Nearly a year since fleeing Ukraine for Hungary amid the bombs and terror of Russia's invasion, more than 100 young circus performers still hold intensive daily training sessions in Budapest while waiting to see what an uncertain future holds.
The group, whose members are between the ages of 5 and 20, found a home with the Capital Circus of Budapest after leaving their circus schools and lives behind in the cities of Kharkiv and Kyiv in March 2022.
"When they're busy , they don't have time to think about the bad things. It distracts them," Momot said. "What I see is that we live as one family and as a creative team. ... I think it hasn't affected their training, and I try to keep them in the form they were in Ukraine." "If we provide an opportunity to train, and if we set goals that we want to achieve through opportunities to perform, then in their everyday lives they won't be focused only on the difficult situation they are in, but artistic performance can fill their lives to some degree," he said.
Lysytska's twin sister, Mariia, said what she liked most about Hungary at first was that "there were no explosions," but that she had since formed friendships that made it easier to be far from home. "We were all in the same situation where we had no other option but to leave people behind in Ukraine. Our families are broken," she said.
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