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physics turned into a dare, where the only safe move is letting go.
means A short horizontal bar suspended by two ropes, on which acrobats swing, hang, and perform aerial feats.
from From French 'trapèze', which comes through Latin 'trapezium' from Greek 'trapezion', meaning 'small table' — itself a diminutive of 'trapeza', 'table' (literally 'four-footed,' from 'tetra-' four and 'peza' foot). The leap from furniture to flying acrobats is pure geometry: the bar and its two slanting ropes trace the shape of a trapezoid, the four-sided figure named for that same little table. The aerial-circus sense took hold in the 19th century, when the apparatus became a staple of the big top.
- named after
- the Latin word for trapezoid, its bar's shape
- invented
- 1859, by French acrobat Jules Léotard
- the leotard
- named after him, the original flying outfit
- timing window
- catchers grab wrists in under a second
- the release
- flyers let go blind, trusting pure rhythm
triple somersault record — miguel vasquez caught three consecutive flips in 1982, trapeze acrobatics
trapeze school new york — founded 1974, teaches public circus trapeze on roosevelt island