trapeze
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“I’ve never trained in acrobatics or circus or anything,” says Severin, who had to learn a trapeze act for her part as Marlena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The agents booked them a trapeze class for early April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
"I did flying trapeze, acrobatics, and I absolutely loved the performance element of it all," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Navigating this period as a journalist and sole parent feels like being a trapeze artist without a net—each day teetering on the edge of madness.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2024
“Were Louisiana’s parents really trapeze artists?” asked Raymie.
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
Brook’s cobweb-clearing 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” famously ditched the forest scenery for a white box and circus trapezes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
His final production for the RSC, in 1970, was a memorable, airborne version of A Midsummer Night's Dream using trapezes and stilts.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2022
In this event, two-person teams, like the one described above, perform near-acrobatic feats on literal trapezes to zoom around a racecourse, almost like wind-powered NASCAR.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2021
Its challenge now is to manage growth while holding on to its mom-and-pop, let’s-put-on-a-show ethos, with treadmills and trapezes.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2017
Normal chairs with legs and backs act as trapezes.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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