Nur eine Handvoll Luftakrobaten, darunter Erin Blaire aus New York City, ist das Wagnis eingegangen, diesen klassischen Zirkusakt, auch „Hairhanging“ genannt, wieder aufleben zu lassen. Wir zeigen dir, wie die Nummer funktioniert!
00:00Hair-hanging feels unique to me because I feel like it's the only form of aerial where you're working without an apparatus.
00:06So usually with silks or trapeze, it would be you and the thing you're working with.
00:11With hair-hanging, it's just you. So that feels really magical to me. It feels like the most like flying.
00:21Hi, my name is Erin Blair and I'm a hair-hanging aerialist.
00:30Hair-hanging is a traditional circus practice, where you arrange your hair in such a way that you can hang from it and do aerial.
00:41I wanted to try hair-hanging because I've been doing circus for a long time and I love always pushing the limits of what my body can do and hair-hanging seemed like a really exciting way to keep going further.
00:59To train for hair-hanging, you have to condition your body. You need a very strong spine and neck. You have to sort of train your hair and your scalp.
01:06I take a lot of vitamins. I take very good care of my hair and learning how to do that definitely took me some time in practice.
01:11I wanted to try hair-hanging because I've been doing circus for a long time and I love always pushing the limits of what my body can do.
01:17And hair-hanging seemed like a really exciting way to keep going further.
01:21The challenges with this type of performance, there's a lot of pain. If not done correctly, hair-hanging could of course be very dangerous.
01:41You could lose a lot of hair. You could potentially have the hair come undone. You could fall if you're very high up. That could be extremely dangerous.
01:50And it's been really amazing to me to see like how much the body can do and so I really try to explore that.
02:00Like how much I can express with my body, how strong I can be, how flexible I can be through my acts.
