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Charles Blondin (born Jean François Gravelet, 28 February 1824 – 22 February 1897) was a French tightrope walker and acrobat.He toured the United States and was known for crossing the 1,100 ft (340 m) Niagara Gorge on a tightrope.
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 .
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.
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.
Thirty people have been arrested on the property since February, the LAPD told The Times on Saturday. As last weekend's tightrope walk shows, the site remains penetrable.
Didier Pasquette's high wire walk in Glasgow, July 22, 2007. Photographer: Grant Gibson. Didier Pasquette is a noted French tightrope walker.. Pasquette studied with Philippe Petit (famous for his high wire walk between the former Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York in 1974) and in 1989 received his diploma from the Centre National des Arts du Cirque in Châlons-en-Champagne.
Con Colleano (born Cornelius Sullivan; 26 December 1899 – 13 November 1973) was an Australian tightrope walker. He was the first person to successfully attempt a forward somersault on a tightrope and became one of the most celebrated and highly paid circus performers of his time. He was known as "The Wizard of the Wire" or "The Toreador of ...
On June 23, he successfully completed the walk without safety devices in approximately 23 minutes, making him the first person to tightrope walk across a Grand Canyon area gorge. At 1,500 feet (460 m), it was the highest walk of his career. Afterwards, Wallenda said it was more difficult than he had expected.