trapeze
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However, much of the Caballero family’s performance lore begins with Isabel’s son, 82-year-old Rubén: an apparatus connoisseur well-versed in the high wire, trapeze and hand balancing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
The agents booked them a trapeze class for early April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
The circus is still in town, but the trapeze artists, tightrope walkers and other eye-catching acts are no more.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
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
He spied the drawn window shade on the east window, with its shade cord and ring, like a trapeze, and it gave him an idea.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
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
Out of both necessity and the desire to preserve what they call the "Africanness" of their shows, Sencirk uses locally found materials to make its equipment, such as trapezes, safety mats and juggling balls.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2021
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
An act called Spicy Circus bounds atop twinned trampolines, and I took no notes as the Flying Tunizianis flung themselves toward their trapezes because it turns out I can’t write while I’m gaping.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
Normal chairs with legs and backs act as trapezes.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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