Originally performed by beginners to open the circus show. It was an act where riders, standing on the backs of horses, struck various poses, jumped from horses and across barriers. Nowadays the term 'voltige' us used to name an act in which the lower performers, while joining their hands into so-called 'grid', a special support (known to all as 'chair' since childhood), throw the upper one (usually a girl) up or pass to each other; and the upper one does various jumping feats or freezes in still poses having found balance instantaneously.