One word describes The Great Moscow Circus: Breathtaking!
All of us who were there on Sunday night were kept on the edge of our seats throughout the entire 2 hours 20 minutes at The Red and White BIG TOP! It was totally breathtaking and heart-pounding! The stunts and death-defying acts were exceptional! No wonder the over 100 year old tradition Great Moscow Circus were hailed the best of the best circus!
As we walked towards the Big Top Tent, we wondered how it would be like to be sitting in a million-dollar tent specially made for Singapore by leading Italian tent manufacturers Anceschi and Canobbio and which took several months to build! It was indeed impressive and it is fully air-conditioned! Everyone can have a good view because no audience would be more than 11 metres away from the action! The Big Top has a traditional European atmosphere to it and why not? It is made by a 5th generation Italian tent maker Paolo Anceschi and hoisted up by a team of 20 people! For a moment, I could picture us going to a circus as a family depicted in children’s story books! Sitting under The Big Top made me a kid again! I am totally in awe of the design of the tent right before the show started.
The show opened with the entertaining act of Trampoline performers who bounced back endless times and effortlessly to the height that they fell in such grace! There was a mix of more than 16 sensational acts that saw talented jugglers, aerial stunts, phenomenal rope-skippers, daredevil motorcyclists, contortionist, marvellous acrobatics, funny ringmaster, among many, many more!
There were so many of our favourites that I could not possibly name it here. But there were two performances that I think each and every member of the audience that night held their breaths while they prayed for the performers’ safety! I was certainly one of them! They were the Wheel of Death which the performers run and jump and skip in the moving and rotating wheels, and Motorbike Sphere of Fear where motorcyclists run their bikes inside the sphere. As dangerous as it looked, the Russian performers were really astounding in giving their best. Sometimes, it might seemed that they were going to fall, but then again, they were so well-trained that I could not differentiate if that was not done on purpose! And the motorcycle act requires such precision of timing, speed, teamwork and coordination, it is hard to imagine human beings are capable of displaying such traits!
In fact, if you were to ask me, I think no one can demonstrate the word T.R.U.S.T as well as all the Russian circus performers that night! They have to have complete trust in one another to not only bring to everyone the best of their performance, but to simply survive all shows! They have my full admiration of their commitment and spirit for the circus entertainment!
If you have not been to The Great Moscow Circus in Singapore, I think you should! It is the school holidays and it will be a good chance to bring the whole family to watch this world-renowned circus. The show will end on 2 December.
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