Inside an abandoned movie theatre in working-class Havana, Cuban children as young as nine pursue dreams of joining the circus.
Aspiring acrobats – some 70 of them – climb a rope while young jugglers toss pins back and forth, and others take turns on the trampoline or parallel bars. No one seems to mind the dilapidated conditions, at least as long as the weather is dry. Several corrugated tin laminates are missing from the roof, exposing the sky.
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