These pictures were taken on my recent cruise, where the Vision of the Seas (Royal Caribbean) had several "aerialist" acts. On the left side, I've captured the performance, showing the colorful costuming. The more revealing pictures show the rehearsal where the young men in black were preparing for their late evening performance. I'd call it more musical bungee jumping than a true circus aerial act, but considering this was done on a cruise ship from decks four thru eight, there was sufficient elevation and "zooming up and down" to give the audience oohs and aahs.
The actual rigging was quite elaborate and to my memory I had never seen this type of platform structures on the eighth deck of a ship, allowing for a forty foot performance area, clearly greater than was available in the actual theatre part of Vision. This ship will come to Tampa in December so we might see her again. The men were not exactly on the flying trapeze, but they certainly did fly about the atrium on Vision of the Seas.
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