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Tightrope walking, Armenian manuscript, 1688. Tightwire is the skill of maintaining balance while walking along a tensioned wire between two points. It can be done either using a balancing tool (umbrella, fan, balance pole, etc.) or "freehand", using only one's body to maintain balance.
He toured the United States and was known for crossing the 1,100 ft (340 m) Niagara Gorge on a tightrope. During an event in Dublin in 1860, the rope on which he was walking broke and two workers were killed, although Blondin was not injured. He married three times and had eight children. His name became synonymous with tightrope walking.
Circus skills are a group of disciplines that have been performed as entertainment in circus, carnival, sideshow, busking, variety, vaudeville, or music hall shows. Most circus skills are still being performed today.
He made his professional tightrope walking debut at the age of 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.
Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh.The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center.
Add criminal tightrope walking to the list of problems besieging Oceanwide Plaza, the unfinished, bankrupt, vandalized, graffitied towers marring the skyline of downtown Los Angeles.
A circus performer has been hospitalized with serious injuries after falling from a tightrope. ... at 4.45 p.m. on Monday that a person had fallen from height." ... was part of a High Wire Troupe ...
[1] Selina learned how to balance on a tight rope and in 1853 she was known as Pauline Violante and it was claimed that she was the first person to dance on tight rope. In 1858, she was the first person to walk on a high wire across the Crystal Palace. [1] She appeared at E.T. Wild's Alhambra Theatre of Variety in London's Leicester Square.