"Improv is like intellectual and mental tightrope walking," he said.
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TRUSNOVEC There's a moment of a sort of tightrope-walking backward.
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A ballerina, mime, and tightrope-walking trio worthy of, well, 33.5k Instagram likes.
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Old Standbys Your library is probably stocked with classics that your tightrope-walking middle schoolers will enjoy.
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Amazing, except that tightrope walking of this kind is the essence of being a woman under scrutiny.
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What's it like to watch your partner do such challenging stunts, such as tightrope-walking across the Falls?
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Bongonga, who prepared for the show for a year, has been practising tightrope walking since she was 8.
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Images of others have appeared on social media, climbing building facades, fire escapes and even tightrope walking along electrical cables.
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What happens if Curry can no longer utilize the tightrope-walking skill that singlehandedly altered how NBA basketball is conceptualized?
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Dovaleh's edgy, "tightrope-walking" shtick narrows into a lacerating narrative of the cadet camp where, at 14, he learned of a parent's death.
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It includes:Camel-coaxing rituals (Mongolia)Tightrope walking (Korea)Cowbell manufacturing (Portugal)Human towers (Spain)In other words, pizza-making could fit in quite nicely.
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Nik somehow managed the 1,800-foot trek across the mouth of the volcano, tightrope walking 2,000 feet above the deadly lava and through strong winds.
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By including this piece, a duet that translates the difficulty of tightrope walking into dance, Mr. Acosta acknowledges that his project isn't starting from scratch.
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It's as if the show wants us to know that, even if he lost his appeal, getting Brendan this close to release was impressive legal tightrope-walking.
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Acrobats practising tightrope walking, also called funambulism, maintain their balance by positioning their center of mass directly over their base of support, a rope or a wire.
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That tightrope walking may help protect French business ties in Iran and buy time with the Saudis, but diplomats are concerned the 39-year-old president, new to international affairs, may ultimately leave France exposed.
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The film is by no means as shambolic as "The Cloverfield Paradox" or as aimless as "Mute", but it is tightrope-walking the fine line between open-ended, mind-expanding mystery and lethargic, pretentious twaddle.
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Potter pushed defying gravity into the realm of performance art, partaking in both high-lining (tightrope walking between two massive cliffs above a yawning chasm) and wingsuit flying by jumping from cliffs, bridges, and off mountains.
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The first time I took my daughter to the Big Apple Circus, she became so fixated on the possibility of a pony ride that nothing — not tightrope walking, not clowns, not my frantic shushing — could distract her.
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The property has its own 50,000-square-foot water park, stables (riding lessons, carriage rides) and a new adventure center equipped with mountain bikes, six slack lines (tightrope walking a few feet off the ground between trees) and archery.
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Except for a speech or two about his tenderness (he cries, she says, at "Puff, the Magic Dragon"), the son she describes is not a person but a type—the mixed kid tightrope walking across the fraught and open skies of race.
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With wife Erendira putting her life on the line above the lava, Nik says he won't be able to get in the same zone that's helped him pull off tons of dangerous stunts in the past, like tightrope walking over Niagra Falls and Times Square.
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Unlike Cirque du Soleil, which is making its Broadway premiere across the river, Bianco feels more like an underground concert than a sleek spectacle, with a live band, standing-only room, and one of the more seductive tightrope-walking acts to take the New York stage.
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The show, inspired by Saki's short stories and written by the children's book author Katherine Rundell (who also likes to do some tightrope walking in her spare time) imagines Saki reminiscing about his life and entertaining his fellow soldiers by recounting some of his previously published work.
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The adventures up for grabs will be a candlelight dinner in the catacombs beneath Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan; a balloon ride over Miami with a photographer to help you capture the perfect photo; hors d'oeuvres and cocktails on a steam train ride through canyons in Austin; and a tightrope walking lesson on a hilltop ropes course with ocean views in Los Angeles.
