The best performing circus traditions have found their development in the Soviet Armenia within the centuries. In 1956, on the eve of Armenian ten day literature and art festival the collective staff of Armenian circus was created (from 1961 Yerevan), and it’s art leader was a well- known equilibrist V. The task that was put in front of the collective was to create a national original circus. Engi
baryan created the brightest page of history of the Armenian circus art. He created the traditional clown's mask- sad sometimes, glad sometimes, timid sometimes, bold sometimes, by disclosing a whole succession of the human emotional experiences. He had the talent of perceiving the world creatively, knew all the genres of circus. Restless imagination and ability to perceive the laughable quickly was characteristic of Engibaryan. Proceeding from the situation, he could change the program immediately into both trick and sense with the semantic solution. Engibaryan’s element was pantomime and he created his- Engibaryan’s pantomime. An artist of Armenian collective of circus, a laureate of international and all-union competitions (from 1985 main director of Armenian circus, from 2003 director of state circus, and from 2006 general director and art leader of the cultural centre (Yerevan Circus) S. Petrosyan has played the number “Armenian folk games” (producer L. In 1972, in Yerevan in the palace of pioneers after Shahumyan was organized a children’s circus studio after L. Engibaryan, which was granted with the rank of folk collective in 1981, and from 1997 it is acting near the circus of Yerevan.
