Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Circus! Circus! Circus! (below)
After the beautiful animal trainer stepped down with two lions, the clown called a few people to come up to the stage and move everything down. The two clowns who moved the fire ring looked at the burning fire ring, and when they moved, they had an expression that I was so afraid of relying on this fire ring, which made people laugh.
After the things were moved, a dozen people in fancy costumes walked onto the stage, and the music played, and a dozen ribbons were lowered above the stage, decorating the stage like a big tent, and those people danced in the center.
Catherine took advantage of this time interval to smile at me and Xiao Yayun and said, "How is it?" Isn't the Russian circus exciting? ”
I nodded, "It's exciting, much better than many of the shows I've seen." ”
Catherine looked at the stage and said with a smile while watching the performance: "The history of circus performance in Russia can be said to have a long history, from the 18th century, every tsar has his own royal circus performers, these performers have circus and animal taming as their family business, and have formed many famous circus families that are still active on the world circus performance stage today. Even now, the Russian circus is the best in the world. The Nikulin Circus is, again the best of the Russian circuses. When I was a kid, my dad used to take me here to see the circus. ”
Xiao Yayun leaned into my ear and whispered: "I deliberately used my mobile phone to check when I first came in, this Nikulin Circus was established in 1880. At that time, it was also appreciated by the Russian Imperial Palace and the Empress, so as soon as the circus was founded, its scale and colorful performing arts immediately caused a sensation in the world, and in one fell swoop established Moscow as a leader in the history of circus development in Russia and even in the world. The Nicholin Circus has toured the world all year round, and has been involved in many countries such as the United States, Italy, Germany, Austria, Japan, Romania, Singapore, etc. ”
I raised my eyebrows and said in surprise: "Good guy is still an old circus, no wonder there is such a great show." ”
Although I don't dare to say how much I know about circus, I also know that circus is a real art form that cannot be deceived in the slightest bit for three minutes on stage and ten years off stage. For example, the performances of the parrot planting the onion upside down and the lion drilling the ring of fire, and taking out the clown hat from the lion's mouth, would never have had this effect without the long and repeated training of the audience day and night.
After the opening dance, the performance officially began, and each of the shows was very exciting, including dance, juggling, animal taming, equestrianism and other performances, and each actor continued to surprise the audience with his excellent skills, professional attitude and novel creativity.
I like two of the shows the most, one is the dance of a muscular man and a violin beauty, the muscular man guò dance vividly shows the image of an unlucky man who wants to chase a beautiful woman but can't catch it, not only shows his profound dance skills, but also makes the audience laugh.
The other is a kangaroo boxing match, a nondescript boxing ring was set up on the stage, on one side of the boxing ring was a kangaroo with a bandage on its fist, and on the other side, the hat was eaten by a lion, and went on stage to ask the beautiful animal trainer for a hat and drove the beautiful animal trainer off the stage!
Looking at the opponent kangaroo who was half a body taller than himself, with a sad and joyless expression, the clown was so frightened that he was lying on the rope around him like a puddle of mud, his legs were constantly shaking, and he wanted to turn out of the boxing ring while holding on to the rope.
The referee next to him gave the clown a yellow card and blew the whistle to let the clown go back. The clown is a shy, a kind of scorpion, a crispy tank, about a drought, a source of Yizhi, a cane, a scan, a slur, a moat
The audience erupted in laughter, apparently amused by the clown's quirkiness and greed for life and fear of death.
The referee clasped his hands to his chest, thought for a moment, and then stepped off the stage and took a protective hat and a vest that are common in boxing matches and threw them to the clown.
The clown put on his hat and vest without tears, and when the referee blew the whistle, the kangaroo instantly jumped in front of the clown and punched the clown in the face.
The clown fell directly to the ground, refusing to get up. The referee walked into the arena and, counting ten, declared the kangaroo the winner.
The moment the kangaroo was announced, the clown stood up and was about to crawl out, but the referee grabbed the clown and smiled at the clown with a number two, which means that there is a second game.
I smiled at Xiao Yayun and said, "I guess that clown is now having a heart breakdown." ”
In the second game, the clown fell even faster, and before the kangaroo hit him, he lay directly on the ground, watching the referee put on a rogue look like you let me fight again.
The referee shrugged helplessly, took out a medal from his trouser pocket and hung it on the kangaroo's chest. The clown seemed to be relieved when he saw this scene, and he rolled over the boxing ring and laughed while leaving the ring.
After the kangaroo boxing match, eleven male lions took the stage, and the atmosphere of the audience suddenly reached its peak. Quite a few people even stood up and applauded.
Ekaterina stood up and cheered a few times, then turned her head to look at me and Xiao Yayun and said excitedly: "This is the last show of the circus, and it is also the most exciting show!" When the show is over, the circus is over. ”
In the middle of the stage, eleven lions are commanded by four animal trainers, three of whom are in the ring of fire, four of whom lie on the net, and the remaining four who stand in a row on a wooden platform that rises above the ground.
The host walked up to the stage, smiled and said loudly: "There will be a special session today, we will invite an audience member to come up and be a beast tamer temporarily, and this audience is Yayun Xiao from Huaxia!" ”
Several clowns walked to the audience, came to Xiao Yayun, and pulled Xiao Yayun, who was surprised and hadn't reacted to what had happened, to the stage.
The surrounding audience cheered when they saw this scene.
Ekaterina said with some envy: "I have come here to see the circus dozens of times, and I have never seen the Nikulin circus arrange such a link. Yayun, she's so lucky. ”
I glanced at the clowns who had come to invite Xiao Yayun, and I saw that one of them was a familiar face, the animal trainer who was looking after the chimpanzees and tiger cubs in the lounge!
I suddenly remembered that in addition to apologizing, the animal trainer asked for Xiao Yayun's ticket, asked her name, and I joked with Xiao Yayun at the time that the circus might list her as a free customer for life in order to apologize.
Now it seems that this link was specially added by the circus in order to apologize to Xiao Yayun. Thinking about this, I can't help but have a good impression of this Nikulin circus, compared to such a thing as free tickets, this link is undoubtedly much more sincere.