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🎪 We’re back in a completely new format!
Starting October 17, Tbilisi Circus will host the 1st International Circus Festival — “Golden Harlequin”! ✨
Outstanding artists from 11 countries, representing a wide variety of circus genres, will come together in one arena to create a spectacular international show. 🌍🎪
🇬🇪 Georgia • 🇨🇴 Colombia • 🇮🇹 Italy • 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan • 🇺🇦 Ukraine • 🇧🇾 Belarus • 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan • 🇭🇺 Hungary • 🇪🇸 Spain • 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan • 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
A special part of the festival is audience participation. After each performance, you’ll have the opportunity to rate the artists and choose your favorite. The festival winner will ultimately be determined based on audience votes. 🏆
The program features 🤹♂️ acrobats, 🤸♀️ aerialists, 🏇 equestrian acts, 🐕 dogs, 🐈 cats, 🤡 entertaining clowns, 💃 spectacular choreography, and many more extraordinary performances.
✨ “Golden Harlequin” is a new international circus festival bringing together artists from different countries, diverse genres, energy, humor, and unforgettable emotions.
Harlequin is one of the most recognizable characters in the circus world — playful, free-spirited, and unpredictable. The festival will embody that same spirit: diverse, dynamic, and full of surprises.
🎪 Starting October 17 — see you at Tbilisi Circus!
Tickets for this event are non-refundable.
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The Tbilisi Circus is the main circus in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. It is housed in a Soviet-era Neoclassical rotunda building built in 1939 on a hilltop overlooking Heroes' Square. Its original big top building was destroyed in a fire in 1911 and the circus was moved to a former wine factory, before settling down, in 1939, in its present Neoclassical, Joseph Stalin-era building designed by Nikolay Neprintsev, Vladimer Urushadze, and Stepan Satunts. With its 2,000-seat capacity, the Tbilisi Circus was ranked among the largest circuses in the Soviet Union, alongside those of Moscow, Kiev, and Baku. A civil unrest and economic collapse in post-Soviet Georgia terminated the circus's heyday in the 1990s. In 2003, the Georgian tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili bought the circus and began an extensive reconstruction, but his involvement in the 2007 political crisis and death shortly thereafter stalled the renovations. His sister, Mzia Tortladze, was able to reopen the circus only in 2011. Since then, the circus has been playing to sellout crowds, bringing together troupes and performers from various parts of the world.
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