Carnival of goodness

The color carnival, which was organized by Uppsala Circus and Vyacheslav Polunin, was like a little paradise.

The park with tents, an orchestra on the water, happy people with painted faces, was full of all the colors of the rainbow. The performers of Uppsala and the Great Circus on the Fontanka immediately put blue faux fur robes and green capes on the guests, and sprinkled them with colored powder.

On a wooden stage, teenage circus performers taught beginners simple tricks. A little further away, near a labyrinth with snow-white walls, a girl in a Harlequin costume sprayed everyone with a spray bottle. “You need to enter the labyrinth kind and clean!” she said. “Where else would you go, baby, your nose is already dripping!”

On the red carpet, children made flowers and hats from scarlet crepe paper. Under the green rags hung musical bottles that visitors played. In the orange tent they were painting some special cardboards.

“What is this?” one of the organizers turned a cardboard gray with paint in his hands. “If this is a gray reality, then we need to add a bright spot there!” – The kid, smeared in gray paint, looked puzzledly at the cardboard and smeared it with a huge orange brush. - “Now it’s a different matter. It looks like a joyful girl who bought a new scarf.”

Helsinki Circus and Uppsala Circus performed in turn in the blue tent. At the last number they literally squeezed into the tent. To the joyful squeals of the audience, the young circus performers did a series of somersaults one after another.

The organizer of the carnival, Vyacheslav Polunin, walked past the colorful tents and paths with a bottle of milk. “What a bright company you have,” he turned to three women in yellow hats. “Can I come to you?” “Oh, we didn’t even hope,” the stunned lady grabbed the camera.

The feeling that you are in an ideal world. The organizers have provided for absolutely everything. Even under the awnings, where visitors hid from the heat, there were bookshelves and tables.

"Mom, let's go to that tent!" - “They only let you in there with magic glasses. I don’t have them.” - “I’ll make them for you myself! Let’s go, mom.”

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