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Great China Circus
Article Contributed by Lei Pei
Article from cicc.tv
17 Jan, 2007

Wuqiao of Hebei Province in China is called the Town of Chinese Acrobatics, and the residents are ready to show you their acrobatics at any moment and in any place. Wuqiao Acrobatics School has a large number of young promising students at present engaged in fierce competition. They know that physical endowment and willpower are the necessary qualifications of an acrobat and once entering the door of the acrobatics school, they will face an endless and abnormally hard training life. The documentary focuses on the young acrobats at an interval of about one year, trying to exhibit their living situation and spirit.
  
The documentary will also enter the family of the young acrobats, interviewing family members who led them onto the acrobatic road. The program lasting for two hours will not only record any important moment in the growing course of the young acrobats: the process of the hard training and elimination of newly enrolled youngsters who fail to make the grade; the first jerky performance on the stage and the hard efforts day after day, but also show the honors and pride they gain from their hard work.

It is co-produced by China Intercontinental Communications Center and Natural History New Zealand for broadcast on National Geographic Channel (international) and Voom High-Clear Channel, all shot by high-clear professional vidicon and DV together, and divided into two episodes.

Length: 2 Episodes, 60 Minutes
Language: English / Chinese
Year of Production: 2006-2007
To be aired on: National Geographic Channel and Voom High-Clear Channel
Presented by CICC and Natural History New Zealand

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