Do you know who works in the circus?

When we learn about who works in the circus, it turns out that this is not so much a pleasure institution, as an extensive economic complex. For example, the world-famous Circus du Soleil has a troupe of four thousand people, which allows the institution to give performances in several cities around the world at the same time.

In addition to people directly entering the arena, this circus has its own seamstresses, who, for example, have prepared special costumes for gymnasts for the show "Mystery", each sewing about 2000 sequins. For a year circus tinkers use about twenty kilometers of various fabrics to dress all the artists. And the circus shoe workshop sews about 5000 pairs of shoes annually.

Who works in the Circus du Soleil yet? Of course, there are own designers, composers, arrangers, artists, musicians. To create films and shows there are directors, operators. And no representation can do without a wide range of workers, movers, electricians, drivers and cleaners. As professionals from forty countries work in the circus, the institution has employed a whole staff of trainers, theater teachers, doctors and masseurs of various specializations to maintain their level of qualification.

As a company with revenues of more than half a billion dollars, Cirque du Soleil must have the appropriate staff of specialists in the financial sphere. Accountants, financiers, tax specialists from different countries, lawyers - that's who works in a circus of this magnitude.

In Russia specialists of such a plan are trained, in particular, in the school of circus and variety art named after Rumyantsev (clown Pencil). It was completed by such show business stars as Ilya Oleinikov, Gennady Khazanov, Yefim Shifrin, Sergei Minaev, Alexander Peskov, Zhanna Bichevskaya, famous circus artist Oleg Popov and others. Here study profile disciplines (acrobatics, clownery, dancing on the wire, equestrian performances, juggling, etc.), theater history, circus, actor's skill, original and speech genres.

In addition to people, animals often appear on the arena, which, of course, are also circus performers. In the Moscow Circus named after Nikulin on the show you can see the numbers with dogs, horses, monkeys, Bengal and Ussuri tigers. Of course, every animal has a trainer, a veterinarian, as well as one who equips the place of their residence and feeds. If the company includes large animals like sea lions (weigh up to one and a half tons, eat up to one hundred and thirty kilograms of fish a day), then the serving staff can be more than extensive.

New business conditions suggest the emergence of new specialties. Who works in the circus today, but who was not in it, for example, fifteen to twenty years ago? In the domestic institutions for the last decades there were specialists in public relations, promoters, marketers studying the tastes of spectators. In addition, with the development of computer technology in the states of circuses around the world, system administrators, web designers and programmers have firmly established themselves.