#tight wire

[nationalcircus]

The National Centre for Circus Arts is OPEN for 2018 🤹‍♀️ All of our courses and classes are back in motion from today. We look forward to your visit. (at National Centre for Circus Arts)

[semioticapocalypse]

Joe Imlay, instructor and tight wire enthusiast at the Y.M.C.A, practices for the “Y” Circus at the Illinois State Arsenal, circa 1931

[::SemAp Twitter || SemAp::]

[nationalcircus]

Did you see us on Channel 4's Troy: The Highwire (feat. our graduate James McCambridge). Well it's now online - watch in full here.

[dis-you]

[gregeye]

New sexy shirt for my wire performance late this month 💁🏼

[gregeye]

Tried something new last night.

[gregeye]

Tried something new last night.

[whisperthatruns]

It's somewhere over a bridge made of triangles (for obvious reasons). Wallets never burst into flame, there's nothing hiding in anyone's ear, and rabbits are just rabbits. There's a peace there that we cannot imagine because we have been taught tricks. The disappearing cabinet, the guy at the party who doesn't know how to introduce himself, "Pick a card," or better, he unpacks 100 scarves from his palm to help you fall in love. The truth is I hate magicians only slightly less than clowns—so starved for attention that they are willing to hold their breath underwater while wearing a straight jacket. They do it because we watch them and we wait, and maybe hope, a little, that they fail. Hope that the trick ends in death and the bridge to that place, the place of no magic appears because we want an access point, a slight of hand, where a spectacle in a cape with a wand can vanish through those triangular shapes.

Mary Lou Buschi, “The Place of No Magic,” Tight Wire (Dancing Girl Press, 2016)