acrobat
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“It’s really fun to hear the audience react to this show,” says Serafina Walker, an actor and acrobat in the ensemble who also serves as circus captain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The sport isn’t the same without Carlos Alcaraz, its sunny, electric, endlessly scampering 23-year-old acrobat from Spain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
For three glorious seasons between 1983 and 1985, ‘80s kids also had the “Dungeons & Dragons” animated series with its two girl heroes: an acrobat and a thief with an invisibility cloak.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
The acrobat, in his 20s, fell while riding the "wheel of death" apparatus at the Hippodrome Circus in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on Wednesday evening.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
When we played soccer in the yard, the babushkas would suck their teeth, because Ali Shekari was a high-flying acrobat with the ball.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Magicians, jugglers, puppeteers and acrobats once made a living from crowds in public spaces.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Two of Rubén’s older sons, who married Russian acrobats during international stints, broke off and founded their own troupe as Circus Caballero.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
That word came up many times during the show’s first audition rounds as dancers, singers, magicians, acrobats and a contortionist took the stage.
From Salon ● May 31, 2025
Like acrobats, the crew scurried up the masts to the upper topgallant sails that rose nearly 200 feet above us.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
Then the auditorium becomes a circus, with performers doing flips down the aisles and trapeze acrobats twisting and flipping above them.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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