Circus Ruska

Second day @ the Festival

Athmosphere at the backstage was quite diarrheaish

Best girl of the festival taking care about catering

Magmanus rehearsing with younger generation.

Building up Circus Ruska Festival @ Klubi&Pakkahuone

Changing light bulbs.

Andreas putting up a banderol at Pakkahuone entrance

So many things to do at the Festival-office

Porkka Playboys gets you to PARTYMOOD!!!

Porkka Playboys will have special gueststars tonight @ Circus Ruska Festival's club at Klubi. They had rehearsals yesterday-evening at Sorin Sirkus. Can't wait to see what they have planned!!!

Finnish award winning street band Porkka Playboys performs for example Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. The performance on this video takes place in the most obvious place of all - inside a rusty old Volkswagen Polo!

Circus Ruska Festival artists @ Sorin Sirkus

Circus Ruska Festival artists are training their shows at Sorin Sirkus.

Pasi and Kate finilizes their circus technics to their premiere on Friday. On background you can see the father of finnish juggling, Jani Suihkonen, who gets ready for his show,SRP. You can see Jani at Circus Ruska Festival on Saturday @ 1600hrs

Cirque Aital & musical training.

Compagnie Morosof loads in to Sorin Sirkus

We have started to build up Circus Ruska Festival at Sorin Sirkus.

Jouni Kivimäki, The Master of rigging, at skyjack.

Matias Salmeaho is having festival spirit at catering-point, although his leg is broken.

Another broken leg

There's some bad luck clouds over the Circus Ruska Festival. Our own boy, Matias Salmenaho broke his leg and therefore Cirque Aital can not do their whole show as it is planned. But still they will perform a shorter version of New Creation-show.
There's always something good in bad things. Our surprise-guest will be juggler from the top, Jay Gilligan. We will see some of his latest material at the same display.
So if you have ticket to Cirque Aital: New Creation, you will get Jay Gilligan with same price. How cool is that!!

A long way from home

It's finally happening for real! We met with Rafael and Blancaluz in Stockholm last winter. We told about our festival and they were really interested to come to Tampere with their upcoming show. Since their set is so big and heavy we decided it would be best if they drive to Tampere with their car and trailer.

After long planning Compagnie Morosof started their long journey from Barcelona to Tampere on friday. They picked up their set and technicians from France and now they are somewhere in the northern Germany. Tonight they'll drive to a ferry in Travemünde. By then they have driven apx. 2000 km. From Travemünde they will enjoy a relaxing voyage on Finnlines Europalink. After 27 hours and 1132 km they will arrive to Helsinki harbor where they'll meet us and change to car with good winter tires and continue the last 180 km. They will finally arrive to Tampere on wednesday around 11.00.

Just have to admire their willpower! Circus people are so cool!

Here's some photos from the road.