Like acrobats in a human pyramid, the Caucasus countries are inevitably affected by their neighbours' behaviour.
The three-day event in the city's Ocean Village will feature bands, dancers, acrobats, fire eaters and fireworks.
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The highly produced Show in the Sky at Rio includes dancers, acrobats and floats, hourly from 6-11 PM.
"In China in the old days, people looked down on acrobats, " she says.
The revival, buoyed by a cast of astounding acrobats and broad, light-hearted laughs, instead reminded him of Cirque du Soleil.
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Locals claim that their county has been turning out acrobats for more than 2, 000 years, since the Western Han Dynasty.
Potential performers include a pair of wheelchair acrobats and a singing five-year-old boy in an Elvis-style jumpsuit and pink wig.
Although applicants are not required to be trained acrobats and gymnasts, they will have to show that they are strong, flexible and balanced.
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From the center of the stage, a powerful stream of air was sent though a vertically positioned wind tunnel, allowing acrobats to hover in mid-air.
One district in northern China is famous for producing artists who walk on their hands, juggle tableware and twist themselves into knots in other words, acrobats.
This was followed with clowns on swings or swiveling about in giant rings, acrobats suspended high above the stage, ballerinas, someone on stilts jumping rope and dancers dressed as Tarot cards.
By the time we get to the party, for which the Colosseum is bathed in blue light as a backdrop for wire-dancing acrobats dressed in Valentino red, the Felliniesque-ness of it all can bring tears to our eyes.
Business might be slow, but along with the fortune-tellers and healers, the henna tattooists, acrobats and gnaoua, the spiritual musicians, they know the importance of claiming your space before the sun goes down and the big breaks come.
With the world-famous Carnival of Venice in full swing on the eastern side of northern Italy, the capital of the north-west sent off the Games with its own decadent party featuring acrobats, clowns -- and a touch of burlesque.
Previous years have seen Cirque du Soleil-style acrobats hanging from the rafters of the library's basement, a 12-piece orchestra playing songs popular during Prohibition and five old-school barbers in a pop-up grooming shop to freshen up any scraggly-bearded gentlemen, gratis, on the spot.
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Into the chaos, the fumbling in the dark, an order is imposed as people form circles around performers, a troupe of acrobats, jugglers and escape artists, a comedian, a group of musicians, a story-teller... this is trial by public jury: if the performance falls flat, the tricks fail to amuse or the stories to amaze, the crowds move on.
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