They will join mind-bending juggler The Great Gaston (Francois Borie), balancing act The Sensational Sozonov (Mikhail Sozonov and Ievgeniia Fetkulova), contortionist The Elastic Dislocationist (Senayet Asefa Amare) and
teeterboard daredevils The Daring Desafios (Joao Guilherme de Lima Siqueira, Luan de Souza Vieira and Clovis Hernan Aranguiz dos Santos).
These new acts will join the previous and much-loved mind-bending juggler, The Great Gaston (Francois Borie), the legendary balancing act Rola Bola by The Sensational Sozonov (Russian Mikhail Sozonov and Ukrainian Ievgeniia Fetkulova), Ethiopian contortionist The Elastic Dislocationist (Senayet Asefa Amare) and the stomachchurning heights of The Daring Desafios (trio of Brazilian
teeterboard daredevils Joao Guilherme de Lima Siqueira, Luan de Souza Vieira and Clovis Hernan Aranguiz dos Santos).
The first act features a
teeterboard, which gets the audience excited as the acrobats flip gracefully through the air.
This year's show under the Big Top at Nathan Benderson Park continues through March 10, featuring, among others, high-wire artist Pedro Carrillo,
teeterboard artists Sons Company, comic Cesar Dias and much more.
The first one, Galileo[R], has a
teeterboard that produces asynchronous sinusoidal side-alternating vertical vibrations.
I perform hand balancing, break dancing, hand-to-hand,
teeterboard and Washington trapeze - balancing on your head on swinging trapeze.
Once there, they spend their first week getting familiar with the show, training in their skill (trampoline,
teeterboard, etc.), and getting oriented.
In the same scene, the show's acrobats mark through a series of tumbling,
teeterboard and Russian beam tricks.
I didn't like
teeterboard - it's a see-saw you stand on and get fired into the air when two people jump on the other end.
The performers use ropes, trapeze, a Chinese pole,
teeterboard (for tumbling), German wheel (like a hamster wheel) in a variety of different acts and in between there is creative choreography and feats of amazing strength and flexibility.
Other acts will include Chinese pole, juggling,
teeterboard, slake line, and more throughout the day.
VbX was performed on a commercial machine (Galileo Sport, Novotec, Pforzheim, Germany), which had a motorised
teeterboard that rotated around an anteroposterior horizontal axis to produce side-alternating vertical sinusoidal vibrations to the body.