Monday, June 29, 2009

From Gee Gee's albums #4


Scan11807, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Unidentified

Posted by Buckles at 6/29/2009 06:11:00 AM

14 comments:

Frank Ferrante said...

WOW - these people do not deserve to go unidentified. ~frank

29 June, 2009 11:22
Chic Silber said...

I'm surprised to see balance

poles of such different lengths

29 June, 2009 12:11
Anonymous said...

Pretty slick
Could this be "Serge Coronas"??
It would be interesting to see them getting into this trick.

29 June, 2009 13:27
Jimmy Cole said...

I think this act might be from South Africa. Seems I have seen photos of it before.

29 June, 2009 15:18
Little John said...

This is the most incredible thing that I’ve seen today. I’d like to see how that got to this position and how they got out of it.

29 June, 2009 16:01
Chic Silber said...

I would imagine that the two

outside ends start with the girls

on their shoulders and as the 1st

pair walk out the central brace

gets placed with the top mount

Once they are centered on the

wire the ends separate to let

the girls spread and the top

mount goes up last

Then it's reverse all

But that's only a guess

29 June, 2009 18:05
Chic Silber said...

I'd also bet that the fellow

on the left starts from the

other (left) pedestal

30 June, 2009 12:03
Henry Schroer said...

Could you please explain how the girls get from sitting on the shoulder to the position the are in

30 June, 2009 16:45
Chic Silber said...

As I said this is only a guess

But if the end pairs get close

to each other once the troupe

reaches the center of the cable

then the girls can reach a foot

out onto the balance pole of the

partner while repositioning the

other foot on the upper thigh

of the end fellow as they spread

out to the final position

I think getting back up might

be the more difficult part

I will see Gerhard Block this

week and I'll ask him what he

thinks or maybe one of the

Wallendas might help us

30 June, 2009 18:09
Little John said...

My guess is that the center pyramid must have entered from the right of this photo with the leader walking backward. I can think of many basic ways that the next four performers got into position, so the mystery is the lady’s splits. I assume that the end wire walkers crept backward to get to this position. Why they did this remarkable and this precarious trick is mind blowing. Was there a seven man pyramid quest at this time? Did they travel across the wire in this pose? It is odd that the poles seem to get smaller from right to left, but the only thing that I know about the high wire is the day I quite my landscaping gig and got a job at Circus World and there I was all 140 pounds of me staged under the high wire to catch Serge if he fell.

30 June, 2009 19:05
Anonymous said...

Henry,
I believe that they do it very carefully, although I am no expert when it comes to high acts.
Roger,
You did not mention Elvin Bale and his trap act which I actually watched once, but never again!
Bob Kitto

30 June, 2009 19:21
Little John said...

Woops, my guess was that the center pyramid must have entered from the right of this photo with the leader walking backward. Now that I looked at the photo again it would appear that the back base to the pyramid was blind fully led to the center of the wire walking backward, sucks to be him.

30 June, 2009 20:25
warren said...

This is definately not a Lankash (Coronas) family act. I have no idea who they might be bit it is an impressive pyramid. The various length balance poles are a mystery to me but as a skill technician, I'm going to keep looking at this unsual formation for clues as to how it was accomplished. I think some clues are given in the pole lengths.

The center element could obviosuly be constructed off a single pedistal as it would have to be to get that thing in place. The top mounter would then get onboard and stay in place. Walking the thing with a backward and forward facing base is not that difficult. As to where the two in the split come from, my first guess is that the two outside bases carried them or they "trained out" to the position on the wire then got to shoulders (sitting or standing), with the two bases very close to the center element. From there, it is mechanically easy. I've done similar things on the ground but to accomplish this on a high wire is remarkable. It als explains a part of the difference in lengths of the balance poles. Wish I could have seen this and can anyone out there figure out who these folks are?

02 July, 2009 02:23
Chic Silber said...

Warren's thoughts seem to be

much the same as mine

02 July, 2009 10:28

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