A woman with long grey hair is twirling herself around a loop of bright red silk several metres in the air and the next minute she's on the other side of the room striking an elegant pose sitting in a ...

Lyra - A circular steel apparatus, much like a hula hoop, used for aerial circus arts. Poi - Swinging tethered weights through a variety of rhythmical and geometric patterns. Poi can be made from ...

WHENEVER I TAKE a circus-arts class, I wonder: If I ran away to join the circus, what kind of performer would I be? Would I fly high on the trapeze, ride a unicycle or walk a tightrope? After each ...

When she was a little girl growing up in Kazakhstan, Olga Coronas was captivated by the large shiny hoop that would be her entree into the world of the circus. It was the aerial hoop, or lyra, and she ...

TAMPA, FL (WFLA) — Short of running away and joining the circus, aerial fitness may be the closest most of us will get to the flying trapeze. Aerial fitness classes usually include a trapeze, a hoop ...

During the 40 years since Cirque du Soleil began in Montreal and transformed contemporary circus into a global phenomenon, the so-called “circus arts” ― including aerial, acrobatics, juggling, sleight ...

Nov. 26 (UPI) --An Australian circus performer put her endurance to the test by breaking two Guinness World Records with an aerial hoop in a single day. Charlotte "Charli" Meath, 23, took on the ...

(WFLA) Short of running away and joining the circus, aerial fitness may be the closest most of us will get to the flying trapeze. Aerial fitness classes usually include a trapeze, a hoop known as a ...