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Russian circus performers win several awards at Budapest festival

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Russian circus performers win several awards at Budapest festival


16.01.2020

Photo credit: circus.ru

Russian performers have won silver medals at the Circus Arts Festival, the website of the Ministry of Culture reports. It took place in Budapest. The city has hosted circus artists from different countries for almost a dozen years. This year the festival was already the thirteenth in a row.

The award was given to the Dzhigits of Ossetia equestrian performance, representing the Russian State Circus Company.

According to the head of the Russian State Circus Vladimir Shemyakin, horse-riding has turned into a legendary genre in Russia. Famous dynasties of artists worked in it, showing horse tricks. High awards received by Russian dzhigits at various festivals and competitions indicate that dzhigitovka is of great interest abroad.

Other artists of the Russian circus were also awarded during the festival. Trapeze artists led by Vladimir Plotnikov received the silver prize and the juggler Semyon Krachinov was awarded bronze.

The main director and artistic director of the Russian State Circus Gia Eradze, who was invited as an honorary member of the international jury, presented the special prize of the Russian State Circus to 27-year-old American Jen Bricker. She was born without legs and managed to become a gymnast champion, and a star of the world circus.

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