Alona Zhuravel - Revision history

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 File:Alona_Zhuravel_-_Varekai.jpg|Alona Zhuravel in ''Varekai'' (c.2015)
 File:Alona_Zhuravel_-_Joya.jpg|Alona Zhuravel (c.2019)

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 The following year she appeared for the Holiday season at [[Cirque Pinder]] in Paris, France, and toured Finland with [[Sirkus Finlandia]]. She was featured at Hamburg’s legendary Hansa-Theater, toured Germany with the ''Das Jamie Oliver Dinner-Show'', and even returned to Russia where she performed in the ''Circus Adrenalin'' show. She also appeared in the television shows ''Circo Massimo'' in Italy, ''Bellissimo'' in Switzerland, and in the very popular French television show ''Le plus grand cabaret du monde''.
-Then, in 2012, she joined the [[Cirque du Soleil]] company and was featured and performed her hand-balancing act as "La Promise," one of the lead characters in their production of ''Varekai''. She toured with that show until 2016. From 2016 to 2019, she performed her hand-balancing act in another Cirque du Soleil production, the dinner-show ''Joyà'', in Riviera Maya in Mexico.
+Then, in 2012, she joined the [[Cirque du Soleil]] company and was featured and performed her hand-balancing act as "La Promise," one of the lead characters in their production of ''Varekai''. She toured with that show until 2016. From 2016 to 2019, she performed her hand-balancing act in another Cirque du Soleil production, the dinner-show ''Joyà'', at Riviera Maya in Mexico.
 It is when performing in ''Varekai'' that Alona met her husband, fellow acrobat Dmitriy Liubashenko, with whom she had a son, Maxim. Today, Alona shares her time between motherhood, teaching hand-balancing, and performing. In 2024, she participated in the third [[American CircusFest]] in Frisco, Texas, where she was presented with the [[Circopedia Award]].

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 File:Alona_Zhuravel_-_Joya.jpg|Alona Zhuravel (c.2019)
 File:Alona_Zhuravel_-_Manzano.jpg|Alona Zhuravel (c.2020)

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 The following year she appeared for the Holiday season at [[Cirque Pinder]] in Paris, France, and toured Finland with [[Sirkus Finlandia]]. She was featured at Hamburg’s legendary Hansa-Theater, toured Germany with the ''Das Jamie Oliver Dinner-Show'', and even returned to Russia where she performed in the ''Circus Adrenalin'' show. She also appeared in the television shows ''Circo Massimo'' in Italy, ''Bellissimo'' in Switzerland, and in the very popular French television show ''Le plus grand cabaret du monde''.
-Then, in 2012, she joined the [[Cirque du Soleil]] company and was featured and performed her hand-balancing act as "La Promise," one of their production of ''Varekai'''s lead characters. She toured with that show until 2016. From 2016 to 2019, she performed her hand-balancing act in another Cirque du Soleil production, the dinner-show ''Joyà'', in Riviera Maya in Mexico.
+Then, in 2012, she joined the [[Cirque du Soleil]] company and was featured and performed her hand-balancing act as "La Promise," one of the lead characters in their production of ''Varekai''. She toured with that show until 2016. From 2016 to 2019, she performed her hand-balancing act in another Cirque du Soleil production, the dinner-show ''Joyà'', in Riviera Maya in Mexico.
 It is when performing in ''Varekai'' that Alona met her husband, fellow acrobat Dmitriy Liubashenko, with whom she had a son, Maxim. Today, Alona shares her time between motherhood, teaching hand-balancing, and performing. In 2024, she participated in the third [[American CircusFest]] in Frisco, Texas, where she was presented with the [[Circopedia Award]].

