Skipping
Acrobatics and dance performed with the added difficulty of negotiating one or more skipping ropes. Ah, skipping, King of circus skills. As so often, Chinese circus artists lead the world in intricate and astounding difficulty, and you can see such wonders as a a twelve year-old child negotiating half a dozen whirling ropes while cracking out backflips while throwing three diablos. It's not a common discipline, but audience members who are dedicated and fortunate may one day see the magical, alchemical formula of circus-skipping-breakdance.
Magazine
With a dearth of circus or physical theatre work in the Brighton Festival, it came down to the Fringe to fill the gaps. Enter the Freerange: a great red plastic geodesic dome which was parked on a church green in central Brighton—a temporary refuge for circus, variety and cabaret.