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The newer half of the Moscow State Circus, the Big Circus is a showier prospect than the Nikulin Circus, housed in an extraordinary purpose-built big top in the south of Moscow that dates from the seventies. The circus has five different interchangeable rings, including an ice ring and a water ring, moved by a vast revolving mechanism that takes only about 5 minutes to transform the performance space completely. The atmosphere is somewhat less reverent here, and the costumes and settings are pleasantly tacky. The skill of the performers, however, is never in question, with breath-taking aerial acrobatics and pitch-perfect clowning guaranteed. The circus on ice, a Russian specialty that you're unlikely to see elsewhere, is particularly spectacular.
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