I was very surprised to see this circus. Haven't seen a circus for more than a decade. Last time I bought a ticket and saw the show was in 2005. It was a small circus. Only 4 people were changing costumes and doing various things. The acrobats turned into clowns, and one of the clowns tamed the wild animals. They have plenty of animals, but those weren't the typical circus animals that are forced to do something like jumping through the fire. Here you had porcupines, pelicans, crocodiles ... and they just appeared and walked around the stage while some big 2 meters tall dude with long black mustaches, dressed like Indiana Jones was kind of dancing and trying to keep them from going to the audience. At one point, while the acrobat lady (she was also the magician and the knife thrower) was doing her stuff up in the air, hanging from the ceiling. a small baby hippopotamus walked in between rows of sitting people. It was a very cute hippopotamus, just a little bit bigger than a domestic pigg. The Indiana Jones guy brought him out in silence, the hippo followed him like a dog. On that occasion, the dude was dressed as a clown but had no make-up. It was summer, and I visited the circus with a friend who worked with me in the Tourist agency. We were exhausted, went there directly from work, sweaty and tired. At one point the clowns were calling and choosing people from the audience for a sketch. I had a hand over my face and I thought: Oh - no, just stay away from me :D I'm not in a mood for that stuff tonight - they chose me, of course, and insisted. So I went on the stage and had to act like a jealous husband in some bizarre situation :) don't remember what the joke was exactly, but I had to nock at some colorful door with no room behind ... didn't regret accepting, it was a fun experience. The circus arrived from Italy, it was named Circo Aquatico. At one point a man entered an aquarium with the shark. The aquarium was just a bit longer than the man and the sharks were considerably smaller. It was an innocuous species that I saw many times in documentaries. But the scene, with that long aquarium on the stage, looked beautiful and surreal.
My friend was photographed with the young crocodile.
The photo is inside this little booklet. It's like a Christmas card but larger.
This was my last circus show.
That is quite a whopper of story, almost deserves to be its own post. How cool to see a picture of you replying to me in this reply, perhaps that is how we can view a bit of the matrix.
I'm curious to see how circuses have changed with the times around the world. In the USA I heard elephants are no longer used, but instead virtual 3D holographic elephants.
This might be very well be the most substantial reply I've ever received on Hive, give thanks. It's like a mini-post just for me 😁.
:) Holographic elephants! That sounds like a cool, SciFi thing. Hope I'll see that one day. It looks that the circus has an interesting future ahead. With that holographic stuff, they could make various monsters and aliens to perform with magicians and acrobats :D