Rope walker

Rope walker

In former times high-rope walkers performed on city squares and streets; the rope stretched between houses, river banks or watch-towers. The last bright example of such performance was a famous walking done by Emil Grawale (Blonden in posters) in summer 1859 across the Niagara waterfall. There are two main kinds of rope-walking in today's circus coming from squares and street performances to the circus art: these are high-rope walkers and free-rope performers.

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