Russell Froelich :: Aerial acrobat performing on a bi-plane with a
race car driving below, 1920’s | src: Missouri History Museum

Tänzerische Akrobatik, 1926

Gerhard Riebicke :: Outdoor gymnastics. Student of the Trümpy dancing school doing an acrobatic jump. Published in UHU magazine, Heft 5, 1926. | src Getty Images — **Gerhard Riebicke ::** Outdoor gymnastics. Student of the Trümpy dancing school doing an acrobatic jump. Published in UHU magazine, Heft 5, 1926. | src Getty Images

Gerhard Riebicke :: Tänzerische Akrobatik (Phot. Riebicke). UHU Magazin, Februar 1926. | src arthistoricum — **Gerhard Riebicke ::** Tänzerische Akrobatik (Phot. Riebicke). UHU Magazin, Februar 1926. | src arthistoricum

John Dominis ::

Tamale performer
Betty Fox jumps on a tiny platform hundreds of feet above ground, downtown Chicago, 1955

John Dominis ::

Aerialist Betty Fox performing on a tiny platform hundreds of feet above ground, Chicago, July 13th, 1955

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Athlete Artist Maurice Feild doing Handstands wearing a swimsuit beside beach hut, undated / via

gerda-kay / original src: eBay

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French aerialist Philippe Petit holds a balancing pole as he crosses a steel cable suspended between the not-yet-completed Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, 1350ft above ground, New York City, 7 August 1974 :: AP

George Caddy :: Roya Geale puts on a spectacular display of flexibility and balance, similar to ‘needle scale’ poses struck by professional adagio dancers and contortionists, in which a standing front split is done, while holding the back leg overhead, Bondi Beach, January 1941 / src: State Library of New South Wales

Wesley May, known as “Daredevil”, accomplished the feat of passing from one plane to another in flight.
Anonymous photographer, ca. 1920. Gelatin-silver bromide. / src: Lumière des Roses

Pedro Momini :: Italian acrobat Santin Vanzella, from Raffetto Circus, balancing with
one hand poses for the photo on the top of the ‘Moving Stone’. The
acrobat chose to promote his show there while his companions did it
walking on cables lying between different buildings of the city of Tandil, Argentina.

The photograph records the final moment of Vanzella’s display doing handstands, first with both arms and finally is held for a few seconds
only with his right arm. This
is one of the most striking images of the ‘Piedra Movediza’ that was taken
by the photographer Pedro Momini, whose shadow appears in the bottom,
and was published in the magazine Caras y Caretas in the edition of May
5, 1900. / src: viral diario

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Pier Angeli in a leotard, fishnet stockings, and ballet shoes seated backwards on a chair and looking up at the camera while resting her head in her arms, 1953. Press snipe reads: “TIME OUT… Pier Angeli takes time out to rest between trapeze stunts during rehearsals for her aerialist role in MGM’s charming ‘Equilibrium’, one of the ‘Three Love Stories’. Ricardo Montalban co-stars with Miss Angeli in this sequence, directed by Gottfried Reinhardt. Sidney Franklin is producing.”

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Gerhard Riebicke :: Woman in acrobatic pose, late 1930’s

/ src: Live Auctioneers

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