Circus performance snow queen. The Snow Queen
Performance "The Snow Queen", which is currently on Big Moscow Circus on Vernadsky- this is no longer “just” a circus, this is a grandiose, highly professional, magnificent circus performance, which, in addition to the emotional fireworks of the senses, also gives completely aesthetic pleasure to the eyes and heart. Everyone has read Andersen's fairy tale and knows it by heart, they've watched cartoons, they've seen movies, there are musicals, they're playing in theaters, it would seem - what can surprise you?
But it turns out it’s possible and how! For me, “The Snow Queen” by Zapashnykh - the best And must seen. I always knew that everything the Zapashny brothers do has a mark of quality, and at this performance I was convinced once again. It is both difficult and easy to find words to express your admiration for what you see. It’s difficult because you don’t want to repeat hackneyed compliments, but it’s easy because it’s a fountain of emotions!)
(c) photos taken from evge_chesnokov
And olgabobkovafoto
I'm in and 
The very first scene starts like this.
In the arena we see red-tiled roofs of houses. One window is open. There is a beautiful rose in a pot there. Under the dome is a fluorescent yellow crescent. Ole Lukoje appears. Then Kai and Gerda come out. By the way, they are not just artists, but also aerialists, and before our eyes they soar high into the air, and in one number Kai throws down golden stars, creating a picture of a starfall. A magical sight!
You also need to take into account the lighting and the circular video installation in the form of a snow-covered city.
All together creates a dizzying effect of being in a Fairy Tale.
The Snow Queen In addition to being two meters tall, he is also stunning in his suit!
An unprecedented, sparkling cold silver mirrored huge headdress in the form of frighteningly curved pieces of ice diverging in different directions, and the same long sparkling fingers. Something gothic even slips into her image!
All the costumes are beyond praise - stylish, daring, fantastically beautiful.
The performance runs like a silent movie, without words. One scene changes another. The level of interest is growing.
Instead of a clown, there is a servant of the Queen - the Ice Troll, funny, ridiculous, and just a little bit malicious!)
I was amazed flower garden!
Remember when Gerda left home to search for Kai and ended up with the Old Flower Girl in a wonderful garden?
Here it was done SO well that I even forgot that I was in a circus. Scarlet stripes of silk, a gorgeous gymnast, below are artists with huge roses on their heads, giant petals are scattered around the arena. Something surreal, in the spirit of Salvador Dali, and something similar to the Venetian carnival! Incredibly beautiful!
Room with polar bears- ooh, gorgeous! unique! The foreplay was intriguing. First, they unrolled and raised a ring of mesh around the arena. Then, slowly, slowly, the ice skating rink began to rise instead of the stage. For some reason it was scary! The white bears are exactly like those on the candy wrappers of the famous Moscow sweets! Ice skating trainers. Polar bears, by the way, cannot be trained; they are predators, but as their trainers say: “You can negotiate with them.”
The number with polar bears is called "Northern lights", and we will see it (Aurora Borealis) in the form of pulsating light flashes under the dome, and there will also be Laplanders in fur coats beating tambourines!
It’s impossible to retell everything!
Scene in the royal castle, where Gerda came at the prompting of the crows. What beautiful costumes and curled wigs the royal subjects - acrobats - have! The king in a real tiara and a red robe with a white trim is a very funny chimpanzee, you can laugh at the way he behaved at the table.))
In the scene at the robbers we were shocked horse riding. Hurricane! What skill! Well done! Real robbers!
And I haven’t yet told you about the charming dogs, the bears, the acrobats on horses, the acrobats on throwing boards!
Don’t be confused by the name of the show “The Snow Queen” and the idea that it should only be seen in winter. This is not true, this is stereotypical thinking! “The Snow Queen” at the Great Moscow Circus on Vernadsky Avenue can not only be watched in any season in the fall-winter-winter-summer, it needs to be reviewed like any talented thing!!
