Hanging from your hair is almost like flying!

Zoomin English

Only a handful of aerialists, including Erin Blaire from New York City have cautiously trained to resurrect this classic circus act known as the hair hang. Discover what it is!

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00:00Hair hanging feels unique to me because I feel like it's the only form of aerial where

00:04you're working without an apparatus.

00:06So usually with silks or trapeze, it will be you and the thing you're working with.

00:12With hair hanging, it's just you.

00:14So that feels really magical to me.

00:15It 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

00:38that you can hang from it and do aerial.

00:42I wanted to try hair hanging because I've been doing circus for a long time and I love

01:03always pushing the limits of what my body can do.

01:07And hair hanging seemed like a really exciting way to keep going further.

01:12To train for hair hanging, you have to condition your body.

01:15You need a very strong spine and neck.

01:18You have to sort of train your hair and your scalp.

01:21I take a lot of vitamins.

01:22I take very good care of my hair and learning how to do that definitely took me some time

01:26in practice.

01:33The challenges with this type of performance, there's a lot of pain.

01:37If not done correctly, hair hanging could of course be very dangerous.

01:41You could lose a lot of hair.

01:43You could potentially have the hair come undone.

01:46You could fall if you're very high up.

01:48That could be extremely dangerous.

01:54And it's been really amazing to me to see like how much the body can do.

01:58And so I really try to explore that, like how much I can express with my body, how strong

02:04I can be, how flexible I can be through my acts.

02:06I love your body, how much I can be, how much it can be affected by my body.

02:07And now I have been very looking forward.

02:08You could use my body, how much I can be...

02:08I have no idea, I have no idea.

02:09I have no idea.

02:10I learned a lot...

02:11I can be...

02:11I know I can be...

02:12It's probably a lot more...

02:13I have no idea.

02:14I have no idea.

02:15You could do that.

02:16I've been really struggling...

02:17I think I've been really struggling.

02:18I'm really working with you.

02:19I've been really struggling.

02:20I'm really struggling to keep my body, how hard I want people to do.

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