Old circus of hell

from /hhg/ Helluva Hotel General #903
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Would you ride the trapeze with him?
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>A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes or metal straps from a ceiling support. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances. Trapeze acts may be static, spinning (rigged from a single point), swinging or flying, and may be performed solo, double, triple or as a group act.[1]

The name of the apparatus reflects the trapezoid shape made by the horizontal bar, ropes and ceiling support.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapeze

>old trapeze clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai5uw_QHm8

>short traveling circus doc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzH8JOdUI1o

Old circus is really a fascinating thing. They really were quite fantastical even back in the 1900s. Nu-circus is still cool. I wish they kept stuff like sideshow freaks, but a lot of those people were probably treated really badly, so I guess in a way it’s good that got phased out
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>sideshow freaks
It wouldn't really do well in most western countries these days, although a lot of those people were actually well-paid.
Abuse was more the exception than the norm.

For example, Joseph Merrick, the famous Elephant Man, was pretty much in control of his fate and career.
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I wonder what that would feel like, being part of a circus family. They portray circuses in film/books (of those that I have seen) as a motley crew of outcasts/weirdos/genetic accidents. Not to mention all the poor people that followed them from place to place for the benefit of guaranteed work. I really hope they go into deep depth with that part of Blitz & Fizz’s background
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It deeply varies from circus to circus.
Across continental Europe, but especially in Russia, performance arts of any kind where often held in high esteem, with circuses, ballets and the like being family-run businesses or fixed, state-owned institutions, dedicated to cultivating new talent.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXzC4L53iIU