Roles performed by:
Kai - Oleg Alexandrov
Gerda - Victoria Alexandrova
The Snow Queen - Lyudmila Titchenkova
Ice Troll - Honored Artist of Russia Nikolay Kormiltsev
Princesses - Olga Selnikhina And Natalya Shafor
Robber - Ekaterina Zmievskaya
Chimpanzee King Mickey
1 compartment
Scene "City Roofs":Gymnasts on trapeze Oleg and Victoria Alexandrov
Scene "Fair on the Square"": Trained bears n\r Yuri Alexandrov
Scene "Flower Garden": Air paintings by Zoya Barkova and Trained dogs n\r Victoria and Alexander Alexandrov
Scene "Kingdom": Acrobats on a pole p\r Honored Artist of Russia Maxim Selnikhin and Trained Chimpanzee n/r Murat Khydyrov
Scene “Kingdom of the Snow Queen”: Attraction "Northern Lights" with polar bears etc Honored Artist of Russia Yulia Denisenko
2nd department
Scene "Freezing apparatus": "Moving Ring" etc Honored Artist of Russia Alexandra Maslova
Scene "At the Robbers": Acrobats on flip boards n\r Anatoly Ruban
Scene "The Sorrow of Kai": Pas de deux on horseback Katerina Leonova and Murat Khydyrov
Scene "Robbers Come to the Rescue": Dzhigits on horseback etc honored Russian artist Yakov Ekk
From Wiki:
The Great Moscow State Circus on Vernadsky Avenue is the largest stationary circus in Europe. The capacity of the auditoriums is more than 3,300 seats, the height of the dome is 26 meters. It has five quick-changing arenas - equestrian, ice, water, illusion and light.
The circus building belongs to the style of artistic functionalism. The office premises of the circus are completely hidden, and the townspeople are presented with a tent glazed along the entire circumference under a folded dome. The design of the dome was developed by engineers G. Krivin and A. Levenshtein. The dome consists of 24 metal folds with a console, each weighing 30 tons. The idea for the design of interchangeable arenas belongs to Georgy Khromov (Honored Builder of Russia, laureate of the USSR State Prize). For construction (started in 1964, ended in 1971), a place was chosen at the intersection of Vernadsky and Lomonosovsky Prospects on the Lenin (Sparrow) Hills on the site of a large wasteland, dissected by a ravine.
The director of the circus is Edgard Zapashny. Artistic director - Askold Zapashny.
CIRCUS PHOTO
PHOTO OF THE PERFORMANCE "THE SNOW QUEEN"
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Friends! Would you like to meet your favorite characters from Andersen's wonderful work "The Snow Queen" again?
After all, we know that this story is about great friendship, devotion and miracles. You will again feel those worries for the heroes of a wonderful fairy tale, who, according to the evil desire of the Snow Queen, were transferred from their calm and kind world to a distant, ice palace. Because of the shard of ice, Kai's heart became icy and insensitive. And only thanks to his friend Gerda, he was able to escape from this world. This fearless girl overcame a very difficult and dangerous path to find her brother and help him return home. Seeing her friend, the girl began to cry, and her tears melted Kai’s heart. After all, true friendship works wonders! Together, friends can overcome any obstacles. Or not?
Do you think that there is nothing in this fairy tale that you don’t know?
This is wrong! And we are ready to surprise you!
After all, our story will be told in the magical language of circus performers. You will enjoy brilliant dances, amazing outfits, fantastic stunts, amazing changing arenas, there will even be an ice one, and countless miracles! You will be captivated by brave gymnasts, acrobats, jockeys and funny clowns. There will be unique polar bears on the ice arena led by Honored Artist of Russia Yulia Denisenko, Yuri Alexandrov with a team of brown bears, jigits on horseback winners of the Silver Clown in Monte Carlo led by Honored Artist of Russia Yakov Ekk, as well as an unparalleled performance by Victoria Alexandrova Dogs on Bicycles and Mickey the Trained Chimpanzee! Who else will you meet on the way to the Snow Queen?
