A 16-year-old trapeze artist from Armenia got a prize at the VI international children and youth circus festival held in Ukraine’s Lugansk. Hasmik Manucharyan won an audience award for her “Aerial rhapsody” performance.

The festival brought together 50 groups from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Armenia, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Switzerland, Czech Republic and U.S.

Victory at the festival gives an opportunity to initiate her participation in the most authoritative international festival in Monte Carlo, director of Yerevan circus Sos Petrosyan said.