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World Service,4 mins

Mike Williams has a lesson on the flying trapeze

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The element of risk and death-defying moment is essential to circus - there is a new type of performance emerging: darker, more overtly sexual. But it remains, as it always has been a dangerous place. You can see it, hear it, feel it and smell it: Lights and flames and smoke and sweat… and fear.

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