Polina volchek biography

Q: I know you had a rhythmic gymnastics background before circus, right?

A: That is correct.

I started [rhythmic gymnastics] when I was seven years old. I spent about 10 years in professional sports and made the national team. I did both individual and group [rhythmic], but I was more successful in group. We won the Russian national competitions three times.

Q: So you did rhythmic for 10 years, and then you switched to circus arts?

A: Yeah, it happened mostly accidentally, after I finished my professional sports career.

I was guessing where should I move to, what should I do, and what skills I needed to develop in order to continue pushing myself to new heights.

Polina volchek biography wikipedia

I was expecting myself to be a coach for gymnastics, and that was my main direction after [rhythmic]. But somehow, things brought me into dance first, and the dance team that I was a part of was basically circus. So I starte