts.  The best of the acts combined two or even three of these different elements.Overall this was the best circus I've been to in this part of the world (twice in Russia and now here). After the circus was over we walked to a nearby mall and ate at KFC and caught the bus home.  It was a fun evening for everyone.

Ushers directing viewers to their seats before the show begins.

The ladykids waiting for the show to start.
Dog Act with Clowns.
Cat act.  Its amazing that cats can be trained at all - and these were good!
Horse act - he danced like a Lipizzaner Stallion and it was beautiful.

A talented musical clown, and one that was funny, too.

Djigiti - Old Georgian-Central Asian Horsemen and Warriors. 
The Finale - Tightrope with multiple walkers, including bears (seen on the far stand). Awesome!
With the bear on a tightrope.