Chinese pole

However, the rubber can cause friction burns on parts of the Chinese pole artists' bodies.

A few Chinese pole tricks have been incorporated with pole dancing techniques.

Chinese poles are vertical poles on which circus performers climb, slide down and hold poses.

Chinese poles: A group of acrobats climb up, jump between, and slide down four adjacent metal poles.

Before leaving, they also watched a performance of the Chinese poles from the troupe's show Saltimbanco - its oldest touring production.

Charivari: The first act in the show sees the house troupe creating human towers, and using other circus apparatus such as a Chinese pole.

A Guan dao or Kwan tou is a type of Chinese pole weapon.

Rondo (Chinese poles)

Weathervanes: This group of characters performs in the Chinese poles on globes number and represent the directions on the compass.

Égypte (Chinese poles intro)

A guandao is a type of Chinese pole weapon that is used in some forms of Chinese martial arts.

Then there is the Chinese pole act, with acrobats shinnying up and down bars and slithering from one bar to another like a forest of monkeys.

The Asicots (Double Faces): These two-faced creatures perform in the Chinese poles act.

Creature Of Light (Chinese Pole, A Thousand Arms and Sticks)

He trained in numerous circus disciplines including teeter board, bungee, Chinese pole, Aerial hoop, Russian swing, flying trapeze, and more.

Al Cubo by French outfit BettiCombo is the slightest piece: an unlikely combination of Chinese pole and bucket juggling.

A Chinese pole routine, in which the five take turns climbing and springing from one stationary pole to another, reveals a spectacular level of fitness and strength.

High energy acrobatic troupe, The Zimbabwe Brothers have dazzled audiences with their human pyramid, quick tumbling and Chinese Pole acts.

Chinese pole - Romeo performs feats of strength to impress Miranda on a single upright pole whilst other men dance around the base holding bamboo sticks.

"My specialty is the Chinese pole act and the barrel act, in which I contort my body into a very small cylinder," Qin explains with the aid of a translator.

“Psy,” whose world tour included a stop in Boston in January, starts as a group therapy session and turns into a trapeze act where an insomniac tries to sleep on the vertical Chinese pole.

Produced in collaboration with the Chinese American Association of Minnesota, the show spotlighted three Taiwanese guest artists and included an emphasis on Chinese circus acts such as Chinese pole and hoop diving.

The school currently offers classes and private instruction in numerous circus skills, including Chinese acrobatics, contortion, Chinese pole, juggling, teeterboard, trampoline, static trapeze, flying trapeze, aerial hoop, aerial silk and aerial straps.

Its family associations are more voluntary ones: 16 rainbow-striped acrobats climbing smooth Chinese poles and hanging sideways, as if gravity had rotated by 90 degrees, or a motley troupe of clowns leaping off a swing onto a tiny perch.

Then she attended École nationale de cirque in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 2005, where she received the Diploma of Contortion and Circus Arts in 2008 and a minor in Chinese pole dancing.