Sergey Prosvirnin Biography

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Or did she choose you? Sergey Prosvirnin: I am a nee Siberian, born on the shores of Lake Baikal-in the small town of Usolye-Sibirskoye. Dad I have a musician - a button accordion. I, too, in childhood, was engaged in music, it did not really fascinate me, but I gave a certain impetus to then apply musical skills in clowning and eccentric. My mother was an employee of the Palace of Culture.

I spent the night there, I studied in different circles. But most of all succeeded in circus art. Since childhood, I have made unpretentious reprisals, clowl. And the circus team constantly had some kind of performances, it always warmed up. And then I found out that there was a circus school in Moscow and went there to go there. I didn’t eat, I didn’t sleep, I didn’t meet the girls - he only prepared himself for the profession.

And he entered the school at the pop department. They prepared pop artists, clowning and musical eccentric. He began to earn extra money in Variet, to perform at concerts. At the end of the school, I worked on the stage for a year, and then I got into the circus. I admit, at first I wanted to opt for the stage - I spoke perfectly, but then the stage was not in the best shape.

And the circus went abroad. Although I was least attracted to this mummy clowning. But somehow I met former classmates on tour in Krivoy Rog, they called me, and I went into the circus. At first I worked in a clown trio. Then I was invited by Yura Rostovtsev, who worked in the team of Yuri Nikulin. And I worked in a musical room paired with Vladimir Starikov in a circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.

After I met Victor Pliner, who at that time was a director in this circus. He helped me make a solo number. Jokes no lower than the waist - what are you doing on stage? It fills the pause between the numbers. In general, it is not customary to say a clown. They say "Kovir", comedian, artist. Now this word has become a household name. But if people knew what kind of bloody and titanic work it was.

This is not Comedy Club - to come up with a reprise "Father - Blue." Yes, there are funny moments there, but in the circus it cannot be shown. Therefore, it becomes a thousand times more difficult to find cool smear and hokhma. Yes, so that this joke is not below the belt. We need a tie, and it may be if there is a conflict, confrontation. People began to travel more, spend their time on social networks.

Attractions, parks, rope towns, playgrounds, trampoline centers are built. Western artists began to come. And then, the circus is such an unpretentious art, after all, it is not shown on TV. And the democracy in work resulted in permissiveness. Now any person can take a poster and write on it: "Do not go to the circus - animals are killed there." Well, this is nonsense.

Bears in nature live for 15 years, and we have 25 years. They are removed, cleaned, fed with a fish. Animals in the circus live 2.5 times more. And in the zoo the same thing. I work on the skill of the actor - this is my credo. Must have, of course, dedication, creative fertility. You need to be prepared for everything. And kind, cheerful, good - all this is not quality, it can be played.

Although I like Buster Kiton or Harold Lide even more. Lorel and Hardy - a comedic couple "fat and thin." Of those who died relatively recently, this is Louis de Funes. I was on his grave under the nan. I like all his characters-Fantomas, gendarme, an orchestra man. Well, of course, Nikulin is close to me in spirit. The way he played on the arena. I saw him from different angles. He was tough enough at work, focused, but amazingly kind with people.

Circus dynasty - are your children also went in your way? You can say you have a whole dynasty of artists? I have been playing with him in the same room, he is my partner for many years.

In the circus, you need to start rehearsing early. As long as they live with us from birth to school in the circus, they are in contact with it directly. And if you began to poke around, then gradually you get involved in it. So Seryozha began to go out into the arena since three years. My daughter is now 35 years old, she began a little later. First I worked with me, and then made a room with cats.

We have a grandson, we are already accustoming him too. My wife is an individual Assistant-Kostyomer. We all tour and work together. Someone admires, someone approaches the interval, and after five minutes you go into the dressing room and understand that everyone has already forgotten you. Nobody needs you, only to yourself. You stopped surprising your loved ones. You think that they will always be worn in your hands, but this is not so.

And it grinds you. Therefore, sad eyes, because many artists are drunk. This swamp sucked a lot of great artists.Well, in general, in life I am an optimist!