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The current diplomatic crisis between the Saudis and Qatar -- Riyadh is trying to isolate Doha over claims that the latter supports terrorism -- is a study in diplomatic tightrope-walking for the US. Washington is publicly backing the Saudis over the spat -- which has been led on the Saudi side by the new crown prince -- while at the same time maintaining its large military base in Qatar.
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The feet of a tightrope walker Tightrope walking, also called funambulism, is the skill of walking along a thin wire or rope. It has a long tradition in various countries and is commonly associated with the circus. Other skills similar to tightrope walking include slack rope walking and slacklining.
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Jultagi or eoreum is traditional Korean performance of tightrope-walking. It is included into South Korea's Important Intangible Cultural Properties number 58.
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The monastery was a center of large annual celebrations. Various secular events took place in the surroundings, such as horse races, tightrope walking and gusan competitions during the festivals of Vardavar and Assumption of Mary. Horse racing competitions were held on Vardavar and involved a large number of people. Tightrope walking, widely practiced by the Armenians of Taron, was historically related to the worship of the monastery.
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165-166 Lallah was the first elephant in the United States to perform a head stand consistently.Carlyon, David. Dan Rice 2001, p.192 Her most famous feat was her tightrope walking act.
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Now some of their dreams change: one wants to become a teacher, another a professional singer. One of them however, feels he is simply too small to be good at anything. Eventually, even the one judged most talented at tightrope walking, and the one who dreams of a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for tightrope walking, is let go by the unscrupulous coach who seems only interested in money. One year later, a different coach comes to the orphanage.
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Through love and kindness, he turns the children's initial failure at tightrope walking into success. The film culminates with their performance on a high wire – without a safety net – in front of their entire home town. Tightrope walking is in this movie a metaphor for how the Uyghurs try to balance between their Muslim faith and living in a communist state, where they are severely restricted in practicing their religion. This is the first film to ever document Chinese policy on religion in Xinjiang.
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Rundell's hobbies include tightrope walking and roof walking, and she says she begins each day with a cartwheel because "reading is almost exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless".
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The Jidir Plain was also a place for Novruz celebrations as well as official welcoming ceremonies for international guests. The festivities included tightrope walking, stilts and jester performances accompanied by music. The field was often compared to a hippodrome.
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During his lifetime, Blondin's name became so synonymous with tightrope walking that many employed the name "Blondin" to describe others in the sport. For example, there were at least five people working with variations of the Blondin name in Sydney in the 1880s, the most famous of whom was Henri L'Estrange—"the Australian Blondin". So popular had tightrope walking become, that one Sydney resident wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald to complain of "the Blondin business" that saw people walking on high wires wherever the opportunity arose. He noted that he had seen one walking on a wire in Liverpool Street in the city with a child strapped to his back.
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Jim Moore is an American photographer who has documented the variety arts since the 1970s. His photographs helped Philippe Petit plan his tightrope- walking stunt between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 and were prominently featured in the Oscar-winning film Man on Wire.
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169 was a female Asian elephant in Dan Rice's circus. She was known for her tightrope walking act. Lallah started her circus career in Franconi's Hippodrome under the name Jenny Lind, which she kept from 1848 to 1851. In 1851, she was renamed Juliet and paired with another elephant, Romeo.
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He made his professional tightrope walking debut at age 13. When he graduated from high school, his parents encouraged him to go to college and explore his options. With live circus losing popularity, becoming a performer did not seem like a viable career path. Wallenda briefly considered becoming a doctor, and was accepted into college.
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The primary context in which the taepyeongso is featured is during pungmul and other Namsadang (professional travelling entertainment troupe) activities, such as tightrope-walking and acrobatics. There is considerable overlap in the repertoire used for pungmul-based taepyeongso playing with shamanist and Buddhist ritual taepyeongso playing—indeed, it is often the same musicians involved.