Schedule
April 12, 2017 at 19.00
April 15, 2017 at 13.00, 17.00
April 16, 2017 at 15.00
April 19, 2017 at 19.00
April 22, 2017 at 13.00, 17.00
April 23, 2017 at 15.00
April 26, 2017 at 19.00
April 29, 2017 at 13.00, 17.00
April 30, 2017 at 13.00, 17.00
May 1, 2017 at 17.00
May 6, 2017 at 17.00
May 7, 2017 at 17.00
May 8, 2017 at 17.00
May 9, 2017 at 17.00
May 13, 2017 at 13.00, 17.00
May 14, 2017 at 15.00
May 17, 2017 at 19.00
May 20, 2017 at 13.00, 17.00
May 21, 2017 at 15.00
May 24, 2017 at 19.00
May 27, 2017 at 13.00, 17.00
May 28, 2017 at 15.00
Come see this snowy, charming, heartfelt fairy tale at the Great Moscow Circus!
Video trailer for the circus show “The Snow Queen”
We arrived at the Bolshoi Circus on Vernadsky in advance. We entered the hall and immediately found ourselves on the roof! In front of us were the roofs of the houses of the fairy-tale city where Kai and Gerda lived.
I really liked the funniest and most unusual clown, Icy. The brown bears were absolutely magnificent! They performed tricks that we did not expect from the “club-footed bears”. And they were very active and artistic. Winter is over, but wouldn't it be wonderful to play in the snow with real bears? Yes, even in such huge and not at all heavy snowballs that were thrown to us by the inhabitants of a fabulous city!
Roses bloomed at Kai and Gerda's - red and white, and under the dome of the circus a beautiful rose bloomed at the gymnast's "air canvases". Everyone looked at this miracle with bated breath.
And then the fun began. Funny little white dogs ran out and quickly, dynamically, under the guidance of Kai and Gerda, showed us real circus tricks. Then Kai took a small children's bicycle, sat on it, put Gerda, who took a small dog and, to the general laughter, made a circle around the arena. It was so much fun!
That is why Gerda went to look for a friend, because without him life would turn into an icy winter.
But there were adventures along the way. Acrobats on a pole made such masterful and inconceivable jumps that it was breathtaking. We recognized them by the costumes of the courtiers and not at all a capricious princess, who turned out to be a virtuoso gymnast. This number was one of the coolest.
The Snow Queen also appeared and we were shown the real Northern Lights.
During the intermission, Oleg himself read a colorful program, beautifully decorated with photographs of the artists, because this autumn he is already going to the 1st grade. We also bought a real Jedi lightsaber and popcorn, but we hid it until after the show. Some of the kids shone their swords in the dark, but we are already adults and we understand that we should not interfere with others watching the performance.
In the second part, the carriage in which Gerda went in search of her friend Kai was attacked by cheerful circus robbers and torn into several parts. The leader of the robbers, the young chieftain, showed off on a beautiful white circus horse. The remaining members of the bandit gang turned out to be excellent riders, dashingly and cheerfully showing us the most difficult elements of horseback riding.
The program was so rich and varied that the children squealed with delight, and the adults felt like children for a minute. Especially when the carriage drove out and the King appeared. He walked importantly around the arena, hung his robe on a hanger, and poured himself a glass of water from the decanter.
Can't be! It was a trained chimpanzee - a sweet creature who was not averse to forgetting his royal habits and climbing up onto the table with his feet. Which pretty much surprised his valet. But we guessed that it was the trainer!
The air smelled of winter, snow and ice, and acrobats appeared in a moving ring - a very beautiful act. And very difficult.
Once again we marveled at the inexhaustible imagination and skill of the circus performers. The most surprising thing was the trained polar bears. We had no idea that they could be trained! And they turned out to be such smart and skillful artists.
The fragile girl - the trainer - looked so defenseless next to them, but they obeyed her and did the completely unthinkable - they played musical instruments, and one either clapped or conducted. We just really missed our native elements - snow and ice.
Two bears lay flat on the ice and even licked it with their long pink tongues, which greatly amused the little spectators, and the adults also looked at them with great pleasure.
