NEWRY – Nine young people ranging from 6 to 18 years old and three adults dazzled a large crowd of people of all ages during Saturday night’s Russian American Kids Circus at Sunday River Ski Resort.
Performing on the floor – and on many different objects – in front of the Grand Ballroom stage in the Grand Summit Hotel, the gymnasts revealed precision balancing acts, acrobatics and juggling skills that wowed everyone. But, the comedic mime routines and facial expressions of colorfully dressed children acting like, well, children, filled the auditorium with laughter.
“My favorite was when they were on top of the balls and unicycles,” Emily Hollender, 11, of Newton, Mass., said after the show.
Her friend, Lily Maltz, also 11 and from Newton, said she has ridden unicycles, but had not juggled or jumped rope like the performers did while riding the one-wheeled wonders.
“They’re good,” Maltz said, accenting the latter word. She said she liked the glow-in-the-dark ball-throwing juggling routine best.
Nancy Babcock of Newry said her favorite performer was the tiniest girl with the long black hair who performed a variety of amazing feats, including skipping a rope that she held, and a much larger rope that others held, while precariously balanced on a large white ball.
“That little girl was so good, but they’re all great,” Babcock said.
The finale featured six children balanced on a bike and the bicyclist pedaling it in a circle around the floor.
The Kids Circus was founded in 1994 in Brooklyn, New York, by former Moscow Circus star Alex Berenchtein, his wife Regina, and mother-in-law, Olga Partigul as the nonprofit academy New Way Circus Center Inc.
To learn more, visit www.rakidscircus.org.
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