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Bologna was born into a performing family. His father, Pietro Bologna, was an Italian clown performer, who became famous for his ability to play the flute through each nostril and to play the drum while tightrope walking. Bologna's mother was an actress, and his siblings, Louis (d. 1808) and Barbara (1786–1804), performed with the family act.
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There is no evidence when this acrobatic performance originated. Some scholars presumed it appeared during Silla and Goryeo era. It became more famous in Joseon dynasty era and still exists to this day. It is different from the tightrope-walking styles of other countries, because it is usually accompanied by music plays by telling a story to entertain viewers.
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Adili Wuxor (; ; born July 1, 1971) is a Chinese tightrope walker who was reported to have set a new world record on July 1, 2010, after he spent 60 days walking on a tightrope in the Bird's Nest Stadium. Wuxor is an ethnic Uighur from Xinjiang Province. He has been dubbed the "Prince of tightrope walking" by Chinese media.
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Shabani was 10 years old when he first gained fame in 2007 for tightrope walking. According to Hiroshi Kobayashi, head of Higashiyama Zoo in the central city of Nagoya, the ropes were put in place for the gorillas to hang from them. However, Shabani found a much better use for them and started balancing and walking on them.
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The festival opened with theatrical performances (ludi scaenici), and concluded with competitive events and spectacles at the Circus and a sacrifice to Flora.Scullard, Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic, p. 110. In 68 CE, the entertainments at the Floralia presented under the emperor Galba featured a tightrope-walking elephant.Suetonius, Life of Galba 6.1; Thomas E.J. Wiedemann, Emperors and Gladiators p. 63.
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Daily was born in Los Angeles, California to George Frates and Jan Donwerth. Her father owned a transportation business, and her mother was the director of a child development center. Her half brother, Todd, died in a motorcycle accident when he was 26. Her hobbies are surfing, and tightrope walking for charity. She is also active in women’s rights, education, and equality issues.
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On the same day in 2010, he upped his personal best by tightrope walking over in a single performance. He set a world record in 2011 by performing on the Wheel of Death atop the 23 story Tropicana Casino and Resort. Later that year, he and his mother tightrope walked between the two towers of Condado Plaza Hotel in Puerto Rico.
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Jultagi is held on Public holidays in South Korea like Daeboreum, Dano and Chuseok holidays. The Korean folk village in Seoul also presents this play to entertain tourists. It was also performed in events held in the royal palace, banquets of high-ranking government officers or village festivals. The tightrope walking performance is composed of a rope player, a clown and musical instrument players.
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Rønningsbakken travels the world performing balancing acts at the tops of lethal drops, such as canyons and cliffs. His feats include tightrope walking between two hot air balloons in flight and doing a handstand on a pile of chairs balanced on a rock wedged in a crevice between two cliffs that were 3,500 feet tall. He practices yoga, meditation, and breathing techniques to stay focused, and prepares extensively for each act.
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Le Cirque World's Top Performers is a contemporary circus company based in Italy. Le Cirque was founded in Italy in 2015 on the initiative of the entrepreneur Gianpiero Garelli, and it presents circus entertainment shows which include balancing, acrobatics, tightrope walking, contortionism, juggling, comedy, dance, and music. The company is made up of over 70 artists from all over the world. Animals are never used in their shows.
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His father Hermann Dahl was a former German champion in springboard diving. Following in his father’s footsteps, Dahl was the 1938 German youth champion in springboard diving. Dahl was a bricklayer and carpenter before his service in World War II. After his military service, Dahl returned to Hamburg in 1946, and performed as a clown and circus artist. He already showed talent in tightrope walking, which would later make him famous.
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Overcoming fear is a common challenge theme, however, none of the missions have ever involved harmful actions (e.g. ingesting unsavory items as done in Fear Factor) or explicitly unsafe stunts. Some missions have involved "extreme" activities such as bungee jumping, rappelling, or tightrope walking, but all are under strict expert supervision with proper harnessing. Some may even be embarrassing for the players, yet comedic for viewers (such as the “Dice Game” or the “Clothesline” game).
