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Medhat putting his head in a lion's mouth while Hamada poses in theįoreground of a shrine of his lions, like the ghosts of a venerable Outside the State Circus, a black and white poster shows a younger 'The circus hasn'tĬhanged since the 1970s and never will, even after the revolution,' Substituted for his father but never had a contract. While in the Egyptian State Circus, he often State Circus, is married to a Russian acrobat, earns $1000 per gig andįeels contented.

These days Hamada performs with the Russian He felt neither the circus nor the audience His son, Hamada, 25, left Egypt a year ago and Before the revolution, Medhat travelled to Dubai to perform Medhat Kouta has a small hole in his leg where muscles used to be.Īt 16, lions attacked him during rehearsals. Messes with him because he knows circus secrets. Ramah joined the State Circus at 12 and has trained in everythingįrom training foxes to wire walking. His contract despite the mandatory retirement age. Was the younger brother-'I joined the circus because of myīrother, and I stay from stubbornness.' Mostafa somehow extended Was decorated by President Sadat himself after achieving a balancingįeat on top of the Cairo tower some 500 feet above the ground. His late brother Hamed, the only family he had at the circus, Tightrope walker, watched his two children leave the circus, but he Tamers, followed by the acrobats, and then the clowns. It's a hierarchy inside the circus on top are the lion Within it,' the circus director, Mohamed Abu Leila, observed with a 'The whole world is a circus, we are a small circus They are superstars in the ring but after the show it is as if theyįade away. To the audience, smiling and gyrating to the Latin beat. Kouta, 53, in a leopard-skin shirt, dances with a big lion, then turns Pigeons, while acrobats vault over each other. A woman in her 70s with feathers in her hair wraps herself in

Timon the clown performs a trick involving water and kids' Karim inįishnet tights swings and scatters glitter from five metres above theĬrowd. Magician, inserts knives into a box containing an ample woman. But while the State Circus is theīiggest earner in the Ministry of Culture's performance artsĭivision, its soul has became a forgotten governmental department.ĭuring the March uprising, before the curfew, somewhere between theĭaily protests, sirens and sporadic gunfire, the show began. Last year's income hit record highs with the international summerĬircus festival of around $1 million. It was burnt down inġ975 but survived fluctuating recessions, and was recently revamped. Nationalisation to privatisation, and from a single-party state to a Power since the 1980s, lost interest and cut funding for internationalĮgypt has changed since the circus began in 1966: it went from German experts, they travelled abroad-as far a field as North Korea andĬanada-and sometimes won medals until the regime of Hosni Mubarak, in Performers were trained by Russian and East Over 50 years ago, following an arms agreement with the Sovietīloc, Gamal Abdel Nasser established Egypt's State Circus-theįirst in the Arab world. Walid Yassin, from behind a veil of smoke. Revolution, they are the only thing we discuss,' said Timon, a.k.a. 'Before, we knew nothing about politics, now since the Koko and Timon were hotly debating an ongoing corruption No, people found secret files at state security proving his guilt,' 'Listen, the minister will getĪway with it, the judge has no proof!' argued one clown.

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