Contortionists and acrobats with celestial skills train in squalid conditions as the promise of a former sumo wrestler to restore the national circus to its past glory has gone mostly unfulfilled.
Jargal Lhagvasuren practiced at Old Circus, (that’s how the locals are calling the venue) which is only used by Mongolian Circus School for training now, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on May 18th, 2023.