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In the case of fingers and toes, it is spreading the digits apart, away from the centerline of the hand or foot. Abduction of the wrist is also called radial deviation. For example, raising the arms up, such as when tightrope-walking, is an example of abduction at the shoulder. When the legs are splayed at the hip, such as when doing a star jump or doing a split, the legs are abducted at the hip.
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There were also three outbreaks of the bubonic plague to contend with. Russow was the humble son of a peasant, but became a German-speaking clergyman, which was a big step up in society. The fact that he could read, let alone write a chronicle, was unusual. The tetralogy starts with a famous scene where the then ten-year-old Balthasar watches some tightrope walkers in Tallinn, a metaphor for his own diplomatic tightrope walking later in life.
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Xiansha Island (t s Xiānshādǎo) is geared towards athletic pursuits, including tightrope walking, sandsurfing and sandbiking, desert volleyball and soccer, and ziplines. There are swings and a playground for children.. Apart from the sports facilities, there is also the Guolao Theater and juggling performances, dune buggy and ATV rides,. as well as a market and snack street. Apart from the trail to Xiangshawan Port, there is a camel caravan that leads to the Yuesha Island area.
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The South Australian Register, 14 December 1923, p. 3. In 1863, he debuted as a trapeze artist, and by 1866 he decided to focus on tightrope walking. Australian media nicknamed him ̎the Australian Blondin ̎, a reference to the well-known French tightrope walker Charles Blondin. He entertained his audiences by walking on a tightrope without pole and blindfolded, and even with heavy ladies from the audience who accepted to be carried by him on the rope.
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During Novruz holiday, various songs related to Novruz are sung and different activities such as tightrope walking and wrestling take place in the public squares. Another ceremony is that of growing samani in a plate, which symbolises the fertility of spring. One especially notable portion of the festival is the traditional comedic performance of the story of Kosa and Kecel - permanent characters in the holiday narrative. These personas and their fighting represent the conflict between Winter and Spring.
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Denis Pettiaux (1956) is a Belgian acrobat and former referee of the EBU production Jeux Sans Frontières. His first contact with Jeux Sans Frontières was in 1981 when he participates in an episode in the French town of Annecy. The Belgian team played Pettiaux on a tightrope walking game and also played their Joker on it, which gives extra points. Pettiaux performed very well on this game, and this helps the Belgian team to win that night.
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Slacklining Slacklining refers to the act of walking, running or balancing along a suspended length of flat webbing that is tensioned between two anchors. Slacklining is similar to slack rope walking and tightrope walking. Slacklines differ from tightwires and tightropes in the type of material used and the amount of tension applied during use. Slacklines are tensioned significantly less than tightropes or tightwires in order to create a dynamic line which will stretch and bounce like a long and narrow trampoline.
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Funambola is an album of the Italian singer Patrizia Laquidara, released in 2007 by Ponderosa Music&Art.; It includes 13 songs and it is inspired by the French tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who walked on a steel wire between the Twin Towers of New York City. Tightrope walking has this time both a physical and an intimate meaning, as a never ending research of a mental equilibrium, perhaps lasting, when found, only the space of a morning. D'Ottavio P (2007).
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The circumstances under which Seneca's tragedies were performed are however unclear; scholarly conjectures range from minimally staged readings to full production pageants. More popular than literary theatre was the genre-defying mimus theatre, which featured scripted scenarios with free improvization, risqué language and jokes, sex scenes, action sequences, and political satire, along with dance numbers, juggling, acrobatics, tightrope walking, striptease, and dancing bears.Potter (1999), p. 257. Unlike literary theatre, mimus was played without masks, and encouraged stylistic realism in acting.
