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10.10.2017
These Graduates Throw Themselves, Not Caps, in the Air
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Description
Scouts from Russia and beyond hunt for talentat the year-end Moscow Circus School shows.MOSCOW — Ringling Brothers has shut down in the United States, but the big top lives on in Russia, which carries on a deeply-rooted circus tradition that soars above today’s geopolitical conflicts.
Created in 1927 by the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Education, the M.N. Rumyantsev State School of Circus and Variety Arts — a four-year program with 180 students who attend free of charge — bills itself as the world’s first full-fledged circus college.
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