Aerial Performance Quotes

I did a lot of trapeze stuff when I did 'Pippin' and continued to do it afterward. Flying is so fun, and I was used to the harness idea, but these harnesses are like intense, full bodysuit things.

I remember, as a kid, we would go and watch the Red Arrows, and I thought it was similar to British wrestlers and the acrobatic division.

There is no substitute for taking off in flight in front of a live audience.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.

I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

When I first did 'Moby,' I didn't realize how taxing it would be. I was climbing fifty feet up in the air and climbing down. Literally, it's so busy, you feel you're on a ship. You're always moving; you're constantly adding clothes or taking them off, and there are many people on stage all the time!

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.

For the 'Heaven' stage, the dancers and I don't use wires so we are slowly slipping down the stage if you see us up close.

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.

The Red Arrows are the acrobatic division of the Royal Air Force in England.

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.

I can now put 'experienced aerialist' on my resume.

[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed!

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'

It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

As an actor you are supposed to do some kind of action in case it is required. I remember this sequence where I was pulled up by a wire 100 ft above the ground. This was my first time that I was hung with a wire and I was a bit scared. But I must say it was a very beautiful experience looking down at everybody from a height.

There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.