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Harding was involved in a serious motorcycle accident in June 2007, which left him unable to keep up with the high energy of Hi-5. Just a few days before this, Stevie Nicholson had been hired as an understudy, and put straight into work as a temporary replacement for Harding. The group toured the Hi-5 Circus Stageshow in 2007, with the theme of circus incorporating tricks such as trapeze, tightrope walking and gymnastics. Nicholson debuted on tour with the Circus show in Singapore.
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Shabani () is a male western lowland gorilla, who was born at the Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands, raised in Australia and currently resides at the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Japan. He gained publicity in 2007 at Higashiyama Zoo when he was 10 years old by tightrope walking. He gained added fame in 2015, due to being considered 'handsome', 'sexy', 'photogenic' and 'metrosexual'. This led to coverage in news and his being featured on the season 2 premiere of the TV series Not Safe with Nikki Glaser.
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A jultagi performance at Korean Folk Village There are more than 40 kinds of Jultagi techniques including a walking on a tight rope as the basic motion, a reversed walking on it, leaping with one foot on it, sitting and lying on it, and sometimes pretending to fall down. Another elaborate tightrope walking trick is jumping up after kneeling on the tightrope with one knee and then landing on the rope in a cross-legged sitting position. Some expert tightrope walkers can jump forward while standing on the rope without falling.
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Londe's camera was also used for medical studies of muscle movement in subjects performing actions as diverse as those of a tightrope-walking and blacksmithing. The sequence of twelve pictures could be created for durations from 1/10 of a second to several seconds. Although the apparatus was used primarily for medical research, Londe noted that it was portable, and he used it for other subjects - for example, horses and other animals and ocean waves. General Sobert developed, in conjunction with Londe, a chronophotographic device used to study ballistics.
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From 1974 to 1976 he toured America with the Ken Campbell Roadshow and on his return joined the Phoenix Theatre in Leicester. In 1977 he joined the National Theatre Company where he appeared as Dom Fiollo (sic) in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the Cottesloe Theatre. In 1978 he became a member of the Young Vic Company appearing as Stephano in The Tempest, Buckingham in Richard III and Mephistopheles in Faust. In 1978 he went to America to study in a circus school where he learned juggling, unicycling and tightrope walking.
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Korean court dances is called "jee" (hangul:정재, hanja:呈才) which originally referred to "display of all talent" including not only dance but also other performing arts such as jultagi (줄타기 tightrope walking), gong deonjigi (공던지기), and mokmatagi (목마타기) but gradually only denoted "court dance". The term has been used since the early period of Joseon dynasty. Jeongjae were used to perform for the royal family, court officials, and foreign envoys or for festive occasions sponsored by the state. Jeongjae is divided into the two categories, "Dangak jeongjae" (당악정재) and "Hyangak jeongjae" (향악정재).
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Harry showed an interest in animals from childhood, reading books on their habits and characteristics, playing at circus using toy ones, searching for crabs in Chesapeake Bay, and hunting for snakes in nearby woods and then selling them to neighbors. He became interested in tightrope walking after observing circus performers, and at age twelve began practicing with them at their winter quarters nearby.Wegeforth and Morgan, p. 20. After his second winter of practice he went out on tour with them as part of their act, but was brought home by his elder brother Charles.
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Petit became known to New Yorkers in the early 1970s for his frequent tightrope-walking performances and magic shows in the city parks, especially Washington Square Park. Petit's most famous performance was in August 1974, conducted on a wire between the roofs of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, a quarter-mile above the ground. The towers were still under construction and had not yet been fully occupied. He performed for 45 minutes, making eight passes along the wire, during which he walked, danced, lay down on the wire, and saluted watchers from a kneeling position.
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Thus the Opéra-Comique was born in 1714. Given the growing success of the fair performances, the opera demanded increasingly exorbitant royalties, which put a strain on fair directors. The strategic ally of the Opera, the Comédie- Française took the opportunity to deal a fatal blow in 1719: it obtained the removal of all fair shows, with the exception of marionnettes and tightrope walking. Meanwhile, the regent had restored the Comédie-Italienne: it took the opportunity to occupy the St. Laurent fair for three years, from 1721 to 1723, but it did not meet with the expected success.
