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Jules Léotard (French:; 1 August 1838 – 16 August 1870) was a French acrobatic performer and aerialist who developed the art of trapeze.He also created and popularized the one-piece gym wear that now bears his name and inspired the 1867 song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze", sung by George Leybourne.
The group's unique composition as an all-teenage, primarily female, aerialist acrobatics team attracted increasing public attention, [3] [4] and the siblings were soon making regular television appearances on popular variety shows of the day, including The Pat Boone Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Hollywood Palace, and competing ...
Trapeze artists, in lithograph by Calvert Litho. Co., 1890. A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes, metal straps, or chains, from a ceiling support. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances.
In the video above, the acrobatic quartet attempts a balancing feat that leaves all four judges visibly unnerved. A beside-himself Howie Mandel looks away from the stage entirely, while Heidi Klum ...
Acrobatics (from Ancient Greek ἀκροβατέω (akrobatéō) 'walk on tiptoe, strut') [1] is the performance of human feats of balance, agility, and motor coordination. Acrobatic skills are used in performing arts , sporting events, and martial arts .
Luisita Leers was born in into a family of circus artists: her mother Gertrude was an acrobat, and her adoptive father Guido Krökel was a ring specialist. [1] She was trained by Krökel from the age of six. She made her debut in his troupe in March 1920, aged only eleven.
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.
Leona Dare (1854/55 – May 23/24, 1922 [1]) was an American trapeze artist and aerial acrobat, billed often as the "Queen of the Antilles" or the "Pride of Madrid". [2] She was famous for her stunts on trapezes suspended from ascending balloons.