CHINESE CIRCUS TO ARRIVE IN YEREVAN SEPTEMBER 30

YEREVAN, JUNE 21. ARMINFO. The circus season in Yerevan is over today
on June 21, the new one will open on September 30.

Talking to ARMINFO, Director of Yerevan State Circus Sos Petrosyan
says that the season will be opened by a show of the Chinese Circus –
the leader in the world circus art and winner of international
contests in Monte-Carlo, Paris and Berlin. The leadership of Yerevan
Circus has received confirmation of the Chinese Circus’s arrival
today. Petrosyan says “Chinese Circus is original and inimitable – it
has narrow Chinese tricks, electrical and unique. It is over 2,000
years old. It is a special and very respected art in China.” He says
that almost all the tricks in the Chinese Circus are made by the
actors at the age of 12-23. In China children are taught Circus art at
the age of 3 and reaching 10- 12 years they become professionals and
won titles of laureates and certificates of prestigious circus
contests and festivals. Chinese acrobats are unsurpassed in their art
and not one in the world can repeat their tricks. Only in the Chinese
Circus one can see two small girls bearing one hundred lighted candles
or 11 people building a pyramid on a bicycle, Sos Petrosyan tells. “I
hope the show of Chinese Circus in Yerevan will be sold out, the more
so as the Armenian spectators will have an opportunity to see such an
exotic circus for the first time,” Petrosyan says.