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In 1898 he was the pilot of the hot air balloon that gave U.S. troops location information of Spanish snipers before the Battle of San Juan Hill. The balloon was shot down on June 30, 1898, and landed in the Aguadores River. Baldwin was later honorably discharged and he took fragments of the balloon with him which he would sell when he performed, dubbing himself "the air hero of the late War". He celebrated his eighty-second birthday by tightrope walking 125 feet above a canyon formed by the South Boulder Creek in Colorado, a crossing he'd made 80 times in 40 years.
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Sensations of 1945 is a 1944 American musical-comedy film directed by Andrew Stone. Released by United Artists, the film was an attempt to recapture the ensemble style of films such as Broadway Melody of 1936 by showcasing a number of top musical and comedy acts of the day, in a film linked together by a loose storyline. Sensations of 1945 stars dancer Eleanor Powell and Dennis O'Keefe as two rival publicists who fall in love, but the film's main purpose is to showcase a variety of different acts, ranging from tightrope walking to comedy to Powell's athletic tap dancing. The picture is notable for several reasons.
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The shadow play is a form of puppetry that is performed by moving figures made of animal skins or cardboard held behind a screen lit by lamplight. The subject matter and singing style in shadow plays are closely related to local opera. Another popular folk art is the quyi, which consists of various kinds of storytelling and comic monologues and dialogues, often to the accompaniment of clappers, drums, or stringed instruments. Variety arts, including tightrope walking, acrobatics, animal acts, and sleight of hand date back at least as far as the Han dynasty (206 BCE-CE 220) and were very popular in the imperial court.
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Between shoots, Gesner added to his physical performance skills by picking up tricks from a local circus troupe, such as tightrope walking, inverted rope-climbing, kicking/flipping up from the ground (known as "kipping"), and stunt flips. Although listed on the fall lineup for a third season, the well-rated series ended its run after the second season due to contract disputes between the production company and series distributors. Since the conclusion of Sinbad in 1998, Gesner has appeared on television series such as Friends and All My Children. He played the role of David Patrick in the 2005 movie The Ringer, a film about the Special Olympics.
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In 1929, Bugrimova transferred to the Moscow State Circus, and it was there she met the animal trainers Nikolaj Gladilstchikow and Boris Eder, who taught her the practice. She made her debut ten years later in 1939, and designed many of her own tricks, such as lions tightrope walking, acts involving motorcycles, and a giant swing which she would leap from with a cat. In one stunt, a lion would run in front of her motorcycle as if in fear, while another would jump onto the back of her seat to ride along. She flirted with danger by swinging on a giant swing with a lion.
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Alex manages to escape from the fire by tightrope walking to an adjacent building and returns to the hospital, where he is debriefed by John Crawley, MI6 Chief of Staff, and later discharged. Back home, Nikolei Drevin invites Alex to stay with him for two weeks as thanks for preventing his son from being kidnapped. As Alex’s doctor has recommended that he take a holiday so he can relax and recuperate, he accepts. Alex meets Drevin and his jobsworth assistant, Tamara Knight, at a hotel where Drevin is holding a press conference about his space project, Ark Angel; it is set to be the first-ever space hotel.
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His most important shows were at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne where, according to Australian media, he was paid £ 100 per week. As other tightrope walkers of his time, he also performed outdoors, including by crossing the river below Niagara Falls on a wire, and walking from the top of a building to the one opposite it by crossing a street in New Westminster, Canada, at night and without lights. When he got older, he abandoned tightrope walking and performed as a stage magician and ventriloquist. He formed his own troupe and toured China, Japan and the United States for more than twenty years, after settling in San Francisco.
