Faten El-Helw, the lions tamer, Dances with lions
Cairo: HelloEgy.
Like the “Dancing with Wolves” movie, the prominent figure of taming lions and wild beasts Faten El-Helw started training her lions to perform a new show at the Egyptian European circus in “Al Shams” sport club, Cairo. This show is called “Dancing with Lions”.
This show is considered as the second step after she has trained some Russian dancers to perform a show with dangerous snakes. Faten El-Helw says: “the beasts show is the most dangerous one in the history of circus, so we are so careful when we decide to perform something new especially concerning lions”. She also referred to the importance of training these lions since birth, the thing that can lessen the possibilities of danger.
She explains the new show: “lions are supposed to jump into fire, bend to greet the audience, besides another show with them in the iron cage … it takes more than three months to train the lions Saad and Allaa on how to dance before the audience … we have chosen these two lions specifically because of their fame in the Arab world after they were appeared in the comic program “Ramez the lion heart” during the last Ramadan”.
About the last tour of the circus she said: “the circus has participated recently in some local and international festivals, last of them were Doha Park Festival, some other festival in UAI, and recently we have presented some shows in Damanhur, Egypt”.
About the other shows presented in the circus, she said: “the broad of directors of the Egyptian European circus do their best to present new shows at its Headquarters in Al-Shams club. They have decided to present 12 shows performed by different artists from all over the world, Egypt, Russia, France, China, and many others. And because of the high demand, the Vice Chairman of the Board Dahab Ibrahim El-Helw decided to offer three parties a day starting with the morning time for school children, another one at 5pm, and at 8 pm.”
She also mentioned that some people may use her name to propagate for some festivals in and out Egypt, but actually she has no spokesman for herself or for her artistic organization. She has no other branches except that in Damanhur and Alex, besides her tent where she stays during her tours in the Arab countries.
The circus of El-Helw is the most famous in the world. It was founded in 1889 in the reign of Khedive Ismail, by Mohamed El-Helw. His family still manages the circus after his death; they present their shows in different places in Egypt and other foreign countries.
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