Val Russell used to spend weekends flying through the air on a trapeze with founding members of Burning Man, a weeklong festival held annually in the Nevada desert. It led to a life-long love of ...

Every discipline within the performing arts has a moment when a practitioner stops inheriting tradition and starts building something new. For Xin Dong, a principal aerial trapeze performer and coach ...

ORMOND BEACH — Anyone who has watched a trapeze artist in a circus or an aerial acrobat in a Cirque du Soleil show can't help but marvel at the performer's ability to dance and glide through the air ...

An 18-year-old trapeze artist performing with Circus Smirkus suffered an injury after being involved in a “rigging incident” Wrentham Police Chief William McGrath said the incident happened during a ...

A local group of gravity-defying flying trapeze artists, students and performers are once again in the high wire business. After a three-month hiatus following the unexpected closure of their aerial ...

This weekend’s San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture will be a much-anticipated ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The company presenting the train travel-themed show at the Perelman Performing Arts Center faced a stressful predicament when a performer was suddenly sidelined. Eduardo ...

Photograph of a female aerial trapeze performer Florence Austin. Florence Austin was the daughter of performers Harry Austin and Ellen 'Topsy' Coleman. Florence was also the great granddaughter of ...