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Zazel posing with her cannon at the Royal Aquarium, in 1877 Rossa Matilda Richter (1863–8 December 1937), who used the stage name Zazel, was an English aerialist and actor who became known as the first human cannonball at the age of 14. She began performing at a very young age, practicing aerial stunts like tightrope walking in an old London church. She took up ballet, gymnastics, and trapeze by the time she was 6 and, at 12, went on tour with a travelling acrobat troupe. In 1877, she was the first person to be fired out of a cannon, in front of a large crowd at the Royal Aquarium.
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In its original configuration, the park featured a dance pavilion, a very large swimming pool, an Ingersoll figure 8 roller coaster, a carousel, a scenic railroad, a band shell, a restaurant, concession stands, picnic grounds, and athletic playing fields, such as tennis courts, a football field, and a baseball diamond. In 1908, a theater was added, and Indianola began presented vaudeville for its patrons. The park entertained visitors with everything from Shakespeare's plays and Greek dances, to circus animals and diving horses. Events like hot air balloon ascensions, tightrope walking, outdoor cinema, live presentations of distant sporting events, infant beauty pageants, and massive fireworks extravaganzas were also part of the park's draw.
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Sek Sak Resort A natural resort which has been popular since before the civil war, Sek Sak stretches along the river bank with plants, trees and bamboo stretching in length. Tourists can also visit other attractive sites like Po Pus Pich Chen Da Dong Tong and Sa Ang speak, the pre-history site five kilometers (3.1 mi) to six kilometers (3.75 mi) away. Sek Sak located Treng commune, Rotanak Mondul District from the provincial town of Battambang along the National Road No 57, the former National Road No 10. Battambang Circus (Phare Ponleu Selpak) The shows include a range of circus disciplines including acrobatics, juggling, aerial work, clowning, tightrope walking and aqua-balance.
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Valérie Samama was born in the 15th arrondissement of Paris to a family of Tunisian origin. At age 13, after a family shock, she was committed to a psychiatric hospital for anorexia nervosa. Two years later she wrote a book about it, Le Pavillon des enfants fous ("The mad children's ward"), published in 1978 by Editions Stock.. Elle avoue dans l'émission Apostrophes de Bernard Pivot du 27 avril 1979 qu'elle a reçu dix lettres de refus d'éditeurs avant que Stock accepte de publier son manuscrit Her book criticizes the hospital setting in which she spent four months, describing it as coercive, humiliating and dehumanizing for the patients. In parallel with her studies at the lycée Racine in Paris, she took courses in tightrope walking at the school of Annie Fratellini.
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This is poetry like tightrope walking – a nonchalant, though thoughtful, ambling out into the world, which almost leads us into a transcendental state – only to be caught in a web of emotion and thought and connections to the daily reality of living. Tredinnick’s poems are also full of playful paradoxes and wry humour. His tone may be debonair, well-dressed and conscious of manners and historical allegiances, but for all the hypnotic oratory, his voice is both questing and self-deprecating, and the earth he walks over is emphatically today’s."Jean Kent, launch of Bluewren Cantos, 2014 Poet Anne Elvey has said that Tredinnick "Weaves the tropes of attentiveness to the other, mortality, and finitude, together with his wry humour, to tell a loving engagement with place, persons and otherkind.
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In the climax of the show the contestant then attempts to complete the dare; if successful they win the major prize. If they fail or decide to drop out, co-host Zaetta will then try to complete the dare instead; the contestants forfeits the prize if she succeeds, but if she fails or pulls out herself, the contestant wins regardless. During the show each major dare is bookended by several minor segments in which Whitney travels the streets and shopping malls of Australia challenging people to complete a lesser dare for a cash prize (usually around $50 to $200). This may range from sticking a hand into a container full of cockroaches or having all their hair shaved off, to more complex dares such as tightrope walking above a mall foyer, or diving off a ten-metre platform into a pool.