At the end of the performance, Kai and Gerda met in an unusual, circus-like way. He came down to her from under the circus big top. When all the circus performers came out, we gave them a standing ovation; we really liked everything that was shown to us. The performance ended, but our Oleg did not want to leave, like the other kids. He walked and looked at photographs of circus performers in the foyer and remembered the circus fairy tale about the "Snow Queen".
On this day it was drizzling and the weather was cloudy, but we were in a festive mood. And no wonder - we saw such a wonderful, wonderful, magical performance! We returned to winter fun and met circus animals. Every trip to the Great Circus on Vernadsky is an event that will be remembered for a lifetime.
The Snow Queen in the Circus on Vernadsky: an old fairy tale in a new interpretation
From mid-December to the end of January 2017, at the Great Moscow Circus on Vernadsky, children and adults will witness fabulous events. Every year, the talented team of the Zapashny Brothers Circus performs bright, exciting New Year's performances. Tickets to the Snow Queen show will help you witness amazing and memorable events.
A new reading of the story of Kai and Gerda
The famous fairy tale of the legendary Danish writer, written in the 19th century, still remains one of the best creations for kids. It’s hard to imagine celebrating the New Year without it. This is exactly what the directors and the entire Zapashny circus team thought!
This year, the Circus of Famous Brothers decided to rethink Andersen’s fairy tale story, familiar from childhood.
It tells the story of an evil sorceress who kidnapped the boy Kai so that his heart, which turned into a piece of ice, would stop loving.
The performance called “The Snow Queen” at the Great Moscow Circus, located on Vernadsky Avenue, will delight all lovers of circus art, young and old.
This will be an enchanting show about true friendship, courage, valor, nobility and honor - all those human qualities that are not afraid of any insidious obstacles.
Askold and Edgard Zapashny, numerous circus performers and developers of the Russian animation franchise of the same name, worked hard to create a large-scale action.
An old, old tale of good and evil
A well-known story will appear before small and large audiences in a completely new light. It will consist of a series of breathtaking circus acts: the adventures of Gerda, her meetings with various heroes, the sleigh ride of Kai and the Snow Queen. Viewers will see:
— mind-blowing tricks of aerialists;
— magnificent acrobatic and illusion performances;
- trained animals.
Kids will be delighted with how smart and talented fur seals, bears, monkeys, elephants, tigers show their skills. The complexity and exclusivity of many performances will make the hearts of even adults grow cold!
The performance will be accompanied by amazing music and amazing, technologically advanced special effects. Delightful decorations and amazing costumes will add entertainment, brightness, magic and fairy-tale flavor to the holiday atmosphere.
Of course, the traditional New Year's heroes - Father Frost and Snow Maiden - have not been forgotten. Together with the artists they will take part in a fabulous circus performance. A holiday would not be complete without a beautiful Christmas tree shimmering with multi-colored lights, decorated with garlands and tinsel.
The circus delights its fans with New Year's performances every year. The work of Hans Christian Andersen has always been in demand both on the theater stage and in circus arenas. The plot of the story about the Snow Queen is familiar to everyone from childhood. A vibrant circus show is decorated with acrobatic performances that will take your breath away. The legendary Zapashny brothers are the creators of the unique holiday program. They prepared an incredible performance for children and their parents, based on the famous fairy tale - The Snow Queen at the circus on Vernadsky Avenue.
A completely new look at the famous story awaits you. You will see a huge number of tricks and performances that will amaze even the most sophisticated viewers.
The storyline centers on Kai and Gerda, who grow roses. Their carefree life is spoiled by fragments of the devil's mirror. Kai, who used to be a very kind and sweet child, turns into his opposite. He offends grandmother and Gerda and begins to enjoy the beauty of snowflakes. The Snow Queen takes the main character of the action to her kingdom. Gerda decides to save her friend. A lot of adventures await her. Sincere intentions and an open heart will help her cope with obstacles. The fairy tale in the circus interpretation acquires new features that were not previously characteristic of it. That is why the new show can be called a truly unique performance.
