Young acrobats from circus schools across Ukraine dazzled audiences in Budapest this week when the city hosted a Ukrainian youth circus festival to showcase the talents of children forced by the war to train underground or without electricity. | Reuters
Ukrainian Mariia Kravchenko, a participant of the Yaskrava Arena Dnipro International Children’s Circus Festival practices before the competition in Budapest, Hungary, January 1, 2023. REUTERS
BUDAPEST — Young acrobats from circus schools across Ukraine dazzled audiences in Budapest this week when the city hosted a Ukrainian youth circus festival to showcase the talents of children forced by the war to train underground or without electricity. After months of practice in their home cities of Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa and Donetsk, the children aged between 6 and 17 gave more than 30 performances alongside competitors from Hungary, Switzerland, Mexico and Italy at Budapest’s Capital Circus.“As these children are training in air raid shelters by candlelight from morning to night, [we thought] there must be a place where they can show their talent and knowledge,” Budapest Circus director Peter Fekete said.
“We must give them faith that it is worth doing the work, it is worth the training, so we stopped our regular program for two days this January and … handed over the circus to our Ukrainian friends.”
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