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 Alona Zhuravel was born in Russia on May 30, 1991, in a family of circus performers: Her father, [[Vitaly Zhuravel|Vitaly]], had won a Gold Medal at the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in 1994 with his horizontal bars act. It is at about that time that the Zhuravels settled in Germany, where they were touring. Alona eventually became a German citizen.
-She started her training under her parents’ tutelage at age five and developed in time a remarkable hand-balancing act. Her first contract of note was in with [[Circus Flic Flac]] in Germany, in the early 2000s, where she performed on a platform above a fountain, six meters from the ground… Later, she was also presented an award by Princess Stephanie of Monaco at the Youth Circus Festival, at [[Circus Nikulin]] in Moscow. Then, she toured Germany with the show ''Feuerwerk der Turnkunst'' ("Fireworks of Gymnastics").
+She started her training under her parents’ tutelage at age five and developed in time a remarkable hand-balancing act. Her first contract of note was in with [[Circus Flic Flac]] in Germany, in the early 2000s, where she performed on a platform above a fountain, six meters from the ground… Later, she was presented an award by Princess Stephanie of Monaco at the Youth Circus Festival, at [[Circus Nikulin]] in Moscow. Then, she toured Germany with the show ''Feuerwerk der Turnkunst'' ("Fireworks of Gymnastics").
 Her career was quickly launched. Over the years, she was featured in GOP Varieté in Bad Oyenhausen, EMO Messen (a major trade fair in Hannover), the dinner-show ''Spectavola'' in Mainz, and internationally she participated in 2007 in the Italian circus festival ''Cittá di Latina'' (today the [[International Circus Festival of Italy]]), where she was awarded the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey award, and then in the [[Wuqiao International Circus Festival]] in China, where she won a Bronze Lion.

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 <Gallery>
 File:Alona_Zhuravel_-_Joya.jpg|Alona Zhuravel (c.2019)
 File:Zhuravel_Circopedia_Award.jpg|Alona Zhuravel receives the Circopedia Award (2024)
 </Gallery>
 [[Category:Artists and Acts|Zhuravel, Alona]][[Category:Acrobats|Zhuravel, Alona]][[Category:Hand Balancers|Zhuravel, Alona]]

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 ‘’By Dominique Jando’’

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		+	Alona Zhuravel was born in Russia on May 30, 1991, in a family of circus performers: Her father, [[Vitaly Zhuravel\|Vitaly]], had won a Gold Medal at the [[Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain]] in 1994 with his horizontal bars act. It is at about that time that the Zhuravels settled in Germany, where they were touring. Alona eventually became a German citizen.
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		+	She started her training under her parents’ tutelage at age five and developed in time a remarkable hand-balancing act. Her first contract of note was in with [[Circus Flic Flac]] in Germany, in the early 2000s, where she performed on a platform above a fountain, six meters from the ground… Later, she was also presented an award by Princess Stephanie of Monaco at the Youth Circus Festival, at [[Circus Nikulin]] in Moscow. Then, she toured Germany with the show ''Feuerwerk der Turnkunst'' ("Fireworks of Gymnastics").
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		+	Her career was quickly launched. Over the years, she was featured in GOP Varieté in Bad Oyenhausen, EMO Messen (a major trade fair in Hannover), the dinner-show ''Spectavola'' in Mainz, and internationally she participated in 2007 in the Italian circus festival ''Cittá di Latina'' (today the [[International Circus Festival of Italy]]), where she was awarded the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey award, and then in the [[Wuqiao International Circus Festival]] in China, where she won a Bronze Lion.
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		+	The following year she appeared for the Holiday season at [[Cirque Pinder]] in Paris, France, and toured Finland with [[Sirkus Finlandia]]. She was featured at Hamburg’s legendary Hansa-Theater, toured Germany with the ''Das Jamie Oliver Dinner-Show'', and even returned to Russia where she performed in the ''Circus Adrenalin'' show. She also appeared in the television shows ''Circo Massimo'' in Italy, ''Bellissimo'' in Switzerland, and in the very popular French television show ''Le plus grand cabaret du monde''.
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		+	Then, in 2012, she joined the [[Cirque du Soleil]] company and was featured and performed her hand-balancing act as "La Promise," one of their production of ''Varekai'''s lead characters. She toured with that show until 2016. From 2016 to 2019, she performed her hand-balancing act in another Cirque du Soleil production, the dinner-show ''Joyà'', in Riviera Maya in Mexico.
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		+	It is when performing in ''Varekai'' that Alona met her husband, fellow acrobat Dmitriy Liubashenko, with whom she had a son, Maxim. Today, Alona shares her time between motherhood, teaching hand-balancing, and performing. In 2024, she participated in the third [[American CircusFest]] in Frisco, Texas, where she was presented with the [[Circopedia Award]].
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		+	==See Also==

	* Video: [[Alona_Zhuravel_Video_(2019)\|Alona Zhuravel, hand-balancing act]] (2019)		* Video: [[Alona_Zhuravel_Video_(2019)\|Alona Zhuravel, hand-balancing act]] (2019)