Circus skills

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Circus skills is a group of pursuits that were traditionally used as a form of entertainment in circus, sideshow, busking or variety/vaudeville/music hall shows. While most circus skills are still being performed today, many are practiced by non-performers as a hobby.

1 Prop Manipulation Circus Skills
2 Balancing/Equilibristic Circus Skills
3 Aerial Circus Skills
4 Acrobatic Circus Skills
5 Clowning
6 Dare Devil Skills
7 Side Show Skills

[edit] Prop Manipulation Circus Skills

[edit] Balancing/Equilibristic Circus Skills

Bicycle acrobatics
Chair acrobatics
Chinese poles
Danish pole
Free standing ladder
Handstands and hand walking
Pedal go
Perch (Equilibristic)
Rola Bola
Rolling globe
Roman Ladders
Russian bar
Stilt walking
Teeterboard (aka "Korean board")
Tight-rope (tight or slack rope walking)
Unicycle
Wheel gymnastics

[edit] Aerial Circus Skills

Aerial Rigging
Bungee
Cloud swing (Mexican cloud swing)
Corde lisse (rope, Smooth Rope)
Cradle
Hair Hang (aka Hair Suspension / Hairhang / hair hanging)
Aerial Hoop(Lyra, Circeaux)
Rebound straps
Russian swing
Shoot-Thru sadder
Silks (tissues)
Spanish web
Trapeze
Wire (harness)

[edit] Acrobatic Circus Skills

Acrobalance includes all of the acrobatic balancing done in the circus. It includes partner acrobatics, adagio, multiple person hand-balancing, and large group pyramids. The performers at the bottom of the pyramid are known as bases and those who are balanced above the ground are known as fliers ado.
Acrobatics
- Hand balancing
- Tumbling
- Hoop diving
- Teeterboard
- Trampoline / Mini-tramp
Contortion
Jump rope
Hula hoop