Slava’s Snowshow

Slava’s Snowshow Universal and timeless. A poetic spectacle which has enchanted and empowered the imagination of audiences and critics since 1993.
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In the 70's and through the 80’s, well before the existence of Snowshow, Slava Polunin’s theatre company called Teatr Licedei gamboled in Leningrad, USSR. In the beginning, there was Assissiaï – Slava’s character. A clown with many faces, he could be gentle and naïve, and the next moment turn ironic or else resolute and unbending when proclaiming his “Zia!”. Then the idea cropped up that each face

t of his persona was indeed a basis for a separate character. It eventually led to the creation of a troupe of clowns where each participant had a distinctive character, yet was familiar and easily recognizable by anyone in the audience. This mixture of characters became the Licedei theatre (“Those who make faces”). During its legendary 25 years, the theatre became stunningly popular and admired amongst the Russian public and on national television by using clowning to depict the everyday absurdities of life. Overtime and following the fall of the Berlin wall, the theatre company became world renown before dispersing in the early 90’s with a very solemnly theatrical funeral session.

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