We visited the Rambo circus on Sunday. Advertised as fully air conditioned Italian tent, and with online booking on bookmyshow :) Brought back many memories.
When I was a child, there was a small ground behind our house and in holidays a circus would often come there. It would be around 400-500 m far from our buildings and we would clearly hear the roaring of tigers n lions at night. A lion getting free, claiming 2 floors of our building and entering my house was often my nightmare during those days! But the lions were not so lucky!!
Nowadays they are luckier and they no longer have to listen in to the ring masters' orders. We can only see elephants, dogs, horses and sometimes birds in the circus now. All other animals are banned I believe. Not sure when luck would shine on these animals :)
My kids loved the acrobats and stunts that the artistes performed. It looked like a combination of "India's Got Talent" and Khataron ke Khiladi to them. Just on 31st night, they had seen a Chinese street artist performing stunts with a huge ring and now they could see it live! Most of the stunts evoked 'OMG, I won't be able to even try this!' in my mind, and I would label the stunts as never try this, or may be you can try while standing on mattress at home for the kids. Not that they would listen, but a feeble attempt as a parent nevertheless!
I loved the stunts performed by 2 Latin American artistes. It was jaw dropping to see them walk and jump on the outer ring of the moving rings. See the photo below.
I kept wondering about what would motivate the individuals performing these stunts in sticking to this career. What would make people join this profession and move to different continents to work. I have seen artistes from Africa and Latin America performing here in India so often. Many others may be really in need for work and joining this. But my sense is that the rush they must be feeling inside of them and the applause they would get after performing the stunts might be their poison. It must be a great satisfaction in itself. That might be driving them to practice well, go out perform and call the circus their home.
We all know that circus is a dying form of entertainment. The costs of running the show are huge. Keeping animals like elephants, feeding them is a huge task in itself.
But most importantly, the main assets of this profession are the artistes, and talented skilled ones. To produce or find them, convincing them to work for a dying profession would be even more difficult. They might even be facing issues like poaching, and when everyone has a special skill that's giving them a job, I am sure people won't be ready to create a backup as well. Age would also impact their performance as they would not be as swift.
It would be very interesting to see how these people issues are handled in these shows, and see if we can apply any in our teams. Hope I make time sometime to do that in my life :)
When I was a child, there was a small ground behind our house and in holidays a circus would often come there. It would be around 400-500 m far from our buildings and we would clearly hear the roaring of tigers n lions at night. A lion getting free, claiming 2 floors of our building and entering my house was often my nightmare during those days! But the lions were not so lucky!!
Nowadays they are luckier and they no longer have to listen in to the ring masters' orders. We can only see elephants, dogs, horses and sometimes birds in the circus now. All other animals are banned I believe. Not sure when luck would shine on these animals :)
My kids loved the acrobats and stunts that the artistes performed. It looked like a combination of "India's Got Talent" and Khataron ke Khiladi to them. Just on 31st night, they had seen a Chinese street artist performing stunts with a huge ring and now they could see it live! Most of the stunts evoked 'OMG, I won't be able to even try this!' in my mind, and I would label the stunts as never try this, or may be you can try while standing on mattress at home for the kids. Not that they would listen, but a feeble attempt as a parent nevertheless!
I loved the stunts performed by 2 Latin American artistes. It was jaw dropping to see them walk and jump on the outer ring of the moving rings. See the photo below.
I kept wondering about what would motivate the individuals performing these stunts in sticking to this career. What would make people join this profession and move to different continents to work. I have seen artistes from Africa and Latin America performing here in India so often. Many others may be really in need for work and joining this. But my sense is that the rush they must be feeling inside of them and the applause they would get after performing the stunts might be their poison. It must be a great satisfaction in itself. That might be driving them to practice well, go out perform and call the circus their home.
We all know that circus is a dying form of entertainment. The costs of running the show are huge. Keeping animals like elephants, feeding them is a huge task in itself.
But most importantly, the main assets of this profession are the artistes, and talented skilled ones. To produce or find them, convincing them to work for a dying profession would be even more difficult. They might even be facing issues like poaching, and when everyone has a special skill that's giving them a job, I am sure people won't be ready to create a backup as well. Age would also impact their performance as they would not be as swift.
It would be very interesting to see how these people issues are handled in these shows, and see if we can apply any in our teams. Hope I make time sometime to do that in my life :)
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