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This is Sarvar, he is 16 years old. He was born and raised in Uzbekistan, but has been living in St. Petersburg for the past few years and is engaged in our hooligan project. During this time, he learned the Russian language and began another life. What is really important in the tent? Only the fact that Sarvar is the artist Uppsala-Circus. Together with Sarvar, 67 young artists are engaged in a hooligan project.

These are guys from dysfunctional and foster families. Immediately after school, children come and, as a rule, go home late in the evening. And so from three to five times a week. The acrobatics program, juggling, equalibrics, modern dance, parkour, air acrobatics on canvases. Each course solves its creative problem: beginners put a circus carnival, the middle group is passionate about the performance of the performance, graduates prepare solo numbers.

We are responsible to every child who is engaged in this project. Few people help difficult teenagers: they are sent for the fence of special schools or specialists to “re -educate”, but in reality they are broken. The Uppsala-Circus changes the context with “you are criminals, and everything is clear with you” to “you are talented and can jump above your head”.

Inclusive project and this is Maxim, artist of the play “I Basyo” and a participant in our inclusive project. A couple of years ago, he returned with his mother in the subway after training. Ahead stood a man with a child who began to show at Maxim. The artist’s mother was already used to the fact that children react brightly, ask questions, and do not look away. And suddenly dad says to the girl: “So you go to the boy, say hello.

After all, you will not often see the artist from the Uppsala-cycle in the subway. ” This change of roles is important for all children with social labels. In the inclusive center, artists with Down syndrome, autistic spectrum disorders, behavioral and mental features are engaged. It is very important for the guys that they are considered real artists. At the same time, we not only help children, but also change society.

We reduce the stigmatizing attitude to those who are different-people with features, with complex behavior, “uncomfortable” people. We do not say that 5 hooligans and 6 children from the inclusive center took part in our performance. We say that 11 young artists perform in our performance. What is the result? Viewers who were at the performances better say for us: as a result, we always work with a cultural product.

The result of the first year of study for children - a carnival, a creative laboratory in Georgia - the play "Dreams of Pirosmani", international partnership - the Circus Perfoman. Brahms at the festival Balancing in the year. The basis of our method is the desire to change and the ability to act. Our team works in order to create a joint cultural product: festival, program, performance.

We cannot afford to inactive and only speak, this is a circus! Katerina “45 minutes” flew by one moment and filled my heart with faith in good, touching and beautiful. Many thanks to the young artists and all the magical people who created this amazing miracle. Yesenia “Watchman of Dreams” is a kind fairy tale with humor and love, children's pranks, care for each other, with beautiful living music and acrobatics.

Left with a great mood. The hall was filled with children's laughter and applause! And also, you have such a loving host atmosphere for children with features. It pleases. Lydia I visited the play "45 minutes." Thank you for the opportunity to look at the usual things from a different angle and make sure once again: this life should be interesting and joyful.

Asya, you charge positive, love and good! Your ideas are inspired! We sincerely thank the young artists of the “watchman of the dreams”, little guys for the most interesting performances, an amazing game and tricks on the stage! Thank you so much for your work and efforts! Maria "feathers" is indescribable! Well, I often determine for myself the degree of enthusiasm for goosebumps.

You read Olga Bergholz - and goosebumps throughout the body, and freeze for a moment. Your performance is also so capturing - that even more than once goosebumps ... The secret viewer of the soul of the soul, mantra, meditation, your inner cosmos: call as you want, but each time your finely selected music in the heart, and living instruments are a separate East!

The deep meanings that we after the performance are discussing with the child on the way home! Artists are children, each so original, strong spirit, but so sincere. This is what we are adults, and come here. Sincerity is a rare guest in the adult world! Yuri in the “Pirosmanni dreams”, teenage actors fly on ropes, struggle, juggle, dance and have fun. And you are sitting in the hall, and your thoughts go somewhere far from everyday questions.

He looked around - at the whole hall of his eyes at a wet place, and the universal state of tenderness rolls even more. Cultural products after the pandemic children again rush to us after school, they cannot be expelled from tent until night. Doors clap, shoes throughout the corridor, the same beauty. The struggle began for the tent, and this is not a joke.

We train in parallel.Today, the performance has grown into a full-fledged performance and has become part of the UPSAL-Circus poster. He intertwines in himself everything that is associated with us with a new circus: dialogue with the audience, improvisation, art synthesis. All this creates for the audience a new and unexpected experience in the circus. The performance was created with the support of Hutton, V2Group and the Friends Foundation.

Mexican carnival of death - Seryozha, just survive! Such instructions in the year were given to children Andrei Kislitsin, the director of the Carnival of Death and the artist Cirque du Soleil, on the eve of the event. And you know what? Just a plague, Bamachts! Carnival of death, and if you look closely, is a holiday of life on which children play. It looks like complete madness.

Seryozha and other children survived. Thanks to everyone who walked on this day along the embankment at Sevkabel of the port with us, squinted in the sun and sincerely rejoiced at the carnival as if there was no year. Brahms at the festival of the new circus and street art balancing on Okhta in the year. Место не было случайным — Уткина дача. We wanted to go beyond our territory, explore a new place and meet the audience with which we might not meet.

And most importantly - to see how an abandoned estate becomes a point of attraction. Freedom and the absence of borders that we are used to seeing around us in everyday life is one of the leading topics. If the viewer never listened to Brahms' music, then here he may be surprised how “about him and his life.” So it happened. At the festival, we presented a collaboration with Nima, circus artists, street dancers Olga Tsvetkova and Valentina Lutsenko, and the sound designer Daniil Koronkevich.

Rebels for Peace on April 26 of the year in the Subsala-Circus tent, the premiere of the Domino performance, in which teenagers from Russia, Germany, Syria and Afghanistan talked about the world in which they live. Domino is a play-polylogue and a performance. Each of the participants enters the circus scene with a personal story about the house, family, loss and gaining. The youngest participant in the residence was 7 years old, the oldest-after the spring premiere of the performance in St.

Petersburg, the Uppsala-Circus team spent three summer weeks in Germany, in the cities of Tsiits and Leipzig. Each day, classes in creative workshops were held: a modern circus, documentary theater, media technology, sound design. Teenagers investigated the topics of war and peace, borders and communication - in everyday life, creativity, urban space. The result of the residence was the Rebels for Peace festival, on which the presentations of workshops were held.

In the final, the participants arranged a picnic with local residents to celebrate, see each other and feel unity. We write cool letters! A couple of times a month we share news from the life of the circus. To get this, leave the contacts here: I agree to process personal data in accordance with the Personal data reference policy.