In jewel-coloured leotards with feather head-dresses and intricate make-up, they romp through seamless routines in an exuberant take on Shakespeare´s "A Midsummer Night´s Dream" with pumping music and hula-hoops, under the direction of Cirque co-founder Gilles Ste-Croix.
Wearing an ethereal illuminated dress and carried on a litter as fairy queen Titania, Juliana Palomares Rodriguez - like many of the 150 children in the Circo de los Niños school - has set her heart on joining the world-famous Cirque du Soleil.
"I love it," said Palomares, 15, from the town of around 3 . . .
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