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These days in Banja Luka the first festival of acrobatics is being held
Most of it is happening in Krupa na Vrbas Lets have a look
The informal group "Cirkus Banjaluka" organises for the first time this acrobatics event
Trainers from all over Europe have shown to participants
acrobatics skills which are still unknown here.
If you are strong, and if you like to train,
you can improve! you have to keep a good condition
You can´t learn everything in one year,
you have to take two, you have to be stubborn,
you have to train and to be persistent!
And a lot of people like working hard, for fun, and that´s cool!
A free workshop was given to children from 8 to 18 years old
They learned circus skills and had a lot of fun.
I´ve learned diabolo, i´ve learned how to balance on the...
how do they call that? euh...tightrope, i´ve learned to spin the plates
and to stand on my head! I think that something like this
should be organised more often, for kids to have the chance to learn
it´s going well, acrobatics is really wonderful,
as soon as you start to train you can already do a bit something
so it´s easier to go further, to improve
Of course comes a time when you really need to train to go to the next step
But i like it, and i use it in my plays, so it´s another motivation to train!
A performance will be given on the 19th of august in front of the Youth Center Dom Omladine in BanjaLuka
Organisators invite everybody who wishes to learn to join the workshops of acrobatics!
As you have seen, the 1st internation festival of acrobatics of BiH is now happening in Banjaluka
thanx to the informal group Cirkus Banjaluka. In the studio with us this morning,
Jelena Medic, actress, and Christian Peter, acrobat.
Good morning, welcome! it is interesting that this is the first festival of acrobatics in Banjaluka,
how difficult was it to realise such a project ?
Well, i´m only indirectly involved in the organisation, most of the work have done Daniel Meijers and Berengere from the french cultural center
throught the informal group Cirkus Banjaluka which exists already for
a bit less than 2 years...
as long as we started to learn acrobatics
Before that Daniel arrived in Banjaluka, there was nothing of this kind here
Now there are some more people
So do you mean that 2 years were necessary to plan everything, to train etc ?
Well, this event is an international convention, there are people from all over the world,
and they have already a lot of experience, but we are just training, i use some elements in my plays
but we don´t have the same level.
So, Christian, acrobat, how much preparation is needed for such an event?
Five years ago i organised in Croatia on Korcula island an international acrobatic festival, IAC,
and it took us one year to gather acrobats from all over the world
and to find a location etc, and it was quite difficult; i notice that the organisators in Banjaluka made a lot of efforts
i know it was not easy for them neither, but someone needs to do it!
So the festival started on the 15th, three days have passed till now,
For me, everything is more than good : the weather is great, the place is good,
people have fun, i´m just sorry there are not more people from Banja Luka
from about 35 participants, i am the only one from Banja Luka!
It is really a pity because Daniel and Berengere really wanted to organise it here to make it easier for people from here
to participate but somehow they were not enough interested. But why is it like that?
Well i dont know... Well i can tell, in Croatia it was the same
We had people internationally known, but people from the country, from Croatia,
they think that everything which is happening here can not be good,
but if they go abroad to learn some stuff that´s good, that is valuable.
But at the beginning they think that here it can not be good.
That is why we talk about it to our spectators, so, what to expect in the next few days?
Yesterday we gave a workshop to the kids of Krupa,
and tomorrow night in front of the Youth Center, there will be a presentation of our work, not really a play
but more a presentation of what we did in Krupa at 20h30
so we invite everybody to come and watch, there are exceptionnal people in Krupa,
there will be some juggling act, some acrobatics, i think it will be very entertaining!
And what about injuries ? how to get prepared, can you be badly injuried? Well you have to be concentrated
but of course when you do something for an audience you choose tricks that you master.
If you would like we could try something with you in the studio !
Yes ? if the cameraman can move a bit... Well, let´s see if it possible, after the advertisement!
Thanx you, see you tomorrow at 20h30 in front of the youth center! Thanx!