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The fairy tale version has been translated as "The Accomplished and Lucky Teakettle" (1871) by Mitford and as "The Wonderful Tea Kettle" (1886) in the crepe-paper book series published by T. Hasegawa. The raccoon dog is ill-treated as a tea-kettle at a temple and sold off; it later performs a dance and tightrope walking routine, and the subsequent owner turned showman acquires great wealth. In most folk tale versions, the raccoon dog or fox transforms into a kettle so that its human friend or benefactor can make profit by selling the fake kettle, typically to a priest. In legend, Bunbuku chagama is the name of a tea kettle owned by priest Shukaku who turned out to be an ancient raccoon dog or mujina, the supposed kettle still on view at temple which Shukaku served.
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The Man Who Talked Too Much is a 1940 American drama film directed by Vincent Sherman and written by Walter DeLeon and Earl Baldwin; it is the second of three films adapted from the 1929 play The Mouthpiece by Frank J. Collins. Starring George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Richard Barthelmess, William Lundigan, George Tobias and John Litel, the film was released by Warner Bros. on July 16, 1940. The Man Who Talked Too Much is the second of three films adapted from the 1929 play The Mouthpiece by Frank J. Collins, in which a former prosecutor, disillusioned by sending an innocent man to the electric chair, takes the saying "Better that a hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer the death penalty" one step further by becoming a defense attorney for gangsters and adroitly tightrope walking legal ethics.
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Nikolas Wallenda (born January 24, 1979) is an American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author. He is known for his high-wire performances without a safety net. He holds 11 Guinness World Records for various acrobatic feats, but was best known as the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls. Wallenda walked 1,800 feet on a steel cable over Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua, his longest walk, on March 4, 2020. Wallenda is a 7th-generation member of The Flying Wallendas family, and he participated in various circus acts as a child. He made his professional tightrope walking debut at age 13, and he chose high-wire walking as his career in 1998 after joining family members in a seven-person pyramid on the wire. In 2001, he was part of the world's first eight-person high-wire pyramid. He performed with his family at various venues from 2002 to 2005, forming his own troupe in 2005.
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In 1821 the composer Carl Maria von Weber conducted a concert in Berlin, in which Boucher was a performer, playing Weber's Variations on a Norwegian Air, to which he added his own cadenza: > At a wave from Boucher, Weber stopped; and he and the astounded public > suddenly heard tremolandos, pizzicatos and other coarser tricks... then a > whole firework display.... Finally, after highly extravagant modulations, > arpeggios and other pieces of tightrope walking, the good fellow lost his > balance completely and could find no way of getting back to the original > piece – so, as if inspired from above, he dropped his violin and leapt upon > the stupified, half irritated, half amused Weber, embraced him in front of > everyone and shouted with a loud voice, as if choked with tears, "Ah grand > maître! que j'aime, que j'admire!"Page 254 John Warrack, Carl Maria von > Weber (2nd edition 1976, Cambridge University Press); it includes a > quotation from Carl Maria von Weber: The Life of an Artist by Max Maria > Weber, vol. 2 page 327.
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She tells the group the story of how she learned her son, Joshua, had been killed; Joshua had been drafted into Vietnam and worked as a computer programmer, writing code that would allow the computers to automatically tally American casualties. Unlike most of the other women's children, Joshua was not in active combat, but instead died when a grenade was detonated at the coffee shop he was inside. She reveals that she didn't know how to react to the officer who came to inform them of their son's death and instead just smiled and thanked him, unable to do anything else. After telling the story, she realizes that there is nothing they can do but rely on each other to heal, and decides to let go of her anger towards the tightrope walking man and instead focus on the memory of her son. As the women leave Claire's apartment, Claire pleads with Gloria - a black woman who is Claire's favorite of the group - to stay; Gloria considers staying, but decides to leave, as "we didn’t go freedom-riding years ago to clean apartments on Park Avenue".
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