

Despite his mission to design an act better than her act, Martynov and Dixon fall in love, which attracts Kneishitz's rage. Ludvig's fiery daughter Rayechka has a tempestuous relationship with her boyfriend Skameikin.

At the Moscow circus, the circus director Ludvig hires the Arctic explorer Ivan Petrovich Martynov to design a new circus act to top Dixon's "Trip to the Moon" act. Kneishitz blackmails Dixon into becoming his lover while exploiting her and in one scene beats her quite savagely.ĭixon is only kept alive by her love for her son Jimmy, and when she plays in Moscow as a guest performer, she is portrayed as spiritually broken. Dixon is taken under the wing of Franz von Kneishitz, a sinister German theatrical agent whose mustache and mannerisms resemble those of Adolf Hitler. The fate of the father is not mentioned, but it is implied that he was lynched. Marion Dixon, a popular American circus artist is forced to flee for her life with her son, to escape a lynch mob in a provincial American town. Orlova plays an American circus artist who, after giving birth to a black baby (played by James Lloydovich Patterson), immediately becomes a victim of racism and is forced to stay in the circus, but finds refuge, love and happiness in the USSR. Upon return, they disliked the director's interpretation, and after a conflict they abandoned the work, forbade the mention of their names in the credits, and further work on the plot was continued by Isaac Babel. They made the play into the plot, but during the initial film shooting they went to America. The film was based on a comedy written by Ilf and Petrov and Valentin Kataev and performed by Moscow music hall, Under the Circus Dome ( Под куполом цирка), which was seen and liked by Aleksandrov. Starring the glamorous and immensely popular Lyubov Orlova (Aleksandrov's wife), the first recognized star of Soviet cinema and a gifted singer, the film contains several songs which instantly became Soviet classics. In his own words, it was conceived as "an eccentric comedy.a real side splitter." It was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Isidor Simkov at the Mosfilm studios. Ricardo's juggling style is based on a combination of multiples styles and influences such as hip-hop dance, contemporary dance, “floorwork” and acrobatics.Circus ( Russian: Цирк translit. Tsirk) is a 1936 Soviet melodramatic comedy musical film.

In 2018, he entered Centre National des Arts du Cirque (CNAC) in France and completing his studies in 2020. In 2018, completing his 2-year degree at Ecole de Cirque de Lyon, he continued to apply higher education schools. After completing his Architecture degree in 2015, Ricardo decided to continue studying and developing his art form in juggling, so he applied and successfully enrolled in Ecole de Cirque de Lyon, where he could find his own juggling style and feel the most comfortable. During his four years of studies, he started taking night classes in dance, acrobatics, and juggling at a small circus school called LeZartiCirque. In Switzerland, Ricardo has developed a passion on circus arts and stage. He moved to Switzerland to study Architecture at the age of 17 years old in 2011. Born from a Portuguese mother and Afro-American father, Ricardo was born on the 3 July 1994 in a small town in Portugal called Santiago do Cacem.
